Eagle Valley Community Foundation

The Eagle Valley Community Foundation (EVCF) works passionately to provide responsive solutions that meet the most critical and emerging needs of those working or living in the Eagle River Valley.  

The Community Market’s (TCM) is a signature project of EVCF with a goal to provide low-income communities with access to free, healthy food as well as to prevent food from going to waste. Their work strives to “provide good food at the heart of our community.”  The three pillars that guide their work: Healthy People, Strong Communities, and Environmental Sustainability.

The Community Market helps reduce the overall community carbon footprint by reducing food waste and recovering excess fresh food from local grocers, farmers, schools, events, and restaurants. The TCM team also addresses food insecurity and ensures that donated and rescued produce have an entire lifecycle when used through the Foundation.  TCM’s three-step process focuses on first feeding people, then feeding animals (as farmers pick up food scraps at The Community Markets) and finally, composting and converting food waste to build nutrient rich soil for community use.