Resources
Guidance
After Congress failed to pass a budget for Fiscal Year 2026 by the September 30 deadline, the federal government officially shut down on October 1, 2025. The shutdown will continue until Congress passes and the President signs funding legislation. This resource explains how the shutdown will impact nutrition programs in Colorado, updated as needed.
Nutrition Incentives
Insights
The 2023 Double Up Food Bucks Colorado Evaluation aimed to assess program operations and measure the impact of the program on stakeholders.
The 2021 Double Up Food Bucks Colorado Evaluation aimed to assess program operations and measure the impact of the program on stakeholders.
Sinergia partnered with Nourish Colorado as a Regional Navigator to enhance the Double Up Food Bucks Colorado program, a state initiative enabling families
utilizing SNAP to double the value of their fruit and vegetable purchases, thereby bolstering local farmers and economies. See the 2025 report here.
The 2025 CNIP End of Season Report shares the results and recommendations moving forward for increasing access to and consumption of Colorado-grown produce by women, children, and older adults experiencing economic insecurity.
The 2024 CNIP End of Season Report shares the results and recommendations moving forward for increasing access to and consumption of Colorado-grown produce by women, children, and older adults experiencing economic insecurity.
The 2023 CNIP End of Season Report shares the results and recommendations moving forward for increasing access to and consumption of Colorado-grown produce by women, children, and older adults experiencing economic insecurity.
CNIP focuses on creating permanent nutrition security for Coloradans experiencing economic instability through access to locally produced, fresh, and nutritious fruits and vegetables.
HFIF improves access to fresh Colorado grown fruits and vegetables for Colorado’s low-income populations through healthy eating incentive programs including Double Up Food Bucks and Colorado Nutrition Incentive Program (CNIP). Maintaining stable funding in Colorado’s general budget is critical to the success of these programs.
Colorado House Bill 23-1008 is intended to improve access to and lower prices for nutritious foods in low-income and underserved areas of Colorado while keeping economic activity in the local community.
Training & Technical Assistance
Help us spread the word about the Nourish Colorado Double Up Food Bucks program by using and sharing the resources in this Toolkit. Content available in English and Spanish.
This chart captures the different nutrition incentives programs and how to sign up for them as a farmer or farmers market.
Our chef team created a local produce box recipe book based on feedback from produce box program participants, utilizing seasonal CO-grown produce. Spanish version is coming soon!
Marketing
Help promote the Double Up program with this flyer highlighting more than 95 locations that accept the Colorado EBT card including farmers markets, farm stands and grocery stores across Colorado.
The FMNP Vendor Sign is designed primarily for vendors to promote they welcome SNAP, Double Up, and WIC FMNP at their market booths or in communications.
Healthy Food in Institutions
Insights
Colorado’s Farm to School (FTS) Program encourages schools to purchase, promote, and serve local foods. FTS empowers children and their families to make informed food choices while strengthening the local economy.
Training & Technical Assistance
Visit The Guidebook for resources on buying, selling, and promoting local foods in Colorado’s Schools.
Marketing
Local Food Program created local produce recipe and fun fact cards (1/2 sheet) and posters for schools and partners to use and distribute
Webinars
Topical monthly webinars on local food procurement, food service, farm to school, farm to early care education, and farm to institutions. Each session concludes with a chef provided culinary food demonstration.
This informative food safety video series provides “Quick Bite” best practices for working in the kitchen.
School Food Initiatives
Nutrition Education
Insights
This one-pager is a great overview of the impacts that SNAP-Ed has made in Colorado.
This report covers SNAP-Ed’s cross-regional successes, outcomes, and impact. The Mountain Plains Region first published this report in 2017, and by 2019, the Southwest and Mountain Plains Regions partnered to develop a cross-regional approach. 2023 marks the report’s 7th edition and the second time three Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) regional offices collaborated on SNAP-Ed outcomes.
Nourish Colorado General
We are sharing ways to stay engaged, involved, and mobilized to make sure federal investments for our farmers and nutrition programs continue. See four ways to take action in this one-pager.
Rooted in Action is our weekly email that provides concise updates on farm and food policy, and actions you can take now. Click here to sign up.
Check out these stories from Colorado community members. Each storyteller shares the impact that federal investments have had in their lives.
This case study explores what Nourish Colorado could do to support small, independent retailers, both urban and rural, who face strikingly similar challenges impacting their ability to feed communities across the state.
This case study delves into the journey of conceptualizing and implementing the expansion of SNAP produce incentives and the integration of such incentives into the Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) payment system.
This case study delves into Nourish Colorado’s contribution to the advocacy and implementation of the Local Food Program, a groundbreaking initiative aimed at transforming the state’s public school institutional procurement system.
Insights
View the locations of Nourish Colorado partners around the state.
View our one-page summary of our strategic plan to learn about the organization’s mission, vision, values, and goals and team priorities.
This document captures what we do, why we do it, what progress we can show to date, and how we plan to fix systemic problems. Updated annually, this summary is useful tool if new to the organization or are looking for a brief overview of progress to date.
View our concise overview of Nourish Colorado to learn more about how and why Nourish came to be.
Webinars
Keep up with the Food Bill Action Team (FBTA), Colorado’s advocacy and engagement group for food policy. Listen in on the group’s twice monthly meetings.
Check out our library of webinars covering topics like immigrant rights & food, USDA federal food system grants, food system policies and more.
This webinar series covers Nourish Colorado’s law and policy roadmap for equitable food systems transformation.
Nourish Colorado rebranded from LiveWell Colorado in 2021. Check out this webinar series to deep dive into Nourish’s focus and work.