It’s official!  At their September 16 meeting, the Mayor and City Council of the City of Arvada proclaimed that September 2019 be designated as Hunger Action Month.

Hunger Action Month is a nationwide awareness campaign in connection with Feeding America encouraging people to take action against hunger all month long by donating food and money to local food banks, volunteering their time to fight hunger and by spreading the word and educating others about the issue of hunger.

What will you do to take action against hunger? Here are a few ways you can help: Buy a cupcake, volunteer, go for a run, make a donation or attend a car show.

Throughout the month of September, every time you buy one of the featured cupcakes, Rheinlander Bakery in Olde Town Arvada will donate $1 to our Feeding the Future program!

The Five Cupcakes Feeding the Future are Mimosa, Peanut Butter & Jelly, Pumpkin Spice, S’Mores and Oreo Crush.

Rheinlander Bakery is also accepting donations.  When you give $5 to help fight hunger, you’ll receive an orange Feeding the Future wristband to show your support.  The color orange represents hunger.  In Jefferson County, 1 in 6 children lives in a family that struggles with hunger.

September is Hunger Action Month, a nationwide awareness campaign in connection with Feeding America designed to mobilize people to take action on the issue of hunger.

The campaign brings attention to the reality of hunger and promotes ways for individuals and organizations to get involved in the movement to help end hunger. We encourage you to take action against hunger all month long by donating food and money to local food banks, volunteering your time to fight hunger and by spreading the word and educating others about the issue of hunger.

In Colorado, 1 in 11 (9.2%) people struggle with hunger and do not always have enough money to buy food.

Support Community Table when you shop on Amazon! A percentage of the money you spend on things you already buy on Amazon can now be donated to Community Table through Amazon Smile. Just log in to smile.amazon.com before you shop and search for Arvada Community Food Bank (our legal name) as the charity you want to support.

Congratulations to Gaming Laboratories International on their 30th Anniversary and many thanks for donating to Community Table. It’s our lucky day!

To celebrate their 30th anniversary, Gaming Laboratories International (GLI) held a canned food structure contest at their 20 offices around the globe with all the canned goods to be donated to local food pantries when the contest ends.

The Wheat Ridge GLI office won for “Most Representative of 30th Anniversary.” Today their employees dropped off the 1,137 pounds of canned food they used to build their winning structure along with a check for $1,087, which will help us provide nearly 3,300 meals.

The Candelas and Leyden Rock communities in Arvada helped kick off our spring food drive with a friendly competition. The two neighborhoods donated more than 400 pounds of food to Community Table. Candelas was the winner of the multi-week Compete Against Hunger contest with 288 pounds. Leyden Rock had 124 pounds.

It’s not too late to join the competition against hunger.

Tomorrow, May 11, is our annual postal food drive, Stamp Out Hunger in partnership with the National Association of Letter Carriers.

Donating is easy! Leave your donation of nonperishable food in a bag by your mailbox by 9:00 am. A volunteer or letter carrier will pick it up.