by metrocaring | Apr 15, 2025 | Uncategorized
Dear Metro Caring Community, Since 1974, Metro Caring has stood alongside our neighbors, helping hundreds of thousands of families put food on the table. What has always set us apart is the heart and resilience of this community—your unwavering support and your...
by metrocaring | Mar 27, 2025 | Community Organizing
By Naomi Lin & Brandon McKinley As a child, Jessica spent long summer days playing under a mesquite tree. In the shade of its branches, she used to listen to the older women in her tight knit farming community talk about various food remedies and recipes while...
by metrocaring | Mar 25, 2025 | Community Organizing, Nutrition
By Brandon McKinley Eric remembers being rushed to the hospital in the summer of 2008. As the doctors and nurses began diagnosing the problem, Eric thought they seemed to be taking a lot of blood. A doctor finally asked him, “Mr. Morris, when was the last time you...
by metrocaring | Feb 26, 2025 | Uncategorized
Lori Casillas joined Metro Caring as our new chief operating officer this month, bringing decades of experience in advancing food access, health equity, and reproductive justice for Coloradans. As Metro Caring’s COO, Lori will lead strategic initiatives across the...
by metrocaring | Feb 6, 2025 | Community Organizing
Current Status of Bills Became Law: HB25-1274 Healthy School Meals for All Program: Passed House & Senate; awaiting governor’s signature SB25-048 Diabetes Prevention & Obesity Treatment Act: Passed Senate & House; awaiting governor’s signature...
by metrocaring | Oct 17, 2024 | Community Organizing
Updated November 19, 2024, to reflect bill statuses. Four out of the five community-endorsed ballot measures were voted in favor of protecting and uplifting our community’s interests! At Metro Caring, we work to end hunger at its root, which includes addressing local...
by metrocaring | Aug 14, 2024 | Development
By Brandon McKinley East High School junior Sophia Swanson started swimming competitively at 8 years old. This year, she challenged herself: Could she swim three miles in 75 minutes? To help motivate herself, she offered a challenge to her community: Could we raise...
by metrocaring | Aug 5, 2024 | Community Development, Food Access
By Ace Alcantara As the summer heat bakes the Mile High City, it’s the perfect time to discover where to find Metro Caring partners and entrepreneurs at farmers markets this year. Supporting local businesses and farmers is more than just a feel-good activity;...
by metrocaring | Jul 17, 2024 | 50th Anniversary, Urban Agriculture
By Anna Smith Updated spaces, classes, and initiatives provide new value to the community and increase the program’s need for volunteers Metro Caring’s Urban Agriculture Program has grown significantly since its inception over a decade ago. Initially centered around...
by metrocaring | Jun 19, 2024 | Food Access, Universal Basic Food
New research strengthens our understanding of the local food system and supports Metro Caring’s vision for a Universal Basic Food program Graduate students at the University of Colorado Boulder’s Master of the Environment program partnered with Metro Caring in 2023 to...
by metrocaring | Apr 16, 2024 | Food Access, Universal Basic Food
By Brandon McKinley In the past four years, Metro Caring purchased more food for our Fresh Foods Market than ever before. Originally, our market relied solely on donations. Now, thanks in part to funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Local Food Purchase...
by metrocaring | Mar 18, 2024 | 50th Anniversary, Community Organizing, Uncategorized
Coloradans do not go hungry because of a lack of food. Coloradans go hungry because rent continues to rise while wages lag behind, because SNAP benefits are difficult to get, and because healthcare is out of reach and expensive. Addressing these root causes is...
by metrocaring | Mar 15, 2024 | 50th Anniversary, Food Access, Universal Basic Food
Op-ed by Emily Settlecowski published in Next City. Food is many things in our lives. It’s a cultural connector, bridging relationships with people, places, and our heritage. Food is medicine, providing us with nutrients integral to our well-being. It’s also a...
by metrocaring | Feb 22, 2024 | Food Access, Uncategorized
At Metro Caring, our mission is to meet people’s needs for nutritious, culturally relevant foods while building a movement to end hunger at its root. After careful consideration, we will pause emergency bag distribution at the end of February to increase access to our...
by metrocaring | Jan 29, 2024 | Programs
By Anna Smith At the end of 2023, Metro Caring made significant strides in health inclusivity by facilitating the first Arabic diabetes management class in the state of Colorado. The program was taught by Sara Hamid, a registered dietician and graduate of Metro State...
by metrocaring | Nov 27, 2023 | Uncategorized
Querida comunidad Metro Caring, Ahora que se acerca el Colorado Gives Day, quiero compartir mi historia y pedirles que apoyen a Metro Caring, una organización que ha jugado un papel importante en mi vida. Cuando me mudé por primera vez a Colorado, fue muy difícil...
by metrocaring | Nov 27, 2023 | Community Development
Dear Metro Caring Community, With Colorado Gives Day coming up, I want to share my story and ask you to support Metro Caring, an organization that has played an important part in my life. When I first moved to Colorado, it was very difficult to find an affordable...
by metrocaring | Nov 7, 2023 | Awards, Food Access, Universal Basic Food
By Brandon McKinley East Denver Food Hub is a key partner of Metro Caring to ensure that local, fresh, and nutritious food makes its way to our community in a sustainable and equitable way. Working with over 60 farms directly in Colorado, East Denver Food Hub is a...
by metrocaring | Aug 28, 2023 | Food Access, Nutrition
This summer, students from Girls Inc. of Metro Denver interned with Metro Caring’s Food Access program to explore the connection between our culturally rooted food purchases and the health benefits of consuming local produce. Joy and Karinne, two rising seniors from...
by metrocaring | Jul 27, 2023 | Uncategorized
By Brandon McKinley Our mission at Metro Caring is two-fold: work with our community to meet people’s immediate needs for nutritious, culturally rooted food and build a movement to end hunger at its root. To foster creative and innovative solutions to these systemic...
by metrocaring | Jul 12, 2023 | Universal Basic Food
Metro Caring’s Manager of Strategic Initiatives Emily Settlecowski spoke to Beverly Grant, host of KGNU’s On the HEAL Tip, about food justice systems work and Universal Basic Food. KGNU On the HEAL Tip Beverly Grant & Emily Settlecowski...
by metrocaring | Apr 25, 2023 | Uncategorized
Guest opinion by Teva Sienicki, published in Food Bank News. Grant applications often ask us: “What’s your sustainability plan?” It’s a realistic question, but the way it’s asked is far too narrow in scope. Funders want to know how the work will continue after the...
by metrocaring | Apr 6, 2023 | Community Development
As a Community Connector, Wil Smith says his role at Metro Caring is to be a problem solver. He sits down with community members who want to meet one-on-one to learn about other resources outside of Metro Caring that may help address challenges related to food...
by metrocaring | Apr 4, 2023 | Community Organizing
Op-ed by Erik Hicks, published in The Colorado Sun. This month, Coloradans enrolled in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program had their benefits slashed. Congress passed the Consolidated Appropriations Act, ending SNAP Emergency Allotments for Colorado and...
