Summary
Organization name
Break Bread
2017
Tax id (EIN)
82-1352479
Category
Food, Agriculture & Nutrition
Organization Size
Medium Organization
Address
5933 S FAIRFIELD STLITTLETON, CO 80120-2821
Arapahoe County, CO, US
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Over 150,000 meals served! You can help us return in 2026. We're rebuilding to bring back free community meals where strangers became family. We believe everyone deserves hot nourishing food and friendship, with no strings attached. Help us feed our neighbors again by donating today!
Testimonials
Fall 2024- By a long time volunteer when asked why she chooses to volunteer with Break Bread
Even though the food is great, it's really the community the keeps me coming back. Seeing the relationships that are built here and then continue outside this room - I know we are really making a differnce.
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Spring 2024 - A family that dines regularly at Break Bread
I love it because it means I get to see my mom every week and it's a safe place for my son to play
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Summer 2024 - A neighbor who has come for a a couple years, but goes weeks or moths without coming
How do you always remember my name? Not many people remember my name. Thank you. Being able to get out of the house and interact with other people really helps me.
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Spring 2023 - A neighbor who joins for almost every meal
I can't afford to go to the grocery store anymore, if it wasn't for Break Bread meals and the extra supplies I would probably go hungry. I'm grateful you are here and like to help out when I can.
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Summer 2022 - By a neighbor who attended our first in-person meal since before the pandemic
This is beautiful! It feels like we are eating at a fancy restaurant. It was so nice to meet some of my neighbors. I'll come every week. Thank you!
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Summer 2020 - By a recipient of delivered meals from Break Bread
Thank you so much for all the work that goes into supplying the meals of love that are distributed… each one is delivered with love - those who prepared it, put it into [to-go boxes], and the friendliness of the deliverer always very kind and smiling - On Saturday, the extra of the goodies bag - along with the puzzles that are sent and the encouraging words. I look forward to and anticipate what will it be? I feel like a kid waiting for Christmas again. Thank you.
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Spring 2020 - By a recipient of delivered meals from Break Bread
To all those who make these weekly dinners possible - I just want to say Thank You! I have so appreciated them during this difficult time. Being disabled and not able to get out, they have been such a blessing. Just want you to know how much you are appreciated.
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Summer 2018 - By an anonymous Littleton neighbor who dines frequently at Break Bread
When I come here, I feel like I'm home. Other places give you some peanut butter or something, and I appreciate that, but this is different. This is like home.
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Fall 2018 - By a Littleton family who dines frequently at Break Bread
Our family began going to the Break Bread dinners in the fall of 2017. We are both in full-time graduate school, and with three children, our budget is tight. The dinners offer our family a financial reprieve, a nice meal, and some good fellowship.
During our many visits to Break Bread we have always been greeted by friendly, helpful people. Once seated, our table hosts have been engaging, curious, loving, and nonjudgmental. We have also enjoyed the opportunity to meet and to get to know a diverse array of attendees from many backgrounds and life situations. We find this type of engagement extremely beneficial to our family (especially our kids) because it is a reminder that each person has inherent worth and value, provides us with an opportunity to practice humility and gratefulness, and increases our awareness of the immense need for help in the world-right in our back yard!
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Summer 2018 - By Harvey Lee, who frequently volunteers as a food server/waiter at Break Bread
I live a privileged life. My father immigrated to the United States when he was 13. Without formal education, he worked in kitchens; through hard work and savings, he eventually purchased a restaurant in Oregon. That business provided for our family and allowed me to go to college. I live a comfortable, upper middle-class life with a wife and two daughters who are headed soon to college. My long-term steady career has allowed us to afford to take vacations and eat at restaurants. In my middle age, I am long removed from financial hardship, and my peers are largely people like me.
Volunteering at Break Bread has transformed me. Being on the other side of meal service is a reminder of how lucky I am...
Mission
Break Bread’s mission is reducing hunger and building relationships within our community through free meals and programs that provide nourishment and friendship.
After pausing our meal programming in October 2025, we relaunched in 2026 at our new home, East Community Center, with a stronger, more sustainable foundation. Weekly to-go meals returned in April, and our Sunday sit-down meals came back in August, with the same white linen tablecloths and the same come-as-you-are welcome.
Our model is unique in that it offers an inspiring experience for everyone involved. It’s built on the belief that relationships are at the center of most solutions and are the impetus for change.
We combat food insecurity, poverty, and loneliness as we care for and nourish each other as neighbors. The volunteers who prepare the food, serve the meals, and offer hospitality are as inspired by the experience as the community neighbors who come to be served. Volunteers and neighbors dine together, sharing stories and conversation. Filling bellies addresses the immediate problem of hunger, and the relationships built over a shared meal go further: they become a vehicle for change.
Your donation today keeps these transformative community meals going strong as we build for 2027 and beyond.
Background Statement
Break Bread was formed on April 28, 2017, out of a desire in the community to address the reality that many students and families in the area were experiencing poverty and food insecurity. More than 75% of the children in the area qualify for free or reduced-price meals through the public school system, yet at the time, no one was providing free hot meals in Littleton on the weekends. Beyond young families facing food insecurity, Break Bread’s founders were concerned for elderly neighbors living on fixed incomes and struggling to make ends meet. Break Bread was created to give everyone in the community a place to share a meal together and form transformative relationships in the process.
Over eight years, Break Bread served more than 150,000 meals and logged more than 20,000 volunteer hours. We created a space where strangers became family, where everyone belonged, and where people found acceptance without judgment and friendship without conditions.
In October 2025, we paused operations to address significant sustainability challenges, including financial strain, facility issues, and operational systems that no longer served us well. When we first made the decision to close, we believed we’d exhausted all options. But promising conversations in the weeks that followed reminded us why this work matters so much. At a time when the world needs more kindness, connection, and community, we weren’t ready to give up.
So we rebuilt. We strengthened our board and volunteer base, refined our systems, built new community partnerships, and found a new home at East Community Center. In 2026, we relaunched: weekly to-go meals returned in April, and our Sunday sit-down meals came back in August. Our goal remains the same: an unbreakable foundation that allows Break Bread to serve our community for many years to come, not just surviving but truly thriving.
At Break Bread, our understanding of poverty continues to grow. We are thankful for the lessons we learn from people of many backgrounds experiencing poverty, food insecurity, and other barriers to thriving in the community. Our ongoing commitment is to nourish Littleton through understanding, relationships, and delicious shared meals.
Your donation today keeps our tables full and our doors open as we grow into this next chapter. You’re not just giving to what was. You’re investing in what’s here now and what’s still to come.
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LITTLETON, CO 80120-2821