Volunteering and Visiting
the Food Bank During the
COVID-19 Pandemic

Updated: July 29, 2021

The health and safety or our community is a top priority. Because of the nature of our work, Roadrunner Food Bank is always required to follow stringent guidelines around food safety. As an organization trained in COVID Safe Practices, we follow strict safety practices to ensure everyone volunteering and helping the food bank remains safe. We will ask our volunteers and visitors to take extra precautions while in our building or at our food distribution out in the community.

All volunteers and visitors should assess whether it is safe for you to visit the food bank or helping at one of our community based distributions prior to coming to help out.  All volunteers including individual volunteers, group volunteers and court mandated volunteers MUST register in advance of their volunteer activity.

Reschedule your volunteer shift or visit to the food bank at a future time and date if any of the following apply:

  1. You are currently experiencing symptoms of coronavirus or any illness. Please stay home and get well.
  2. Please ask anyone in your group to stay home if they are experiencing symptoms of coronavirus or any illness.
  3. You have been around someone else who has been ill.
  4. You have traveled out of state or internationally, please adhere to travel restrictions from the NM Department of Health.

Updated Mask Requirements

  1. Effective July 30, all volunteers, visitors and staff of the food bank are required to wear masks. Masks are required while in our building, attending or helping at a community based food distribution or at our Healthy Foods Center. 
  2. We are asking everyone involved in our work to continue to social distance.
  3. The updates policies above are regardless of vaccination status.
  4. The updated policies have been put into place as COVID-19 rates across the state and in Bernalillo County have increased in July.

We’re continuing to disinfect areas more frequently, encouraging increased hand washing, and consistently reminding everyone to be very mindful of their health during this time.

Please check our COVID-19 page to stay up-to-date about our hunger relief efforts during this time.  Please visit the yellow Volunteer button on this page for information about how to register as an individual, as a group, or as a court and community service volunteer.  Virtual volunteers should visit this link for additional information.

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Watch Roadie demonstrate how to start a volunteer shift in our warehouse using COVID-19 safety practices.

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