Thank you for Stamping Out Hunger!
Thank you for making a difference this past Saturday during the 20th annual Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive! Your food donations raised 214,525 pounds of food, an 84% increase from last year’s May drive.
Thank you to all the letter carriers and the postal service workers for making this food drive possible year after year. On behalf of all the staff here at Roadrunner Food Bank, thank you all for making the Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive possible!
Special thanks to all our national food drive partners, especially AARP for providing so many Feeding America food banks paper bags to collect donations in. We will recycle all the paper bags and plastic bags we received as part of our Green Initiatives.
Advocate for Hunger Relief Programs
Let your voice be heard by helping us protect federally funded hunger program in the Farm Bill. The U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate are beginning deliberations on the new Farm Bill. This is the piece of legislation that authorizes and funds virtually all federal hunger programs, including:
- The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP) which represents 7.2 million pounds of the 26 million pounds Roadrunner Food Bank distributed last year.
- Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) formerly known as food stamps
- Women Infant and Children (WIC)
- Commodity Supplemental Food Drive (CSFP) and others
You can share your thoughts on the House’s Agriculture Committee Feedback Form HERE until May 20th. You can also call Congress toll-free at 877-698-8228.
Here is sample language you can use when contacting our congressional delegation by phone, online or via email.
Thank you for helping us protect federal hunger programs!
Paper Plates Filled With Hunger Stories
During the fall of 2011, we supplied paper plates to partner agencies, Mobile Food Pantry locations, Food for Kids schools and our own staff and asked them to collect as many hunger stories as possible.
In less than two months, more than 500 stories about hunger arrived at the Food Bank all on paper plates! They are from people from all walks of life including children, college students, the unemployed, the disabled, seniors and so many others. Even though the paper plate stories filled several boxes, each plate represents a life, a family, someone hurt by hunger. Too many in our community struggle with basic necessities such as food.
We took the 500 hunger stories and shared them with attendees at some of our events and activities this past fall. Now you too can read some of their stories.
Sign Up to Receive News From The Food Bank
There are always lots of activities happening at Roadrunner Food Bank. Stay up-to-date with the Food Bank by signing up for our FREE e-newsletter. Our e-newsletter is the best way to keep updated about upcoming activities, events and ways you can get involved to help us in our work in feeding hungry people throughout the state.
Register to receive our next monthly e-newsletter HERE, or scan the code below with a smartphone. Feel free to send the registration link to others you know that might be interested in our work.
The email address and information you provide to us in the registration form will only be used to send you Roadrunner Food Bank affiliated communications.
Questions about our e-newsletter? Call 505.349.8682 or email sonya@rrfb.org.
Meet Three Families That Experienced Hunger
As our partner in our work to fight hunger in our community and across New Mexico, we want you to meet three families. Each of these families featured in the video called Easing Hunger Filling Pates experienced hunger first hand. Now they have come through it.
View their success story, and be a part of helping make more success stories possible by getting involved with the Food Bank.
If you would like a CD/DVD copy of one of our videos to share with others, please email sonya@rrfb.org or call 505.349.8682.
Give Right From an Email Thanks to Easy Give
The Food Bank has partnered with Easy Give to allow our donors to give right from an email. This partnership makes it easier for you to support our mission to end hunger in New Mexico.
Easy Give is a New Mexico-based email donation service that makes it quick and easy for you to donate. After a one-time sign up, Easy Give will send you regular donation requests on behalf of the Food Bank to your email address. You can make contribution with Easy Give to the Food Bank directly through future email message with just a couple easy clicks.
To sign up click HERE. Thank you for your support of our work!
