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Our Mission

We believe universal access to healthy, nutritious food is a fundamental human right. Nourish Colorado is transforming Colorado’s food system to ensure all Coloradans have equal and abundant access to nutritious foods from sustainable sources. Through advocacy for better policies, statewide initiatives, and partnerships with communities, and statewide and national organizations, Nourish Colorado is creating a new food paradigm. We’re actively challenging the status quo and championing a future-forward food system that equitably feeds and nourishes ALL Coloradans.

Our Guiding Values

1. Access to nourishing food is a basic human right.
2. A person’s ability to feed themselves and their households all the nourishing food they want should not be determined by economic conditions, race or ethnicity, or where they live.
3. Food systems must be transformed to work best for those who have been and are intentionally marginalized in order to create lasting and sustainable change for all.

 

Our Commitments

Including the voices and elevating the roles of those that our work aims to benefit

One example: We prioritize participant involvement in the Double Up Food Bucks Advisory Team and the Community Food Advocate initiative, which strengthened our programming while expanding professional opportunities for participants.

Seeking the knowledge, guidance, and partnership of local, state, and national organizations

One example: We actively participate in national and Colorado coalitions such as the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition, the Blueprint to End Hunger’s work groups and policy committees, and the Colorado Food Policy Network to learn from local food groups.

Employing solutions that are informed by research evidence as well as by community

One example: We contract with external evaluators and integrate in-person and virtual feedback sessions (symposia, interviews, focus groups) with core partners and beneficiaries in all our initiatives.

Testing and trying new solutions

One example: When provided state funds to purchase CO-grown produce for federal food assistance program participants, we mobilized with county partners and local growers to launch the CO Nutrition Incentive program in a matter of weeks, purchasing several hundred CSA shares for WIC households and older adults across the state.

Being adaptive and responsive in our work

One example: We have adapted former initiatives such as the School Food Initiative to build LoProCO to meet the needs and goals of partners, and have adapted curricula throughout COVID to be the most accessible, whether in-person or virtually.

Working ourselves out of our jobs

One example: We pursue means to permanently integrate our initiatives with institutional and agency partners, such as incentives and support for new Farm to School staff within the Department of Education to ensure our work lives on beyond us.

Ensuring that our decisions, actions, and allocation of resources contribute to an equitable, multicultural, and multiracial society with distributed and shared power

One example: Internally, we consistently and systematically review organizational practices from recruiting and hiring, to financial investments, Board development, vendor selection, and more, please click here. Externally, we have committed ourselves to developing a comprehensive policy roadmap of where and how we can work to remove barriers and seize opportunities to advance racial and social justice through our policy advocacy efforts.

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The Team

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Amber Clemetson

Project & Operations Manager
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Amy Nelms

Senior Program & Policy Manager, Healthy Food Incentives
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Caronne Porter

Food Access Program Manager
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Jessica Wright

Senior Program and Policy Manager, Healthy Food in Institutions
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Sarah Naomi Jones

Outreach Coordinator
Terri Livermore

Terri Livermore

Managing Director
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Wendy Peters Moschetti

Director of Strategic Initiatives

Sara Struckman

Grants Manager

The Board

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Anna Evans

Anna Evans

Regional Property Manager, DDR Corp.
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Ashley Thurow

Ashley Thurow, CPA, Chair

Executive Director, Monument Health
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Greg Vochis

Greg Vochis, CPA, Vice Chair

Delta Dental of Colorado, Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer
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Jess T. Church, MS, RD

Director of Food Security Initiatives, Centura Health
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Jill Mendoza

Jill Mendoza, CEcD, Treasurer

Economic Development Manager, Town of Superior
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Ken Feiler

Ken Feiler

Former CEO, Rose Medical Center
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Marti

Marti Hawkins, MBA, BSN, RN

Chief Nursing Officer, Highlands Behavioral System
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Shannon

Shannon Spurlock

Founder & Principal Consultant, Ochotona Consulting
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Shaunda Van Wert

Director – Strategy, Mergers & Acquisitions, KPMG
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Thomas G. Currigan

Thomas G. Currigan, Jr., Immediate Past Chair

Former Senior Director, Kaiser Permanente Stakeholder Relations

Core Partners

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East Denver Food Hub

Value Chain Coordinator
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Andrea Loudd

Community Food Advocate
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Marci Cochran

Regional Community Food Advocate
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Wonda Perez

Community Food Advocate
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Nicole Frazier

Chef Consultant
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Sally Ayotte

Chef Consultant
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Sarah

Sarah Kvichak

Chef Consultant
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Shelly Kark

Shellie Kark

Chef Consultant
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Rainey Wikstrom

Chef Consultant
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Rob Mattoch

Chef Consultant

Nourish Colorado's Historic Timeline

2020
Rebrand
The organization rebrands to Nourish Colorado to reflect its evolution into an organization transforming food systems.
2020
2019
Workshops
LoProCO, which grew out of the School Food Initiative, hosts its first series of educational workshops for school districts and food system collaborators across the state.
2019
2019
New Program
Passes Colorado School Food Purchasing Program.
2019
2019
Legislatively acquires funding for Colorado Food System Advisory Council (COFSAC) staffing and operations
2019
2018
Legislatively establishes and acquires funding for the Healthy Food Incentive Fund for Double Up Food Bucks and Colorado Nutrition Incentive Program
2018
2016
Launches Double Up Food Bucks Colorado modeled after the Fair Food Network’s successful DUFB Michigan pilot
2016
2013
Colorado Food Policy Network meets for the first time bringing together local food policy networks to collaboratively advocate for local and regional food policies.
2013
2010
Launches the School Food Initiative to help reform nutrition in school lunchrooms
2010
2010
Legislatively establishes COFSAC
2010
2009
LiveWell Community coalitions operate across the state to promote healthy eating and active living; eventually reaches 26 communities
2009
2009
The Colorado Health Foundation, Kaiser Permanente, and the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment launches the organization, originally known as LiveWell Colorado.
2009

Career Opportunities

At Nourish Colorado we don’t fill “jobs,” we offer meaningful work and career opportunities for individuals who want to make a positive impact on the world. Our employees know they are making a difference. Every day they are on the frontline championing equitable and universal access to nutritious foods for all Coloradans. We’re always on the lookout for talented professionals who share our passion for food system optimization to join the team.

 Nourish Colorado is currently seeking a facilitator to  lead several statewide (virtual) listening sessions with SNAP recipients to learn more about how to strengthen SNAP’s ability to ensure access to nutritious foods. This is a contract position. Learn more and apply here.

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To submit a job email Amber@NourishColorado.org

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