Are you loving all these great deals we are finding for you at Safeway every week? Â It sure is fun – but we also have to take a moment to consider those less fortunate who don’t have $100 to spend to get a free turkey at Safeway.
Did you know?
- 12.9% of people ( nearly 1 in 7) in Colorado live in poverty. (quickfact.census.gov)
- 18.1% of Colorado children live in poverty and 8%  are living in extreme poverty. (coloradokids.org – 2014)
- 39% of Colorado children live in households with incomes less than 200% of poverty. (coloradokids.org – 2014)
- Poverty in Colorado has increased since 2001.
- The total poverty rate in Colorado increased from 9.6% in 2001 to 12.9% in 2012.
- Furthermore, Colorado’s child poverty rate increased from 12.2% in 2001 to 18.1% in 2012.
- 7% of Colorado seniors live below 100% of poverty and 28% live below 200% of poverty.
- See more at: http://www.foodbankrockies.org/about-us/hunger-facts/#sthash.LF2Quh6s.dpuf
Safeway has a new program called Turkey Bucks where they collect your donations and give them to local food pantries to help feed hungry families. Â It’s super easy, simply grab a turkey buck in $1, $5 or $10 increments at the register. Â I asked Safeway for a list of the organizations that benefit from this program and here is the list. Â Safeway has partnered with these awesome organizations to receive the donations from the Turkey Bucks Program:
- Â Arapahoe County Human Services
- Bible Baptist Church
- Broadway Assistance Center
- Broomfield Fish
- Campbell County Council of Community Services
- Care and Share of Southern Colorado
- Caring Ministries of Ft. Morgan
- Childhaven
- Community Food Share
- Crossroads Ministry
- Denver Rescue Missoin
- Dorcas Circle
- Douglas County Task Force
- ECHO – Evergreen Christian Outreach
- Echo Food Bank
- Elizabeth Food Bank and Stampede Foundation
- Elks Club
Faith Mountain- Kings Cupboard Foodbank - Families Helping Families
- Father Hubbard’s Cupboard
- Feeding South Dakota
- Food Bank for Larimer County
- Food Bank of the Rockies
- Fort Lupton Food & Clothing Bank
- Fountain Springs Community Church & Blessed Sacrament Church
- Frisco Elementary School
- Front Range Senior Citizens
- Good Samaritan Center
- Grainery Ministries
- Gunnison Food Pantry
- Hands Across Roxborough
- Immaculate Heart of Mary
- Interfaith Good Samaritan Center
- Jeffco Acttion Center
- Just Neighbors
- La Junta Associated Charities
- La Puente
- Lift Up
- Little Chapel Food Bank/Community Cupboard
- Loaves and Fishes
- Loveland Rotary Kids Pac
- Marian House Soup Kitchen – Catholic Charities of Central Colorado
- Monarch K-8
- Monte Vista Food Bank
- Mountain Family Center
- Mountain Resource Center
- Needs Inc
- Northwest Community Action Partnership
- Open Arm Food bank
- Operation Homefront
- Operation Warm Heart Buckley
- Our Center
- Parker Task Force
- Peoples Assistance Food Bank
- Potter’s Wheel Ministry Food Bank
- Prairie Family Center
- Saint George Espiscopal Church
- Salvation Army
- Santa Cops – Firestone PD
- Senior Citizens Center
- Spearfish Community Food Pantry
- St. Joseph Food Pantry
- St. Patricks Roman Catholic Church Food Pantry.
- St. Thomas Moore Catholic Parish
- Steamboat Lift UP
- Table of Grace
- Tessa
- The Holy Cow Food Bank
- Thornton Food Bank
- Tri Lakes Cares
- United Church of Christ Wheatland
- Vail Valley Salvation Army
- Volunteers of America
- Volunteers of America/Douglas & Elbert County Task Force
- Wayside Cross Rescue Mission
- Weld County Food Bank
- Windsor Severance Food Pantry
- Women’s Homeless Initiative/Bishop Elementary School
- Wyoming Food Bank of The Rockies
- Zion Lutheran Church
Please note – I am not being paid to post this message, it is important to me that we use our savings and give back. Â I’ve seen your full stock-piles on Facebook. Â No one needs 100 tubes of toothpaste and 80 bottles of detergent. Â Dust them off and DONATE them so that others can afford to give their families a nice Thanksgiving. Â Or just buy some Turkey Bucks at Safeway.
What does a $1 turkey buck buy in can goods?
Hi Penny – the money raised goes to providing meals for families through local food banks.
Is this “Turkey Bucks” being donated to local counties —- such as Columbia County, from donations @ the St.Helens Safeway #0424—?