Roadrunner Food Bank

Rrfb's childhood hunger initiative (chi) was launched 2015. Chi is a food distribution strategy tailored specifically to the needs of participating school sites across new mexico. The selected participating schools serve children and their families' food through mobile food pantries and school- site food pantries. In 2025, the chi program took place in 76 schools. This was a 21% increase in service and continues to be the fastest growing program at rrfb. Rrfb's chi program served 274,138 youth and provided 1,920,649 meals in 2025.

Launched in the spring of 2015, rrfb's senior hunger initiative (shi) provides a combination of hunger-relief programs at low-income senior housing sites and senior centers, with each specific plan and structure of services determined by local leaders to meet the identified needs of food insecure older adults in participating communities. Each shi site has the ability to receive a mobile food pantry to their location once a month, and these distributions offer a variety of food that supports the distinctive nutritional needs of older adults. Each site also has the opportunity to establish a…