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 6, 2025 | Community Organizing
Current Status of Bills SB25-169 Restaurant Meals Program: Passed Senate Agriculture & Natural Resources; passed Senate Appropriations Committee; going to the full Senate HB25-1274 Healthy School Meals for All Program: Passed House Finance Committee & House...
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 Lorenzo Segovia | 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 Lorenzo Segovia | 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...
