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Join Us at the Table

Your support has a direct impact, helping people access a week’s worth of healthy groceries, nutrition education, and anti-hunger resources.

When we each own our power, our story, and our seat at the table, we can grow the movement to end hunger until everyone has not just enough, but plenty. While today 1 in 9 Coloradans are hungry, our community reminds us that together we have an abundance of talent, generosity, and creative thinking needed to end hunger at its root. 

Ways to Give

The Greenhouse is a group of Metro Caring supporters who give monthly. Just like a greenhouse keeps temperatures warm year-round, your monthly gift can create a place of nourishment, sustainability, and growth for our community 365 days a year.

Roots to Rise Society members are friends, organizations, and businesses who want to ensure our programs can take root to grow and mature. This multi-year giving society honors donors who have made a five-year pledge of $1,000 or more.

Perennial Roots offers the opportunity to ensure our anti-hunger programs will thrive for decades to come while advancing your own financial plan. Like perennials that grow back year after year, bequests and estate gifts leave an everlasting impact on your community.

Organize a Food Drive

Too often, when people are hungry, they are expected to take whatever is leftover, expired, or cheap. This can lead to diet-related diseases for adults and lower school performance for children. You can help us stock our shelves with fresh, nutritious, and culturally relevant foods for our Fresh Foods Market so that everyone has healthy food to eat.

Sponsor Our Programs

Your corporate engagement, workplace giving, and matching gifts can support our anti-hunger work. We offer a variety of sponsorship opportunities for businesses and organizations of all sizes. We’ll work together to craft a partnership that improves the health and well-being of our community while supporting your organization’s corporate and philanthropic goals.

Host a Fundraiser

Whether it’s your birthday, you’re biking across the country, or organizing a neighborhood block party, you can celebrate by making a positive impact in your community! Hosting a virtual or in-person fundraiser is a great way to connect the roots of your community with ours. Please let us know about your event before starting. We can assist in creating a specialized donation page and share resources like our logo and posters to help you. 

Give Stock

When you donate appreciated assets to Metro Caring as an outright gift, you are entitled to an income-tax charitable deduction equal to the fair market value of the assets on the date of the gift, regardless of your cost basis.

More Ways to Give

You can reduce your taxes by making a gift from your IRA to Metro Caring. Contact our Development Team at 720-343-8458 to learn more about how you can convert your taxable IRA distribution and potentially reduce your taxes.

Gift acknowledgments are provided to the tribute recipient with a letter informing them that a donation has been made in their honor or in memory of their loved one. The amount of the gift is kept confidential and the tax deduction belongs to the donor. You can make a tribute donation online.

Donating a vehicle is a great way to support Metro Caring’s programming. Metro Caring works with Vehicles for Charity to coordinate vehicle donations. Donate a vehicle today!

Metro Caring is enrolled in the King Soopers Community Rewards Program. When you link your King Soopers Rewards card to Metro Caring, we will receive donations whenever you shop. Sign up through King Soopers or City Market. Once logged into, search Metro Caring by name or use the code TR070, and then click Enroll.

FAQs

Is my gift tax-deductible?

All gifts to Metro Caring are tax-deductible to the extent provided by law.

What is DEZ?

Metro Caring is a certified agency within the Denver Enterprise Zone (DEZ), a tax credit program, administered by the State of Colorado. You can receive a 25% tax credit if you donate $250 or more to Metro Caring. Request your DEZ tax credit.

Who do I reach out to about my donation receipt?

Please contact our Development Coordinator.

Can I donate by mailing a check?

Yes! You can mail checks to us at 1100 E 18th Ave, Denver, CO 80218. You can include “ATTN: Development Team” on the envelope, though this is not required. Please make your check out to Metro Caring. 

Contact the Team

Madi Matheny, she/they
Development Coordinator
720-343-8461
Email

Ask me about making a donation, DEZ tax credits, or tax receipts.

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