2023 Giving Together Catalog

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Giving Together The Santa Fe Community Foundation’s Giving Together program supports our mission to inspire philanthropic generosity, strengthen nonprofits, and foster positive change to build a more vibrant, healthy, and resilient region.

S FCF I NI TI AT I V E S & F U N DS TABLE OF CONTENTS

Our Giving Together program is a project of the Santa Fe Community Foundation’s Community Leadership Fund, which supports our grantmaking, donor services, nonprofit skill building, and community initiatives.

Learn more about the Community Leadership Fund on page 7.

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Introduction to Giving Together

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Santa Fe Community Foundation Initiatives & Funds

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Native American Advised Fund

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Envision Fund

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Santa Fe Baby Fund

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Animal Welfare

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Arts & Culture

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Civic & Economic Opportunities

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Education

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Environment

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Health & Human Services

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Index

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Letter from the President & CEO Dear Friends, Giving is a practice that’s at the very heart of philanthropy and one that I believe brings out the best in each of us. As JFK once said, “philanthropy, charity, giving voluntarily and freely — call it what you like, but it is truly a jewel of American tradition.” Indeed, it’s a tradition that connects us to our neighbors and makes us active participants in the communities we call home. Not least of all, it’s a tradition that propels positive change forward.

It is in this spirit that I’m pleased to welcome you to our 2023-2024 Giving Together catalog — your resource to learn more about the nonprofits that strengthen and enrich our communities, and your invitation to join us in supporting their work.

To date, Giving Together has generated over $8 million in grantmaking to our nonprofit partners. Remarkably, in each of the past five years, this catalog has resulted in even more grant dollars to organizations from our generous fundholders than did our own discretionary grantmaking. It’s clear that our investments are multiplied and positioned for greater impact when we work together.

As you explore this catalog, we invite you to imagine the positive change we can accomplish as partners in philanthropy. Whether it’s advancing research by supporting proposals in Health & Human Services, uplifting the next generation by funding Education initiatives, or sharing beauty with your neighbors through a grant to an Arts & Culture nonprofit, please join us in building a stronger New Mexico through Giving Together.

Doing good should be enjoyable, so have fun!

With gratitude,

Christopher Goett President & CEO

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Working together to fund proposals from our region’s nonprofits The Santa Fe Community Foundation’s annual Giving Together catalog is a summary of all proposals we receive each grant cycle from nonprofit organizations in our funding region.

We’re proud to provide this catalog as a resource for our entire community.

We invite our dedicated fundholders to use Giving Together to add to the Foundation’s grantmaking power, helping us to address critical local needs. We also encourage our larger community to use this catalog as a resource to learn more about our region’s vital nonprofit sector and the needs they are forging solutions to meet.

This edition of Giving Together includes initiatives and funds anchored right here at the Foundation — including our Community Leadership Fund, which enables us to provide our high-quality donor and nonprofit services ­— in addition to proposals from nonprofits in our funding areas of Animal Welfare, Arts & Culture, Civic & Economic Opportunities, Education, Environment, and Health & Human Services.

Please explore this catalog to help advance your own philanthropic goals and aspirations in support of our local community. By Giving Together, we can have greater impact and ensure that services and resources get delivered to those who need them.

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Join us in Giving Together 1.

Giving Together is easy! Decide whether you want to direct your grant recommendation to the Foundation’s Community Leadership Fund, to the general grant pool, to a specific proposal, or to all three.

Don’t forget! You can always make an unrestricted grant to one or all of the Foundation’s Field of Interest endowments (Animal Welfare, Arts & Culture, Education, etc.) used for our community grant cycles.

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Fill out and return the fund advisor grant request form by email to giving@santafecf.org or by mail to P.O. Box 1827, Santa Fe, NM 87504. Beginning in January 2024, we also invite you to log into the new Fund Advisor Portal to initiate your grant request. Please indicate Giving Together in the “Grant Purpose” section. Minimum is $250.

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If you are interested in learning more about any of the enclosed grant proposals, we would love to assist you. Please reach out to Diane Hamamoto at 505.988.9715 ext. 7008 or dhamamoto@santafecf.org.

Your contacts for Giving Together Sandra Session-Robertson

Diane Hamamoto

Vice President, Development

Director, Grants & Community Impact

& Donor Relations

dhamamoto@santafecf.org

srobertson@santafecf.org

505.988.9715 ext. 7008

505.988.9715 ext. 7006

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Santa Fe Community Foundation Initiatives & Funds Our community initiatives and funds strive to advance equitable access to opportunities in Santa Fe and our surrounding communities. These proactive and flexible initiatives use strategies that go beyond grantmaking to emphasize community outreach and partner collaboration, skill strengthening, community research, and narrative sharing. We thank you for learning more and for joining us in this vital work.

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SFCF I NI T I AT I VES & FUNDS

Community Leadership Fund

Community Resiliency Fund

santafecf.org/community-leadership

santafecf.org/community-resiliency

Mission | Our Community Leadership Fund (CLF)

Mission | To support New Mexico’s capacity to

allows the Santa Fe Community Foundation to

recover from difficult, sweeping events, dismantle

improve community outcomes in four significant

systems of racism, and protect our land — today,

ways: increasing donor impact, improving nonprofit

tomorrow, and for generations to come.

capacity and performance, enhancing our grantmaking, and investing in strategic initiatives.

CLF allows the Foundation to serve as a convener of people, ideas, and funds, and provide leadership in the nonprofit sector.

Proposal | Contributions to CLF are among the most

Proposal | On October 15th, 2021, the Santa Fe Community Foundation turned 40. In honor of this milestone, we created a Community Resiliency Fund to support: programs that build the resilience of those most vulnerable to emergencies; efforts to adapt and recover from the effects of climate change,

critical resources that contribute to the work we do

such as drought, extreme weather events, floods, and

here at the Foundation each day — from supporting

other natural disasters; organizations responding to

food security to safety net health services, to working

urgent public health needs, including pandemics

on creating housing solutions and elevating our

and behavioral health crises; and initiatives for long-

educational system, to the far-reaching technical

term systemic changes that prevent hate crimes and

assistance work we do with nonprofits that has made

promote anti-racism.

us the largest nonprofit capacity building provider

Noteworthy | In 2022, communities across our

in New Mexico. None of this would be possible without the generosity of our donors and community partners.

Noteworthy | CLF allows us to produce the Giving

funding region of Mora, San Miguel, Rio Arriba, and Santa Fe counties were devastated by the largest wildfire season in New Mexico’s history. Our Community Resiliency Fund enabled us to provide

Together catalog, which made over $1.3 million

immediate assistance and grant out over $500,000

in additional grant dollars possible in 2022. CLF

toward wildfire relief and recovery.

also underwrites our annual Piñon Awards, which recognizes excellence in northern New Mexico’s nonprofit sector.

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Native American Advised Fund

Earthseed Community Fund

santafecf.org/native

santafecf.org/funds/earthseed

Mission | To enhance Native lifeways now and for

Mission | To support Black life, arts, and culture in

future generations in New Mexico by promoting

New Mexico.

a spirit of sharing and supporting Native-led and

Proposal | Through targeted grants, strategic

serving community initiatives.

Proposal | Led by an advisory committee that

partnerships, and an equitable approach to community philanthropy, the Earthseed Community

reflects the diversity of our region’s 23 pueblos and

Fund will foster Black artistic expression, preserve

tribes, and countless nations, NAAF funding supports

cultural heritage, and promote community

grantmaking to organizations that emphasize the

development for generations to come.

commitment to Native core values: community,

Noteworthy | Donations made in 2023 will help

language, culture, and environment.

Noteworthy | In 2023, NAAF celebrates 30 years. It

seed the fund’s permanent endowment, which will grow over time and serve Black New Mexicans in

was originally founded in 1993 with a seed gift from

perpetuity. An inaugural round of grants will be made

the late Allan Houser, renowned artist and teacher. To

to celebrate Juneteenth in 2024.

date, the fund has granted over $825,000 to over 180 initiatives.

Dollars4Schools

Envision Fund

santafecf.org/education

santafecf.org/lgbtq

Mission | To promote the health, safety, and empowerment of at-risk and underserved LGBTQ+ New Mexicans.

Proposal | We seek funding to support organizations that are working toward creating an HIV-free generation in New Mexico; combating discrimination against LGBTQ+ people in whatever form (such as employment, housing, immigration, access to health services, etc.); supporting school-based programs that create a safe environment for all students; and promoting holistic reproductive health and gender-affirming health care by ensuring access to comprehensive sexuality education, voluntary contraception, abortion care, and other reproductive/ sexual health services.

Noteworthy | Established in 1997, the Envision Fund is the first and largest endowment dedicated solely to LGBTQ+ causes in New Mexico.

Mission | Dollars4Schools is 100% committed to student success and classroom support. Our unique grassroots structure provides Santa Fe public school teachers with a local web-based “helping hand.”

Proposal | With your support, Dollars4Schools will be prepared to meet the requests of Santa Fe’s publicschool teachers — ensuring they have what they need for their students and their classrooms. From books and math tools to science kits, school supplies, and warm winter coats, Dollars4Schools is a trusted local resource for student success. 100% of every dollar donated to Dollars4Schools goes directly into a Santa Fe classroom.

Noteworthy | One Santa Fe Public Schools teacher said, “I have partnered with Dollars4Schools for years, and each year I am reminded how grateful I am to have access to such a wonderful program... Through projects funded by Dollars4Schools, I have been able to provide new resources in my classroom such as flexible seating, math manipulatives, new library books, and even buses for field trips to take our learning outside the classroom!”

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Santa Fe Baby Fund

Learning Hub

santafecf.org/early-childhood

santafecf.org/learning-hub

Mission | To promote the healthy development

Mission | Our Learning Hub is an educational

of our region’s babies and toddlers, prenatal

gathering place for the nonprofit sector. We partner

through age four, and raise awareness of the critical

with local facilitators to support skill building, peer

importance of investing in early childhood for the

connection, leadership development, and ecosystem

benefit of our community.

strength. We are committed to fostering equity

Proposal | The Santa Fe Baby Fund has served our

through this work.

region’s youngest and most vulnerable neighbors

Proposal | Funding supports our annual work

for over 10 years. Its programs and activities include

providing learning opportunities that address

annual competitive grantmaking, awareness raising,

nonprofit board responsibilities, finance,

and advocacy work on early childhood issues and

communication, fundraising, program delivery,

resources to connect families of young children to

and leadership skills. Programs include the BIPOC

early childhood programs and services.

Leaders Growing Nonprofit Power Together,

Noteworthy | For every $1 invested in high

Executive Director Learning Circle, Fundraising

quality early childhood programs, there are $4 to $9 in returns over that person’s lifetime. Last year, the Santa Fe Baby Fund granted $45,000 to

Immersion, Nonprofit Board Fundamentals, Racial Healing & Renewal, and support for Women of Color nonprofit leaders.

organizations that increase access to high quality,

Noteworthy | “Sending you heartfelt gratitude for

affordable infant and toddler care; support the early

the BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Color)

childhoodworkforce; improve access to reproductive

Leadership series. One of the best offerings the

health services for adolescents and young adults;

Foundation has ever made to its community. You’ve

support young parents and theirinfants and toddlers;

given us a chance to speak honestly in community

and/or support grandparents or other non-parent kin

and collaborate. And you are helping those that

raising infants and toddlers.

historically have been underserved.”– 2023 Learning Hub participant.

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Fund for Refugees & Asylum Seekers

S3 Housing Fund s3santafe.org

santafecf.org

Mission | We aim to protect and provide safe, stable, Mission | To support a diverse array of responses to refugee needs.

Proposal | Needs the fund will address include, but are not limited to, transportation for affected persons toward permanent housing and/or settlement; basic services for affected populations including medical and behavioral healthcare, food access, and employment support services; andlegal advice and representation of affected populations.

