February 10, 2025
Since sharing and listening with compassion and empathy builds stronger connections and fosters a sense of community, the Blueprint is launching the Storyteller’s Corner in late February. On the fourth Thursday of each month, those with living and lived experiences of hunger can join us to share, listen, learn, and refine their stories.
February 8, 2025
We want to ensure Medicaid members and community-based organizations play a role in shaping the future of food access and healthcare in Colorado. Join the Blueprint’s Connecting Food & Health project team for their final meeting with representatives from our state’s Regional Accountable Entities (RAEs).
October 30, 2024
I wanted to share what this past year has been like for me as lead for the Colorado Blueprint to End Hunger’s Connecting Food and Health Project.
July 11, 2024
Join AdventHealth, with support from the Colorado Blueprint to End Hunger, for your area’s “Community Health Improvement” public meeting. Your voice can help guide their efforts to create happier, healthier communities, including access to healthy, culturally affirming foods.
June 26, 2024
This month, we released a new report that sheds light on the effectiveness of the 2023 Food Pantry Assistance Grant program. Underscoring the importance of accessibility, equity, interconnectedness, and a culture of care, it recommends several improvements for the Blueprint’s grant initiative.
September 6, 2023
As the Blueprint continues its journey of becoming more community-centered and evolving as a connector, convener, and facilitator, we want to ensure there’s space for community voice and participation.
Now in the second phase of our yearlong strategic planning journey, we’re seeking your input on our biggest questions around transformation. Your insights and perspectives can help shape the Blueprint’s future, so we hope you’ll participate.
Find out a little more about how we got here and where we hope to go — and how you can help inform the Blueprint’s transformation.
August 10, 2023
Plenty of data shows that produce incentive programs increase fruit and vegetable consumption, but do they create economic mobility and liberation for program participants? Join us for a virtual presentation on Tuesday, August 22 from 2 – 3:30 p.m. to learn more about recent research that centers community voices in evaluating such programs across Colorado. The 14-month evaluation examined how these Colorado programs affect choice and agency, economic freedom, and well-being of families and individuals who participate – and identified several insights and recommendations from the community participants.
Last week on Juneteenth, Andrea Loudd shared her story and her community during Workgroup 2/3’s Liderazgo Comunitario (Community Leadership) workshop. It’s a powerful reminder of the racial disparities that still exist since the emancipation of Black slaves in the U.S. on June 19, 1865 – and why the Blueprint is committed to equity and being community-centered in its work to address hunger across Colorado.
Her words and leadership inspire others to imagine a community without hunger, and we’re here to help amplify community voices like Andrea’s.
