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🎉 BIG NEWS, DENVER! 🎉
Joys Kitchen, a Kinship Mutual Aid Foundation project is now proud partners with Ascend Recovery Solutions-
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Joy’s Kitchen and Kinship Mutual Aid Foundation are now official PARTNERS with Food Bank of the Rockies! 🧡

For over a year, Joy’s Kitchen has been at the whim of other organizations. We moved again and again, starting over each time. Through every change we stayed committed to one thing: serving the underserved. We made it through, and we’re still here offering specialized services and larger pop-up distributions. Now we have a powerful team behind us.

📍 Where to find us now: Ascend Recovery Solutions in Lakewood, our home base while we look for a larger site so we can bring indoor and large distributions back.

🥕 Coming soon:
✔️ Walk-up food boxes (times to be announced!)
✔️ Larger pop-up events that nourish the community on non-inclement-weather days

We are incredibly proud of our partnerships and the wings of these angels!

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Mondays at Joys. #joyskitchen #communitylove #foodpantry #foodrescue #savefoodloveleople

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“To help depression with my mom’s passing, I started to make soup for a lot of people, and then that turned into looking for food donations, and then the food donations opened up this world of waste that we have...”
When Kathy Stanley lost her mom to pancreatic cancer in 2012, she navigated her grief by serving others. “I think having the reality of death at my door and mortality and just this human condition of the world broke my heart.”
She started making soups and eventually looked to her community to help source ingredients. “I asked for donations, and this guy showed up at my door, literally, with his car packed full of weird boxes of food, lots of bread, and he was like, ‘Can you do something with this?’”’
Taken back by his carload of food, Kathy investigated and discovered grocery stores were throwing away all of the things people like her - a mom of 4 children - were struggling to afford. She couldn’t shake seeing good food being wasted while people were going hungry, so she took action.
Kathy started @joyskitchen_org to rescue, sort and distribute food to families across Colorado. And since 2012 (full-time since 2017), she’s worked with 6,000 volunteers, 2 trucks and 2 trailers to rescue 7 million pounds of food, feeding 5,000 families per month!
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Nowadays, she’s even starting the Kinship Mutual Aid Foundation to support organizers of good projects with health insurance, steady pay, etc. because, in the past, she’s relied heavily on musical festivals and events to fund her work. And though her path has challenged her mentally and financially, Kathy has never waived from her passion!
“When we pull out of that whirlwind and see the waste that we produce. Every day is really hard when people are starving. And there doesn’t need to be. There literally doesn’t need to be hunger. So I saw that and went forward with this little project on the basis that I really understand that one person can change the world.
I’m number 7785. Thanks @robs10kfriends for the morning hang!

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7785. “To help depression with my mom’s passing, I started to make soup for a lot of people, and then that turned into looking for food donations, and then the food donations opened up this world of waste that we have...”
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When Kathy Stanley lost her mom to pancreatic cancer in 2012, she navigated her grief by serving others. “I think having the reality of death at my door and mortality and just this human condition of the world broke my heart.”
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She started making soups and eventually looked to her community to help source ingredients. “I asked for donations, and this guy showed up at my door, literally, with his car packed full of weird boxes of food, lots of bread, and he was like, ‘Can you do something with this?’”
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Taken back by his carload of food, Kathy investigated and discovered grocery stores were throwing away all of the things people like her - a mom of 4 children - were struggling to afford. She couldn’t shake seeing good food being wasted while people were going hungry, so she took action.
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Kathy started @joyskitchen_org to rescue, sort and distribute food to families across Colorado. And since 2012 (full-time since 2017), she’s worked with 6,000 volunteers, 2 trucks and 2 trailers to rescue 7 million pounds of food, feeding 5,000 families per month!
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Nowadays, she’s even starting the Kinship Mutual Aid Foundation to support organizers of good projects with health insurance, steady pay, etc. because, in the past, she’s relied heavily on musical festivals and events to fund her work. And though her path has challenged her mentally and financially, Kathy has never waived from her passion!
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“When we pull out of that whirlwind and see the waste that we produce. Every day is really hard when people are starving. And there doesn’t need to be. There literally doesn’t need to be hunger. So I saw that and went forward with this little project on the basis that I really understand that one person can change the world.” Awesome hanging with you, @kathy_stanley_!
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How we met: Kathy and I were introduced via @instagram by @thesolaryogi (#6732)!
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Swipe to hear more about Kathy’s passion for her work! 🥬❤️
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#denver #grief #foodrescue #worldhunger

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Stop by the Cliff House Lodge today in Morrison, Colorado for a clothing exchange come ride your girlfriend’s closet. Leave the clothes that you’d like to exchange behind. Can’t wait to see you soon!