Noteworthy | Opened in 2019 in partnership with the City of Santa Fe, the Fund’s grants have supported refugee and asylee work in Santa Fe and on the New Mexico border. Populations served represent individuals and families, including LGBTQ-identifying people, from a wide refugee diaspora.

Nonprofit Merger Fund santafecf.org/funds/nonprofit-merger-fund

Mission | To support area nonprofits that are considering a merger.

Proposal | The merger process can be very expensive due to attorney fees, due diligence, etc. Contributions to this fund will allow us to make grants in support of the merger process.

Noteworthy | In Santa Fe County alone, there are over 850 nonprofits registered as 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations. While the number of nonprofits, per se, does not tell us anything about their effectiveness or redundancy, there are certainly instances where some nonprofits may be able to find strength and greater effectiveness by joining forces with like organizations.

and supportive housing for our most vulnerable residents, as well as affordable housing for all community members.

Proposal | The S3 Housing Fund provides grant support to nonprofits advancing the aims of the S3 Santa Fe Housing Initiative, a collaborative effort between local governments and philanthropic organizations including Anchorum St. Vincent, Santa Fe Community Foundation, Thornburg Foundation, City of Santa Fe, Santa Fe County, and the New Mexico Coalition to End Homeless.

Noteworthy | We have helped the city and county re-launch the “Built for Zero” model, a data-informed framework, to address homelessness in Santa Fe. The fund has also incorporated the six goals adopted by the City and County of Santa Fe in a joint resolution to collaborate on homelessness and uses these goals to guide funding decisions.

Special and Urgent Needs (SUN) Grants santafecf.org

Mission | We created quick turnaround SUN grants to address the short-term needs of nonprofits. With a relatively small amount of funding, SUN grants help an organization take advantage of an unbudgeted, unforeseen, and time-sensitive opportunity or emergency that will enhance or preserve the ability of the organization to meet its mission.

Proposal | Funds further our support for nonprofits who apply for funding in times of critical and unforeseen situations.

Noteworthy | Given the very small size of this pool of funds and the overwhelming need in this area, we do not have the capacity to consider requests for operating expenses due to budget deficits or shortfalls.

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NATI VE AMER I C A N A DV I S E D F U N D

Native American Advised Fund In 1993, Allan Houser (Chiricahua Fort Sill Apache), a humanitarian and one of the world’s great artists, established the Native American Advised Fund at the Santa Fe Community Foundation. His vision was simple: to enhance Native lifeways now and for future generations in New Mexico by promoting a spirit of sharing and supporting community initiatives.

Today, Allan’s legacy lives on through the Native American Advised Fund, which continues to be led by an all-Native advisory committee whose members reflect the diversity of New Mexico’s 23 pueblos and tribes, and countless nations.

The Native American Advised Fund welcomed proposals from Indigenousserving organizations across the state that emphasize a commitment to the Native core values of community, language, culture, and environment.

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NAT I VE A MERI CA N A DVI SED FUND

Axle Projects, Inc. axleprojects.org

Noteworthy | College Horizons was founded in 1998 at the Native American Preparatory School in New Mexico and has served over 4,000 Indigenous students nationwide. Our student impact includes:

Mission | Axle Projects fosters awareness and appreciation of New Mexico arts and culture by means of exhibitions, public presentations, print media, and other activities open to the public. In the Axle Contemporary mobile exhibition space, we present art from New Mexico via innovative outreach.

We intersect disciplines, and encourage and promote experimental and creative approaches to art-making and presentation. We are based in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Proposal | Axle Projects engages the broad

99% graduate from high school, 95% matriculate to college/university, and 85% graduate from college in four to six years. In addition, CH has provided professional development training to 1,000 college admission officers (from 100 colleges), high school counselors, and Tribal educators.

Film Prize Foundation filmprizenm.com

community of New Mexico with free, accessible

Mission | To promote economic development,

programs in the arts, including exhibitions,

workforce development, youth job training, and art-

performances, discussions, and social engagement

based and entrepreneurial business development

projects. Programs originate from diverse

through film production, education, live and

contemporary New Mexico based artists and take

recorded music events, conferences, competitions,

form in the Axle Contemporary Mobile Artspace.

and festivals.

Collaborations with other organizations are frequent.

Proposal | We seek to fund the expansion of a

Noteworthy | According to LaPlaca Cohen’s

successful internship pilot in partnership with the

Culture Track survey, respondents’ motivators for

Institute of American Indian Arts, supporting Native

cultural participation include “Experiencing New

middle and high school students to create short

Things” (76%), “Learning Something New” (71%), and

films for the Film Prize Jr NM statewide film festival

“Connecting to my Community” (56%). Our projects

program.

respond to all three of these motivators.

College Horizons, Inc. collegecareerplaza.org

Noteworthy | According to the National Indian Education Association, New Mexico ranks 5th in states with the largest proportion (10.3%) of American Indian/Alaska Native students in public-schools (niea. org). This means there are immediate advantages for bringing unique media and film programs into

Mission | To encourage and facilitate the higher education of Native American young people.

schools to help capture and preserve the language, culture and heritage of Tribal students.

Proposal | College Horizons (CH) prepares, celebrates, and empowers Native American, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian youth to pursue higher education by providing culturally sustaining college advising programs that contributes to community Nation Building.

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Georgia O’Keeffe Museum

IndigenousWays

okeeffemuseum.org

indigenousways.org

Mission | The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum celebrates

Mission | Bridging cultural exchange with people

the art, life, and independent spirit of Georgia

globally. IndigenousWays promotes living in

O’Keeffe.

balance for diverse communities through music,

Proposal | Inspired by Georgia O’Keeffe’s remarkable

arts, outreach and events. Our vision is to reach

story, the Museum champions creativity and lifelong learning for local, national, and global audiences, providing moments of inspiration, joy, and connection. Each year, more than 200,000 people

Indigenous & LGBTQIA2S+ communities through outreach with music, the arts, and Indigenous Wisdom that creates and enhances survival and sustainability.

experience the O’Keeffe through exhibitions and

Proposal | We support and showcase Native

programs that place the artist in the greater contexts

American Indigenous, LGBTQIA2S+, and Deaf and

of humanities, history, and place, including the

Hard of Hearing (D/HH) artists, scholars, musicians,

diverse landscapes of northern New Mexico.

storytellers, elder knowledge bearers, and other

Noteworthy | The O’Keeffe is committed to engaging

cultural practitioners to enhance quality and visibility

community members in northern New Mexico through lifelong learning programs. Our new Art to G.O. mobile creativity studio travels throughout the state, providing 100 art-making events in partnership with schools and organizations. More than 2,000

for mainstream audiences and varied educational institutions though our online monthly Wisdom Circle series. Our goal is to preserve and revitalize cultural and historical knowledge as well as initiate intergenerational conversations with audiences.

K-12 students visit the O’Keeffe on field trips. The

Noteworthy | In 2014, unemployment rates for

Art & Leadership Program provides a summer of

American Indians/Alaska Natives (AI/AN) nationally

hands-on learning for middle school students, and

stood at 11.3%. The poverty rate among AI/ANs in

free monthly Family Fun Days offer ways to make art

2014 was 28.8%. Suicide is the second leading cause

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of death. Our monthly IndigenousWays Wisdom Circle program highlights and supports Native American Indigenous, 2S, and D/HH presenters and creates relevant expressions to work toward creative solutions, and promotes healing and social justice to enrich all others to be a part of our ways of being through the arts and humanities.

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Lightning Boy Foundation Inc.

Mesa Prieta Petroglyph Project

lightningboyfoundation.com

mesaprietapetroglyphs.org

Mission | To nurture and empower our Native Youth

Mission | The Mesa Prieta Petroglyph Project (MPPP)

through traditional and cultural programming. The

is a project to protect a place. MPPP is exclusively

Lightning Boy Foundation is dedicated to building

organized for charitable and educational purposes,

confidence and integrity in youth through culture

including the protection and preservation of

and artistic expression. Based in northern New

archaeological features and the environment and

Mexico, we provide Native American hoop dance

cultural landscape of the Mesa Prieta region of the

instruction and other artistic initiatives to youth ages

northern Rio Grande Valley through documentation,

two and up.

education, outreach, and promotion of heritage

Proposal | Donations support our culturally-based

stewardship.

programming. Our main vehicle for empowering

Proposal | Mesa Prieta or Tsikwaye is a 12-mile-long

our Native youth is our weekly Native American

basalt escarpment in the Velarde area that includes

Hoop Dance instruction and practice. The Hoop

well over a 100,000 petroglyphs and archaeological

Dance, traditionally based on the ancient healing

features that date back thousands of years. We are

ceremonies, reflects the “Circle of Life.” Today’s

seeking funds to support the 2024 Summer Youth

contemporary Hoop Dance celebrates the beauty

Program participant stipends, associated costs of

of Mother Nature and all the gifts she provides on a

materials, and transportation. Working with Native

daily basis. It reminds our youth of the Indigenous

students through outdoor education and STEM

Knowledge and philosophy of living in harmony with

focused activities will lead to better stewardship and

our environment.

protection of cultural sites.

Noteworthy | When we first started programming in

Noteworthy | Mesa Prieta is on the National Register

2017, there were few Native American Hoop Dancers

of Historic Places, the State Register of Cultural

in New Mexico although the origin of the Native

Properties and our work continues to keep the

American Hoop Dance is believed to originate in the

site protected in perpetuity. Our continuous need

Pueblos of northern New Mexico. Due to government

is to fulfill our mission by recording the 140,000+

policies restricting language, dance, and culture of

petroglyphs and other archaeological features at

the past, this dance was lost for multiple generations.

Mesa Prieta.

Due to the work we have invested over the last decade, we now have over 50 young Native Hoop Dancers. We recently sponsored our 2nd Annual Youth Hoop Dance event.

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National Indian Youth Leadership Development Project, Inc.

Native Forward Scholars Fund nativeforward.org

projectventure.org

Mission | We provide financial support for American Mission | The National Indian Youth Leadership Project (NIYLP) is an Indigenous-led nonprofit with the mission to support Indigenous youth to develop healthy lifestyles and positive relationships with the natural world, to achieve their full potential, and to become leaders in their communities. NIYLP envisions a world with generations of healthy, capable, caring, resilient Indigenous youth, who by reclaiming their history, culture, and traditions, are making positive contributions to the world.

Proposal | NIYLP’s evidence-based positive youth development program Project Venture has been adapted for suicide prevention, substance-abuse prevention, and much more. Among our current work is Project Radical Hope, which addresses mental and behavioral health challenges by incorporating culturally appropriate mindfulness practices into Project Venture and convenes a Community Collaborative Committee to address local, rural systemic barriers to mental/behavioral health access for Indigenous youth and families.

Noteworthy | A ProPublica analysis exposed GallupMcKinley County Schools (GMCS) as expelling Indigenous students from school far more often than any other group, and at least four times as often as White students. GMCS students faced 735 disciplinary incidents involving law enforcement — a rate nearly four times as high as the rest of the state.

It appears that rather than refer troubled Indigenous students to mental/behavioral health services, GMCS relegated them to the school to prison pipeline.

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Indians and Alaska Natives seeking higher education and support them in obtaining undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees. We partner with Tribes, the federal government, foundations, corporations, and individuals to ensure the growth and sustainability of scholarships.

Proposal | Native Forward intends to use the requested funding to continue to build capacity, streamline best practices, and increase impact in advocacy efforts for postsecondary Native scholars.

Awarded funding will be designated toward efforts executing year three of our strategic plan focusing heavily on growing and scaling best practices in student support, programming, increasing visibility in higher Native education, and building Native Forwards capacity to impact more Native scholars nationwide.

