Please help us by volunteering for this event!
We will be distributing pet food at Westside Community Center, (Colorado Springs) at 1628 W Bijou St, Colorado Springs, CO 80904. We are there on the fourth Wednesday from 1:00-3:00pm and pet food distributions are typically held outside.
Please help us by volunteering for this event!
We will be distributing pet food at Westside Community Center, (Colorado Springs) at 1628 W Bijou St, Colorado Springs, CO 80904. We are there on the fourth Wednesday from 1:00-3:00pm and pet food distributions are typically held outside.
In 2021, 740 Colorado Pet Pantry Volunteers donated 15,154 hours of service to help pets in their communities. This amount of labor is equivalent to a $477,503 donation. It is only because of our volunteers, that we are able to do the work we do. We are forever grateful to them.
Here are some of our amazing volunteers doing their thing throughout the last year!
Please help us by volunteering for this event!
We will be distributing pet food at Westside Community Center, (Colorado Springs) at 1628 W Bijou St, Colorado Springs, CO 80904. Pet food distributions are typically held outside.
It’s that time of the year! Many of our pet food banks will be on a special schedule for November and December, due to the holiday season. Please check the list below to see when your pet food bank is scheduled. All of these reschedules will be notated on our normal calendar, which can be found at coloradopetpantry.org/foodbank
Every September our wonderful friends at Applewood Plumbing Heating & Electric have an amazing fundraiser for Colorado Pet Pantry. This is a great deal!
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2020 was quite a year for all of us, in many different ways. At Colorado Pet Pantry we saw the need for pet food assistance grow exponentially. We were ready. Over the prior years we had been building our infrastructure, and developing our network of donation locations, volunteers, and supporters. We were unknowingly preparing for something we never saw coming. When COVID arrived, we were ready to help our community keep their families together. We all saw how important the company of our furry friends were during that time (and still today), and we were honored to have the opportunity to take part in preserving those relationships.
When we put together the numbers, not just from last year, but from in comparison to our first year, 2013 until now, we were shocked. The exponential curve is clear as day. The need is growing, and we are right there with it. Let’s take a look…
We started in 2013 with one pet food bank in Denver. We provided one month’s supply of pet food to 858 pets that year, and began developing our system to help those who were struggling to feed their pets. Each year we grew exponentially larger. We worked out the kinks in our system and continued to develop relationships with human food banks and other partner nonprofits in an attempt to streamline our services.
We didn’t want our clients to have any difficulty using our services. It’s not easy to have to go to one place to get human food, and another place to get pet food. We envisioned a one-stop-shop for food and supplies.
We ended 2020 with over 80 pet food bank locations, and currently, in August of 2021 we have 94 pet food banks across the state of Colorado. In 2020, we distributed 943,807 lbs of dry pet food and 120,633 cans of wet food, serving more than 5.1 million meals across the state to pets in need.
These numbers blew away previous years as we grew and reached areas in the state we had only dreamed about in the past. We knew there was a need in areas such as the Western Slope, Southeast Colorado, and the Eastern Plains. Thanks to this growth, we were able to help 37,093 families keep their pets home with them, and out of the shelters.
Now in 2021, we are the largest pet food pantry in the USA. We are distributing pet food in 29 counties across the state and assisting 100 animal rescues with food and supplies. We are always adding new locations and new partners.
We are continuing to build our infrastructure by adding staff and acquiring trucks to help with transport and deliveries. We are reaching out to populations and developing relationships in areas we never dreamed we’d be.
Please help us by volunteering for this event!
This is a Warehouse “Open House-Style” Volunteer Day. Come help us in the warehouse! We’ll be sorting donations, building packing lists for pet food banks, and organizing the Share Program (supplies for animal rescues) rooms. It’s a perfect opportunity if you have volunteered with us before to meet other volunteers and, or to come learn about how to volunteer with us in the warehouse. Lifting is required. Please wear closed-toed shoes, and dress for the weather. The warehouse is chilly in the winter and toasty in the summer. Thank you for joining us in this very important role.
**If you’re under 18, a parent or guardian must attend with you. No children under 10 please.**
We know that life can get busy and sometimes it’s hard to volunteer or find ways to give back. That’s why Colorado Pet Pantry makes it easy for you to help us feed local pets in need. Learn two ways you can automatically support Colorado Pet Pantry in no time.
If you’re expecting a Colorado state refund this year, we hope you’ll consider donating some or all of it to Colorado Pet Pantry. Colorado makes it easy to donate your refund to the charity of your choice. When you file your taxes, add our registration number, 20123031891, on the Voluntary Contributions Schedule (DR 0104CH) of your Colorado Individual Income Tax Return. Learn more about this easy to use and much appreciated program.
Did you know you can support Colorado Pet Pantry just by doing your regular shopping at King Soopers or City Market? When you add us to your rewards card as your charity of choice, King Soopers/City Market will donate 3% of what you spend directly to us. In the last quarter of 2023, 633 enrolled households helped us raise $5,306.35 in donations! Visit the King Soopers/City Market page and sign up today.
As we head into fall, we are feeling the full effect of the global pandemic. The need for assistance continues to grow as more and more people are missing paychecks. Many people will feed their pets before they feed themselves and we are here to tell them they do not need to do that. We have 62 monthly pet food banks all across the Front Range. We are open to the public and we are here for you, and your pets. To find a local food bank in your area, please check out our monthly schedule.
As the need for pet food assistance grows, so does our need for volunteers. Volunteering with Colorado Pet Pantry is one of the most fulfilling and beneficial things you can do to help the animals in your community, and it’s worth mentioning it’s a blast! We have the best crew of volunteers around.
Coming up in the next month we need help at the following dates and locations:
SIGN UP HERE: https://signup.com/Group/27197926080
Thank you for considering volunteering with our organization. We guarantee you will have a wonderful time, we look forward to meeting you, and our clients are grateful for your service.
Please help us by volunteering for this event!
We will be distributing pet food at Westside Community Center, (Colorado Springs) at 1628 W Bijou St, Colorado Springs, CO 80904. We are there on the fourth Wednesday from 1:00-3:00pm and pet food distributions are typically held outside.
We made the news! Watch this segment by Mile High Living and Denver7 to see what we’re up to in 2020 and more about our upcoming Bow Wow Film Festival on April 18 in LoDo.
This Dogster article is so kind, educational and thorough – YOU should read it. Photography by Steve Hostetler Photography.
“I have clients tell me they have to make a choice between paying rent and their utilities and buying pet food,” says Eileen, who started the Denver-based nonprofit in 2013 when, as a shelter volunteer, she noticed dogs were consistently given up because their owners couldn’t afford to take care of them.
Now, Eileen and her team have grown Colorado Pet Pantry into the largest pet food bank in the country, she says, with 45 locations throughout Colorado, plus 90 donation bins at local businesses. By collecting donations, such as that opened bag of dog food that your dog refuses to eat, in 2019, the organization fed 3.7 million meals to pets.
