We Hear You: Understanding How Our Food Pantry Works

We’ve been hearing a lot of your comments and concerns lately, especially about not receiving items like eggs, milk, meat, or more gluten-free products. We want you to know that we hear you and are doing our best to meet your needs. We thought it might be helpful to shed some light on how food ...

Mobile Pantry Q1 Survey Results – Thank You for Your Feedback!

A Note to Our Neighbors October 2024  At Community Food Share, we are deeply committed to making nutritious food available to everyone in our community. Your feedback helps guide us, letting us know where we’re doing well and where we can improve. Recently, we surveyed those of you who visited our mobile pantries from July ...

Improving Your Experience: Feedback on Our New Reservation System

New to the reservation system? Visit CFS.Waitwell.US to make your reservation! In April 2024, Community Food Share’s Feeding Families Pantry introduced the Waitwell reservation system to reduce long wait times. This new system has made pantry visits smoother and more organized for our Neighbors. To assess the effectiveness of the system and gather feedback from ...

LEAF Lyons Joins SIMC: Enhancing Data-Driven Food Distribution

We are thrilled to announce that LEAF Lyons has officially onboarded onto the Service Insights on MealConnect (SIMC) platform, becoming the second agency in our network to do so. This exciting milestone took place in July, marking a significant step forward in enhancing our collective efforts to better serve the community.  SIMC, or Service Insights ...

2024-09-06T16:37:24-06:00August 23, 2024|Research|

Reflecting on Our 2024 Resource Fair: Insights from the Survey

This year's Annual Community Food Share Resource Fair, held on May 11th, was a fantastic opportunity to connect community members with vital resources and services. We were thrilled to see 291 attendees enjoying the sunny day at Clinica Family Health in Lafayette. From pickling demonstrations to plant giveaways, facepainting to acupuncture sessions, the fair was ...

2024-09-06T16:44:21-06:00June 18, 2024|Research, Uncategorized|

Enhancing Food Distribution Across our Network

Community Insights Initiative Community Food Share has partnered with The Round Pantry, in Longmont, to pilot our new data software, Service Insights on Meal Connect (SIMC), developed by Feeding America. This program promises to revolutionize our services by providing deeper insights into our community's needs while streamlining our operations. Since the introduction of SIMC in ...

2024-09-06T16:45:08-06:00May 24, 2024|Research, Uncategorized|

Community Experience Insights: What We Learned

In December 2023 and January 2024, Community Food Share launched a new intake system. Under our Neighbor Experience Initiative, we are implementing Service Insights on Meal Connect (SIMC), a program developed by Feeding America to streamline our services and better understand the needs of our community. This initiative is a part of our ongoing effort ...

2024-09-06T16:46:32-06:00March 26, 2024|Research, Uncategorized|

Connecting More Deeply Through Data: Introducing Our Innovative Intake System

Have you ever wondered how we ensure our food distribution is as effective and efficient as possible? At our Mobile Pantry and Blue Spruce programs, Community Food Share has launched a new intake system. Under our Community Experience Initiative, we are implementing Service Insights on Meal Connect (SIMC), a program developed by Feeding America. We ...

2024-09-06T16:47:15-06:00March 26, 2024|Neighbor Experience Initiative, Research|