Colorado Friendship

Incredibles.this program provides bags of non-perishable food to food- insecure school children every friday. These children receive free breakfast and lunch while at school but might have little or no food at home over the weekend. This food helps to fill that gap so the children can return to school on monday morning ready to learn. We distributed 22,100 bags of food in 2024. We serve 650 children per week, at 12 schools each week during the school year. We continue to include high nutrition items in our bags such as tuna fish, beef jerky, peanuts, canned fruits, vegetables, milk boxes and peanut butter. The schools have requested that all items be non-perishable, single serving and easy to open and prepare so kids can do it themselves. We are constantly working to find products that fit these descriptions while providing good nutrition at a reasonable price. We are very happy to be partnering with "beef sticks for backpacks" who are providing us with 2,750 donated high quality beef sticks every month for our food bags. These are the schools we are currently serving in svvsd: indian peaks elementary school - 90 bags,timberline k-8 - 50 bags, rocky mountain elementary school - 75 bags, mountain view elementary school - 70 bags, burlington elementary school - 47 bags, columbine elementary school - 73 bags, northridge elementary school - 60 bags, fall river elementary school - 51 bags, alpine elementary school - 50 bags, mead elementary school - 46 bags, sandborn elementary school - 8 bags, and main street - 30 bags. The total equals 650 bags per week

Holiday gift program - donations were collected from various sponsors and partners to provide 414 children at the schools we serve with gifts of coats, boots or warm clothing for the holidays. We work with the staff at the schools so that each child can choose the item/size that they need. We deliver the gifts directly to the school for distribution to the children.