IFCS | A Denver Area Food Bank and More to Nourish Lives

Table Captain InfoRMATION

Help Gather the Community
as a Table Captain

Saturday, February 22, 2025 • 5:00 – 8:30pm
Hyatt Regency Denver Tech Center • 7800 E. Tufts Avenue, Denver 80237

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Table Captains are the heart of our Nibbles & Sips event! Table Captains gather community to raise funds for IFCS, providing life changing programs and services to more than 60,000 annually. Please share IFCS’ good works with family, friends, neighbors, and co-workers. 

This is truly one of the most upbeat, feel-good, charity events where the community comes together for a lively, casual evening in support of our struggling neighbors.

Everything a Table Captain Needs to Know:

  1. Think of friends and colleagues who have a desire to help alleviate hunger and nourish lives in our community.
  2. Make a list of people you think would want to learn more and be part of the solution.
  3. Send them a “Save the Date” email or postcard with a little note from you. An electronic email template will be supplied to you.
  4. Follow up with a phone call or a note to personally invite them to sit at your table.
  5. Once guests accept your invitation to join your table, send us a list of your invited guests, by February 5.

Your guests are considered “confirmed” when we receive their name on the list or when they have completed online registration with payment.

At the event, your guests will:

  • Win the Community Cup if they are the top fundraising table
  • Sample dozens of wine and food vendors
  • Bid on Silent and Live Auction items
  • Learn more about IFCS and how the organization provides basic human services, hunger alleviation, and enrichment programs to foster self-sufficiency

As a table captain, you will be recognized in the event program.

Price: Table of 10 is $990 before February 1 or $1,100 in February. Advance table sponsors receive a discount equal to one guest ticket. Advanced purchase individual tickets for event, not sold as a table, are $110. If the event is not sold out, tickets at the door are $125.

Table Capacity: Tables will be set for 10. Please fill all 10 seats. Remember to count yourself as an occupant of the 10 seats you are to fill! Please let us know if you have any special requests for seating preferences.

Emcee & Auctioneer: Jennifer Clifford, Beyond the Call Auctioneering

Event Support: Linda Shaw, Bolder Events

Please contact: Todd McPherson, 303-789-0501, toddm@ifcs.org

Table Captain's Timeline

Email Save the Date: IFCS will provide an email template which you can use, and will include all the details. An online registration link will be provided.

Email Invitations: provided by IFCS. We can either email you a packet, or you can send us your guest list and we will email them out for you.

Make Follow-up Calls to Invitees: Remind your guests about the date and time of event. They can register on our website.

Submit Table Captain Guest List: For guests who aren’t able to make it, invite them to learn more about IFCS.

  • 5:00 p.m. – Doors and Silent Auction Open
  • 7:25 p.m. – Silent Auction Closes
  • 7:40 p.m. – Evening’s Program Begins
  • 8:30 p.m. – Participant Check Out/ Item Pickup Opens

Thank your guests in a personal way: Send a thank you card or email, or give them a call. Then, commit to next year’s event!

Three Cheers for our 2024 Table Captains!

  • The Canino & Cruz Family
  • Bill and Joan Clayton
  • Empower
  • Gloria Greiner
  • Guys Who Give
  • David & Ann Hoffman
  • John & Karen Ikard (2)
  • Jazz Hands Foundation Band
  • Nick & Libby McKeever
  • Perry & Davis Enterprises, LLC
  • WAM Industries, Inc.
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For more information about the Nibbles & Sips fundraising gala, sponsorship, or ideas for silent or live auction donations, please contact Todd McPherson:

Non-Discrimination Statement

In accordance with federal civil rights law and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) civil rights regulations and policies, this institution is prohibited from discriminating on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex (including gender identity and sexual orientation), disability, age, or reprisal or  retaliation for prior civil rights activity.

Program information may be made available in languages other than English. Persons with disabilities who require alternative means of communication to obtain program information (e.g., Braille, large print, audiotape, American Sign Language), should contact the responsible state or local agency that administers the program or USDA’s TARGET Center at (202) 720-2600 (voice and TTY) or contact USDA through the Federal Relay Service at (800) 877-8339.

