Lori Midson

​Beef lasagna and broccoli: That was the four-millionth meal that Project Angel Heart served earlier this week to one of its clients. All of those clients are battling life-threatening illnesses, and all rely on Project Angel Heart, a local nonprofit that cooks nutritious meals to feed 850 people per day, every day, at no cost to the recipients.

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​Since it first opened at 19th and Pennsylvania more than three decades ago, Las Delicias has become one of Denver's most successful homegrown chains. And today from 11 a.m.- 9 p.m., the outlet at 7610 Conifer Road (off Highway 36 and Broadway in north Denver) will donate 15 percent of all tabs to CASA, a non-profit that provides at-risk children in Adams and Broomfield counties with court-appointed special advocates.

​Warm up for Denver Gives on December 6 by doing some good today: From 5 to 10 p.m. tonight, Marlowe's will donate 10 percent of all dinner sales to the Denver Voice, the paper that not only covers the homeless community, but helps the homeless make money by working as vendors for the Voice.

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​Six years ago, Seattle-born brothers Tommy and Tim Thwaites borrowed some money from their parents to launch Coda Coffee, a metro Denver roaster that drew on the their combined three decades of experience in the industry. A year or two into their venture, the brothers started focusing more on the people who were growing the beans they were roasting.

"We do origin trips a lot, and we developed relationships over time," Tommy explains. "We wanted to get more involved."

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Warm the heart at Colt & Gray tonight.

​Turn off the oven! If you go out to eat tonight at one of a half-dozen restaurants, 20 percent of your tab will go to the Adoption Alliance.

The participating eateries: Colt & Gray, Bruno's Italian Bistro, Bombay Bowl, La Fogota (all three locations), Heidi's (just three locations), Denver Ted's Cheesesteaks and the Inn at Cherry Creek.

For more information, go to www.adoptall.org.

​This is the time of year when your inbox, mailbox and voice box are inundated with warm and fuzzy requests to support your favorite charities, the majority of which most of us guiltily ignore -- at least I do (but I spend all of my spare change on PBR and Coco Pebbles; what's your excuse?)

But Project Angel Heart, a local nonprofit that prepares -- and delivers -- healthy, nutritious and really good meals to people living with life-threatening illnesses, is a charity that truly warms our soul, and this year, it plans to do the same for others -- with the help of King Soopers stores and the people who shop there.

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​Two months ago, Herb Brodsky, co-founder of Novo Coffee, was introduced to Meagan Morris, research assistant of the Laboratory to Combat Human Trafficking, through a mutual friend.

"I got an e-mail from Heather Larabee at Whole Foods, and she thought the vibes of our company, like our work with the community and our farmers, really fit with this organization," says Brodsky. So, she said, "'Maybe the two of you can put something together.'"

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There are few restaurants in Denver that stack up to Root Down and Linger, at least in terms of style and design, and we imagine that the staff of both restaurants have scads of pretty cool stuff lying around their abodes, too, some of which they're selling for a good cause this weekend at the Root Down/Linger yard sale.

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Lori Midson

​You could, we suppose, say that the writing was on the wall. The Comfort Cafe, a donation-based, non-profit community kitchen and restaurant in Berkeley Park, whose philosophy is pay-what-you-can-afford, recently posted a note on its Facebook wall, pleading for volunteers:

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​Denver Yard Harvest, a new urban farming initiative, is kicking off its cause at a fundraiser from 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. tonight at Fuel Cafe. The non-profit group's goal is to harvest surplus fruits and vegetables from residential properties throughout town and distribute them to daycare facilities, homes for the elderly and community kitchens in need of healthier food options.

There will be food and drinks provided by Fuel, whose impressive seasonal menu features produce from its own urban farm, and representatives from Denver Yard Harvest will be on hand to answer questions.

The suggested donation is $5.