Edgewater Collective

Join our partner, Center for Community Wealth, as they celebrate four new worker cooperatives who are graduating from the Worker-Owned Co-op Academy in a couple of weeks.

We are excited to support two of these Latina-led worker cooperatives with connections to communities in Jefferson County.

WOCA Academy Graduation/Graduación de la Academia WOCA ¡Celebra con nosotros la graduación de la Academia de Cooperativas de Trabajadores en persona! Celebrate the Academy Graduation in Person!

Thank you to all who helped us raise money to help an immigrant family remain in their housing situation despite the father being taken by ICE.

Through our school contacts, we've heard about a family in Lakewood, and another in Edgewater, where the dad was taken by ICE. Our new goal is to raise $3,600 to help these families remain in their home and have some extra money for food and other necessities.

Donate today and let's see if we can bring the total in this Jeffco immigration support fund to $6,200!

Support Jeffco Immigrants on ColoradoGives.org Together we can provide resources and supports for immigrants in Jefferson County

The Summer Food Service Program is back, starting tomorrow, June 2!

All kids and teens (ages 1–18) are welcome for free meals at any of the sites below — no sign-up or paperwork needed.

Arvada West High School: until June 25
Eiber, Lumberg and Patterson Elementary Schools: until July 31
(No meals on June 19 or July 3)
Lunch: 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Come by, grab a tray and enjoy! Click the link below for more information.

If you want to hear it from the front lines, just know that people are fighting over food at some of our food shares.

Not because people are “bad.”
Because people are scared.

Food prices keep rising.
Benefits are shrinking.
Families are stretched beyond their limits.
And many community organizations are trying to hold the line with less funding, fewer resources, and exhausted teams.

We see the stress in real time.
Parents skipping meals.
Seniors apologizing for taking “too much.”
Volunteers trying to de-escalate situations that should never have existed in the first place.

Food insecurity doesn’t always look like empty shelves.
Sometimes it looks like tension, survival mode, and communities pushed past their breaking point.

This is why food access matters.
This is why dignity matters.
This is why investing in community care matters before systems reach crisis levels.

We’re still here.
Still showing up.
Still sharing what we can with love and urgency. ❤️

A society can often be measured by what people are forced to fight over.