Food Hub and Transportation
Transportation and food storage are two major barriers to sustainable food access. Most organizations doing charitable food distributions do not have the funding for staff, space or vehicles to store and transport the large quantities of food needed to feed their communities, not to mention the equipment, training, and time needed to manage those spaces. This leaves the majority of charitable organizations without the capacity to store and transport bulk food.
We’re addressing these barriers by providing transportation and storage for bulk food to our Southwest Food Coalition partners.
Transportation
We have a full-time driver and fleet of trucks, including a refrigerated truck, which allows us to deliver bulk food to charitable food distribution sites all around Southwest Denver. We currently deliver about 230,000 pounds of food to 26 different partner sites every month including schools, food pantries, and community organizations. We pick up food from locations like our Food Hub and Food Bank of the Rockies and deliver directly to our partners’ doors.
Food storage
We manage the Southwest Hub, a centralized drop-off/pick-up location for bulk food with cold and dry storage in Englewood. Food Bank of the Rockies delivers bulk food directly to our warehouse twice a week and partners either pick up their order, or have their order delivered to their site by our driver and truck. This way, partners don’t have to rent box trucks and drive across town to and from FBR. This increases the amount of fresh food that all of our partners can order. Within the hub, we handle about 250,000 pounds of food per month.