“I've had the pleasure of working for Ashley for almost 4 years, and I can say without hesitation that Ashley is a phenomenal, effective, and natural leader and CEO. She sets a culture of humanness and empathy, along with high standards and top performance. She is a visionary, keeping her eyes open on what's next while moving the needle on what's happening now. She takes care of her team and community, asks for feedback, and gives first. She is smart, and has a keen ability of making decisions quickly while not taking the important decisions lightly. She executes and perseveres; she took an idea, and turned it into a profitable company with a helluva team in just a few short years. I am proud to know Ashley and be a part of her circle, and I give her the highest recommendation.”
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Ashley is the founder and CEO of The Food Corridor. The Food Corridor is the world's…
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It's always a pleasure working with different groups associated with the USDA Cochran Fellowship Program! This week, our Accelerator Director Barney…
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Experience
Education
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Exploring personal, business, and community barriers and opportunities for food entrepreneurs
2017- CSU Theses and Dissertations Theses and Dissertations - Food Science and Human Nutrition
Specialty food businesses, characterized as local, craft or artisan, produce unique and highly differentiated food items often made in small quantities from high-quality ingredients. Nationally, the increasing market demand for specialty food is simultaneously spurring a growth in food entrepreneurship and food businesses that need access to licensed commercial space. Due to their unique values, a subset of food entrepreneurs may be considered 'social entrepreneurs' who use their business as a…
Specialty food businesses, characterized as local, craft or artisan, produce unique and highly differentiated food items often made in small quantities from high-quality ingredients. Nationally, the increasing market demand for specialty food is simultaneously spurring a growth in food entrepreneurship and food businesses that need access to licensed commercial space. Due to their unique values, a subset of food entrepreneurs may be considered 'social entrepreneurs' who use their business as a catalyst for social, cultural, or environmental change. This dissertation research model and hypotheses ...
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Shared-use Kitchens: a Policy Landscape Report
The Food Corridor, LLC
While the opportunity for sharing commercial kitchen space is growing, shared-use kitchens in the United States suffer from regulatory ambiguity that limits their potential. In 2016, The Food Corridor, LLC (TFC), with a mission to enable growth, efficiencies and innovation in local food systems, launched a software-as-a-service management platform to assist operators of shared-use kitchens. In observing the struggle of their clients in navigating the tricky waters of local departments of…
While the opportunity for sharing commercial kitchen space is growing, shared-use kitchens in the United States suffer from regulatory ambiguity that limits their potential. In 2016, The Food Corridor, LLC (TFC), with a mission to enable growth, efficiencies and innovation in local food systems, launched a software-as-a-service management platform to assist operators of shared-use kitchens. In observing the struggle of their clients in navigating the tricky waters of local departments of health, conflicting state and county policy, and inadequate licensing options, they identified an opportunity to explore the national policy landscape for shared-use kitchens to help identify best practices and policies to support the emerging industry.
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Food Access Scan of Child Care Homes and Centers
Please contact Wendy for copies of the reports
These reports are the result of 53 in-person interviews with child care providers across the state of Colorado at 28 child care centers and 25 day care homes. The reports, one concerning day care homes and the other concerning child care centers, identify challenges child care providers face in meeting nutrition requirements and highlight opportunities for using local and regional food systems to address these challenges.
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Shared Kitchen Toolkit: A Practical Guide to Planning, Launching, and Managing a Shared-Use Commercial Kitchen
U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) program, North Central Region.
The Shared Kitchen Toolkit is a free, web-based resource that delivers guidance on feasibility and planning for new kitchen projects, as well as management practices for the day-to-day operations of shared-use kitchens. It also provides an overview of emerging kitchen models and highlights opportunities for kitchens to expand their community impact and enhance financial sustainability. It is available as a 166-page downloadable PDF, via The Food Corridor’s resources page.
The Toolkit is…The Shared Kitchen Toolkit is a free, web-based resource that delivers guidance on feasibility and planning for new kitchen projects, as well as management practices for the day-to-day operations of shared-use kitchens. It also provides an overview of emerging kitchen models and highlights opportunities for kitchens to expand their community impact and enhance financial sustainability. It is available as a 166-page downloadable PDF, via The Food Corridor’s resources page.
The Toolkit is meant to guide the user through the various planning phases all the way to the launch and management of an existing kitchen. We know that building a kitchen isn’t a linear path by any means! The Toolkit can be referenced at any point in a facility’s development and re-visited even after launch.
Honors & Awards
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Bravo! Emerging Entrepreneur (2018)
BizWest
https://bizwest.com/2018/07/03/bravo-entrepreneur-award-winners-announced/
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1st place Monfort eChallenge (2016)
Monfort College of Business
First place winner of $25,000 is The Food Corridor, a Fort Collins company and the first online marketplace for food businesses to find commercial kitchen space, enabling efficiency, growth, and innovation in the food system. Founded by Ashley Colpaart, the marketplace provides online booking, payment processing, disbursement, and reviews to match food businesses without adequate production facilities with underutilized commercial kitchens who have available space, creating an access economy in…
First place winner of $25,000 is The Food Corridor, a Fort Collins company and the first online marketplace for food businesses to find commercial kitchen space, enabling efficiency, growth, and innovation in the food system. Founded by Ashley Colpaart, the marketplace provides online booking, payment processing, disbursement, and reviews to match food businesses without adequate production facilities with underutilized commercial kitchens who have available space, creating an access economy in the food industry. (https://mcb.unco.edu/e-challenge/2016challenge.aspx)
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Finalist, SXSW Interactive Innovation Award for the New Economy (2016)
SXSW Interactive Innovation Awards
https://www.sxsw.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/sxsw_interactive_innovation_awards_finalists_final.pdf
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Finalist & Alumni, FoodBytes (2016)
FoodBytes by Rabobank
https://www.foodbytesworld.com/denverite-the-food-corridor-emerges-to-promote-local-food-as-an-incubator-for-kitchen-incubators/
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Silver at Food+City Challenge Prize (2016)
Food+City
https://foodandcity.org/challenge/previous-winners/
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Emerging Dietetic Leader Award
Colorado Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
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Emerging Dietetic Leader Award
Northern Colorado Dietetic Association
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University Scholar
Colorado Health Foundation
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E. Neige Todhunter Memorial Doctoral Fellowship
Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Foundation
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Western Extension Young Professional Award
Western Extension Directors Association
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Presidential Award for Active Citizenship and Public Service
Tufts University
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Excellence in Hunger and Environmental Nutrition
American Dietetic Association
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Barbara Ann Hughes Education Scholarship
American Dietetic Association Foundation
Organizations
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Northern Colorado Food Cluster
Coordinator
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