Feeding Denver, together
Contact Us
For questions about making a donation, DEZ tax credits, or tax receipts, contact:
Madi Matheny
Development Coordinator
720-343-8461
mmatheny@metrocaring.org
For questions about food donations, contact the Food Access team:
Together, we can end hunger at its root.
By giving to Metro Caring, you ensure that your community can access a week's worth of healthy groceries, nutrition and cooking education, and anti-hunger resources.
Your gifts, both small and large, help achieve our mission of working with our community to meet people’s immediate need for nutritious food while building a movement to address the root causes of hunger. All gifts to Metro Caring are tax-deductible to the extent provided by law.
Ways to Support
The Greenhouse is a group of Metro Caring supporters who have chosen to give monthly. Much like a greenhouse, you can help create a place of nourishment, sustainability, and year-round growth for our community every day.
Metro Caring’s Roots to Rise Society honors committed donors who have pledged a five-year investment in our mission. Through important multi-year support, the Society ensures our programs will thrive in the community for years to come.
Supporters who wish to leave a lasting legacy at Metro Caring are invited to join our Perennial Roots program. Through a bequest, you can develop your personal financial plans while advancing our movement to end hunger at its root.
Corporate Partnerships
Your corporate engagement, workplace giving, and matching gifts can support our food access, nutrition education and cooking clubs, and anti-hunger work. Metro Caring offers employee-engagement opportunities to complement corporate values, advance our partnership aspirations, and work with the community. We can facilitate one-day volunteer projects, service days, and bespoke special projects.
We offer a variety of sponsorship opportunities for businesses and organizations of all sizes. We’ll work together to craft a partnership that impacts our community while supporting your organization’s corporate and philanthropic goals.
For more information, please email the Development Team or call 720-343-8461.
Host an Event
Interested in supporting Metro Caring by hosting a fundraiser to benefit our organization? We are grateful for the many organizations and individuals who wish to hold a special event to benefit our mission and support the community. If you are looking to host an event to support Metro Caring or have a member of our staff give a presentation at your place of business, organization, or event, email the Development Team or call 720-343-8458.
Event Approval Process: We ask that you share your plans to hold a fundraiser with us prior to starting. We can assist in creating a donation page or share resources like our logo and other assets to help you.
Additional Ways to Give
IRA Charitable Rollover
You can reduce your taxes by making a gift from your IRA to Metro Caring. Contact our Development Team at 720-343-8458 to learn more about how you can convert your taxable IRA distribution and potentially reduce your taxes.
Give Stock or Real Estate
When you donate appreciated assets to Metro Caring as an outright gift, you are entitled to an income-tax charitable deduction equal to the fair market value of the assets on the date of the gift, regardless of your cost basis. Learn more by contacting Sungmin, Development Manager, at 720-343-8461 or by email.
Tribute Gifts
Gift acknowledgments are provided to the tribute recipient with a letter informing them that a donation has been made in their honor or in memory of their loved one. The amount of the gift is kept confidential and the tax deduction belongs to the donor. You can make a tribute donation online.
Donate a Vehicle
Donating a vehicle is a great way to support Metro Caring's programming. Metro Caring works with Vehicles for Charity to coordinate vehicle donations. Donate your vehicle today!
King Soopers Rewards
Metro Caring is enrolled in the King Soopers Community Rewards Program. When you link your King Soopers Rewards card to Metro Caring, we will receive donations whenever you shop. Sign up through King Soopers or City Market. Once logged into, search Metro Caring by name or use the code TR070, and then click Enroll.
Denver Enterprise Zone (DEZ) Tax Credit
Metro Caring is a certified agency within the Denver Enterprise Zone (DEZ), a tax credit program, administered by the State of Colorado. You can receive a 25% tax credit if you donate $250 or more to Metro Caring.
Donate Food
Donate Food/Host a Food Drive
In our fight against hunger, we often come face to face with a mean irony. Food insecurity and obesity are, in many cases, two sides of the same coin. It’s a tragic fact that children in low-income communities are more likely to be faced with nutrient-poor and high-sodium diets, increasing their risk for health problems and diet-related diseases.
To meet the greatest need of our community – more healthy and well-balanced foods – Metro Caring distributes foods that are not excessively high in added sugar.
If you are interested in donating food to Metro Caring, start with this list! These are the nutritious items that our shoppers have requested. This is just a starting point. Donations of other healthy and nutritious items are more than welcome!
Our food donation hours are listed at the bottom of this webpage. You are welcome to come by the back door to drop off food at any point during these hours.
*Please note: Metro Caring is closed 1 day the first week of every month for staff training. If you plan to bring food donations on that day, please schedule ahead to ensure that someone is here to receive you by emailing foodaccess@metrocaring.org. See our holidays and closures below.
Help us fill our shelves by hosting a healthy food drive! Whether you host one at work, in your faith community, school, or elsewhere, we are thankful for your contribution to address hunger in Denver.
Running a healthy food drive is easy and fun! Fill out the Food Drive Form below and our team will contact you to review the details.
Food Drive Form
Suggested Food Donations
Canned beans
Canned vegetables
Low-sodium canned soups
Brown rice
Nuts
Whole-grain pasta
Canned stews
Whole-grain, low-sugar cold cereals
Canned tomatoes
Dried fruits (no sugar added)
Shelf-stable milk or Milk substitutes
Honey
Peanut butter
Dry beans
Rolled oats
Canned fruit (in juice, not in syrup)
Canned chicken
Quinoa
Canned tuna
Seeds
Pasta sauce
Popcorn kernels
Unsweetened apple sauce
Olive or Canola Oil
Chicken, Beef, Vegetable Broths & Stock
Look for "No Sugar Added" and "Whole Grain" when possible!