Launch the Westwood Food Co-op to Feed Food Deserts

A project in Denver, CO by Re:Vision
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Let's launch the Westwood Food Co-op, Denver's first grocery store that is owned and operated by a community living in a food desert.
Backers: 503
Average Pledge Per Backer: $110

Funded: $55,576 of $50,000
Dates: Sep 23rd -> Oct 23rd (30 days)
Project By: Re:Vision
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Latest News

A Thousand Thank Yous

October 23rd - via: kickstarter.com
We did it! 720 hours... 503 backers... $55,576 pledge dollars... And one incredible community driven cooperative grocery store in the making. This grand effort was only possible because of each and every single one of you. The gratitude and elation... (Read More)

WHOOP! We're funded!!!

October 22nd - via: kickstarter.com
BIG BIG Whoops at 3735 Morrison Rd. BIG BIG Whoops at the Colorado Trust! FRIENDS! We’re funded! Spilled coffee from a backer checking their phone and shrieking, thundering echoes as a digital story telling class applauds in a basement, billowing... (Read More)

Barbara Drew a Grocery Store

October 21st - via: kickstarter.com
This past spring, Barbara sat at my desk. I gave Barbara paper and pens and prompts to distract her while she waited in our office for her mother to finish a cooking class. Barbara always swung her legs while she sat at my chair quietly, drawing and... (Read More)

When A Community Danced Their Way to 50K!

October 20th - via: kickstarter.com
About a week ago, one of the Re:Vision board members told me that community members wanted to help raise the funds for the Kickstarter campaign, but they were afraid that individually $10 would barely make a dent. The idea of raising 50% of our goal... (Read More)

Cooking up healthy food and a plan to dance our way to 50 k!

October 16th - via: kickstarter.com
Friends,  We have one week left to raise the remaining 50% of our Kickstarter campaign funds, and we wanted to make sure you could see a bit of what our community has been up to as we move closer and closer to our deadline. In our educational... (Read More)

The Heart of Our Kickstart

October 13th - via: kickstarter.com
A few Wednesdays ago, I hesitated, and then pressed "submit." That moment set off a 30 day count-down. The goal was to raise 50K on Kickstarter to fill the inside of the warehouse that will become the Westwood Food Co-op with lighting, shelves,... (Read More)

You know what's great? We made it to eight!

October 1st - via: kickstarter.com
We wrote you all a poem to celebrate Re:Vision's eighth birthday. Congratulations to everyone who has gotten us this far, and here's to many more to come. Thank you all for taking the time, to rehash the journey with us through a playful rhyme! Eight... (Read More)

Re:Take! Our Kickstarter Blooper Reel - With Smiles Guaranteed

September 28th - via: kickstarter.com
Throughout September 2015, Jess and I worked to shoot our Kickstarter video (the one you see on our main page). We filmed Re:Vision and the Westwood community as they jumped, danced, sung, praised, discussed, and strategized to the camera all of... (Read More)

And We're Live!

September 23rd - via: kickstarter.com
Together, we're about to grow something RAD(ish)!!!  Together, we're about to do something incredible! We are live, we are online, and we are growing. Becoming our first supporter right now, and plant the seeds from something HUGE.  (Read More)

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