"Because Community makes all the difference we will work to serve and strengthen ours"

The Emergency Food Bank at the Denver Inner City Parish is our longest running program and serves a strong need in the community. The clients who use our food bank range from low-income working families to homeless individuals.

Our Food Bank serves on average 80 families per week. Our families come from the immediate neighborhood to as far away as 50 miles; we have no boundaries.

Our average family is Latino, with two or three children in the household. We provide food for a family for three days. Because we are limited on food items, we ask that families use our services only once a month. This past year, we have served over 1,700 different families.

We receive food donations and purchase food weekly from COMPA Food Ministries, Volunteers of America, and the Food Bank of the Rockies. 

Many local church congregations and individuals contribute food to make the food bank possible.

More often than we would like, we have closed our pantry doors due to lack of food.  Referring to other food banks becomes challenging, though, because we are unique in that we have no boundaries and only require a picture ID in order to use our services.  We accept food and monetary donations.

The Food Bank of the Rockies – one of the places from which the Parish Emergency Food Bank receives food, has released a report by Mathematical Policy Research – Hunger in America – 2006.

The report is discouraging.

• 25 million people request emergency food in America, and 47% of them are forced to choose between paying for food and paying for heat
• 48% choose between paying for food and
paying for rent
• 51% of households receiving emergency food include at least one employed adult
• 14% of those receiving food are homeless