Noteworthy | In order to better meet the need of our growing applicant pool which increased by 24% from 2021 to 2022, it is imperative that we continuously increase our capacity to meet the needs of our students and develop intentionally-focused programs and support. Such an increase falls in line with our commitment to push the current trend of a rise in Native students 25 and older who attain a bachelor’s degree which is currently at 15.4% but still much lower than the national rate of 32.9%.

NAT I VE A MERI CA N A DVI SED FUND

photo: allan houser, courtesy emily haozous

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New Mexico Kids Matter Inc.

Nizhoni Smiles, Inc.

nmkidsmatter.org

nizhonismiles.com

Mission | New Mexico Kids Matter advocates for

Mission | As the only nonprofit dental program

abused and neglected children in the foster care

on the Navajo Nation, Nizhoni Smiles, Inc. seeks

system by working on behalf of their best interests

to increase access to affordable and quality dental

and speaking up for them in the courts, schools,

care including preventive and rehabilitative services

and our communities. We empower community

in a rural area of New Mexico. In addition, our goal

volunteers to work as Court Appointed Special

is to help improve the dental health of the local

Advocates (CASAs) to ensure that foster children

community and surrounding areas by providing

are safe, get the services and support they need

much-needed training and by empowering

to overcome the trauma they have experienced so

community members.

they can thrive as they grow, and can achieve safe

Proposal | We seek funding to help increase and

permanent homes.

Proposal | We are requesting support for our

improve treatment and prevention of oral disease among vulnerable and underserved populations.

advocacy project on behalf of Native American

In New Mexico, there is a significant shortage of

children in foster care in New Mexico. The goal of

dental professionals.The program provides dental

this work is to achieve better outcomes for children,

services regardless of race, age or income. However,

families, and tribes when Native American children

the majority of the patients seen are American

are in the foster care system.

Indian and, according to the most recent IHS

Noteworthy | Native American children have

survey, American Indian children and adults suffer

historically been separated from their parents, extended families, and communities by state child

disproportionately from dental disease compared to the rest of the U.S. population.

welfare agencies. Studies show that Native American

Noteworthy | Shiprock, New Mexico has a population

children in foster care, disconnected from their

of 8,452. 95% are Native American and Native

family and culture, are at high risk for behavioral and

Americans have three to five times more decayed

mental health problems. To address these issues, we

teeth, across all ages, and twice as much gum

provide advocacy services focused specifically on the

disease in adults compared to the rest of the

needs of Native American foster children and the

U.S. population, according to the most recent

requirements of the Federal Indian Child Welfare Act

Indian Health Service Survey (2022). Furthermore,

(ICWA).

the COVID-19 pandemic stressed an already overburdened IHS, tribal and urban dental care delivery system. This has resulted in an overwhelming unmet need.

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Notah Begay III Foundation, Inc.

River Source Inc.

nb3foundation.org

riversource.net

Mission | Founded in 2005, the Notah Begay III (NB3)

Mission | River Source supports people advancing

Foundation’s mission is to ensure Native children

watershed stewardship to create significant

achieve their full potential by advancing cultures of

community engagement and long-lasting impacts

Native American community health.

for intergenerational learning and ecological

Proposal | This funding request is to support the first

restoration. We provide science and policy education

two years of an NB3 Foundation Native American Youth Council. This council is being developed to inform stakeholders about community health concerns and to help propose health related policy changes from a youth lens and perspective. Native youth are the future of change for their communities

and the building of watershed and climate resilience in New Mexico. Our goal is to be weavers, bringing together elders, youth, and land managers to spark action for caring for our water, forests, and land and leveraging the full potential of people working together.

and their voices are crucial and critical to impacting

Proposal | River Source turns community

social construct and developing advocacy for

watersheds into outdoor classrooms by creating

systemic change regarding Native youth health.

learning experiences and job pathways for people

Noteworthy | Native American peoples are some

in ecological restoration, water protection, and

of the most studied peoples around the globe but, in most cases, research and evaluation studies are extractive and predatory and perpetuate false narratives that frame Native life and communities through a deficient-based lens. The NB3 Foundation is working to change that narrative by returning

environmental protection. River Source uplifts the value of curiosity with the natural world, intergenerational learning and storytelling, and connects traditional ecological knowledge with contemporary science and technology to build capacity, rather than dependence on our services.

community assessments back to the communities

Noteworthy | A survey of 10,000 young people (16-25

who best understand what is true for them. A lens

years old) in 10 countries found that 45% said their

that will help perpetrate this voice stems from a

feelings about climate change negatively affect

youthful perspective.

their daily life and functioning, and over 50% felt sad, anxious, angry, powerless, helpless, and guilty (September 2021). Our work addresses this issue.

We know that hands-on learning in the fields of ecological monitoring, restoration, and service for healing the planet creates a reciprocal benefit for restoration of people’s health plus the environment.

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Silver Bullet Productions silverbulletproductions.com

Society of American Indian Dentists theSAIDonline.org

Mission | Silver Bullet Productions (SBP) is an educational nonprofit that uses film as a vehicle for change in Native American communities by empowering Native youth to create films that reflect their culture and heritage, and by producing documentary films with authentic Indigenous voices.

Proposal | SBP is seeking support for our documentary, working title “Resistance & Resilience, The Pueblo Story.” A multidimensional educational project, it includes student filmmaking workshops and a network documentary film. Conflict, transitions, and survival of the Pueblo people from the 1540’s to the second Pueblo revolt will be told by Pueblo historians and modern tribal leaders. It is the story of courage, perseverance, resilience and survival in spite of nation building and colonization.

Noteworthy | The impact of one film, aired on PBS national and local, is difficult to measure. This film will include the little-known history of thriving pueblos from six pueblos in the Tiguex War, Zuni, Acoma, Jemez, Taos, Picuris, and Hopi communities.

Although all of SBP production team members are volunteers, it will employ Native American interns, above the line production and cameramen. It will be shared with each pueblo, screened statewide, and provided to educational institutions in the U.S.

Mission | The Society of American Indian Dentists (SAID) is a national nonprofit of oral health professionals and students dedicated to promoting and improving the oral health of the American Indian/Alaskan Native community and providing advocacy for the American Indian/Alaskan Native dental professionals across the U.S.

Proposal | SAID sponsors a dental screening at the Gathering of Nations Pow Wow (GON) each year in Albuquerque. Our dentists provide screenings for children 0-18 years of age, along with oral health education. SAID collaborates on this project with Indian Health Service, the New Mexico Dental Association Foundation, Native American Professional Parent Resources, Colgate-Palmolive, BC/BS NM, and the Santa Fe Community Foundation (we were a 2022 recipient of Native American Advised Fund grant).

Noteworthy | Profound oral health disparities between American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/ AN) and non-AI/AN populations have long been noted. In fact, AI/AN children are almost three times more likely to have early childhood caries than white children (www.IHS.gov). There are many factors that contribute to such high levels of oral disease, but among them are inadequate access to dental care and dental professional shortages.

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Southwestern Association for Indian Arts, Inc. dba SWAIA swaia.org

Mission | To bring Native arts to the world by inspiring artistic excellence, fostering education, and creating meaningful partnerships.

Proposal | Our grant request is aimed at securing

Trees, Water & People treeswaterpeople.org

Mission | To improve people’s lives by helping communities protect, conserve, and manage the natural resources upon which their long-term wellbeing depends.

Proposal | Founded in 1998, Trees, Water & People (TWP) invests in helping rural, Indigenous communities in Central America and on U.S. Tribal

crucial general operating funds, which are vital for

Lands to preserve and protect their natural resources.

the sustainability and enhancement of SWAIA’s

TWP is actively partnering with New Mexico-based

programs that nurture Native American artists and

Tribal Nations on post-wildfire restoration and

facilitate meaningful cultural exchange.

collaboration. Building Tribal capacity, advancing

Noteworthy | SWAIA proudly represents a network

equity, and implementing on-the-ground projects

of over 1,000 artists from more than 150 tribal nations. Approximately half of our artists live and work in New Mexico. This statistic underscores our

are all key objectives to support communities’ climate resiliency and recovery in the Jemez Mountains.

robust commitment to not only showcasing diverse

Noteworthy | Indigenous peoples make up less

talents but also actively supporting our local artistic

than 5% of the world population, but they manage

community.

or hold tenure over 25% of the world’s land surface, and support about 80% of the global biodiversity.

TWP’s New Mexico staff are Pueblo community members who understand the needs for Pueblo-led conservation and equity that integrates traditional ecological knowledge systems. TWP seeks to empower Pueblo communities to manage their own conservation, restoration, reforestation, and climate change adaptation.

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Envision Fund The Envision Fund of the Santa Fe Community Foundation is the first and largest philanthropic entity in New Mexico dedicated solely to LGBTQ+ causes. Since 1997, Envision has proudly promoted the health, safety, and empowerment of at-risk and underserved LGBTQ+ New Mexicans through its grantmaking, advocacy, and community convening.

The Envision Fund has established four priority areas for funding: •

Creating an HIV-free generation in New Mexico;

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Combatting discrimination against LGBTQ+ people in whatever form (such as employment, housing, immigration, access to health services, etc.);

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Supporting school-based programs that create a safe environment for all students, including LGBTQ+ students; and

•

Promoting holistic reproductive health and gender-affirming healthcare by ensuring access to comprehensive sexuality education, voluntary contraception, abortion care, and other reproductive/sexual health services.

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Bueno Para Todos

Drag Story Hour

instagram.com/buenoparatodosfarm

dragstoryhour.org

Mission | To support land-based healing in northern

Mission | Drag Story Hour celebrates reading

New Mexico for queer communities, Indigenous

through the glamorous art of drag! Our chapter

communities, communities of color, and all people

network creates diverse, accessible, and culturally-

in need of welcoming, decolonial, intersectional, and

inclusive family programming where kids can

accessible land-based healing.

express their authentic selves and become bright

Proposal | As Queer and Trans People of Color

lights of change in their communities. We envision

(QTPOC) communities in northern New Mexico face widespread behavioral health issues, discrimination in the healthcare system, and a lack of relevant care, Bueno Para Todos is provides facilitation, education

a world where kids can learn from LGBTQ+ stories and experiences to love themselves, celebrate the fabulous diversity in their communities, and stand up for what they believe in.

about herbal medicines, and hosting space for

Proposal | Drag Story Hour’s LaLa Land Back Tour

indigenous-led land-based healing as a path to

launches in three locations across New Mexico,

wellness and health sovereignty. This funding will

bringing queer and Native programming to

allow us to build infrastructure that will increase

audiences of all ages! The LaLa Land Back Tour

our capacity to host QTPOC land-based healing

presents two events in one package — Indigenous

programs.

Drag Story Hour, which emphasizes Native language

Noteworthy | Almost a quarter of LGBTQ+ people

and culture, inclusive picture books, and pre-literacy

avoid medical care for fear of gender discrimination.

This is a well-founded fear — about a third of those who do seek mainstream care face gender-based

skills for school-aged children and their families, and the powerful Indigenous Variety Show. Both are hosted by Storytellers Landa Lakes and Lady Shug.

discrimination and harassment and almost 20% are

Noteworthy | The Trevor Project’s “2023 U.S. National

denied care especially when they are people of color.

Survey on the Mental Health of LGBTQ Young

While anti-discrimination work within mainstream

People” indicates that a higher percentage (22%) of

care is necessary and ongoing, alternative behavioral

Indigenous LGBTQ teens attempt suicide compared

healing opportunities are urgent.

to their white peers (11%); furthermore, “LGBTQ young people who had access to affirming homes, schools, community events, and online spaces reported lower rates of attempting suicide compared to those who did not.” Programs like Drag Story Hour that uplift Indigenous and queer families are vital and lifesaving.

