Working to ensure that no kid goes hungry in Colorado

Colorado’s Children Hunger Facts

• In Colorado, one in seven children are hungry or at risk for malnutrition. Twenty-one percent of children in Denver are living in poverty and are at risk of hunger.
• Between 2000 and 2006, Colorado had a 73% increase in the number of children living in poverty, the highest rate of increase in the nation
• Colorado is ranked 45th in numbers of students participating in the Free/Reduced price breakfast program (35%).  If we increased this rate to 60%, CO would receive an additional $9 million from the federal government. Colorado does not have a school breakfast mandate in state law.

How We Can Help
Tell your teachers, principals, state board of education members that all Colorado kids should be served breakfast in schools.
Volunteer, donate, or sponsor a local organization that is fighting childhood hunger:

Share Our Strength’s Operation Frontline

Help Share Our Strength surround every child with nutritious food by teaching them and their families how to prepare healthy, low-cost meals that they’ll enjoy eating together—lessons that will last a lifetime.

Colorado Anti-Hunger Network

CAN is a group of private, public and non-profit agencies coming together to learn about available food resources, share information, improve availability and delivery services and resources benefiting Coloradoans who are experiencing hunger and food insecurity.