Time to Give Back with Turkey Bucks

Are you loving all these great deals we are finding for you at Safeway every week? 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. It’s super easy, simply grab a turkey buck in $1, $5 or $10 increments at the register. I asked Safeway for a list of the organizations that benefit from this program and here is the list. Safeway has partnered with these awesome organizations to receive the donations from the Turkey Bucks Program:

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. I’ve seen your full stock-piles on Facebook. No one needs 100 tubes of toothpaste and 80 bottles of detergent. Dust them off and DONATE them so that others can afford to give their families a nice Thanksgiving. Or just buy some Turkey Bucks at Safeway.