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Justice, Access, Support and Solutions for Health: Casa de Salud

New Mexico AIDS Services nmas.net

casadesaludnm.org

Mission | New Mexico AIDS Services is a nonprofit Mission | Casa de Salud is a permanent project of Justice, Access, Support and Solutions for Health.

Casa de Salud’s mission is to interweave traditional and conventional medicines to meet the physical and spiritual health needs of its patients in a welcoming, just, creative, and inclusive environment; to provide fair priced health care to anyone in need; and to promote a learning and leadership development environment for practitioners, staff,

organization that advocates for and enhances the lives of people living with HIV and AIDS. We provide direct services such as housing and food for people with HIV/AIDS as well as prevention, education, and advocacy to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS in the community, especially with high-risk populations.

Proposal | Funds will be used to buy food for our food pantry that gives out food weekly to those living with HIV.

volunteers, and patients.

Noteworthy | We give, on average, 25 lbs of food

Proposal | Casa de Salud is a nonprofit integrative

to each client who visits the pantry. Many clients

clinic in Albuquerque. Casa provides affordable primary care, queer, and trans healthcare, and addictions care in central New Mexico. We embrace a holistic approach. Using a wide range

come every week and receive the majority of their household food from this pantry. 87% of our pantry clients identify as LGBTQ+.

Mexico, and advocate for health system change. We

New Mexico Community AIDS Partnership/SRIC

aim to significantly expand our capacity to support

nmaidspartnership.org

of conventional, natural, and traditional medicines, we train the future healthcare workforce of New

queer, trans, and gender-nonconforming community members with dignified high-quality healthcare.

Noteworthy | 75% of our patients are uninsured and do not have access to affordable healthcare.

Among those who are insured, such as many of our queer and transgender patients, there are significant struggles finding culturally-humble clinicians and queer/trans competent healthcare. Our patients trust our care at Casa, and come from all over the state and beyond. We have provided gender-affirming hormone therapy for 19 years. This year we are significantly expanding our capacity and training four new providers.

Mission | New Mexico Community AIDS Partnership (NMCAP) works to build a world in which Sexual and Gender Minorities (SGM) and all Americans have access to supportive, high-quality health care and behavioral health services, and no group finds their access to care or quality of life reduced by stigma or discrimination. We focus on responses to the disparities affecting SGM and partner with groups who target intersecting populations, working toward an ultimate goal of equity for all.

Proposal | NMCAP seeks support for a two-day professional training on the provision of genderaffirming care. The training will provide the basic knowledge required for the provision of medical and behavioral healthcare to transgender and nonbinary patients along with information on resources for working with this population. This training will increase access to quality care for transgender and nonbinary people in New Mexico by increasing the

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number of providers prepared to care for them.

Noteworthy | In New Mexico, 44% of transgender people who saw a health care provider in the

New Mexico Legal Aid, Inc. newmexicolegalaid.org

past year reported having at least one negative experience related to being transgender. This

Mission | To be the voice, defender, and advocate

included being refused treatment, verbally harassed,

for poor people who are seeking justice in all forums,

physically or sexually assaulted, or having to teach

particularly in the communities in which they live.

the provider about transgender people in order to

NMLA is committed to helping poor people in their

get appropriate care (USTransSurvey.org).

struggle to access food, shelter, security, and to preserve their unique cultural heritages.

New Mexico Gay Men’s Chorus nmgmc.org

Proposal | New Mexico Legal Aid seeks funding to support the Safe2BU project, which provides free civil legal services to LGBTQ+ victims of discrimination and violence statewide. Legal aid improves well-

Mission | To reduce homophobia and intolerance and create a positive image of the LGBTQ+ community through high-quality, public musical performances. We strive to be an empowering voice for the LGBTQ+ community and to enrich our greater New Mexican community through choral excellence.

We believe that our strength grows as we add voice

being of the LGBTQ+ community by increasing the safety of domestic violence victims, improving housing stability by preventing eviction and housing discrimination, increasing financial well-being through fighting employment discrimination and helping with access to benefits, and safeguarding civil rights.

to voice, and that understanding between people of

Noteworthy | More than a third of LGBTQ+

diverse cultures and orientations blossoms each time

individuals have been victims of crime, including

we present our musical offerings.

physical or sexual assault; more than half have

Proposal | Now in our 43rd season, the New

experienced threats of violence; approximately three

Mexico Gay Men’s Chorus continues to expand our involvement in northern New Mexico by presenting a full season of performance at the Lensic Theatre and continuing outreach throughout the state.

These concerts, along with our outreach events,

out of four have been verbally abused. Employment and housing discrimination, especially among transgender individuals, has resulted in increased housing instability, higher unemployment, and lower income levels for LGTBTQ+ individuals.

provide more opportunities to engage students, arts, LGBTQIA+ and at-risk communities and share our message of acceptance, inclusion, equality and empowerment.

Noteworthy | 92% of LGBTQ+ youth say they hear negative messages about being LGBTQ+, mostly in school, the internet, and from their peers.

Government is cutting back on support for LGBTQ+ rights and arts. By increasing our involvement, we hope to increase understanding between people and foster growth in performing arts.

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New Mexico State University Foundation

NMOBA Fund nmoba.org

nmsufoundation.org

Mission | The New Mexico OUT Business Alliance Mission | The New Mexico State University (NMSU) Foundation fosters philanthropy that serves and assists New Mexico State University in becoming a pre-eminent university. LGBTQ+ Programs is committed to the wellness and success of all students, faculty, and staff in their expression of gender and sexuality at NMSU. We provide advocacy, resources, education, and programming to the college community and beyond.

Proposal | We will provide meaningful employment and academic opportunity to LGBTQ+ graduate and undergraduate students. This grant will increase access to safe and affirming space in the evenings, by supporting necessary staffing. Student workers will also support research being done to identify discrimination and barriers for LGBTQ+ people and have an opportunity to pose solutions. This opportunity will provide a valuable experience in activism through service to the NMSU and statewide LGBTQ+ community.

Noteworthy | Our program serves more than 2,500 LGBTQ+ people facing significant barriers and discrimination. A 2023 Williams Institute and NORC survey found that 16-29% of Americans believe that businesses, doctors, and employers should be able to discriminate against LGBTQ+ people based on religion. Additionally, the 2022 LGBTQI+ Economic and Financial Survey indicated that 13% of LGBTQ+ participants were unemployed vs. a national unemployment rate of 3.5%.

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(NMOBA), 501(c)(6), promotes professional development and educational opportunities for its members. Providing critical training and mentorship for entrepreneurs, NMOBA advances LGBTQ+ and allied businesses through knowledge, leadership, and support. The NMOBA Fund, a 501(c)(3) sister organization to NMOBA, extends NMOBA’s activities beyond the membership to serve the larger LGBTQ+ population in New Mexico, raising funds that benefit non-member businesses.

Proposal | NMOBA is interested in bolstering economic growth in New Mexico by establishing a comprehensive, trusted website for out of town and out of state visitors. The travel site would be directed at those seeking LGBTQ+-friendly businesses. A travel-focused website will provide reliable resources and information about welcoming spaces for LGBTQ+ individuals. The site would be affiliated with NMOBA and would serve LGBTQ+ visitors to metropolitan and rural areas across New Mexico.

Noteworthy | The International LGBTQ+ Travel Association states that 69% of LGBTQ+ tourists want to support LGBTQ+ communities and 72% want to support LGBTQ+-owned businesses while traveling.

Increasingly restrictive measures across the nation indicate a crucial need for accessible information directed at LGBTQ+ travelers. Those seeking LGBTQ+ friendly hotels, tours, and entertainment in NM would look to our travel site, which will utilize our access to LGBTQ+ small business owners, as a reliable resource.

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Office of Student Wellness, Santa Fe Public Schools sfps.info/page/safe-zones

Mission | The Safe Zones Program at Santa Fe Public Schools (SFPS) is a district-wide program designed to create more welcoming, inclusive, and

Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood Inc. dba Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains pprm.org

affirming environments by identifying and training

Mission | Planned Parenthood of the Rocky

staff to provide extra support for students, especially

Mountains provides education, advocacy, and

those who are dealing with bullying, harassment,

patient-centered sexual and reproductive healthcare,

discrimination, bias, inequity, and/or other issues.

including abortion care.

Safe Zones Partners are a network of trained,

Proposal | As Planned Parenthood of the Rocky

committed, and non-judgmental counselors, nurses, and volunteer teachers and staff at K-12 SFPS schools.

Proposal | The Santa Fe Safe Zones Program at

Mountains-New Mexico (PPRM-NM) faces new pressures on our capacity in the face of nationwide threats to sexual and reproductive rights — including

Santa Fe Public Schools is a district-wide program

LGBTQ+ inclusive and gender-affirming care —

that trains school staff to understand and respond

support for our health care services will be more

to issues and needs of all students, especially those

important than ever before. We remain steadfast

most marginalized (LGBTQ+, students of color, have

in our efforts to pave the way for a future where all

a disability, are undocumented, etc). Support for

people have sustained access to comprehensive

transgender and non-binary students is provided

reproductive and sexual health care, education, and

through the Gender Support Process for the student

information.

and/or family and as well as district wide and individual administrator trainings.

Noteworthy | Students whose identities are

Noteworthy | The Guttmacher Institute reports that LGBTQ+ people face greater sexual and reproductive health disparities and poorer health outcomes than

marginalized suffer disproportionately from negative

the population overall due to compounding barriers

health and psychosocial outcomes, including low

to care, including discrimination and fragmentation

self-esteem, self-harm, depression, suicide, substance

of health care services. These experiences are

use, and harsher punishments. According to the 2021

amplified among patients with other marginalized

NM YRRS, sexual minority (lesbian, gay, and bisexual)

identities; research from the Center for Health

and gender minority (transgender and gender

Progress shows more than 68% of transgender

fluid) youth experienced significantly higher rates of

people of color reported mistreatment by a health

persistent sadness or hopelessness (1.8 times higher

care provider.

for both), suicide attempts (3.4 times for sexual minority and 3.7 times for gender minority), and being bullied at school (about 2 times for both).

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Santa Fe Portalfest

Singing Out Las Cruces

santafeportalfest.com

singingoutlascruces.org

Mission | Santa Fe Portalfest celebrates emerging

Mission | Singing Out Las Cruces (SOLC) is a mixed

local musicians and artists through vibrant, queer-

voice, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and

organized events that transform portales into

allies/friends nonprofit that performs choral works

stages across a neighborhood. Portalfest nurtures

for the appreciation, inspiration, and education of

community through supporting emerging

our community. SOLC is an active member of GALA

performers enhance their careers, centering diverse

Choruses.

voices on stage, and prioritizing accessibility at free,

Proposal | For over 10 years, SOLC, New Mexico’s first

interdependent performances.

Proposal | Santa Fe Portalfest seeks funding to

vision of respect and inclusivity through music. We

expand upon the success of our annual summer

are seeking additional financial support to continue

daytime porch music festival. Portalfest will host

to serve and to expand services to the LGBTQ+

year-round events highlighting the talent of local

community in the underserved Las Cruces and

LGBTQIA+ musicians and artists, expand the “gear

greater Southern New Mexico region.

share” library that lends equipment to emerging

Noteworthy | This year at Santa Fe Portalfest’s

performers who do not otherwise have access to that gear, initiate regular free performer workshops covering various topics, and publish a LGBTQIA+ artist directory to promote the services and talents of our community.

Noteworthy | This year at Santa Fe Portalfest’s annual summertime festival, 69% of art vendors and 59% of performers identified as LGBTQIA+.

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LGBTQ+ mixed voice choir, has advanced a powerful

annual summertime festival, 69% of art vendors and 59% of performers identified as LGBTQIA+.

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True Kids 1 truekids1.org

University of New Mexico TREE Center unmfund.org

Mission | To inspire K-12 students to create, communicate, and collaborate in the digital age.