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Harrison Thursday encouragement from Katie and I in the office Of Love while we ground and get ready for partnership meetings that change everything.

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These last two weeks have undoubtedly been some of the hardest Joy’s Kitchen and its future have known in 15 years. We have faced challenges I have not spoken publicly about that threatened getting food to people and threatened everything we have worked for.

I have also had to make some very important changes in my life and in this organization.

For so long, Joy’s has been a family-run, grassroots project. It was built that way. Carried that way. Loved that way.

Now I am stepping Joy’s out of being held only as a family project and into something with deeper foundational stability — a foundation of hope, Kinship, food, love, and community that can carry this work forward beyond any one person or family.

What we are and how we are for people will not change.

Yesterday Katie and I had so much fun doing rescue for the Denver Indian Center and filling the truck to the brim with food for families in the Westwood area.

Holding hope, it turns out, can look like a ripe tomato.

And serving love is the foundation of Kinship.

This is my mission. This is my life. And as long as my legs have steps in them, I will do everything I can to save good food from waste and make it available for others to eat.

Katie and I make a fantastic team, and as we lead from the center of the heart of the mother, we know each step is guided by mission, heart, and love — not only for our families, but for every family who cannot afford to put healthy food on the table.

Let’s thrive together.

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Oh my God! What an insane first hour of the day it was. My trailer wasn’t connected right and this happened. First, I am so glad everyone was safe and it happened where it did with little traffic and at a stop. Also, the Titan absolutely won. Within moments, these three amazing examples of men showed up to help me without pause and not only help me but loan me equipment put me in right direction and make sure I was safe once I got there. It’s amazing to me that these men showed up in the way they did and I’m super grateful for how quickly this was resolved. Rodd pointed me in the direction of a trailer repair shop down the street who also helped us and fix the broken axle among other major things charging only for parts. Will be up on the road again in the morning. Thankful to these wonderful men.
Wow. Just wow.
truck was perfectly undamaged, thank God.
I’m so grateful to meet my new friends. They all got the biggest hug.

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We believe hunger is not solved by simply handing somebody a box of food. It’s solved by building relationships, welcoming the people, inviting people in reducing waste, sharing resources in creating communities, where everybody understands that they have something valuable to contribute.. @joyskitchen_org #joyskitchen #gratitude #savejoy #showup #truesupport #d3arts

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We’re excited to see you if you can stop by at 3632 Morris Road Denver Colorado 8029 day 11 to 3 will be cooking some treats up for you all showing you the space getting you hooked into ways you can support Joy and we’re looking forward to seeing you soon! Also announcing the gala on August 16 at D3 Art from 5 to 11 PM Market now! One love One JOY!

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Announcement for the 36C students and community! - Joy's Kitchen believes in extending a helping hand to anyone in need. Whether it's for you, your family, friends, neighbors, or even a stranger, their doors are open. We are delighted to share a space with them at D3 Arts. 💜 Check them out at joyskitchen.org

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We have never worked so hard in our entire lives to bring this community Joy. Katie Mansfield and Kathleen Stanley have worked around the clock for the last 30 days to move a major organization onto its feet out of a transitional space that’s lasted over a year.
When Katie joined our staff, we had no idea that it would come down to just the two of us. We also had no idea that she would be finding her mission and purpose, and become 100% dedicated to the mission of choice for the better of all beings and to feed people alongside of me.
Through this last year, we have tackled many circumstantial disasters, always keeping joy in our hearts and hope that through these solutions we truly have we can bring joy to this world.
We are so grateful for the joys community. Also, we need your help now more than ever.
This last push of joy to root down comes on the backs of this woman led business. We need our Joy army now.
You can support our jobs where we make minimal pay and extend our hands to those in need through true reciprocity at joyskitchen.org/donate. We are 100% micro funded which means our minimum wage jobs and paychecks are possible or not possible by our supporting community.
This time has been a time where we found out exactly where our hearts are.
Katie is stepping into a co-director role at Joys and we are deeply looking forward to her long lasting service alongside me as we root down, stabilize and develop Joys for the long term at D3 Arts.
Right now, we aren’t able to start wages again and we need your help. Help today and let us bring you Joy!

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