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Launched in 2009, HFC is the only unified, statewide organization dedicated to ending hunger in Colorado by streamlining access to food and resources, uniting voices for policy change, and advocating for those who are hungry. Policy
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1. Making Colorado Hunger Free: Expanding Access to the Child Nutrition Programs
2. Launched in 2009,
HFC is the only unified, statewide organization dedicated to ending hunger in Colorado by streamlining access to food and resources, uniting voices for policy change, and advocating for those who are hungry.
Policy & Advocacy
Coalition Building
Incubation of Innovative Programs
Data & Information
3. Hunger in Colorado
- Nearly 1 in 5 households
experience food hardship
- Fastest growing rate
of child poverty in
the nation
4. Access to Child Nutrition Programs
Summer Food Program
Participation rate: 7/100
School Breakfast
Participation rate: 38/100
5.
Summer Food
Expansion
- Summer Food Summit
- Online Application
- Outreach to Sites and Sponsors
- Engage faith community and governments
- Facilitate dialogue with Food Banks and SFA
- Outreach to Families and Children
- www.summerfoodcolorado.org and hotline
6.
School Breakfast
Expansion
- Breakfast in the Classroom
- Colorado School Breakfast
Challenge: Phase 1 and 2
- Breakfast Expansion Consultants
- Work with Teachers, Administrators, and other Community Members
7. Afterschool
Meal Program
Expansion
- Advocated for Expansion through Child Nutrition Reauthorization
- Outreach to Programs
8. Thank you!