ALMOSA — Care and Share Meals Financial institution, the group that bought the previous Budweiser distribution web site outdoors Alamosa final fall, is transferring ahead with reworking the power right into a meals distribution web site.
Nate Springer, president and CEO of Care and Share Meals Financial institution, advised the Valley Courier that a tender opening is scheduled for subsequent month with the power stocking and distributing meals. A grand opening celebration is scheduled for Could 11.
Springer, who was named president and CEO of Care and Share final July, brings 23 years of government management and logistics administration of the US army to his new function.
Care and Share yearly serves 291 associate businesses with 20.four million kilos of meals, gives meals to 203,339 Coloradans and manages a fleet of vans that ship meals to associate businesses.
Care and Share is a nonprofit group with annual revenues of $54 million. Particular person donations comprise 49% of income, authorities 19% and foundations 18%. The group, shaped in Colorado Springs in 1974, has a distribution middle there and one other in Pueblo.
Springer commented on the useful format of the Alamosa facility: “Not solely will or not it’s nice to have a distribution middle in Alamosa to serve the San Luis Valley, however it would additionally lower our transportation time in half to our farthest counties.”
Care and Share will not be new to the San Luis Valley, and the Alamosa distribution middle is not going to compete with any current meals financial institution, already partnering with lots of of businesses.
Final yr, Care and Share vans traveled greater than 247,000 miles. The Alamosa middle “will be capable to get extra meals each within the San Luis Valley and to our companions in southwestern Colorado which can be removed from us,” Springer added.
The inside of the 21,000-square-foot facility in Alamosa lately underwent a whole renovation and a brand new roof was put in, Springer mentioned. The supervisor of the Alamosa distribution middle is Denny Toner. He’ll oversee a workers of about 5 workers.
Volunteering has at all times been central to Care and Share, with over 44,000 hours of labor being given to the group final yr. These curious about volunteering are inspired to go to: www.careandshare.org.
“It has been a very long time coming, however it may be a sport changer within the San Luis Valley and all of our associate businesses in southwestern Colorado,” Springer mentioned.