Westwoods Community Church

Our Team Eagles group stands at cause for a world that is egalitarian, loving, flourishing, healthy, and fun and we feel that Joy's Kitchen is a perfect cause to continue being advocates for creating the world we wish to live in. We are on a mission to feed people, free people, and show people how important they really are. 

Joys Kitchen is a nonprofit Colorado organization committed to reallocating food that would typically get thrown away to families who are food insecure. 40% of food is thrown away and 72,000 Coloradans are food insecure. 

Kathy Stanley, the director and founder of Joy's Kitchen (named after her mother), has been driven to educate everybody she knows about this ignored gap in the food industry: FOOD WASTE IS ASTOUNDING and she makes the best of this gap by reallocating it to families in need. 


Kathy is a mover and a shaker and has made an incredible impact in the community, while also enrolling many other people and volunteers into her vision to honor the food that is typically thrown away and feed people. She works every day of the week rescuing food and setting up food banks, which has not missed a beat during Covid. A mobile food pantry keeps people safe, while also still supplying food to people, especially as people's livelihoods are being challenged. 


Then the news came that Larry Stanley aka Stan, Kathy's father passed away on October 14th, 2020. Stan, the cofounder of Joy's Kitchen, was always there picking up boxes of food and sprinkling his love into the community. Since he is a major founding angel of this organization and because we love Kathy and want her to honor herself to bring in every ounce of support she needs without the stress of financial fundraising, let's raise money for the angels continuing to feed people every day! Let's pull together as one colony to help shift our perspective on food, food waste, and everybody getting food. 

Michael Franti has a song for us to get us in the mood to share about this organization and mission!



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