Nourishing Our Neighborhood in 2026

With your support the Rotterdam Community Center experienced an amazing first year as a nonprofit organization dedicated to nourishing our neighborhood in body, mind and soul!

Together, we welcomed over 14,000 guests and served over 52,000 meals worth of groceries to our neighbors in need, all powered by over 4,100 hours of volunteer service! We launched an additional session of the Bread of Life Food Pantry. We welcomed guests for new Community Hub Classes like Nutrition Classes with Cornell Cooperative Extension and Identity Theft Prevention Classes with Bank of America. We partnered with the Schenectady County Historical Society to help our neighbors learn about their roots through monthly History Nights. Our Community Advocates, food pantry guests trained in public speaking and leadership skills, galvanized Schenectady County to respond to the SNAP funding crisis this fall and will continue leading our community in addressing the root causes of nutrition security in the year ahead.

With your help, we are just getting started! From strengthening our Bread of Life Food Pantry and Produce Pantry programs, to organizing three more Community Advocates Program Cohorts and partnering with organizations like Ellis Medicine and Literacy Volunteers of the Capital Region to roll out more Community Hub Classes, we have big plans for 2026!

Yet none of this amazing work can happen without you! Join our 2026 Annual Fund Campaign to raise $60,000 by the end of the year today. Help us nourish this amazing neighborhood we call home, and thank you, as always, for your generous support!

In hope,

Rev. Dustin G. Longmire
Interim Board Chair, Rotterdam Community Center