Proposal | Queerious is a flagship after-school program offered by the Taos-based youth mediaand-technology nonprofit True Kids 1. In this safe space, LGBTQIA+ teens (or even those simply curious or confused by sexuality or identity) gather to talk, share, and ultimately tell stories in digital media, whether in film, music, podcasts, digital animation and illustration, or photography. As the only LGBTQIA+ program for teens in the region, we seek funding to take the program to a significant scale.

Noteworthy | In Taos County, there is only one afterschool program dedicated to supporting teenagers who identify as LGBTQIA+: Queerious. Beyond a 30-minute, once-a-week meeting of the Gay-Straight Alliance at Taos High School, there is no support for teens who need community to explore or confirm their identities. Given the odds against LGBTQIA+ youth, more likely to be harassed, more likely to consider suicide, and less likely to receive family support. We know that this program is a lifeline.

Mission | Queerencia NM provides a platform for centering and leveraging the voices of Latinx/a/o LGBTQI+ community members of New Mexico through community engagement in the development of digital and written narratives by, for, and with community to promote personal and community health, well-being, and cultural resiliency.

Proposal | Through the support of the Santa Fe Community Foundation’s Envision fund and matching support of the TREE Center, the QueerenciaN M project will promote intergenerational community cohesion, healing, health, and well-being among Latino/a/x LGBTQI+ communities, through the use of digital story development and translation and dissemination of these stories through public forums. The anticipated outcome is to promote the health, safety, and empowerment of at-risk and underserved LGBTQ+ communities.

Noteworthy | Lacking a sense of belonging is a strong predictor of depressive symptoms and associated with anxiety and suicide among LGBTQI+ Latino/a/x communities. For instance, rural areas are becoming increasingly diverse with 24% identifying as a person of color. About half of New Mexicans live in rural areas and identify as Latinx/a/o/e or Hispanic and 4.25% identify as LGBTQ+. Historically, LGBTQI+ Latino/a/x New Mexicans are under-represented in health priority funding and queer community organizing.

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Santa Fe Baby Fund The Santa Fe Baby Fund was founded on the belief that the vitality of any society rests on the opportunities afforded to all children early in life.

Through the Santa Fe Baby Fund, the Santa Fe Community Foundation seeks to promote the healthy development of babies and toddlers in Santa Fe and to raise awareness about the critical importance of investing in the early years of life.

We invited requests from organizations serving Santa Fe, Mora, Rio Arriba, and/or San Miguel counties that work to improve: •

Increasing access to high quality, affordable infant and toddler care;

•

Supporting the early childhood workforce;

•

Improving access to reproductive health services for adolescents and young adults;

•

Supporting young parents ages 24 and under, and their infants and toddlers; and

•

Supporting grandparents or other non-parent kin raising infants and toddlers.

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Earth’s Birthday Project, Inc. dba Celebrate Planet Earth

the number of births to teens. American Indian and

celebrateplanetearth.org

white females to become pregnant. Babies born to

Noteworthy | New Mexico is 10th in the nation for Hispanic teens are twice as likely than non-hispanic teen mothers are more likely to be premature, have a

Mission | We grow children who love and protect the Earth, our home.

Proposal | Celebrate Planet Earth seeks support for our Counting with Nature initiative, a Pre-K program combining nature-inspired tools and activities — from tactile counting with native plant seeds to collaborative games — to nurture early number sense while fostering joy and wonder in learning.

low birth weight, and even to die. Having a baby can also negatively impact teen mothers’ health and their educational and job opportunities. Evidence shows that a variety of outreach and educational programs can help reduce teen pregnancies.

Santa Fe Children’s Museum santafechildrensmuseum.org

Noteworthy | In a review of peer-reviewed studies, Stanford researchers found that environmental education has led to a number of positive impacts for students, from improving academic performance, to enhancing critical thinking skills, to developing personal growth, and life-building skills including confidence, autonomy, and leadership. The studies documented that 98% of students had knowledge gains, 90% had increased skills, and 86% had positive changes as a result of environmental education programs.

Presbyterian Medical Services pmsnm.org

Mission | Presbyterian Medical Services (PMS)

Mission | Discovering the joys of learning, play, and community. The Santa Fe Children’s Museum builds upon a child’s sense of joy and discovery by cultivating habits of inquiry in the arts, sciences, and humanities.

Proposal | Enhancing collaboration between Santa Fe Children’s Museum and Many Mothers, this grant empowers caregivers, infants, and toddlers in northern New Mexico through community gatherings, mobile museum outreach, educational resources, access to the museum, and essential baby items.

Noteworthy | According to the National Center for Infants, Toddlers and Families, nearly half (48%) of new parents don’t feel they have the support they need when they’re stressed. This statistic underscores

designs and delivers quality, accessible, integrated

the critical need for our collaborative effort between

health, education, and human services in response

Santa Fe Children’s Museum and Many Mothers

to identified community needs of the multicultural

to provide vital community support, educational

people of the Southwest.

resources, and essential items to alleviate stress

Proposal | PMS strives to reduce teen pregnancy

and empower caregivers of infants and toddlers in

rates in Santa Fe County by providing confidential, no

northern New Mexico.

cost reproductive health services to female and male students, ages 12-19. Additionally, PMS addresses health inequities by providing easily accessible services that are unbiased against race/ethnicity, income, and sexual orientation, as well as being culturally and linguistically accommodating.

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Animal Welfare Result: The health and well-being of our region’s domestic and wild animals is protected.

Thanks to bequests from the estates of Carla Freeman and Deborah & Martin Fishbein, the Santa Fe Community Foundation established the Animal Welfare Fund to address animal welfare-related needs existing in the community.

We invited requests from organizations serving Santa Fe, Mora, Rio Arriba, and/or San Miguel counties that work to improve: 1. Population Control •

Free or low-cost spay/neuter clinics

•

Trap/neuter/release programs

•

Transportation for stray dogs/cats from overcrowded shelters to areas where they are more likely to be adopted

•

Free or low-cost spay/neuter clinics

2. Cruelty Prevention •

Humane education/public information

•

Rescue/adoption programs

•

Support for local and/or statewide trapping ban

3. Well-being •

Training/socializing animals with goal of re-homing

•

Providing emergency and preventive care

•

Providing food and other supplies for pets of low-income owners

4. Reintroduction/conservation of native New Mexico species

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A Chance of a Lifetime achanceofalifetime.org

Noteworthy | Chihuahuas are the second most euthanized breed in this country. This is mostly due to overpopulation problems. In 2022, more than 10,000 pets were killed in shelters in New Mexico.

Mission | To honor transformational healing between humans and horses, one pause at a time.

Proposal | Founded in 2019, A Chance of a Lifetime (COLT) is a place where horses deemed dangerous, untouchable, or worthless are treated with deep

Animal Protection of New Mexico, Inc. apnm.org

compassion and provided time to heal from trauma.

While some horses are adopted out, others stay with us and learn to work with people who are likewise challenged in their personal lives. Funding for COLT supports the health care and training expenses for 14 horses who are skilled at mirroring hope, reviving spirit, and helping people who are seeking solace and healing.

Noteworthy | New Mexico is home to approximately 150,000 horses — many of whom are abused or abandoned each year. COLT addresses this issue through our rescue efforts. COLT also seeks to help behavioral health recipients recover and heal. Since the pandemic, mental health conditions have increased throughout the U.S. by 30%. In a recent study conducted by the New Mexico Behavioral Health Collaborative, 53% of 26,174 people surveyed reported symptoms of suicide ideation; PTSD; depression; and substance abuse.

ABQ Chihuahua Rescue FKA Enchantment Chihuahua Rescue enchantmentrescueltd.com

Mission | Animal Protection New Mexico (APNM) is a statewide nonprofit that advocates for the rights of animals by effecting social change, resulting in the humane treatment of all animals. We create policies, infrastructure, and services that protect animals and strengthen our communities, and we design and implement humane and pragmatic solutions to seemingly intractable problems involving animals.

Our vision is to make humane the new normal in New Mexico.

Proposal | APNM advocates for pro-animal policies and provides comprehensive services to ensure companion animals, equines, captive chimpanzees, and wildlife are treated with respect. We seek support for our extensive programs, like teaching people of all ages empathy for animals; promoting safe co-existence with native species; helping communities provide free or low-cost spay/neuter services; providing emergency equine feed and veterinary clinics; and establishing infrastructure that protects animals

Noteworthy | Each year, 89,000+ lost and abandoned dogs and cats are taken in by animal shelters in New Mexico. More than 11% are euthanized. APNM

Mission | To rescue, nurture, rehabilitate, and relocate Chihuahuas and Chihuahua mixes into loving, permanent homes, as well as to raise public awareness of companion animal issues.

Proposal | We are requesting funds for the veterinary and foster care costs involved with the rescue chihuahua and chihuahua mixes.

addresses complex issues that lead so many companion animals to be abandoned. We lead the effort to establish a funding stream for spay/neuter services statewide, provide education on proper care of companion animals, help communities organize and fund spay/neuter clinics, and facilitate a network of safe havens for animals of domestic violence survivors.

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Athena Fund

Friends of the Estancia Valley Animals

Mission | The Athena Fund assists individuals of low

fevanimals1.org

or moderate income with veterinary expenses related to cancer care for their pet including chemotherapy, radiation treatment, pain management, and supportive care.

Proposal | Funds will support animal medical care and services for low to moderate income individuals’ pets.

Noteworthy | Approximately eight million companion animals enter animal shelters nationwide every year.Of those, approximately four million are dogs and over three million are cats. Each year, approximately three million animals are euthanized (The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals).

Española Valley Humane Society espanolahumane.org

Mission | To help reduce the number of unwanted pets in our communities by providing low cost spay/neuter options and educate the public about the importance of spay/neuter in keeping our community pets happy and healthy.

Proposal | This request for funding is to continue the one and only project of Friends of Estancia Valley Animals (FEVA), and that is to provide low cost spay and neuter veterinary services to the community of Edgewood and the surrounding area. Although a minimal co-pay for services (dog: spay $70, neuter $60, cat: spay$50, neuter $30) is requested, we never turn anyone away because of lack of funds.

Noteworthy | In six years, a dog mating pair can produce 62,000 puppies. Cats can double that number. Many are euthanized because there are not enough loving homes. The Town of Edgewood Animal Shelter is currently at capacity with

Mission | To improve the lives of animals in underserved communities.

Proposal | Española Humane is laser-focused on improving the lives of pets in our region by reducing animal overpopulation through free spay/neutering at our public clinic. We seek funding to provide 85 spay/neuter surgeries at an average cost of $175, which includes microchips and vaccinations.

Noteworthy | The shelter has experienced a 31%

surrendered dogs and cats, and the number of adoptions has decreased in recent years across New Mexico. Although many shelters try and rehome or transfer animals out of state, there is not enough time or funding to save all. Shelters are overcrowded.

Spaying and neutering saves lives.

Heart and Soul Animal Sanctuary heartandsoulnm.org

increase in pets coming to the shelter, mostly from owners giving up their dogs and cats. Surveys have shown that the high cost of veterinary care

Mission | The Heart and Soul Animal Sanctuary

and inflation have forced families into desperate

is a place of refuge for neglected, abused, and

situations. Offering free spay/neutering, vaccinations,

abandoned animals in northern New Mexico. We

and other services will keep pets with families and

provide the care necessary to rehabilitate and re-

decrease the number of pets at the shelter.

home animals and a permanent residence for those who are too traumatized or injured to be placed. All animals live in a humane, cage-free habitat. We work with schools and community groups to educate the public on humane animal care and encourage pet adoption. We work toward a community free of

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cruelty toward animals.

training program is very costly, but has already

Proposal | We are seeking funds for general

increased our adoption rate by over 50%. From

operations of the Sanctuary and its 200 permanent residents (dogs, cats, chickens, rabbits, goats, and horses) and, more specifically this year, the cost of transporting approximately double the number of puppies as years past from shelters around the state to the Sanctuary — vaccinating and caring for them (often hand feeding them at first), socializing them, and then transporting them to no-kill shelters

January to August 2023, we have adopted out 28 horses and taken in 32 horses. During this same period last year, we adopted out 13 horses and taken in 12 horses.

