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Community Response to COVID19 Needed

It’s time for radical solidarity. Can we count on you to mobilize with us?

We are committed to continuing our work on the front line of hunger relief throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. In order to most effectively meet the growing needs of the community we will need additional financial resources, sanitation/cleaning products), and increased people power.

Join the Mutual Aid Hunger Response Team.

Urgent Call for Donations

Recent school and community center closures in our community have closed most of our public grocery programs indefinitely. This necessitated the re-routing of resources to our office in the Helen Hunt Campus for distribution 5 days a week as well as the re-design of these no cost grocery programs to meet the rapidly changing health and social distancing guidelines.

The closure of schools and businesses greatly increases the demand for healthy food access. If you have the means, please consider making a financial or in-kind contribution of any amount to ensure we are able to effectively respond to the immediate needs of the community.

In order to meet the unique challenges currently posed with ensuring community-rooted fresh food access, CSFR is creating a Mutual Aid Hunger Response Team. The purpose of this team is to have a coordinated list of folks who can mobilize food rescue shifts, grocery distribution, community-care, and coordinated hunger actions in the coming weeks. Please sign up to learn more about how you can get involved.

Your support will provide the stability needed to meet the challenges presented on the front line of hunger relief as we continue to provide fresh food access to the Colorado Springs community throughout the entire course of this pandemic and beyond.

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Our three pillars of action:

Food Access

Using a “direct redistribution” model, we transport surplus healthy foods from local supermarkets, backyard gardens and cafeterias to 20+ non-profit and community-based grocery programs. CSFR engages an expansive network of volunteers and neighborhood partners to co-create healthy food access programs, with over $5 million of healthy groceries redistributed since 2013.

Food Education

We believe that food insecurity is not separate from the context of our wider food system. Through project-based youth internships/employment, school-based food rescue programs, & events, we aim to foster youth leaders in food innovation and promoters of food equity in our community . Youth-led projects have ranged from community cookbooks to the management of healthy food distribution programs.

Food Production

Currently, over 95% of the food we eat in Colorado Springs comes from outside our community. That’s why we redistribute healthy produce from overgrown gardens into our grocery programs and return the nutrients from household food waste back into the soil . And in 2019, we’ll be digging into more intensive food production with our most ambitious project yet: developing Colorado Springs’ first neighborhood food center!