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November 2012
FoCo Cafe News
Dear Kathleen,
Thank you for your interest in the FoCo Cafe!
Volume 1, Issue 8
In This Issue
October:...Taking It To The
Next Level
Wish List
Calendar
October: Taking It To The Next Level
Thanks to all who came out for the Cafe's
first event on Friday, November 2! It was a
wonderful night featuring amazing
photography, soup, and great bluegrass by
the Tucker Mountain Band. We estimate that
we served soup to 125. We had so many
wonderful volunteers and even the staff at
Everyday Joe's donated their tips to
the FoCo Cafe at the end of the evening. It
was a heartwarming evening and the City
even flipped the switch on the holiday lights
in Old Town to help us celebrate.
Check out the
donation box made
And for us, it was a celebration. Just two
from pine beetle kill
days before, we signed the Cafe's nonprofit
- designed, built, and
paperwork. FoCo Cafe now has an EIN
number thanks to the hard work of Joe Davis donated for the Cafe.
of Sherman & Howard. Joe also serves on
the Board of the FoCo Cafe.
That evening was made even more special when honored guests
arrived - men from Harvest Farm who were featured in some of the
photos; Brad and Libby Birky, co-founders of SAME Cafe in Denver;
Les and Marcia DeMoss of DigiGraphics who donated so much time
and effort to the photo imaging for the show; and members of our
homeless community who not only enjoyed the event, but who stayed
to help us clean up at the end of the evening with thanks for including
and welcoming them.
Thanks to all for making our first event such a great success! The
proceeds from our donation box will allow us to submit a site plan for
an Old Town location for the FoCo Cafe.
FoCo Cafe December Charity of the Month
at Odell Brewing Company
Upcoming
Calendar
November 2
Interview with Coloradoan
reporter; and
FoCo Cafe's Faces of the
Food Chain Photo Exhibit
opens at Everyday Joe's
(it will hang there through
November)
November 5
Presentation at Odell
Brewing Company; Meeting
with Ashley Waddell
regarding corporate
partnerships
We had a wonderful meeting with Odell Brewing Company and the
FoCo Cafe and SAME Cafe have been selected as charities of the
month for December. Odell's Charity of the Month Program allocates
all taster tray proceeds to non-profit organizations serving
environmental, educational, or humanitarian causes.
Please visit their tasting room in December and try their taster tray.
Take your friends and family to Odell's over the holidays and make a
difference for those in our community who may not have an
opportunity to celebrate around a table with good food. It's good beer
for a really good cause.
If you know of other organizations we should connect with, contact us
at (309) 368-1659 or [email protected]
Wish List
We have storage space and are collecting
equipment! Please help us with the following:
Connect us with equipment including
metro shelving units, a 3-compartment
sink with side drainage boards,
commercial grade refrigerators and
freezers, and large (11qt) soup cookers. We also need ADA
compliant bathroom fixtures - do you know of a source?
Refer us to an organization/group or church where we might
present the idea of the FoCo Cafe. Please make an
introduction for us so we can connect more quickly.
Supply us with ideas for organizations or businesses that
might consider us for a charity of the month spot and let us
know who we might contact.
When we receive equipment donations, we view this as meals for
people in need because we will need to raise fewer dollars to open
our doors. To us, the equipment listed
above represents thousands of meals!
E-mail Jeff or Kathleen at [email protected]
or call (309) 368-1659 for more information or if you are able to help.
Thanks!
November 6
Meeting with CSU
community nutrition
students
November 8
Project Grow meeting with
Community Corrections,
CSU Extension, The
Growing Project, Global
Natural Health Alliance,
and others
November 9
CanDo Coalition Meeting
(Coalition for Activity and
Nutrition to Defeat
Obesity)
November 10
Aquaponics tour
(we are in the midst of
setting appointments
at multiple facilities to
explore this amazing
technology)
November 17
Cupcake Cook-off
The Bean Cycle Coffee
Shop
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Best Regards, Jeff & Kathleen Baumgardner
FoCo Cafe (Feeding Our Community Ourselves, Inc.)
FoCo Cafe Mission:
Building community by providing nutritious and
delicious meals to the people of Fort Collins
regardless of their ability to pay while using local,
organic, and sustainably grown ingredients.
FoCo Cafe Vision:
We strive to build a healthy community by
providing delicious and nutritious food in a
respectful and dignified manner to anyone who
walks through the door and wants to contribute to
our community. We envision that the quality of the
food and the comfortable atmosphere will draw
people from all walks of life and entice them to
become involved. Volunteers will feel satisfied by
their experience on many levels, because the cafe
is a vehicle that positively impacts our community
environmentally, economically, and socially.
FoCo Cafe Values:
Every human innately has dignity and
Ignite Fort Collins: "FoCo Cafe: A Non-Profit
should be treated as such.
Cafe for Fort Collins"
Every duty, volunteer or otherwise, has
value.
Participating in a community nourishes the soul.
Everyone deserves to eat nutritional food.
All people need a hand up at some point(s) in their lives.
The FoCo Cafe is incorporated as a non profit in Colorado as
Feeding Our Community Ourselves, Inc.
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