Horseshoe Canyon Rescue Ranch HorseshoeCanyonRescueRanch.org

primarily out of state.

Noteworthy | There is a crisis in New Mexico

Mission | Horseshoe Canyon Rescue Ranch (HCRR)

with the lack of availability of low cost spay and

is committed to the rescue, rehabilitation, care, and

neuter services. The state is trying to address this.

rehoming of neglected, abandoned, abused, or

In the meantime, we have been taking in 15-20

surrendered animals. At HCRR, our wish is that no

puppies almost weekly. The cost of vet care and

animal endures a life of abandonment and neglect.

transportation alone has been nearly double than in

Animals that aren’t adoptable because of medical or

years past.

abuse problems have a forever home at Horseshoe

The Horse Shelter thehorseshelter.org

Canyon Rescue Ranch where they will live out their lives in a beautiful natural setting treated with kindness and respect, strengthening the humananimal bond.

Proposal | We need fencing improvements and want Mission | The Horse Shelter serves as a sanctuary for New Mexico’s abandoned, abused, and neglected horses. Rescued horses will be rehabilitated and adopted out whenever possible to environments that support their well-being and future long-term care.

Proposal | The Horse Shelter is requesting funding for our horse training program to increase adoptions and therefore our ability to take in and help more horses in need. Training adds value to our rescue horses and ensures they will remain in good homes. Companion and riding horses need to learn to be safely handled and have good manners to become good equine citizens. After refeeding and rehabilitation, our horses require versatile and specialized training from professionals to help them succeed.

Noteworthy | With a capacity of 100 horses, it is vital for us to meet all of these horses’ different needs.

Horses can live 30+ years and when adopting them,

to do additional fencing to allow horses and donkeys more room to roam. More panels are needed for intake and quarantine. Automatic water feeders would greatly ease the ability for horses and donkeys to have clean and fresh water throughout the year at a constant temperature. 24 hours a day. Additional support is appreciated with our operating expenses.

We currently care for 25 animals in our forever Sanctuary at HCRR.

Noteworthy | 92.3% of horses sent to slaughter are in good condition and are able live out a productive life.

These horses could be sold, donated, or otherwise rehomed, however kill buyers outbid legitimate horse owners and rescues at auctions, robbing horses of ever having a second chance at life. In 201,2 over 166,000 horses were sent to Canada and Mexico for slaughter. Because of rescues in the U.S. like Horseshoe Canyon Rescue Ranch, that number in 2021 was 23,000.

our goal is to make them valuable to equestrians.

Being well-behaved and well-trained is the best way to ensure their future good life. Our redesigned

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Max & Tucker Canine Welfare Fund Mission | Established by a single donor, the Max and Tucker Canine Welfare Fund assists individuals of low or moderate income over age 60 with veterinarian expenses for their companion dog.

Proposal | Funds will support treatment for a curable condition for seniors’ pets.

Noteworthy | Seniors who own a dog spend an average of 22 more minutes per day staying active, a new study has found, and take an additional 2,760 steps per day (globalnews.ca).

New Mexico Horse Rescue at Walkin N Circles Ranch wncr.org

New Mexico Wildlife Center newmexicowildlifecenter.org

Mission | To connect people and wildlife through conservation education and rehabilitation because a world with wildlife is a better world.

Proposal | For more than three decades, New Mexico Wildlife Center (NMWC) has provided veterinary care and rehabilitation to injured, ill, and orphaned native wildlife with a goal of releasing these animals back into the wild. General operating support allows us to continue providing care to the 800-1,000 wild patients brought to us annually by the general public from across the state. NMWC provides its services free of charge and relies on the generosity of donors and grant funding to support its work.

Noteworthy | NMWC is one of a very few facilities providing veterinary care and rehabilitation to native wildlife. We treat 800-1,000 patients annually representing over 130 species. Common injuries

Mission | New Mexico Horse Rescue at Walkin N Circles Ranch rehabilitates, trains, and finds adoptive homes for abandoned, abused, and neglected equines. From the beginning, our organization has been steadfast in our mission to rescue, rehabilitate, retrain, and rehome neglected equines.

Proposal | One long-term vision is to become an educational center to share the plight of unwanted equines and teach others how to rehabilitate and retrain neglected equine using consistent, natural methods. We’ve begun this vision by sharing our volunteer training program nationally through

include impact with cars, windows, and fences; poisoning; gunshot; cat or dog attacks; habitat disturbance or other human interference. A key part of our work is treating New Mexico’s Species of Greatest Conservation Need (SGCN). From 2006 through 2022, we cared for nearly 800 animals representing 25 SGCN species.

Northern New Mexico Street Homeless Animal Project Inc. NMSHAP.org

ASPCA’s Right Horse Program.

Noteworthy | Walkin N Circles Ranch is one of New

Mission | To alleviate animal suffering and keep

Mexico’s largest equine rescues and celebrated its

homeless animal/human families together. We

20th anniversary in 2022. Since our founding, more

assist the street homeless community in obtaining

than 500 equines have been given a fresh start and a

vital veterinary care (preventative, emergency,

hopeful future because of our efforts. This important

spay/neuter). In addition, we provide food, water,

work is made possible because of the generosity of

harnesses, leashes, and other needed supplies as

hundreds of donors and volunteers over the past two

well as advocacy and education. We have been doing

decades. In 2022, 35 horses, mules, and donkeys were

this work since 1998 and are the only New Mexico

rescued; 22 equines found forever homes; and 150+

nonprofit offering all these services for our homeless

volunteers collectively worked 10,521 hours.

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homeless community.

Proposal | Pet-A-Bulls receives no funding from

Proposal | Your gift helps us assist the cherished

state, local, or federal agencies. We rely on adoption

companion animals of homeless citizens in northern

fees and donations. The adoption fees do not cover

New Mexico with vital care. People of all ages and

the cost of medical and supplies for our dogs. The

genders are found living on the street — their

cost of supplies, medical care, and the cost of goods

beloved animals help ease depression, loneliness,

associated with caring for our dogs has increased

and give a sense of purpose and responsibility. We

significantly, but our donations have not. We need

are committed to facing this challenging community

help covering operating costs and some recent and

crisis with compassion. Sometimes love has no

unexpected medical expenses.

address.

Noteworthy | We work closely with local shelters

Noteworthy | We compassionately handle 315+

to pull adoptable dogs focusing on bully breeds. In

clients/calls for help each year. The demand

2022, over 10,000 dogs and cats were euthanized

increases every month with folks of all ages landing

in New Mexico’s shelters. Only 17 out of 44 shelters

on the street. 26% of homeless persons have

are “no kill” — meaning that 90% or more of animals

companion animals for protection, decreased stress,

taken in have a live outcome. New Mexico ranks

unconditional love, and to help improve emotional

nineth in the United States with the highest kill rate

and mental health. About 50% of our clients are

for shelter animals. Pet-A-Bulls is looking to address

under 25; 25% are women; 74% white, 21% Latino,

that statistic by taking in dogs from high-kill shelters

5% Native. They are unhoused due to mental

and finding them loving forever homes!

health issues, domestic violence, substance abuse, prejudice, or job loss..

Pet-A-Bulls Inc. petabulls.com

Santa Fe Raptor Center santaferaptorcenter.org

Mission | Established in 2004, our mission is to care for all injured and orphaned wild and migrating birds

Mission | Pet-A-Bulls, Inc. was formed in 2010 to address the overpopulation and homeless pet

in the State of New Mexico and return them to the skies.

problems in the state of New Mexico. While our focus

Proposal | The Santa Fe Raptor Center (SFRC) seeks

is placed on bully-type breeds, all canine breeds

funding for salaries, food, and medical supplies in

are welcome! In partnership with New Mexico’s

order to rescue, rehabilitate, and release an annual

animal shelters, Pet-A-Bulls selects adoptable dogs

average of one hundred raptors from small owls to

to prevent unnecessary euthanasia. All intakes are

eagles. Because of the intensity of its 24-hour care,

carefully evaluated and placed into foster homes with

and despite taking birds sicker or more injured than

people appropriately matched for their care. They are

other centers might, the SFRC has a higher rate of

then adopted out to compatible forever families!

successful release back to the wild than the national average.

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Noteworthy | While $1,000 per bird for rehabilitation

Noteworthy | Currently, there are 49 Santa Fe

seems high, it isn’t. SFRC takes in raptors no matter

County public schools serving 18,785 students. These

how injured they are from a car collision, or how

schools do not have a specific budget for Field Trips

young they were when they fell from their nest, or

so costs for educational trips must come out of their

how high the amount of lead poisoning they suffer.

general operations budge, which are often limited.

We keep birds as long as it takes to recover, which

Just to rent a bus for a Field Trip may cost $400. Your

could be a year, with food and medical care provided

support would allow the museum to visit schools

each day. To be successfully released, a bird must be

interested in expanding student exposure to and

able to fly 100 feet ten times and capture live prey.

understanding of the role of animals from New

The time to achieve this is different for every bird.

Mexico and elsewhere in nature and to local cultures.

Santa Fe Reptile and Bug Museum santafereptileandbug.org

Sky Mountain Wild Horse Sanctuary skymountainwild.org

Mission | To educate the residents of and visitors to New Mexico about animals, nature, and the

Mission | To create healthy ecosystems for wild

environment — targeting families with children for

horses and other wildlife, and to provide sanctuary

whom there are limited destinations in Santa Fe.

for vulnerable mustangs where they live free.

We aim to foster understanding and appreciation

Proposal | Sky Mountain Wild Horse Sanctuary

specifically for reptiles, amphibians, and invertebrates that are often misunderstood and unjustly feared.

When requested, the organization assists with the adoption or safe placement of community member reptiles and invertebrates.

Proposal | We are seeking funding to support our

seeks investors for life and freedom for wild horses in sanctuary, and for mustangs on their home range to protect all from abuse and slaughter. Funding conserves sanctuary land as permanent refuge for vulnerable mustangs removed from the range and supports humane science and technology to sustain

educational outreach program where staff go to

more mustangs on the range in balance for all

schools and other museums (e.g., Santa Fe Children’s

wildlife and land. It is an honor to serve wild horses,

Museum) to extend its reach to youth audiences.

other wildlife, and ecosystems; please join in work for

This program aims to target public and pueblo

wild.

schools in the county and surrounding areas that

Noteworthy | In the U.S., over 244,000 mustangs

may otherwise not have the chance to visit the

have been rounded up and removed from the range

museum, thereby reducing disparities in educational

since 1980, and yet there are now more wild horses

opportunities.

on range today. Roundups often result in terror and death, and most wild horses end up warehoused in government holding facilities at an annual cost of over 77 million dollars. Many that are adopted are at risk for abuse, neglect, and slaughter.

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Arts & Culture Result: Arts and culture is celebrated and reflected in the community.

We invited requests from organizations serving Santa Fe, Mora, Rio Arriba, and/or San Miguel counties that work to improve: •

Sense of community – residents feeling connected to the community and each other

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Openness and acceptance of the community toward people of diverse backgrounds

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Diverse participation in art and cultural community programs and events

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Preservation and strengthening of cultural and historical heritage, traditions, and a creative economy

Through direct service, policy advocacy and/or collaboration efforts, priority strategies will address: •

Lifting up and preserving cultural and historical heritage, tradition, and assets of the region;

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Using art as a bridge to communicate across cultures and languages and build transformational relationships to advance equity;

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Using art, culture, language, and community stories to shift narratives, shape public conversations, and influence policy;

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Improving access to arts and cultural programs to benefit youth and families who otherwise would not have the opportunities; and/or

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Systems change, including public policy, civic engagement, community organizing or public information to preserve and strengthen the arts and cultural segment of the creative economy locally.

