Las Vegas Radio's Four Corners Food Drive Raises $236,739 — Enough for 473,478 Meals for Three Square

LAS VEGAS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2026

Some fundraisers happen in ballrooms. This one happened in grocery store parking lots, on live radio, in four corners of the valley at once. Audacy announced on Tuesday, Oct. 13 that its Las Vegas stations — Mix 94.1 (KMXB), 98.5 KLUC and Q100.5 (KXQQ) — raised $236,739 in this year's Four Corners Food Drive, with all proceeds benefiting Three Square Food Bank. Inside Radio, reporting the same announcement, noted the figure that turns a dollar total into dinner: the money provides funding for 473,478 meals for Southern Nevada families facing food insecurity. It is one of the largest single community drives on the local radio calendar, and this year's edition leaned on a simple, very Las Vegas idea — go to where the people already are, which on a weekend morning is the grocery store.

The mechanics of the Four Corners Food Drive are built around geography, and the name is literal. Personalities from all three stations broadcast live from four Albertsons locations spread across the valley: Centennial Hills in the northwest, Green Valley in Henderson, the Southwest, and Summerlin. A listener in any quadrant of the metro area was never far from a broadcast, a donation point and a familiar voice asking them to help stock the shelves. Mix 94.1's Mercedes Martinez kicked off the effort with a Friday morning broadcast, and the stations followed with joint broadcasts each Saturday, turning the drive into a rolling, multi-week presence rather than a single telethon-style day. That rhythm matters for food banking, where the need is not a one-day event but a standing condition of the region — and where steady community habits, built year after year, are what keep a drive like this growing.

On top of the on-air and on-site giving, an online auction raised an additional $12,095 — and its catalog read like a cross-section of the city doing the donating. Items included diamond earrings, Las Vegas hotel and dining packages, cooking classes at Gordon Ramsay Steak, and golf packages at TPC Summerlin, the PGA Tour stop in the master-planned community that also hosted one of the four broadcasts. The auction layer is a smart piece of drive design: it captures supporters who never drive past an Albertsons on a Saturday, and it lets local businesses contribute inventory — a dinner, a lesson, a round of golf — that converts directly into meals at the food bank's exchange rate. Between the broadcasts and the auction, the drive raised just under a quarter of a million dollars in total.

The beneficiary explains why the number translates into so many meals. Three Square is Southern Nevada's only food bank, and its work is built around providing consistent access to nutritious food across the region — sourcing, warehousing and distributing food through a network of community partners, schools, and programs rather than handing out meals from a single door. Food banks multiply cash efficiently: donated dollars buy food in bulk, fill gaps that physical food donations leave, and cover the logistics of moving fresh food to the neighborhoods that need it. That is how $236,739 becomes funding for 473,478 meals — roughly two meals per dollar — and why drives measured in dollars, not just canned goods, have become the model for efforts at this scale.

Audacy's Las Vegas team framed the result as a community verdict. Promotions director Micah Powell praised the generosity of local listeners and partners, crediting the valley's residents and businesses for showing up across all four corners of the map — a sentiment the totals back up. Radio's role in the drive is worth noting, too: in a media landscape of feeds and algorithms, three local stations with live, local personalities still function as a convening power in this city, able to put trusted voices in four parking lots on the same morning and ask, directly, for help. If you are looking for more of the valley's food scene in a lighter register, our Vegas Eats guide to the city's viral food spots covers the restaurants everyone is lining up for — and our news index keeps the full day's Las Vegas coverage in one place.

The context underneath the celebration is the reason Three Square exists. Southern Nevada's economy runs on hospitality shifts, tips and gig work, which makes household food budgets unusually sensitive to slow weeks on the Strip — and food insecurity here reaches working families as readily as anyone. A drive that funds nearly half a million meals does not solve that, and nobody involved claims it does. What it does is measurable and immediate: it stocks a distribution system that community partners across the valley draw on every week, and it does it with money raised in the open, in grocery store parking lots, by people buying their own groceries and deciding to cover part of someone else's too. The Four Corners Food Drive will be back next year, in the same four corners. This year's bar is now set at $236,739 and 473,478 meals — and if the pattern of the past few weeks of broadcasts holds, Las Vegas will treat that number the way it treats most records: as something to beat.