Ensuring that every Denver-area family has the nutritious food they need to be healthy and thrive.
The Denver Community Food Access Coalition tackles hunger in our community, including:
Immediate hunger relief like food pantries and urban agriculture
Long-term solutions addressing root causes, from racial equity to living wage jobs
We believe every family should have the nutritious food they need to be healthy and thrive – but one in three families go hungry every day in Denver. Our food system – made up of parts like farmers, the food industry, consumers, and government – is out of balance. Low wages, the high cost of living, systemic racism, and other conditions disrupt the food ecosystem so people can’t get the healthy food they need.
Find out more about getting healthy food in your neighborhood.
The Coalition
Denver Food Rescue
Denver Food Rescue works to increase health equity with Denver neighborhoods by rescuing high-quality, fresh produce and perishable foods that would otherwise be thrown away by grocery stores, farmers markets, and produce distributors.
Denver’s Department of Public Health
Denver's Department of Public Health and Environment (DDPHE) is dedicated to advancing Denver's environmental and public health goals.
Denver Urban Gardens
Denver Urban Gardens (DUG) believes in the transformational power of gardening in community, whether in a DUG community garden, your backyard, or even in container pots on a balcony!
Hunger Free Colorado
Hunger Free Colorado (HFC) is a statewide anti-hunger advocacy organization. HFC connects people to food resources to meet existing needs and drives policy, systems and social change to end hunger.
Metro Caring
Metro Caring’s mission is to work with our community to meet people’s immediate need for nutritious food, while also building a movement to address the root causes of hunger.
Montbello Organizing Committee
MOC is a community organization whose purpose is to galvanize and cultivate Montbello stakeholders and resident leaders to proactively address the critical issues affecting their quality of life.
Re Vision
Re:Vision’s work centers around cultivating thriving, resilient communities. Our Mission is to work with people in economically marginalized neighborhoods to develop resident leaders, cultivate community food systems, and create an economy owned by the community.
Sprout City Farms
Sprout City Farms (SCF) is an urban agriculture nonprofit that builds educational urban farms to engage communities, strengthen neighborhood resiliency, and root farmers in the city.
The GrowHaus
The mission of The GrowHaus is to cultivate community-driven food justice through education and food access.
If you’d like to learn more about these coalition members and see how they all come together keep reading at the link below.
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