ONE LOVE, ONE JOY
A Night to Connect, Celebrate, and Feed Thousands

February 14th, 2025 | 5:30 - 11:30 PM
Avalon Ballroom | Boulder, CO
A conscious Valentine's date night to remember 💖

Connecting the community to Joy's Kitchen’s mission to feed families and save viable food from waste.

🎶 Live Music: Tubby Love, Paul Izak, Andy Babb & Lara Elle

Music • Dinner • Micro Workshops • Cacao • Vendors
Connection Portals • Real-Time Impact Navigators
Live Painters • Wish Tattoos • Art & Gift Auction

👉 Come experience connection, art, and impact.
🎟️ Tickets and info: https://app.actualize.earth/oneloveonejoy
💖 Let love be the cure. Let joy be the connection. 💖

💛 At Joy’s Kitchen, our mission is to build intentional community while rescuing viable food and redistributing it to families across Colorado. Through love, action, and connection, we meet tangible needs and tackle food waste—feeding 5,000 families every month.

Goal: 10,000 meals for families in need!

To volunteer please visit the website:
Joyskitchen.org/volunteer

There is never any requirement to receive food, no need to register for distributions!

Hope to see you soon! Please come Feb 14th tomorrow Support JOY!

Hey Joy’s Family,
We’ve got some big news to share. After 13 years of love, service, and community at Westwoods Community Church, we’ve been told we need to find a new home.
While this decision wasn’t ours, we’re choosing to embrace what’s ahead with gratitude for the millions of meals, the thousands of hands, and the endless love that’s passed through these doors. Joy’s Kitchen has always been about nourishment, love, and showing up for each other. 
 
Starting as a outreach of Westwoods and naturally growing to a 501c3 has blessed us with the space to utilize , allowing us to keep overhead low and impact high—focusing every bit of our energy on feeding people, building relationships, and making sure no one in our community goes without.
Now, the time has come for us to step into a new chapter. 
 WWCC has asked us to be completely transitioned out by September 1st.
 
🚨 This is big stuff! 🚨
We have until September 1st to:
🔹 Secure enough funding to continue our regular, uninterrupted service to the thousands who rely on us.
🔹 Raise the resources needed to relocate and increase our budget capacity to lease a new space.
 
As you know, we are a grassroots, community-funded organization. This shift comes at a critical time, with reductions in food benefits for working families and increasing economic strain impacting those in need more than ever before.
 
How You Can Help:
💪 Keep Volunteering – Our mission doesn’t stop, and neither do we!
🏡 Help us find a space – If you or someone you know has a lead on a suitable location, email us for a one-page synopsis of our needs.
📩 Email us at:
    •    Kathy@JoysKitchen.org
    •    Info@JoysKitchen.org
💰 Donate & Share Fundraisers – We need immediate support to sustain operations AND secure a new space.
🔥 Join Us at the Joy Fam BBQ (Date TBA) – A community gathering to connect, share, and plan for the future.
📢 Show up, share our story, and spread the word – Where there is Joy, there is hope.
✅ Stay Tuned! – Keep an eye out for updates, important dates, and funding goal challenges for our amazing supporters!
 
We believe this shift is an opportunity for growth, and we need to get serious (with fun!) about manifesting the perfect new home for Joy’s Kitchen and the right angels to help us continue our work.
Keep eyes and hearts open. Get the story out. Raise the prayers. Know that we do beautiful things together.
✨ We can’t wait to see what Joy’s becomes!  
With love and gratitude,
Joys Founding Family and Board of Directors
*Important Request for Our Community:
We ask that conversations about the transition be saved for designated times so we do not overwhelm our staff and core team as they continue maintaining daily operations. We honor the space, the decision-makers of this, and the good energy that allows us to serve others with love.
At the same time, we know this is serious and that many of you are feeling deeply about this transition. Facing hunger insecurity on behalf of those we serve is a big feeling. We are creating safe spaces within our community for processing, brainstorming, and supporting each other.
 
 
 
12 years of Joy Google Photos Album HERE

Joy’s Kitchen Update: Spring is Sprouting Something Special

The response to our recent announcement has been incredible. It’s clear the community behind Joy is strong, wide-reaching, and deeply committed. We’re exploring our next steps and are confident that the perfect space—or spaces—will reveal themselves in service of the 5,000+ people we support each month.

We’re seeing new partnerships begin to grow, volunteers step into leadership, and systems improve—all while we continue full operations. That’s no small feat, and it’s heartwarming to share this final season in our current location with all of you.

We mentioned a special Joy’s Club volunteer shopper bag—they’re on their way. We’ll update you as soon as they arrive.

Upcoming events where you can connect with us:

Earth Day Celebration in Belmar – April 26

Boulder Ecstatic Dance – April 28

Come by, share your story, and help us plant a little more Joy in the world.

Please note: we will not be doing our mobile kitchen at festivals this year due to the upcoming move. That means we’re open to local bookings. If you’d like to bring the Joy Bell Tent After Dinner Lounge or Booth of Sustainability to your event, reach out to: events@joyskitchen.org

If you haven’t yet, please consider sharing our fundraising link with five people you know:
https://gofund.me/8e897da0

Recurring donations help us demonstrate strong community backing as we move forward with securing a new lease.

Together we do great things. Together we thrive.

Kathy

Mondays - CHOOSE JOY!!

We are back open on Saturdays - the shift is 10-1:45 and the Public distribution is 11:30-1:30.
It’s a great day to serve your neighbors! We hope you join us.
Never and Requirements, or restrictions. Come see us if you’re needing nutrition and substance.

❤️

Come together!!

Dear Joy Bringer, I am texting all of you so you can share this!
Our vision for the future is clear:As we prepare to step into the unknown with a commitment to continue to serve we are searing for dedicated space that will allow us to expand our reach and offer more than just food. We’ve found a location that will allow us to provide shelter from the elements, a clothing bank, possibly a shower for our homeless neighbor and a central hub for community-driven resources and events. This is a place where we can build lasting relationships and create the sustainable impact that is at the heart of our mission.
We have to be fully out of our current space by Sept 1 that we are feeding 5000 families a month from.
Joy’s work is about restoring dignity and empowering a community to thrive all the while caring for this sacred earth.
This is the time to act, to make sure that the legacy of Joy’s Kitchen continues, and that we build a future where communities have the resources they need to thrive.
Together, we can make this vision a reality.
We ask you to consider a recurring donation to ensure that Joy’s Kitchen can remain a cornerstone of hope, sustainability, and community impact for years to come.
We hope you enjoy this video and encourage you to share with 3 others right now!! We have met 21% of our funding goal already!
Take a moment and enjoy this video of Joy, Hope and LOVE.

https://youtu.be/_jq9xraI0GM?feature=shared

https://gofund.me/6018a81d