Laboratory Food Drive provides 289K meals to fight food insecurity

Employees made $70,738 in donations and gave 7,509 pounds of food

Tricia Ware, Communications Specialist

Employees gathered the collection bins from around the Lab to be picked up by The Food Depot for regional distribution.

That works out to 289,000 meals for people facing food insecurity in the counties of Colfax, Harding, Los Alamos, Mora, Rio Arriba, San Miguel, Santa Fe, Taos and Union. Of the Laboratory’s approximately 17,000 employees, two thirds live outside Los Alamos County in surrounding Northern New Mexico communities. “Our employees want to give where they live, and this is a primary way the Laboratory is a force for good in the community,” says Community Partnerships Office Director Kathy Keith. > Read the full story in the News section

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