A Conversation About Care, Connection, and Community
Recently, I had the opportunity to sit down with Kristin Todd, President and CEO of the NoCo Foundation, for an episode of the NoCo Voices podcast.
Kristin led a thoughtful conversation about the NoCo Foundation’s Intersections work and the ways community challenges often overlap. Food access, social isolation, health, workforce opportunity, and community connection are rarely separate issues. They show up together in people’s lives.
That is something we see every day at Meals on Wheels of Loveland and Berthoud.
Meals are in our name, and delivering nutritious food is an important part of what we do. But I like to say that what we really produce is human connection.
A volunteer arrives at someone’s door with a meal, but they may also bring a familiar face, a conversation, and the reassurance that someone noticed how the day is going. Sometimes that visit leads to a simple story shared. Other times, it helps us recognize that someone needs additional support.
The conversation also gave me an opportunity to talk about the people and partnerships that make this work possible: volunteers who have served for decades, students building workplace skills in our kitchen, and the potential for Meals on Wheels organizations and partners across Northern Colorado to work together in new ways.
I am grateful to Kristin and the entire team for creating space for this conversation and for helping tell the larger story of what happens when a community chooses to care for one another.
You can listen to the full episode of NoCo Voices, “More Than a Meal: Connection, Community, and the Power of Intersections,” here:
