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.