Help Project Angel Heart Fund a New Tilt Skillet

Posted on March 11, 2019 by Hannah Koschnitzke

At Project Angel Heart, good things start in a skillet. 🍳

Hearty stews. Veggie-infused macaroni and cheese. Chicken curry and garden vegetable scrambles. Food that helps nourish and strengthen people living with life-threatening illnesses like cancer and kidney disease.

All of these delicious meals start in our 40-gallon tilt skillets. But as we’ve grown, we’ve started hitting the limit of what we can do with our five trusty tilt skillets. We need to add one more skillet to the team… and we need your help to do it! Continue reading →

Shipping Makes Medically Tailored Meals Available For Rural Coloradans

Posted on March 4, 2019 by Hannah Koschnitzke

In Colorado’s rural areas, a small number of people with complex medical diagnoses are now receiving meals from Project Angel Heart! Our distribution coordinator, Matt Nigro, explains how we’re getting medically tailored meals to more people who need them.

Through Project Angel Heart’s core program, volunteers deliver meals to clients across 750 square miles of metro Denver and Colorado Springs. While we’re proud to serve such a large area, when you take a look at Colorado as a whole, there’s a strong need in rural areas for food assistance, especially with a nutritional focus. Shipping our frozen meals presents an exciting way to serve Coloradans we’ve never reached before! Continue reading →

Letter to Volunteers from Kittleman & Associates

Posted on February 27, 2019 by Hannah Koschnitzke

Greetings, volunteers!

As you are aware, Kittleman & Associates has been selected to assist Project Angel Heart’s board of directors in conducting the president & CEO search. As background, Kittleman is the nation’s first executive search firm to provide recruitment services exclusively for nonprofit organizations. With offices in Chicago, Denver, and Philadelphia, Kittleman provides full-service, retained search services through our staff of nonprofit search consultants, research personnel and search operations specialists.

My name is Raylene Decatur. I am the principal on this search and manage Kittleman’s Western Regional Office in Denver. I have conducted CEO searches since 2006, and prior to consulting, I worked in the nonprofit community for more than 25 years. My family has lived in Denver since 1995. Continue reading →

Q&A with our Director of Health Care Innovation

Posted on February 18, 2019 by Hannah Koschnitzke

Did you know that Project Angel Heart offers two meal delivery programs? Most meals are delivered via our core program, our legacy program where philanthropic investments fund meals for Coloradans who are ill. In 2016, we also started Meals for Care Transitions, a program where health care organizations reimburse Project Angel Heart to provide meals for their patients. This program gives health care providers and payers a way to support their patients’ health with delicious, medically tailored meals, and it allows Project Angel Heart the opportunity to provide food as medicine for more people in need.

To check in on the program’s progress, we sat down with Leslie Scotland-Stewart, Project Angel Heart’s director of health care innovation, to ask a few questions: Continue reading →

A Meal’s Journey

Posted on January 11, 2019 by Hannah Koschnitzke

Twenty percent of the clients Project Angel Heart serves—about 250 people each week—live in the Colorado Springs area. But all the meals are made in the kitchen in Denver… so how do they get where they need to go?

With the help of a freezer truck and its rain-or-shine driver, a generous community partner (with big freezers!), two Colorado Springs staff members, and a whole bunch of eager volunteers. Continue reading →