The 2026 Colorado legislative session starts TODAY and Hunger Free Colorado is focused on two policy priorities this year: fully implementing Healthy School Meals for All and keeping SNAP strong!
Read more here: hungerfreecolorado.org/2026-policy-...
#keepSNAPstrong #keepkidsfed
🍏VICTORY! With resounding enthusiasm, Colorado once again voted in favor of every Colorado child having access to a healthy school meal by voting yes on Propositions LL and MM!!!
COLORADO - Together we are going to #KeepKidsFed!
🍅➡🏫Celebrate National School Lunch Week and National Farm to School Month by voting YES on Propositions LL and MM in the Colorado Election on November 4th! To learn more about these propostions, how they #KeepKidsFed AND support Colorado farmers and ranchers, go to YesonLLandMM.com
On November 4th, Colorado voters can make sure every student has access to healthy school meals by supporting two essential ballot measures: Propositions LL and MM. Pledge to vote YES on LL and MM by going to bit.ly/voteyesLLMM #keepkidsfed
An image explaining why to vote yes on LL and MM and contain a link to a pledge to vote form at: yesonLLandMM.com "Children shouldn't have to worry about the cost of lunch or skip a meal because their family can't afford it."
I served as the Interim Communications Director for @hungerfree.bsky.social in 2022 and 2025. I also led the legislative communications in 2023 and coordinated their statewide communications plan & communications coalition for a victorious ballot campaign in 2023 to fund school meals.
#KeepKidsFed!
Come on, Maryland. Let's do better. We need to #KeepKidsFed!
States with Universal Free School Meals
1. California
2. Colorado
3. Maine
4. Massachusetts
5. Michigan
6. Minnesota
7. New Mexico
8. New York
9. Vermont
10. Nevada (free meals through temporary extension via pandemic relief)
#Momsky
Congratulations to every student, parent, farmer, nutrition professional, teacher, community member and advocate who spoke out and organized to make this happen. So proud to be part of the team ensuring that kids can grow and learn and thrive. Together, we can and we will #KeepKidsFed!
#Momsky
We need YOUR help to keep this bill moving as it heads to the Senate. Do not delay - contact your senator TODAY: bit.ly/keepkidsfed. Together, we will #KeepKidsFed! Act now.
YOU can help #KeepKidsFed by writing a letter to local papers. Check out our virtual training in partnership with @savethechildren.org to learn more. LTEs (letter to the editor) are a simple, but powerful activist tool to support Healthy School Meals for All! VIDEO: www.facebook.com/HungerFreeCo....
Thrilled to join @hungerfree.bsky.social's Anya Rose and @savethechildren.org's Ana Bustamante and Rachelle Todea to help advocates speak out in local papers to show their support for Healthy School Meals for All. VIDEO: www.facebook.com/HungerFreeCo.... Together, we can #KeepKidsFed! #Momsky
Excited to share tips on how to get letters into local papers to support school meals to #KeepKidsFed! Join me at 12:30 EST! #Momsky
Thrilled to join @hungerfree.bsky.social's Anya Rose & Save the Children Action Network's Ana Bustamante and Rachelle Todea to talk about Colorado's Healthy School Meals for All program and how activists can help by sending letters to papers. Hop on to a virtual training 4/14.
#Momsky #KeepKidsFed
JOIN US 4/14 to hear more about Healthy School Meals for All & how YOU can help by sending letters to local papers. Hop on to our virtual training featuring Hunger Free Colorado's Anya Rose & Morgan Meneses-Sheets and @savethechildren.org's Ana Bustamante & Rachelle Todea. YOU can help #KeepKidsFed!
Nieves Aragon knows first-hand how Healthy School Meals for All is making a difference for families across CO: “HSMA provides more than 600,000 free meals to students each day. Many of those kids would be hungry & struggle at school if they did not have this critical support.”
We must #keepkidsfed!
I ❤️ this piece from Food to Power's Patience Kabwasa! "HB 25-1274 represents the kind of systems-level change our food ecosystem desperately needs—one that nourishes our children, values food service workers & creates reliable markets for CO farmers." gazette.com/opinion/gues... #MomSky #KeepKidsFed
Food to Power's Patience Kabwasa is speaking out in The Gazette to make it clear that Healthy School Meals for All is an investment in Colorado's future with returns that will benefit generations to come!
Read: gazette.com/opinion/gues.... #KeepKidsFed
Hunger Free Colorado was thrilled to join other economic justice advocates at the Capitol today for the All Families Deserve a Chance Coalition lobby day! We spoke to legislators about bills that support healthcare access, economic justice, and food security, including HB25-1274 to #keepkidsfed!
Denver7 aired a great explainer on the latest update for Healthy School Meals for All.
Watch the clip and read the full article below to learn more:
#keepkidsfed
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Must read on federal cuts to SNAP featuring @endhungerco.bsky.social's Dayana Leyva. Check it out & speak out to urge Congress to halt cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program & school meals: secure.everyaction.com/9PdM1z2znUWL.... Together, we can #KeepKidsFed & work to end hunger!
While Congress tries to cut funding for critical nutrition assistance programs, advocates around the country are pushing for bills to #KeepKidsFed and support families! Thank you to @hungerfree.bsky.social and their partners for their work to support free and healthy school meals for all! #Momsky
The Healthy School Meals for All program is an investment in the health of our kids & our local economies!
Read our full press statement here: bit.ly/AdvocatesUrgeSupportforHSMABill
Spanish: bit.ly/DefensoresApoyoComidasEscolaresSaludablesparaTodos
#KeepKidsFed
Good morning to everyone except members of Congress who want to cut SNAP benefits when people are struggling with rising costs and take away support for school meals to #KeepKidsFed! 🌞
Want to be part of our efforts to #KeepKidsFed? We are excited to invite organizations to sign on in support of the Healthy School Meals for All bill (HB25-1274) bit.ly/Support2025H....
Learn more about HB25-1274, our bill to ensure that the Healthy School Meals for All program is fully funded and that all of the voter approved elements are implemented: bit.ly/HSMA2025Fact.... #KeepKidsFed!
Grateful for a day full of love and community at our first lobby day in support of Healthy School Meals for All and to all of the legislators who took time to meet with us!
Together, we can pass HB25-1274 and #KeepKidsFed!
HUGE thank you to everyone who joined us for the Healthy School Meals for All lobby day. We must continue to speak out to build support for HB25-1274 to ensure the program is fully funded and fully implemented to #KeepKidsFed! TY to the Save the Children Action Network & Clayton Early Learning!
Definitely checking this out! Proud of our effective healthy & free school meals program in Colorado, which provides meals to more than 600,000 kids each day. We're continuing to advocate to ensure it's fully funded & implemented. Together, we can #KeepKidsFed!
Learn more: bit.ly/HSMA2025Fact....
