One in eight Coloradans, half of them being children, suffer from hunger daily. Here are a few ways you and your kids can help that include watching the Sesame Street special on child hunger this Sunday with a new muppet, Lily. Also learn about The Big Give to benefit the Food Bank of the Rockies.

One day before a 7.0 earthquake laid waste to Haiti last year, a shipment of humanitarian aid, including 450 stuffed animals, cleared customs in Port-au-Prince.
Pure coincidence, but the timing couldn’t have been better, says Wendy Clark, the Littleton woman who founded Loving Hugs Inc., the Colorado nonprofit organization that sent the toys.
During the earthquake’s aftermath, [...]

You have all seen the advertisements of the starving children in other countries, and had your heart break. You have donated via text to help the kids in Haiti, hoping to make a difference. You have sent Christmas treats to unknown kids in Africa, wanting to put a smile on a child’s face. [...]

How does a community make a positive impact on school lunch nutrition? Why, they plant a fruit orchard for the school, of course?
On August 19, The Fruit Tree Planting Foundation will visit The Urban Farm at Stapleton to help plant over 40 5-gallon fruit trees.
The trees will become part of an on-going education program that shows [...]

Ever since our son Hugo was born, my husband and I talk more about how our families lived when we were young. This month, after volunteering with Lunch Box Express with my Colorado Children’s Campaign colleagues, I shared with him my experience as a child who received free and reduced school lunch, realizing that it [...]

This summer, 1 million brand-new books will be given to children during health clinic visits across the United States. The goal is to hook kids under age 5 on a lifelong passion for books and create a solid foundation for reading success in elementary school.
But the 20-year-old program has another fringe benefit: The parents of [...]

“How’s it going?” I asked my husband over the phone. “Great,” he answered. “Unbelievable actually. The boys are riding really strong and everyone we see is so super, so supportive.”
It was the fourth weekend in June and my husband and our two sons, ages 14 and 12, had just finished the first day of the [...]

Did you know there are hundreds of fruiting vines and trees in public spaces of the Denver Metro area and that most of the fruit produced by those plants, thousands of pounds of fruit, goes unused and left to rot? Neither did I!
A new project here in Denver called The Gleaning of Denver, a partnership [...]

As a child, I can remember my mother saying to me, “You just don’t know how good you have it.” Yet, even with these words echoing softly in my head, it took many years for me to understand just how blessed I was.
We all want our children to be grateful, compassionate and understanding, but teaching [...]

The number of newly homeless people has dropped significantly over the past two years in metro Denver, but an increasing number are adults with children, according to the 10th Homeless Point-in-Time Study, conducted on Jan. 24, 2011, by the Metropolitan Denver Homeless Initiative.
In 2011, the number of newly homeless — which means homeless for the [...]