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Cafe News - Can You Believe It's August?

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FoCo Cafe News - August 2013

Dear Kathleen, Thank you for your interest in the FoCo Cafe!

Volume 2, Issue 8

In This Issue Bike-In Sucess! Wishes Granted and to Fulfill

Thanks for Supporting a Unique Fort Collins Event! Many thanks to the community for embracing the FoCo Cafe's Bike-In Music Festival! It sold out in advance. If you were there or not, check out the photo albums: FoCo Cafe's Facebook Album - tag and share with friends and festival goers. Thanks Brittany Hope Cole for recording the day! The Coloradoan Album includes beautiful shots of the farm and the day! The Collegian Album captures the event very well! The event was a huge success in many ways! We had a handful of tickets purchased and donated to people who might have otherwise been unable to attend. We were so happy to sell out and incredibly honored to see half of the ticket buyers pay it forward, with some purchasing their general admission tickets for $100 each in support of the Cafe! The dessert auction was wonderful. We had donations of many incredible cakes and pies and the crowd bid, won, and many then chose to share those desserts with other festival goers including strangers! At one point, a volunteer delivered a delicious slice of cheesecake to me saying it was compliments of a bidder. I'm not sure who won that avocado

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One Extra Step Calendar Visit FoCo Cafe's Website!

Calendar August 5 and 7 FoCo Cafe "office hours" 3-5:00pm at Mugs on the Oval August 6 Pick up large, anonymous equipment gift out of town August 7 Green Event Planning, Fort Collins Chamber August 12 and 14 FoCo Cafe "office hours" 3-5:00pm at Mugs on the

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cheesecake, but I thank you! Isn't hope delicious? Special thanks to our event sponsors: Bohemian Foundation (Music Sponsor), Odell Brewing Company, OtterCares, Markley Motors, Spring Kite Farm, Starbucks Coffee, Lee's Cyclery, and GSI! They make local events possible and make our community more special!

Help Fulfill Our Wish List 1. VOTE for FoCo Cafe to be gifted with a Super Bowl ad! Wouldn't it be amazing to see an ad for Fort Collins' nonprofit cafe wedged between commercials for Doritos and Go Daddy? Move us to the next round by voting daily between now and end of September - and share! 2. Casserole and pizza pans, baking sheets, cooling racks and mixing bowls. 3. Silverware, especially soup spoons and chef's knives. 4. Pay it forward with a donation so ALL in our community have access to healthy meals.

Great Things Are Happening! We've received an anonymous equipment gift! It is so large, we have just made our third retrieval trip this time with two trucks and a trailer! It's hard to quantify the value of the gift at this point, but we do know that it has impacted our major equipment list by tens of thousands of dollars and goes beyond, supplying things we hadn't anticipated having for many years to come! We can't begin to thank the donor enough! Thank you to Starbucks on Elizabeth in Fort Collins and to the Greeley store! The good folks at the Elizabeth store donated a library-style table with lighting and the folks at the Greeley store donated some metro shelving units for food storage. This really

Oval August 15 Foodies Group Meeting August 16 FoCo Cafe Board Meeting August 19 and 21 FoCo Cafe "office hours" 3-5:00pm at Mugs on the Oval August 20 Second reading of Cafe lease at City Council meeting August 23 Institute for the Built Environment hosts a creation charrette: UniverCity Urban Lab August 24 Visit us at Whole Foods in Fort Collins - we'll have a table there (awaiting confirmation of date) August 26 and 28 FoCo Cafe "office hours" 3-5:00pm at Mugs on the Oval August 29 Group Publishing Community Service Awards Luncheon September 4 (Note: No office hours on Labor Day, Sept.2) FoCo Cafe "office hours" 3-5:00pm at Mugs on the Oval September 7

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helps whittle down our furniture/equipment budget! Thanks to Dana Guber for donating a Cuisinart! We've begun some recipe testing with it's use! You are awesome! Thanks to Dani Odelson at Bohemian Nights! Volunteers from FoCo Cafe will be working as venue ambassadors Saturday night and Bohemian Foundation will make a generous donation to the Cafe in exchange. What a great way to help our nonprofit community! Great News! FoCo Cafe has been so fortunate to be chosen as a Whole Foods Fort Collins' Small Change Adds Up program charity through September! The program provides an incentive to customers to eliminate single-use plastic bags and develop stronger communities at the same time. Customers have the option to receive a 10 cent per bag refund or they can donate it to one of that quarter's charities. Spread the word - ask your friends to give their small change to one of the charities,and let them know about FoCo Cafe! Let us know if you'll be participating in Small Change Adds Up by joining our Facebook event and inviting your friends.Thanks to Whole Foods! Thanks to our awesome volunteer tie dye crew! We tie dyed 334 Cafe t-shirts and then had the logos added! The shirts are available as a Cafe fundraiser for $25 each. If you would like a shirt, contact us so you can pick yours: [email protected] or 309-368-1659

One Extra Step Will Make a Difference! Do you shop at King Soopers? If so, help FoCo Cafe when you buy groceries, gas, Starbucks (in the store), or prescriptions! 1. We have reloadable King Soopers gift cards with $5 already loaded. Just give us $5 for a card - no cost to you!

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FoCo Cafe will have a table at Disability Pride Fest September 9 Food Cluster: "Present the Plan" meeting September 20 FoCo Cafe Board Meeting September 21 We have a table at the Larimer County Farmers' Market in Old Town 8am-noon. Stop by - we'll have tie dye shirts!

Check Out the "Good News" View FoCo Cafe's TEDx presentation:

Great article about the Bike-In Festival and the Cafe in The Coloradoan And an article about alternative transportation events (featuring the Cafe's Bike-In event) in the Windsor Beacon Rocky Mountain Collegian article about the Cafe and the Bike-In Festival

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2. When you shop at King Soopers (or any Kroger affiliate) take your card and stop by the service desk or hand it to the cashier BEFORE they start checking. 3. HERE'S THAT EXTRA STEP: Ask them to load money onto the card with your cash, check, debit or credit card. You may add any amount up to $500. FoCo Cafe earns 5% every time you use this reloadable card!

Read the City Buzz in Scene Magazine Watch a video by CSU students Read about

FoCo Cafe in the Coloradoan

You still get gas points and all benefits, but King Soopers makes a donation to the Cafe! In effect, you are telling King Soopers which charity you support and they should support as well! Call Penny at (970) 215-7618 or e-mail [email protected] to get a card. Thanks for your help!

Best Regards, Jeff & Kathleen Baumgardner FoCo Cafe (Feeding Our Community Ourselves, Inc.)

FoCo Cafe Mission: Building community by providing nutritious and delicious meals to the people of Fort Collins regardless of their ability to pay while using local, organic, and sustainably grown ingredients. FoCo Cafe Values: Every human innately has dignity and should be treated as such. Every duty, volunteer or otherwise, has value. Participating in a community nourishes the soul. Everyone deserves to eat nutritional food. All people need a hand up at some point(s) in their lives. The FoCo Cafe is a non profit 501(c)(3) incorporated in Colorado as Feeding Our Community Ourselves, Inc.

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