Community Food Share has record year

BOULDER – Community Food Share, a Longmont-based nonprofit that provides food to low-income families in Boulder and Broomfield counties, distributed 7.5 million meals in 2011, exceeding its record distribution amount.

Approximately 70 percent of distribution was through a network of more than 50 member agencies, such as food pantries, soup kitchens, shelters, residential treatment homes and emergency food-box programs. Five hundred thousand more meals were distributed in 2011 than in 2010, valued at $12.4 million.

Community Food Shares serves approximately 35,000 people a year. These programs target at-risk populations such as families with children on the School Free Lunch program in the…