Mountain Family Center

Our Past. Our Present. Our Future.

Mountain Family Center | Colorado Gives Day 2026

For more than 45 years, Mountain Family Center (MFC) has been a place of hope, connection, and support for individuals, families, and seniors in Grand County. What began as a small group of women seeking connection in a rural mountain community has grown into a vital resource for thousands of neighbors facing life's challenges.

Our Past: Rooted in Community

Mountain Family Center began in 1979 as the Fraser Valley Women's Resource Center, founded by local women determined to overcome the isolation of rural living and strengthen their community. In 1987, the organization became the Grand County Resource Center, expanding its mission to address challenges that remain familiar today: seasonal employment, high living costs, limited transportation, hunger, and housing instability.

In 2000, we became Mountain Family Center and joined the Family Resource Center Association, strengthening our ability to support families and build self-reliance.

Over the decades, MFC has evolved to meet changing community needs. We expanded our food pantry, established a permanent home in Granby, and welcomed Grand Angels and the Grand County Council on Aging into our organization, broadening services for children, families, and seniors.

When the COVID-19 pandemic and East Troublesome Fire devastated our community in 2020, MFC remained open, providing food, emergency assistance, and a connection to critical resources. Through every challenge, one thing has remained constant: our commitment to being there when our neighbors need us most.

Our Present: Meeting Growing Needs

Today, Grand County is changing, and the challenges facing our community are growing more complex. Rising costs of housing, groceries, utilities, and transportation, combined with the uncertainty of a seasonal economy, are placing increasing pressure on working families, older adults, and longtime residents.

More people are turning to MFC for assistance, including neighbors who have never needed support before. Food pantry visits remain at historically high levels, with more than 13,000 visits annually in recent years.

MFC continues to respond through a comprehensive network of essential services, including:

• Hunger Relief and Nutrition: Food pantries, mobile food distribution, weekend food totes for students, and nutrition education.

• Housing and Utility Assistance: Emergency financial support to help families remain safely housed and keep their utilities connected.

• Grand Seniors: Transportation, grocery deliveries, wellness activities, and social connections that help older adults maintain independence.

• Children and Family Support: School supplies, winter clothing, holiday assistance, and strengths-based family development.

• Grand Latin: Bilingual outreach, English language education, interpretation, and connections to community resources.

• Additional Community Services: Cancer support, benefit enrollment, resource navigation, and affordable essentials through our thrift store.

These programs do more than address immediate hardships. They provide stability, dignity, and opportunities for individuals and families to move forward.

Our Future: Stronger Together

As we look ahead, the need for Mountain Family Center has never been greater. Demand for services continues to increase while the cost of providing those services rises. We are being challenged to do more with limited resources, making community investment and volunteer engagement more important than ever.

Our focus is on sustaining essential programs, expanding outreach to underserved populations, strengthening senior services, and growing our network of volunteers to help offset operational expenses and maximize the impact of every donated dollar.

We cannot do this work alone.

For more than four decades, the generosity of our community has made MFC's work possible. Today, we are asking our neighbors, businesses, and community partners to help us meet a new generation of challenges.

This Colorado Gives Day, Be Part of Our Future.

Your gift helps put food on a family's table, keeps a neighbor safely housed, provides a senior with transportation to a medical appointment, and ensures that someone facing hardship has a place to turn.

Our past was built on neighbors helping neighbors. Our present depends on that same compassion. And our future depends on you.

Together, we can ensure Mountain Family Center remains a trusted source of strength, stability, and hope for generations to come.

Give today. Strengthen tomorrow.