Mogro Mobile Grocery

“Copy of draft 990 is presented to each board member and is board approved before filing.”

“Each director and principal officer of the board of directors and any employee with powers delegated by the board of directors shall annually sign a statement which affirms such person: a. Has received a copy of the conflict of interest policy, b. Has read and understands the policy, c. Has agreed to comply with the policy, and d. Understands that mogro is charitable and in order to maintain its federal tax exemption it must engage primarily in activities that accomplish one or more of its tax-exempt purposes.”

“Executive compensation is reviewed and voted on by the entire board. Related documentation of deliberation and vote is retained in board minutes.”

“Employee compensation increases in excess of 2,000 must be authorized by a vote of the board.”

“Financial statements, 990 returns, bylaws, and form 1023 are all available on the new mexico attorney general coros website. Form 990's are also available on the irs exempt organizations website. Other information is made available upon request.”

“Mogro is a nonprofit mobile grocery committed to providing healthy food that people can depend on. We are dedicated primarily to increasing access to healthy food, and secondarily to supporting local food systems by purchasing from local farmers and suppliers.”

“We had 81 volunteers providing about 1,120 hours of crucial services helping to prepare, sort and pack bags of fresh produce for delivery to our community members.”

“Local food promotion & racial & ethnic approaches to community health mogro's lfp program, called advancing agricultural markets for provider prescribed produce (aamppp) is funded by usda's local food promotion program. The program launched in late 2023 and has recruited 20 new mexico farmers to grow produce for patients at local health clinics in rural and urban new mexico who have prescriptions from their health care provider. Aamppp is in partnership with presbyterian healthcare services, the largest healthcare provider in new mexico. In january 2023, mogro completed a multi-year subaward on nm community capital's usda funded lfpp program, resulting in an increase in annual purchases from local small scale producers (.5 to 5 acres) from 87,500 to 125,000 per year. Mogro is a subawardee of the new mexico farmers' marketing association's 4 -year usda rfsp federal award: "scaling up new mexico's value chain coordination (nm-vcc) network". As an ongoing key partner in 2023, mogro continues to participate in local food hub advocacy, supply-chain development, and building overlapping resources across new mexico to increase cooperation and resiliency of new mexico food hubs. Mogro is also a subawardee of presbyterian healthcare services' 5-year cdc federal award: "racial and ethnic approaches to community health". As a partner in the nutrition strategy in 2023, mogro initiated a five-year strategic plan to support and expand the reach network of local farmers, food hubs, producers, and suppliers who represent reach priority populations and provided key insights to the nutrition workgroup related to the connections between culturally preferred foods, local agriculture, and nutrition.”