OUR STORY
Roadrunner® Food Bank of New Mexico, a Feeding America member, is the largest non-profit dedicated to solving food insecurity in New Mexico. As a food distribution hub, we provide food to hundreds of affiliated member partners around the state including food pantries, soup kitchens, shelters and regional food banks. We also distribute food through specialized programs helping children, families and seniors at schools, low-income senior housing sites, senior centers and with and through health care partnerships. Every week, tens of thousands of hungry children, seniors and families are reached through this statewide hunger relief network. We are working together with our partners, volunteers and contributors to end food insecurity and hunger in New Mexico.
OUR ROLE IN THE COMMUNITY
Throughout the year, Roadrunner Food Bank captures millions of pounds of food to distribute in communities throughout New Mexico for the benefit of our hungry neighbors. And we do more than just provide food. We also partner with other organizations to bring complementary services to distribution sites, advocate for policies that impact hungry people’s lives and bring healthy food to communities across the state. Our work helps stop food insecurity for people in need across New Mexico, including adults, children, seniors and veterans in our community.
OUR STATEWIDE NETWORK & IMPACT
Roadrunner Food Bank serves the state of New Mexico through hundreds member partners. This statewide hunger relief network is made up of food pantries, soup kitchens, group homes, shelters, schools, senior centers, low-income senior housing locations and also through health care partners. Every week, tens of thousands children, seniors, disabled individuals, families and adults benefit from the nearly 60 million pounds of food we warehouse annually.
WE ARE FEEDING AMERICA
Roadrunner Food Bank is a member of a national network of roughly 200 food banks across the United States called Feeding America. This nonprofit is the largest domestic hunger relief program in the U.S., providing food for 46 million hungry Americans through corporate donations, food rescue, government programs and more. As the local member of this national affiliation, Roadrunner Food Bank receives food, funding, best practice information and much more to help our hungry neighbors.
MISSION, VISION & CORE VALUES
Roadrunner Food Bank prides itself on being a leader in solving hunger and strives to be a top performing food bank among its Feeding America peer food banks. Our vision, mission and core values help us bring the best possible services to the hungry in our state. With help from our donors, volunteers and staff, we are working to end food insecurity in New Mexico.
HISTORY
Our founder Reverend Titus Scholl established Roadrunner Food Bank as a non-profit in 1979. As a pastor, he witnessed first-hand the tremendous poverty and hunger in New Mexico and knew he wanted to do something about it. Reverend Scholl was among a group of pioneers in the U.S. who began rescuing discarded food from grocers and storing it in a warehouse facility in order to supply it to member partners for the benefit of the hungry in his community. His vision lives on through our work today as we gather more food and work to feed more hungry individuals each year.
HOW FOOD BANKS WORK
Food banks are nonprofit organizations that source, acquire and distribute food to the hungry. As the name implies, we “bank” food and store it in a distribution center or warehouse. Smaller charitable organizations receive food from us through our fleet of semi-trucks. These smaller hunger relief partners have a variety of distribution dates and times when hungry community members visit. This statewide hunger relief network brings important sources of healthy and nutritious food to tens of thousands of people in both rural and urban communities every week of the year.
YOUR GIFT HAS AN IMPACT
Donations of funds, food and time allow us to acquire and distribute healthy food to provide to hungry people across the state. A $1 gift could help us distribute up to 5 meals.
Your gifts of time, food and funds allow us to distribute nearly 60 million pounds of food every year from our warehouse to communities across the state of New Mexico.
Our hunger relief network provides food through 500 member partners in New Mexico, including food pantries, soup kitchens, schools, senior centers and others which seek to improve the lives of low-income and vulnerable people.
Every week, we provide enough food to feed tens of thousands of hungry New Mexicans. Children, seniors, the disabled, veterans, families and adults all represent people struggling to find enough to eat.