Our Purpose
We Don’t Waste at the Denver Inner City Parish links restaurants, caterers, food purveyors and others to provide fresh food and surplus goods to Denver’s underserved. Our efforts supplement existing food and supplies needed by community-based agencies, including wholesome, nutritional and varied restaurant-grade products, meals, surplus soft goods and personal care items.
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Our Intent
The dispersion of these items aids the health and well being of those helped by the participating community-based agencies, while supplementing the food budgets of each agency. By ensuring that quality food, soft goods and personal care items can be provided to those whose needs are greatest, we help minimize waste and create a collaborative green initiative in our community.
How We Work
We collect and distribute food leftover from events, caterers, restaurants and other major food providers to charitable agencies, providing unused, fresh meals that would otherwise go to waste. From prepared meals to baked goods and produce, we help our donor partners share nutritious food that is incorporated into the food programs of our community-based agency beneficiaries. We currently serve Denver’s major community-based non-profits that provide support to the city’s needy families and individuals.
“Since the inception of We Don’t Waste, Beacon Place has been the recipient of weekly donations. These donations have been integral in lowering our budget costs and increasing the diversity of food items to our residents’ diets.” Kelly Sullivan, Beacon Place Program Manager
“…without the help of We Don’t Waste, we would be unable to feed our guests the quality of food Father Woody’s strives to serve.” Deborah Reynolds, head cook at Father Woody’s