Food & Water Watch believes everyone has the right to clean drinking water, healthy food and a livable climate. By supporting Food & Water Watch, you are helping to hold our elected officials accountable, stop the privatization of our resources and transition Colorado to clean, renewable energy.
Please consider Food and Water Watch for the Colorado Gives Day, I can't think of a more deserving non-profit. I have supported Food and Water Watch for years and will continue to do so because the work they do is critically important in keeping Colorado citizens safe and healthy.
I became very involved at the local level with the food related campaign to encourage the responsible use of antibiotics and to help keep antibiotics out of our food, water and soil. We had overwhelming support from local community members who were extremely thankful to have a non-profit to help organize and give them a voice and to help make positive changes in their communities." - Diana Wright, Boulder CO
"I have been working with Food & Water Watch for over five years now, working with a few different individuals over that time, and always feeling like I have a great ally in the causes about which I am very passionate. Even though I can't always do as much as I'd like to at every turn, I know that when I can make myself available I can join in on any effort being made at the time by those working at Food & Water Watch and know that I am working with a studied individual who knows how to bring the fight in the right direction -- and keep me from going overboard myself! I have donated in the past, but recently have taken myself out of the workforce for family matters. One of my first celebratory efforts after finding that new job will be to chip in more money to help Food & Water Watch do what they do so well." - Mark Gormley, Thornton CO
"Food & Water Watch is a lean and mean organization with local staff that works to support Colorado activists on targeted issues. In my two years of working with Food & Water Watch staff on several issues, I have never been asked to donate money, but have been invited to participate via political actions, meetings with Congressional staff, petition gathering, training sessions, organizational meetings, marches, etc. The national organization is top notch as well, putting out valuable, well-researched, non-inflammatory white papers, and ensuring smart prioritization of issues and approaches. Food & Water Watch will make good use of any donations of time or money and greatly appreciates any contributions to help protect our food and water against myriad assaults." - Vicky Peters, Lakewood CO
"Because of my deep interest in protecting our life-giving water and land, I knew that the only organization I needed to volunteer with was Food & Water Watch. They are the most active and consistent environmental advocacy organization in Denver. Not only do they tackle common environmental adversaries, like fracking, but also acknowledge the true environmental devastation to our land, air and water caused by big agriculture and factory farming, a serious threat to the planet and major contributor to global warming. Food & Water Watch doesn't shy away from this reality and addresses it along with oil, gas, fracking, etc. It's a delight to work with such an honest, dedicated and ethically consistent organization." - RaeLeann Smith, Denver CO
"Food and Water Watch provides essential functions to communities. They provide tools, assistance, and guidance for citizens to feel and act empowered to advocate for healthier and happier communities. I love working with Food & Water Watch because of their tireless dedication to their mission, their holistic and intersectional approach to advocating change, and their thoughtful engagement with communities. The staff and volunteers are dedicated, thoughtful, engaging, and inspiring. The work they do is critical in ensuring that people's voices are heard and their concerns addressed in a world that can seem overwhelming. Thanks to Food & Water Watch, I feel supported, I feel engaged, and most important, I feel like I can help my community advocate for positive change." - Pawel Fraczek, Denver CO
"I am a very concerned citizen with health, safety, and the environment. Food & Water Watch facilitates bringing communities & citizens together for effective actions." - Alex Garland, Arvada CO
"I have volunteered and continue to volunteer for Food & Water Watch. Their organization works to protect our Colorado water and air through petitions and to get issues onto our ballot. They also work with our elected representatives to educate them in the harms that fracking is and has been doing to our environment. They are organized and strive to educate the public as to the ways that the public can help to protect our climate, environment and water along with the foods we eat. It is a joint effort and all need to be involved...
Food & Water Watch champions healthy food and clean water for all. We stand up to corporations that put profits before people, and advocate for a democracy that improves people's lives and protects our environment.
We are working to create a healthy future for our families and for generations to come: a world where all people have the resources they need, including wholesome food, clean water and sustainable energy. Making this happen requires organizing people from all over the country to build a large movement with the political power to make our democratic process work. Large numbers of people are a countervailing force to corporations "buying" public policy.
Food & Water Watch was founded in 2005, when 12 members of the Energy and Environment Program of the nonprofit Public Citizen left to form a new entity focused on building grassroots power by engaging people to protect the essential resources everyone needs to lead happy, healthy lives. This mission is amplified with the growing public concern of climate change. With the support of our members, individual donors and private foundations, Food & Water Watch has grown to more than 100 staff in 15 locations in 11 U.S. states (including Washington, DC). Each of our field offices is primarily focused on grassroots organizing and is staffed by trained, professional organizers who work both broadly and deeply in local communities and statewide.
Some recent Colorado successes include:
• Worked closely with grassroots partners and community members to successfully pass local bans and moratoria on fracking in Longmont, Fort Collins, Boulder, Broomfield, and Lafeyette.
• In 2017, we defeated several Colorado statewide bills that would have further prioritized oil & gas industry profits over people.
• Pressured Congressman Perlmutter to vote 'NO' on fast-tracking approval of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) which was a bad trade deal that would have reduced food safety standards.
• In 2016, we worked with grassroots partners to recruiting, training and mobilize over 100 volunteers and gathered over 200,000 signatures to place two anti-fracking measures on the Colorado ballot.
Recent national victories include:
• In 2014, won a ban on fracking in New York after more than three years of coalition and grassroots organizing. As a result of ongoing activism, in 2015, Governor Cuomo stopped a new LNG terminal in the state and has since denied approval of a three fracked-gas pipelines.
• In 2017, won a legislative ban on fracking in Maryland after forcing entrenched Democratic lawmakers to pass the bill and the Republican governor to sign it into law.
• In November 2016, Food & Water Watch helped pass a ban on fracking in Monterey County, California, the first major oil-producing county to ban fracking. Food & Water Watch has also led efforts across the country to pass more than 500 local ordinances and resolutions against fracking.
• Organized a coalition and ballot measure petition campaign that kept water under public control in Atlantic City.
• Introduced in Congress the strongest climate justice bill EVER - Off Fossil Fuels for a better Future Act (the OFF Act) and got similar legislation introduced as state bills around the country.
• Re-introduced the WATER Act in Congress to ensure dedicated federal funding for our crumbling water infrastructure so that all people will have access to safe and clean water.
• Stopped the first fracking well from being drilled in Illinois.
• Food & Water Watch has worked with dozens of communities to keep their municipal water systems under public control. In May of 2017, voters in Hood River County, Oregon passed a ballot initiative that prevented Nestle from building a water bottling plant in the Cascade Gorge. This vote was the culmination of nearly seven years of education and organizing around this issue by Food & Water Watch.
Organization name
Food & Water Watch - ColoradoGives.org
other names
FWW
2005
Category
Environment
Address
1801 Williams Street Suite 400Headquarters
1616 P Street NW Suite 300Mailing
1801 North Williams St Suite 400Denver County, CO, US
DC, US