Jeff (volunteer at Daily Bread Soup Kitchen for 22 years, Co-op composter for 6 years)

Our mission [at Daily Bread Soup Kitchen] is to feed the hungry of our community regardless of race, religion, or ethnicity. We provide a friendly, respectful, and inviting environment in an atmosphere of hope and dignity. In addition to physically feeding people we strive to give people a place where they can have positive human contact every day. We are entirely volunteer run and depend on donations from individuals, businesses and local grants. Over the years, the CU community has supported us in various ways. Also, we have hundreds of incredible volunteers that make it possible for us to operate 7 days a week. We rely on many retired and older volunteers who are critical to our success. In the long-run we will need new volunteers to step up and help us continue our mission. We also need to keep spreading the word about us. The funding that comes from the Round Up For Good program goes toward our day-to-day expenses: purchasing food (most of food is donated but we need to pay for certain items), utilities, building maintenance, expenses for vehicles used for food pick-ups, etc. We do a lot of our grocery shopping at the co-op. We like being able to support a local organization which shares many of our values.