A Place at Every Table: Thanksgiving Meal Kits

Thanksgiving is often made up of small things: a familiar dish passed around the table, a child asking for seconds, the chance to slow down and be together. But when budgets are stretched, the cost of a holiday meal can add to an already difficult season. Many local families are making hard choices about groceries, housing, and other essentials. A celebration can feel like one more thing beyond reach.

This year, Eagle Valley Community Foundation hopes to help 800–1,000 families across Eagle County bring a Thanksgiving meal home. Each $40 Thanksgiving Meal Kit will help a family prepare a meal and create a little more room for what the holiday can mean: comfort, connection, and time together.

And families get to choose the kit that feels right for their table. They can select a traditional Thanksgiving kitchen kit with fresh produce and familiar holiday staples, or a tamale-making kit with the essentials to prepare a meal rooted in tradition. Both include a $20 grocery gift card, offering added flexibility for each family. That choice matters: every household can celebrate in a way that feels like their own.

A meal kit cannot solve every challenge a family is carrying. But it can ease one pressure, make a holiday meal more possible, and remind a neighbor that their community sees them and cares.

Black Hills Energy will match the first $5,000 in donations, dollar for dollar. That means your gift can go twice as far while matching funds are available. Together, we can reach more families and make sure more neighbors have a place at the table.

Choose a gift amount

• $5 becomes $10 with the match and helps provide food for the kits.

• $10 becomes $20 and helps put more ingredients on the table.

• $25 becomes $50—enough to cover the $20 grocery card in a kit, with $30 toward the rest.

• $40 becomes $80 and can help provide two Thanksgiving Meal Kits.

• $100 becomes $200 and can help provide five kits.

• $500 becomes $1,000 and can help provide 25 kits.

Give today. Every contribution, at every amount, helps bring Thanksgiving home for families across Eagle County.