Food to Power is a community-based organization working to cultivate a healthy, equitable food system in the greater Colorado Springs community. 

Food to Power believes that food is an essential source of everyone’s power to work, play, serve, and live. WPF is proud to support their mission, to transform every aspect of the food system into co-powerment and equity. “From food, to power.”

Grant Amount: $150,000 (Years 1 & 2 of 3)

GoFarm is a nonprofit organization with a mission to train and support local farmers, connect people with local agriculture, and increase equitable access to nutrient-rich food grown in Colorado. Through this work, we are strengthening the local food system, which is the process of how food gets from nearby farms to our plates!

Grant Amount: $145,000 (Year 2 of 3)

Solid Rock Community Development Center is dedicated to revitalizing Southeast Colorado Springs, transforming it into a premier destination for living, business development, diverse culture, and attractions through innovative community collaboration. This grant provides general operation funds for their Community Food Bank.

Grant Amount: $25,000 (Year 2 of 2)

Unity Project (UP) is dedicated to advancing racial equity through educational programs, community engagement, and musical endeavors. Their mission is to dismantle biases within ourselves and in the world around us through service, education, and singing—leading to a more racially equitable community.

Grant Amount: $72,600 (Year 3 of 3)

Community Anchor Academy (formerly Community Works Colorado Springs) empowers underserved communities to remove employment barriers through comprehensive job creation, community support, health, wellness, and education initiatives.

Their work will create a world where every individual, regardless of background or circumstance, has equal access to transformative education, holistic wellness, and pathways to meaningful employment. This grant is for general operations.

Grant amount: $355,000

(via the Knob Hill Arts District)

Ashley Cornelius, the 6th Poet Laureate for the Pikes Peak Region, is an artist, leader, licensed therapist, and advocate for BIPOC, queer and otherwise marginalized people.

While her community presence brings brilliant impact in so many ways, WPF funding was used to create the beautiful mural “Sunkissed” based on community interviews, Ashley’s poem, and painted by Jazz Holmes. Funds also supported Rest as Resistance, a workshop including “herbal tea, rest, a poetry reading, a sound bath, and a creative writing workshop” intentionally offered to “ people who experience greater exposure to adverse outcomes from systemic oppression.”

Grant Amount: $17,820