Food Pantry Updates: New Year, New Changes! As we step into the New Year, Growing Home is excited to announce some updates to our Food Pantry services. These changes are designed to improve access, streamline operations, and better meet the needs of our community.  Starting January 7th, here’s what you can expect:  New Service Hours Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday: 10:00 AM - 12:30 PM Thursday: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM Note: The Thursday morning shift (10:00 AM - 12:00 PM) will no longer be available. Increased Capacity We’re expanding our daily service slots! Starting in January, we’ll serve up to 45 participants per shift (an increase from 40). Introducing Senior Fridays Participants aged 60 [...]

Donate to This Campaign If we reach $75,000, it will enable us to help 15 families avoid eviction, and allow us to meet the rising need we are seeing at a time when it is so important to do so. We hope you will consider donating to this campaign to help us reach this goal. Word of Thanks – Next with Kyle Clark Housing continues to be a pressing issue in North Denver Metro as inflation and the rising cost of groceries have heavily impacted family budgets. Growing Home has seen a rise in the number of individuals and families seeking basic needs support like supplemental housing assistance. Every day 15-20 families [...]

Meet Our Wonderful Volunteers April is National Volunteer Month, and at Growing Home we recognize our community support, not only this month, but year-round. Now in our 26th year, we continue to celebrate the power and gift of time of the hundreds of volunteers that contribute to our mission and the operations of our Food Pantry and community garden. Each day, we love with food as we serve North Denver families with the helping hands of our incredible volunteers. Six of our Growing Home volunteers recently received the President’s Volunteer Service Awards for their high number of volunteer hours in 2023. They are: Anita Head Sophia Coen Jesse Bradshaw Arminda Lozano William Pickeral, and Jimmy Trujillo We Truly Could [...]

This interview with Carli Seeba originally appeared in King Soopers City Market on April 2, 2024 Promoting Lasting Stability and Self-Sufficiency Growing Home strives to create a thriving, healthy, and equitable North Metro Denver through providing food, housing, parenting education, and lifelong stability services. King Soopers has supported this organization through the Fight Hunger bag program. Tell Us About Growing Home If you live in North Denver, Growing Home is a trusted community partner. For many years, our programs and services have supported people experiencing immediate and long-term barriers to stability and success. We share this commitment in our mission statement: In partnership with the community, Growing Home advances equity in food, housing, parenting, education, and lifelong stability to [...]

For Cause Eviction Legislation Announcement Today, our Co-CEO, Veronica Perez and Lead Community Organizer, Bruno Tapia Garcia attended in support of the For Cause Eviction legislation announcement with bill sponsors, advocates, and Colorado House Leadership. What are For Cause Policies and Why Are They Important: For Cause Eviction policies are tenant protections that outline the legal grounds for when a landlord can evict a tenant or refuse to renew a tenant’s lease. The definition of "For Cause" (often called an allowable reason for eviction) generally includes lease violations by the tenant, such as non-payment of rent or property destruction. Several states and municipalities across the county have passed For Cause protections, but Colorado has not. When For Cause Eviction protections are [...]

Growing Home’s Work in Access to Food Featured on Denver 7's Real Talk Real Talk is a new collaboration between CPR News and Denver 7, where Micah Smith and Nathan Heffel explore issues, stories, and perspectives of Colorado’s underserved communities that often go unheard. Our Co-CEO, Veronica Perez was interviewed for Real Talk’s episode on the topic of food deserts and Growing Home’s work in access to food for the North Denver Metro community. The interview aired on Friday, May 19, 2023 on CPR News (radio) and on Sunday, May 21, 2023 on Denver 7. « Back To Community Blog