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The Archaeological Conservancy archaeologicalconservancy.org

ArtWorks - Partners in Education Foundation for the SFPS artworkssantafe.org

Mission | The Archaeological Conservancy is the only national nonprofit organization that identifies, acquires, and preserves the most significant archaeological sites in the United States. Since its beginning in 1980, the Conservancy has preserved more than 580 sites across the nation, ranging in age from the earliest habitation sites in North America to a 19th-century frontier army post.

Proposal | The Archaeological Conservancy would like to request funding for the Arsenio Martinez site which is located on the southwest portion of Mesa Prieta in Rio Arriba County. The site is endangered and contains significant concentrations of petroglyphs and other irreplaceable cultural material.

Noteworthy | The archaeological record is rapidly dwindling in New Mexico and across the country.

Looting, road construction, agricultural practices, erosion, increasing development, and climate change have contributed to the destruction of sites.

Archaeologists estimate that over 60% of sites in parts of New Mexico have been destroyed in the last 40 years.

Mission | The Partners in Education Foundation for the Santa Fe Public Schools (Partners) is an independent nonprofit organization founded to marshal resources and create alliances to foster excellence in Santa Fe’s public schools. As a program of Partners, ArtWorks seeks to make the arts personally meaningful to Santa Fe’s public school students and teachers through an integrated program of art-making, live performances and exhibits, and achieving understanding through inquiry and reflection.

Proposal | For over 20 years, ArtWorks, a program of Partners, has been connecting the public school community with Santa Fe’s world-class art museums and performances. ArtWorks pairs professional teaching artists with local arts institutions and public school classrooms in a series of inquirydriven workshops that build lasting community connections, nurture creative potential, and provide the opportunity for continued arts integration in the classroom. Funding will directly support these workshops.

Noteworthy | ArtWorks reaches more than 75 Santa Fe Public Schools (SFPS) classroom teachers and over 1,800 SFPS students on average every year, 76% of whom come from economically disadvantaged families. Research has shown that economically disadvantaged young people who have high levels of arts engagement and arts learning experiences are more likely than their peers to succeed academically and become more active and engaged citizens (March 2012, The Arts and Achievement in At-Risk Youth, National Endowment for the Arts).

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Carfagno Films Ltd., fiscally sponsored by New Mexico Film Foundation carfagnofilms.com

Proposal | People who are institutionally, interpersonally, or politically oppressed can feel voiceless and disconnected. CENTER Santa Fe’s programs cultivate opportunities for personal storytelling with vulnerable populations through hand-on learning, mentorship, and arts experiences.

Funding will help to expand services to provide

Mission | The New Mexico Film Foundation, fiscal sponsor of Carfagno Films Ltd., supports and assists filmmakers in finding resources, venues, sponsors that facilitate the filmmaker in advancing their film.

Proposal | Production design, the visual storytelling behind cinema, is the nonverbal language in film and it’s constantly undergoing changes in technology and audience attention span. Imagination is the fuel. The mythical stick of the campfire, the concept drawing, and the 3D computer sketch all have their architects. ‘Blueprint: The Genius of Production Design’ is a documentary film which unveils the tools, methods, visual realization of stories — from the Silent Era to the future.

Noteworthy | My film is approaching post production. Funding is needed for extensive editing and proper equipment to facilitate color and sound correction. One film will be for theatrical release and the other for worldwide film schools.

CENTER Santa Fe VisitCenter.org | TheDemocraticLens.org

digital storytelling mentorships, resources, and presentations for vulnerable populations including New Mexico veterans, youth, and justice-impacted individuals.

Noteworthy | In 2021, 12.3 million people thought of suicide, and 1.7 million attempted suicide according to the CDC National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. Photography, and the healing power of storytelling, can provide useful interventions to help to reframe personal narratives and create social connections. Photography programs can engage vulnerable populations including adolescents, veterans, and the formerly incarcerated, to tell their stories visually and provide pathways towards wellbeing.

Chama Valley Arts chamavalleyarts.org

Mission | To cultivate creativity, learning, and community through arts and culture.

Proposal | We join hands with other organizations and individuals across our large service area to build

Mission | CENTER Santa Fe supports socially and environmentally engaged lens-based projects through education, public platforms, funding, and partnerships. CENTER Santa Fe serves to deepen public understanding of lens-based media’s complex history and ongoing cultural significance.

By establishing partnerships between artists and justice-driven communities, scholars, students, and

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a conversation through creative expression. We aim to increase self-knowledge and mutual respect in order to face and heal historical traumas that lead to substance abuse, mental and emotional unwellness, and cycles of abuse. We support families and provide youth with opportunities to build skills, confidence, and perseverance to make healthy choices and take on challenges by seeing their own worth.

the art world, we advance projects that respect

Noteworthy | There is no other organization within

all people, open minds, and engage our shared

60+ miles that is providing any kind of arts programs

humanity.

for youth or adults.

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Chatter, fiscally sponsored by Ensemble Music New Mexico

and role modeling for our region’s youth. Due to

chatterabq.org

incarceration, 60% of our communities’ children

Noteworthy | We see a critical need for mentoring the prevalence of addiction and related issues of are being raised by grandparents. In order to make

Mission | To create creative, approachable, and

a difference for youth, families, and community members, it is essential to engage them in activities

authentic musical experiences. Chatter performs

and events that are safe, build confidence, increase

in unconventional, intimate venues and offers

positive self-esteem, and involve families in positive

adventurous programming, interweaving new and

roles that build family traditions of value and pride.

traditional classical music. We offer engagement between musicians and audience, plus challenging opportunities for professional musicians. Chatter brings music and poetry together every week, and brings youth to the stage and to the audience.

Proposal | Chatter seeks grant support to underwrite

Cornerstones Community Partnerships cstones.org

our increased activity in Santa Fe, presenting weekly Saturday morning concerts at the Center for

Mission | Cornerstones works in partnership with

Contemporary Arts.

communities to restore historic structures, preserve

Noteworthy | We have had over 10,000 admissions in

cultural landscapes, encourage traditional building

the past year.

Chimayó Cultural Preservation Association chimayomuseum.org

Mission | To celebrate and preserve the living culture, land, and history of the Chimayó region. The Chimayó Cultural Preservation Association (CCPA) fulfills this

practices, and conserve natural resources.

Proposal | A leader in the historic preservation of earthen architecture for more than 30 years, Cornerstones seeks funding to design an ageappropriate curriculum for Adobe Cultural Awareness at the middle school level leading towards the New Mexico Career Cluster in Architecture and Construction that will provide students with a highskill, high-demand, living wage career right here in northern New Mexico.

Noteworthy | The MIT Living Wage Calculator

mission through community programs that foster

indicates that a living wage in Santa Fe County

community pride in Chimayó’s cultural heritage and

requires employees to earn $16.07 per hour. The

works to ensure that visitors and future generations

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics states that the

of Chimayosos can gain strength and wisdom rooted

mean hourly wage for construction workers in New

in Chimayó’s culture.

Mexico is $24.12 per hour, thus providing a living

Proposal | The CCPA organizes and hosts community

wage to those who engage in this line of work. The

events from May-October that bring together local

Construction Pathway from the New Mexico Career

organizations, Chimayó residents, and interested

Clusters Guide indicates this pathway’s expected

members of the public. These events foster

growth at 14% per the State Labor Office.

community pride in Chimayó’s cultural heritage and include historical lectures, a San Isidro Celebration, and other programs honoring our agricultural history, culture, and continued legacy. We request funding to support event coordination and materials, food, and promotional expenses for these events.

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Dancing Earth Creations dancingearth.org

accessibility and care for this vital land.

Noteworthy | General operating funds will help us continue moving forward with projects to expand our trail system, add uniform and bilingual signage

Mission | To create contemporary dance and related

throughout the property, and create greater

arts through global-Indigenous and intercultural

accessibility to areas that were once remote and

relationships centered in ecological and cultural

unreachable for some.

diversity for creativity, health, and wellness.

and culturally-enriching program for artists to

Embudo Valley Library and Community Center

be supported in movement, community, and

embudovalleylibrary.org

Proposal | Dancing Earth’s 13th Annual Summer Institute (SI) offers a unique transformative

intercultural exchange as they embark on a profound journey of self-discovery and artistic growth. SI addresses the need for creative mentorship for BIPOC artists in New Mexico that root their art in contemporary cultural, ancestral, and earth-based/ ecological wisdoms — advancing arts leadership of diverse cultural perspectives in New Mexico.

Noteworthy | According to the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, “the cultural industry in New Mexico is the third largest industry in the state, with a $5.6 billion impact to the state’s economy. Arts and cultural industries support 76,758 jobs, or one in 10 jobs statewide.” DE’s Summer Institute not only centers arts/culture workers of color in inter-cultural community performing arts, but mentors artists for the responsibilities of leadership, so they can have a sustainable career in this key

Mission | To build community by providing educational, cultural, and recreational resources for area residents. The library provides public library service, literacy programming for children and youth, formal and informal public gathering space for meetings and resolana, and an evening cultural series. Our property is home to a volunteer community radio station, a public park, and a cooperative grocery store.

Proposal | We seek funding to support our rural public library and our ongoing library services and programs such as our afterschool program, early literacy, and arts and cultural programs. Current projects for which we seek funding include the furnishing of a new community center, strategic

sector.

planning work, and internal efforts to rethink and

El Rancho de Las Golondrinas, Inc.

examining them closely through the lens of diversity,

golondrinas.org

Noteworthy | In the last fiscal year, we had 9,485

improve our services, operations, and goals by equity, and inclusion. visitors and provided 827 essential services, which

Mission | To preserve the legacy of the land and Hispano traditions.

Proposal | El Rancho de las Golondrinas (LG) is

government benefits, and employment-related tasks like conducting job searches. We are still slightly below pre-pandemic levels, although usage is

New Mexico’s Living History Museum. We have

increasing. We exceeded last year’s goal to increase

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usage by 10%. This fiscal year, by increasing outreach

paraje, or stopping place, on El Camino Real. We

and community engagement efforts, we hope to

average 55,000 visitors a year, of which 20,000 are

increase visits and program participation by 5%.

under age 18. LG is seeing record numbers of visitors coming to experience our hands-on approach to history. Funding will help us to continue to improve

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EmiArteFlamenco Academy

Family Theatre of Santa Fe

emiarteflamencoacademy.com

familytheatresantafe.org

Mission | To promote the history and culture

Mission | To provide engaging, quality theatre

of traditional flamenco through cutting-edge

experiences for diverse multi-generational families in

performances and classes, captivating people of

northern New Mexico.

all ages. Our performances and classes also serve

Proposal | Family Theatre of Santa Fe (FTSF) seeks

to bring the community together in their love for flamenco and supporting the arts in Santa Fe.

Proposal | We request funding to help provide all

funds in support of our production of Quilters, slated to open in May, 2024. Quilters explores the hardships and opportunities experienced by women as the U.S.

students with access to learning the flamenco art

expanded westward in the 19th century. Highlighting

form, no matter what their financial means may be.

the artistic creativity and narrative potential of

EmiArte Flamenco has three semesters in a year and

quilting, Quilters dramatizes the independence and

would like the opportunity to be the academy to

strength of women crossing the American frontier.

serve the students across Santa Fe.

