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 [...]

Growing Home's Food Pantry Gets A Makeover To Better Serve Our Community! We’re excited to share that Growing Home is remodeling our food pantry to create a more functional and welcoming space for our participants. This remodel is part of our ongoing commitment to providing dignified, accessible food and resources for families in the community. Here's What To Expect More Comfortable Shopping Environment. We're expanding and reorganizing the pantry to help families shop in a more comfortable and accessible space. Expanded TEFAP Section. We're improving the Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP) section to ensure that qualified participants can access this essential resource more efficiently. Increased Storage Capacity. We're increasing our storage capacity, allowing us to better plan and [...]

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 [...]

Unfruitful: ‘Food Prices Go Up,’ Grocery Stores Spread Out, and Transportation is Tough By Luke Zarzecki lzarzecki@coloradocommunitymedia.com   On a warm August morning, the line at Growing Home’s food pantry is already long. People start gathering at the back of the building in Westminster up to two hours before the doors open.  They’re there to shop for nutritious foods they otherwise struggle to afford. Richard Cruz and Cassandra Crockett are among those who have come for help. They live together in Thornton. Cruz works full time as a delivery driver. Crockett used to work full time as a chef but had to stop due to a disability and she ran into health insurance problems. “It was just too much and I couldn’t [...]