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Food Stamp Administration has Improved in Colorado, but Opportunity for Progress Remains
Impact reports cover performance in all 64 counties, showcase need for continued progress in enrolling low-income Coloradans Colorado is known as a state for healthy, active lifestyles, yet one in eleven […]
March 27, 2019
Reducing Food Waste in Schools
The Greeley Solution: Compost, Repurpose & Educate In 2016, the Greeley School District started a compost program. The effort, run by their Farm to School Program, composts the scraps generated […]
March 15, 2019
New Policy Could Bolster Food Assistance for Older Coloradans and People With Disabilities
For those whose only medical expense is mileage, this change is the difference between having to drive 60 miles per month to qualify for the standard deduction versus 175 miles […]
Tags: colorado, Colorado Center on Law and Policy, food assistance, Hunger Free Colorado, SNAP Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
March 8, 2019
Piden “prepararse” contra el hambre en Colorado si hay más recortes federales
Ante la posibilidad de que el Gobierno federal imponga más requisitos para acceder a los programas de asistencia alimentaria, legisladores de Colorado instaron hoy a organizaciones comunitarias y granjeros a trabajar juntos en pos de personas vulnerables. “Debemos tener una seria conversación sobre qué vamos a hacer cuando el Gobierno federal cancele o reduzca los programas de beneficios para las poblaciones vulnerables”, dijo el senador estatal Dominick Moreno, presidente del comité presupuestario de la legislatura local en su reporte anual sobre el hambre en Colorado.
February 20, 2019
Screening for Social Problems
Known collectively as the social determinants of health, these factors include things like housing, food security, education and literacy, and social interactions. Addressing such variables is increasingly being recognized as an integral part of providing good medical care, as well as a way to curb the country’s skyrocketing health care costs.
February 6, 2019
Hunger Free Colorado Calls on Lawmakers to End the Government Shutdown
DENVER (January 23, 2019) – The partial shutdown of the federal government that began on Saturday, December 22 because Congress and the President were unable to agree on funding for […]
January 23, 2019
Cortez nonprofit awards over $300,000 to state food banks
Cortez nonprofit Onward! A Legacy Foundation has awarded $326,000 in state funding to 70 food pantries and food banks across Colorado. The money was provided through the Food Pantry Assistance Grant, an initiative by Hunger Free Colorado, which works to increase access to healthy foods for all Coloradans. Onward! served as the fiscal agent for this grant and provided 70 of the 75 grant applicants.
Hunger Free Colorado Calls on Lawmakers to End the Government Shutdown
The partial shutdown of the federal government that began on Saturday, December 22 because Congress and the President were unable to agree on funding for the 2019 fiscal year, has […]
Hunger Free Colorado selects Marc Jacobson as new CEO
Jacobson brings extensive experience in addressing hunger and equity issues DENVER (January 10, 2019) – Hunger Free Colorado announced today that its board of directors has chosen Marc Jacobson […]
January 10, 2019
Hunger Free Colorado announces new CEO
Since its founding in 2009, Hunger Free Colorado has worked to bring a unified, statewide voice to the issue and solutions surrounding hunger. Over the last nine years, legislative victories […]
Government Shutdown Stalls Food-Stamp Work Requirements
The Trump administration’s proposal to expand work requirements for SNAP benefits – the program formerly known as food stamps – is meant to get more people back into the workforce. But critics argue there’s a far better approach. Kate Kasper, director of public policy at Hunger Free Colorado, noted the vast majority of SNAP recipients who can work already have jobs. But, she said, frequently those jobs don’t offer enough hours or pay a living wage. And she said taking food stamps away from people looking for work would be counterproductive.
January 7, 2019
Denver-area seniors have increasing hunger needs — and it can be hard to ask for help
As they age, hunger is booming among baby boomers. Feeding America, a nonprofit that links food banks and pantries across the country and conducts research on hunger and poverty, estimates that the rate of hunger among Americans aged 60 and older has increased by 45 percent since 2001. They are people whose savings and retirement funds were hit hard by the Great Recession. Their income is not increasing as the economy recovers and the cost of living rises. Feeding America forecasts that the number of food-insecure seniors may grow to more than 8 million by 2050.
December 17, 2018
Denver Task Force Outlines Strategy to Prevent Hunger, Promote Wellness, and Boost Denver Economy through SNAP
Closing Denver SNAP Gap Could Reach 20,000 More Low-Income People DENVER (December 12, 2018) – A new report endorsed by a broad coalition of Denver leaders provides a roadmap […]
December 12, 2018
Denver’s New Sales Tax is the First in the Nation to Benefit Kids’ Health
The biggest takeaway from the recent election night in Colorado was the state’s historic blue wave, with Democratic candidates winning every statewide office and taking control of the state Senate. But voters in Denver also passed an ordinance that may be historic in its own right—and, with 59 percent voter approval, it also appears to transcend partisan politics.
December 4, 2018
A lawsuit and an entrepreneurial approach in Denver helped move Colorado from troublingly bad at food aid to earning federal bonus money
Colorado was under court order for a decade to speed up the process of delivering food aid to the state’s needy. Counties across the state, with Denver in the lead, have managed such a turnaround that they recently received over $2 million in federal performance bonuses for improvements in the way they handle the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Federally funded, locally administered SNAP funds come these days on a card, not as food stamps.
November 19, 2018
Food Resources Still Available Despite ‘Public Charge’ Proposal
Children’s advocates are sounding the alarm about a recent proposal by the Trump administration that would make it easier to deny immigrants green cards by expanding the definition of what it means to be a “public charge,” or dependent on government programs. Anya Rose, policy analyst with Hunger Free Colorado, said some families are choosing not to apply for food and nutritional benefits out of fear. In response, her group is reminding Coloradans that the only food program that could be impacted if the new rule goes into effect is SNAP, or food stamps, and many other services are still available without risk.
November 13, 2018
School Cafeterias Open Again; Breakfast On the Menu
Theresa Peña, regional coordinator for outreach and engagement with Denver Public Schools, says it’s hard to learn on an empty stomach, and notes that DPS has made free breakfasts a priority in order to close the academic achievement gap between students from low-income and higher-income families.
September 12, 2018
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