To file a program discrimination complaint, a Complainant should complete a Form AD-3027, USDA Program Discrimination Complaint Form which can be obtained online, from any USDA office, by calling (866) 632-9992, or by writing a letter addressed to USDA. The letter must contain the complainant’s name, address, telephone number, and a written description of the alleged discriminatory action in sufficient detail to inform the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights (ASCR) about the nature and date of an alleged civil rights violation. The completed AD-3027 form or letter must be submitted to USDA by:

  1. Mail:
    U.S. Department of Agriculture
    Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights
    1400 Independence Avenue, SW
    Washington, D.C. 20250-9410; or
  2. Fax:
    (833) 256-1665 or (202) 690-7442; or 
  3. Email:
    program.intake@usda.gov

This institution is an equal opportunity provider.

This statement was updated 8.3.22 in accordance with USDA updates and guidelines.

Eligibility Guidelines

IFCS Enrichment Programs have service area and income guidelines.

SERVICE AREA GUIDELINES:
For IFCS Enrichment Programs, we have a service area covering:

  • Western Arapahoe County: Centennial, Englewood, Glendale, Greenwood Village, Littleton, Sheridan, and unincorporated Arapahoe County.
  • Southwest Denver Neighborhoods: Bear Valley, College View, Fort Logan, Harvey Park, Harvey Park South, Marston & South Platte (Southwest Neighborhoods further defined as being south of Jewell and west of Santa Fe).
  • Northern Douglas County: Highlands Ranch, Littleton, and Lone Tree.
  • Southern Jefferson County: South Lakewood, Littleton, Morrison (Neighborhoods further defined as being south of Jewell along the C-470 Corridor – including Columbine, Bow Mar, Dakota Ridge, and Ken Caryl Ranch) 

Applications outside of these listed areas will not be accepted.


INCOME GUIDELINES:
As of March 1, 2024, a household may meet income-based standards in either of the following two ways:

  1. Participate in one of these public assistance programs:
    • Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP)
    • Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
    • Low-income Energy Assistance Program (LEAP)
    • Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF)
    • Old Age Pension (OAP)
    • Aid to Needy Disabled (AND)
    • Aid to the Blind (AB)
    • Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
    • Medicaid Eligible Foster Children
  1. If the household does not participate in any of the above public assistance programs, the household must have a combined gross income that does not exceed the maximum income limit for the applicable household size.

ADDITIONAL ELIGIBILITY GUIDELINES:
Please refer to the Interest Form for additional, program-specific criteria.

Eligibility and Income Guidelines

Anyone experiencing food insecurity and self-identifying as meeting the Income Guidelines below is eligible for IFCS Food Market services.

Income Guidelines:
As of March 1, 2024, a household may meet income-based standards in either of the following two ways:

  1. Participate in one of these public assistance programs:
    • Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP)
    • Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
    • Low-income Energy Assistance Program (LEAP)
    • Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF)
    • Old Age Pension (OAP)
    • Aid to Needy Disabled (AND)
    • Aid to the Blind (AB)
    • Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
    • Medicaid Eligible Foster Children
  1. If the household does not participate in any of the above public assistance programs, the household must meet the requirements based on the chart below, having a combined gross income not exceeding the maximum income limit for the applicable household size.

For IFCS Financial Assistance Programs (Rental and Utility Bill Payment Assistance), we have a service area of western Arapahoe (Centennial, Englewood, Glendale, Greenwood Village, Littleton, and Sheridan) and southwest Denver Neighborhoods. This includes Bear Valley, College View, Fort Logan, Harvey Park, Harvey Park South, Marston & South Platte (Southwest Neighborhoods further defined as being south of Jewell and west of Santa Fe). IFCS Rental Assistance Programs may be limited to the cities listed within Arapahoe County.

For IFCS Enrichment Programs, we have a service area covering:

  • Western Arapahoe County: Centennial, Englewood, Glendale, Greenwood Village, Littleton, Sheridan, and unincorporated Arapahoe County.
  • Southwest Denver Neighborhoods: Bear Valley, College View, Fort Logan, Harvey Park, Harvey Park South, Marston & South Platte (Southwest Neighborhoods further defined as being south of Jewell and west of Santa Fe).
  • Northern Douglas County: Highlands Ranch, Littleton, and Lone Tree.
  • Southern Jefferson County: South Lakewood, Littleton, Morrison (Neighborhoods further defined as being south of Jewell along the C-470 Corridor – including Columbine, Bow Mar, Dakota Ridge, and Ken Caryl Ranch) 

 Applications outside of these listed areas will not be accepted. (Central Denver, North Denver, and Aurora applications will not be accepted.)