Colorado Miners

Colorado Miners, a Denver non-profit conducts a community outreach program, “Feeding Folks” annual for Thanksgiving and other holidays. Children and volunteers will distribute food baskets, each with a turkey or ham to over 200 homes. Following the deliveries, a prepared Thanksgiving feast will be delivered to families with  cooking challenges. 

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I’m truly Grateful to all the wonderful volunteers, donors, and members who have supported the Colorado Miners the previous 16 years with all of our outreach programs. With all the tension going on in our world, now more than any other time in our lives, we have the responsibility to make it a better place! In continuing with the Spirit of Giving, feeding our Souls and fueling our Hopes, we come together to provide meals to hungry families. Hundreds of families will have a meals and a Thanksgiving because of our continued efforts!

 

Coach Randy Perkins, the Miner’s President and Founder, serves the metropolitan's poorest inner-city areas. With the motto, "Be A Good Player... Be A Better Person", the basketball club has helped kids attend colleges across the country on basketball and academic scholarships. Since its founding by Perkins in 2004, the basketball program has placed kids at the University of San Francisco, the University of Colorado, Marquette University, Wofford University, North Dakota, Fairleigh Dickinson and Gonzaga University to only name a few. There are dozens of disadvantaged youth and colleges who have benefited from Colorado Miner's work.

 

“Basketball is a small part of what we do” states Perkins. The Feeding Folks campaign has become an important vehicle for community building, especially neighborhoods in transition.  Perkins says “kids in our programs learn the importance of giving something back to the community” as a pillar towards becoming a better person.