COLORADO SPRINGS FOOD RESCUE
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Food Rescue
Each month, CSFR volunteers redistribute 30,000 pounds of nutritious, fresh food to 25+ partnership locations, serving an estimated 15,000 unduplicated people each year. 60% of donations are classified as fresh produce, followed by meats, dairy, prepared food, and bakery items.
Fresh Food Connect
Collaborated with Denver Food Rescue to create Fresh Food Connect, a web application that allows backyard gardeners, community gardens and urban farms to donate excess fresh produce. The program launched in zip codes 80903, 80904 & 80907 in June 2017. In its inaugural season, 45 gardeners donated over 2,000 lbs of backyard bounty.
No- Cost Grocery Programs
Through intersectional research, CSFR has found that food pantries and distribution sites serve specific neighborhoods and city blocks, while there are neighborhoods that remain disproportionately underserved in Colorado Springs. We partner with these neighborhoods that are hardest to access, to create community-driven solutions to food insecurity.
All grocery programs are community-driven, with an average of 40 community members participating at each site each week.
The Grocery Program model exists to serve and collaborate with otherwise overlooked neighborhoods with a realization that income is inversely proportional to consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables. Often low-income communities exhibit diet related diseases that can be avoided by increased consumption of fresh produce.
FLY (Food systems Leadership for Youth)
Our FLY (Food system Leadership for Youth) teens (aged 13-18) participate in food-system literacy training and lead community-driven projects for a healthier Colorado Springs. Projects include the creation of school-based food rescues, community cookbooks/food waste reduction media, participating in immersive field trips, and managing healthy food distribution programs. Through our programming we aim to foster youth leaders of food & health innovation in our community, no matter their socio-economic status.
Where we work
External reviews
Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of food donation partners
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Food Rescue
Total pounds of food rescued
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Food Rescue
Estimated dollar value of food donations distributed to community feedings programs
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Food Rescue
Number of people within the organization's service area accessing food aid
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Number of volunteers
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Hours of volunteer service
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Number of organizational partners
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Number of students engaged
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Related Program
FLY (Food systems Leadership for Youth)
Number of class credits received by high school students in 2018 for participating in F.L.Y. programming
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Related Program
FLY (Food systems Leadership for Youth)
Number of health education trainings conducted
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Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
2016 Strategic Plan Goals:
(1) Improve Food Security & Health Equity
(2) Advocate and Educate Community on Just Food Systems
(3) Reduce Structural Poverty
(4) Reduce Food Waste
(5) Promote Sustainable Transportation
(6) Integrate Feedback
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Tactics:
Improve Food Security Health Equity:
-Have 9 functioning Grocery Programs (GPs) by the end of 2016.
-Implement monthly nutritional cooking classes and educational opportunities at six different GP sites.
-Conduct impact evaluations for each GP.
-Distribute healthy food to organizations serving LILA and/or homeless populations.
Advocate and Educate Community on Just Food Systems:
-Board approval for Public Policy Advocacy Plan for 2016
-Partner with 5 Colorado Springs schools for educational and food recovery purposes.
-Atlas Prep Grocery program Internship
-Devise metric of evaluation for all school partnerships, external programming, and internal programming.
-Work with and develop Full Circle Food Collective to diversify collaboration/programming through the methodology of Collective Impact.
Reduce Food Waste:
-Rescue and Redistribute 350,000 lbs of food in 2016 (+110,000 from 2015)
-Acquire new donors
-7 new grocery stores
-6 new prep food services
-Finish development of App
-Beta testing with at least 5 donors/ 5 recipients through 2016
Promote Sustainable Transportation:
-Electric Trike
-40% of shifts human power in 2016
-Audit current shifts for sustainable transportation
-5 Corporate Sponsorships of Trailers
Reduce Structural Poverty:
-Reduce budget of partner organizations that do this work, renew partner priority list with precedence given to those organizations that have the greatest impact on poverty.
-Advocate for policies that reduce structural poverty
-Partner with financial literacy courses at our grocery programs
Integrate Feedback
-Before and after any programming, conduct exams based on the Omaha method of measuring: (1) Knowledge, (2) Behavior, (3)Status.
-Conduct Bi-Annual evaluations of all programming (including organizational training, workshops, GP curricula, etc.)
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
All capabilities to meeting goals are detailed in the aforementioned "Strategies" section.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Updated February 8th, 2016
Programming:
-4 functioning Grocery Programs
-1 weekly High School Internship Program
-Food rescues and & educational programming at 2 schools (Challenger Middle School & Palmer High School).
Operations:
-Rescue an average of 25,000 pounds of food each month.
Fundraising:
-Received $54,027 from our IndyGive Campaign.
-Received $6,500 in grant funds in January, 2016.
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Operations
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COLORADO SPRINGS FOOD RESCUE
Board of directorsas of 02/20/2019
Elsa Kendall
Mark Terry
Retired
Lisa Blattner
Clawson Law Firm
Chelsea Drew
Harris
Elsa Kendall
Sun Mountain Center
Victoria Stone
Pikes Peak Justice & Peace Commission
Shahera Salabi
Aspen Pointe
Julie Nambiar
Colorado Credit Union
Corina Hurst
Broadmoor Community Church
Shawn Reagan
T. Rowe Price
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Yes