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DENVER, March 12, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Food for Thought Denver, a local non-profit organization providing weekend meals to hungry school children, today unveiled a significant expansion into Westminster School District #50. Starting in March, an additional 16 schools including elementary and high school locations will receive weekend food bags called PowerSacks that bridge the hunger gap that students experience over the weekends.
With the expansion, Food for Thought Denver will now provide 10,000 school children a month with a total of 20,000 PowerSacks (each student receives one for each weekend day). This expansion is a direct response to District 50 s outreach and the immense generosity of our donors, said Bob Bell, founder of Food for Thought Denver. Sixteen schools sounds like a big jump but, honestly, we have both the logistic support and boots on the ground standing by to help. That being said, we could always use more volunteers an
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How 3 Local Culinary Companies Are Giving Back
Satisfy your appetite and support charitable causes by purchasing greens, pasta, and sweets from these makers.Denise Mickelsen and Patricia Kaowthumrong •
March 1, 2021
Mountain Man Micro Farms owner Andrew McArdle donates a portion of sales from every crate of live microgreens he delivers across the Front Range to Texas-based Targeted Aquaponics Growth, a nonprofit that builds sustainable food growing systems for orphanages and children’s homes in low-income communities around the world. McArdle’s efforts and flavor-packed vegetable seedlings are two more reasons to eat your greens.
Chef Jesse Albertini opened her virtual pasta shop, Sfoglina, in July 2020 to bring hand-milled and slow-dried whole-grain noodles and monthly pasta subscriptions to hungry Coloradans literally, as she self-delivers. Try Sfoglina’s twisted-tube casarecce and Addie’s Animals, named for her daughter, which put the letters in alphabet s
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Vendavo Announces Record Growth and Numerous Industry Accolades in 2020
February 1, 2021 GMT
DENVER, Feb. 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Vendavo, the global market leader in price management and commercial excellence solutions, is pleased to announce both record growth and industry accolades in 2020. The company also bolstered its product lineup with two major releases, helping drive record customer retention.
In 2020, Vendavo experienced record growth and retention amongst challenging economic conditions that saw many businesses forced to scale back costs. In 2020, Vendavo’s SaaS business grew by 51%, service booking grew by 54%, and the company had 95% customer retention of its subscription service. Of note is the fact that 78% of Vendavo’s customers are in the cloud.