Educational outreach performances of Quilters will

Noteworthy | We hope to make the flamenco art

be free of charge to New Mexico school students.

form accessible to all students and teach them the

Noteworthy | Of the 23 theatre companies in Santa

history of the art form in order to help with their

Fe (theatresantafe.org), none of these companies

growing as an individual in every aspect, especially

offer consistent family-friendly theatre productions

self-confidence.

for audiences. We will fill this void. With over 150,000 residents, 43% of those who are below the age of 40,

Española Valley Fiber Arts Center evfac.org

the need for family cultural opportunities in Santa Fe County is clear. With over 20,000 school age children in the City of Santa Fe alone, the need for families to find ways to engage with their children is paramount.

Mission | To cultivate and support multi-generational participation in local, traditional, and contemporary Fiber Arts.

Proposal | General operating support will go toward the development and launch of youth programming specifically for local youth who are tradition carriers of our rich diversity of cultures and textile histories here in New Mexico.

Noteworthy | Because of factors such as globalization, technology, climate change, and a rapidly-changing economic landscape, traditional cultures and occupations are disappearing. Studies show that engaging the youth of these cultures in learning their traditional ways will help preserve the richness of our global (and local) heritage.

Participation in the arts has clearly shown that creativity and education linked to community engagement enable youth to better understand their role in community.

Foto Forum Santa Fe fotoforumsantafe.com

Mission | Foto Forum Santa Fe is a creative space where photographers meet and work together to exchange ideas, exhibit, and explore a range of processes of photography, visual storytelling, science, and technology. We are committed to educating and providing opportunities to experience different forms of analog and digital photography — both historical and current — and engaging the wider community in a dialogue about issues, challenges, and trends in photography, and its relationship to storytelling.

Proposal | Foto Forum Santa Fe exists for underrepresented photographers to celebrate and expand photography in the 21st century in a way that is alternative, community centered,

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and internationally connected. We will use the

Noteworthy | According to the CDC, 15% of adults in

grant to provide opportunities for photographers

New Mexico have a cognitive disability and, of that

to experience historical and current forms of

population, 40% experience depression. The goal

photography — which are otherwise generally

of HCSL’s Day Programs is to create a welcoming

inaccessible to the public due to material cost and

community where adults with intellectual disabilities

the shift to digital photography.

can develop thriving social connections with their

Noteworthy | “Out of 2 million arts graduates

peers and experience the joy of art through the

nationally, only 10%, or 200,000 people, make their

exploration of visual arts, movement, and music.

primary earnings as working artists.” Art galleries

Through its arts programs, HCSL creates a flourishing

will often avoid providing opportunities to or

community for intellectually disabled adults.

representing recent arts graduates, which in turn forces the graduates to seek other means unrelated to their practice to shoulder their debt and the world.

Foto Forum Santa Fe provides space and community

High Desert Winds Santa Fe highdesertwinds.org

for these artists, such as our artists Renee Romero, Andre Ramos-Woodard, and Jenney Irene Miller.

High Country Supported Living hcsliving.org

Mission | To create a community living and learning

wind ensemble dedicated to performing high-level, wind-band literature, involving talented adults and students.

Proposal | High Desert Winds strives to present the northern New Mexico community with performances

center for New Mexicans of all abilities, where culture,

of wind-ensemble literature of the highest quality

art, land, and diversity are celebrated. In addition

by a group composed of adult musicians from the

to offering residential opportunities, High Country

community at large, music educators, and student

Supported Living (HCSL) offers free day programs

musicians. The requested funds will be used to

that incorporate the natural environment of its rural

purchase new musical works and defray the costs of

property in Jacona, New Mexico with visual art,

providing three or more free concerts to the public

music, movement, and cooking activities that are

each year.

engaging and appropriate for young adults with intellectual disabilities.

Proposal | Young adults with intellectual disabilities

Noteworthy | While there are MANY artistic musical opportunities in Santa Fe – for both artists and listeners – the wind ensemble format

have historically been one of the most underserved

is all but lacking. HDWSF is a collaboration among

populations in northern New Mexico. Once these

accomplished adult community musicians, music

young people graduate from high school, they

educators, and advanced high school students.

lose their school communities they have relied

Because of its unique instrumentation, it is the only

on for learning new skills and social interactions.

arts organization in Santa Fe provides extracurricular

HCSL requests support to re-create this sense of

music education opportunities to wind-instrument

community through its free Day Programs where

students and music educators.

young disabled adults can nurture friendships, increase their access to the arts, and learn how to become more independent.

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Mission | Serving northern New Mexico, High Desert Winds Santa Fe (HDWSF) is an audition-based

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In the Family Way inthefamilyway.org

radio. This year, we are focused on expanding community engagement by broadening the use of our physical location. Funding supports on-air programming as well as in-person opportunities for

Mission | To help all families thrive. Our

community gathering.

multidisciplinary practice leads to creative

Noteworthy | As the cost of living rises, the impact is

interventions, arts programming, and fiscal

disproportionately felt in underserved communities.

sponsorship for select projects that relieve suffering,

A community media outlet in rural unincorporated

cultivate transformation, and make life on earth

Santa Fe County that hosts more than 90 individual

better for all beings.

volunteers weekly and has the potential to reach

Proposal | Many people have brilliant ideas and

more than 15,000 listeners on the FM dial, KMRD

motivation to create projects for their communities, but have little or no access to the grant funding that exists for 501(c)3 organizations. In the past several years, In the Family Way has been providing small grants ($1,500- $5,000) to initiatives by individuals creating programs for community well-being via public outreach through the arts. We seek donations

leverages access, participation, and diverse programming to work for economic justice and rural resilience.

Lensic Performing Arts Center lensic.org

in order to continue funding this program.

Noteworthy | Small nonprofit arts organizations

Mission | The Lensic enriches lives by bringing

struggle to secure grant funding, and the lockout is

diverse art and people together in the historic

near total for individual artists and activists seeking

Lensic Theater, a cornerstone of downtown Santa

resources for grassroots arts and cultural initiatives

Fe since 1931. We present and support local and

dedicated to helping communities thrive.

national artists and serve as a center for education, community, and youth events through accessible

KMRD Inc. kmrd.fm

and affordable programming.

Proposal | Santa Fe’s only year-round, state-ofthe-art performing arts center, the Lensic presents local, regional, and national artists. Its historic

Mission | KMRD-LP is a freeform, volunteer-run, commercial-free, and listener-supported Low Power FM community radio station. The station is dedicated to providing a platform for diverse local content and cultivating meaningful communication. With operating principles rooted in participation and accessibility, KMRD serves the extended community of Madrid, New Mexico, as a grassroots resource

theater provides a stage home for many local arts organizations. “Lensic 360,” launched in 2023, presents an array of free and ticketed events at venues across the community. The Lensic’s arts education program is one of the largest in the state, serving 13,000 students each year with free matinees, masterclasses, and diverse artist-in-residency programs.

for entertainment, information, skill-building, and

Noteworthy | The 2021 report “WE-Making: How

creative social connection.

Arts & Culture Unite People to Work Toward

Proposal | KMRD seeks funding to support the

Community Well-Being,” funded by the NEA and

community radio station’s operations, including youth engagement, intergenerational arts events, audio and broadcasting education, collaborative original productions, public safety initiatives, and our 24-hour broadcast of local, independent, freeform

the Bush, Knight, Kresge, and Robert Wood Johnson Foundations, found that place-based arts and cultural strategies are well-equipped to drive social cohesion and build toward more equitable wellbeing in communities. The Lensic is advancing place-

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based arts in Santa Fe to connect diverse segments of society, help residents feel connected, and increase civic engagement.

Littleglobe, Inc. littleglobe.org

Live Arts Santa Fe liveartssantafe.org

Mission | To inspire, engage, and transform a multicultural, neurodiverse, and multi-generational audience through innovative and inclusive theatrical work, professional education in theatre and film,

Mission | Littleglobe envisions a world where we connect, heal, and thrive through the art of storytelling. Littleglobe’s multi-generational team

diverse local, regional, and international voices to create and explore.

works with people to tell their own stories. Through

Proposal | We seek funds to kick-start a revitalization

partnerships, we provide tools, programs, training,

of the Greer Garson Theater Center (GGTC),

and platforms to co-create and share artistic works

reimagining it as a locally-focused performing

with the wider world. Our collaborative process

arts center, featuring a two-year theatre and film

models a community in which everyone is seen and

conservatory, a professional repertory company, and

heard.

a venue for the wider performing arts community to

Proposal | Littleglobe cultivates strong, well-

present work. Through free youth classes, free ticket

connected, empathetic relationships through our work. Our collaborative process models a community in which everyone is seen and heard. We work primarily through partnerships with numerous

programs, and community engagement, we envision the GGTC as a vital anchor in a rejuvenated Midtown where everyone in northern New Mexico can gather and enjoy.

grassroots organizations, city agencies, and other

Noteworthy | Since the shuttering of the university,

entities to train people to tell their own stories,

there is no professional training program for actors

enabling us to better understand the people who

and theatrical designers in northern New Mexico.

call Santa Fe home. Littleglobe is requesting funding

Restoring a student program at the GGTC will fill a

to help us sustain the costs of our programs and

much-needed void and maintain the GGTC’s legacy

operations.

as a world-class training ground. There are only four

Noteworthy | From CHART final report: half of the

rentable theater spaces in Santa Fe and at least 21

community represented in the survey disagree or can’t agree that the community cares about them or their well-being. Littleglobe believes that communities thrive when everyone is seen and heard. We help tell the stories of everyday people in Santa Fe and New Mexico, including those that are often marginalized and disenfranchised.

Littleglobe’s work increases people’s confidence to express themselves and strengthens their sense of belonging.

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and accessible performing arts spaces that welcome

theater companies, six dance companies, countless music groups, and presenting organizations that all need quality venues, rehearsal spaces, and shop spaces.

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Museum of Dance

movewest.org

museumdance.org

Mission | To create and sustain a creative center

Mission | The Museum of Dance fosters shared

for the movement arts to foster dance, artistic

human experience through the understanding,

collaborations, and mentorship. We invite our

exploration, and participation in the art and language

community to participate as dancers, artists, and

of dance.

audiences, to be inspired by artistic collaborations,

Proposal | We are seeking community support

and to celebrate the rich intersections of dance and

to establish an inclusive Santa Fe ecosystem

life.

for the International Museum of Dance (IMOD),

Proposal | MoveWest seeks funding to support

partnering with local agencies, museums, galleries,

dance, education, and multimedia programs that bring children, older adults, and professional dancers together to create and perform choreography based on the exploration and expression of Santa Fe’s rich and multifaceted history and identity. Our

schools, and supporting artists. Our vision includes equitable dance education, community-centric styles in schools/libraries, mentorship for young administrators, BIPOC dance legacy archiving, immersive exhibitions, and the creation of an IMOD

approach is grounded in creative movement and

summit uniting pioneers and researchers to shape

somatic awareness. Our programs forge a deeper

dance’s future.

sense of connection to self, others, and place through

Noteworthy | According to the NEA, over 50% of

collaborations across generations and art forms.

American high schools do not offer dance education.

Noteworthy | 100% percent of people live an

Studies have shown that students exposed to

embodied experience and perspective! Dance in all its forms enriches that experience and can bring more awareness and empathy to that perspective.

dance education demonstrate improved academic performance, creativity, and critical thinking skills, highlighting its impact on the impact of dance on the “whole person.” A study conducted by the Royal Society for Public Health, UK, found that engaging in dance can lead to a 20% increase in participants’ overall well-being and happiness.

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Nat Gold Players

New Mexico Film Foundation

natgoldplayers.com

nmfilmfoundation.org

Mission | To entertain, educate, and inspire through

Mission | To support independent filmmakers and

the performing arts.

above the line talent through educational programs,

Proposal | Nat Gold Players (NGP) serves a small

events, mentorship, and fiscal sponsorship.

town with huge talent. For years NGP operated as a

Proposal | New Mexico Film Foundation’s core

“homeless” theatre. In 2021, the local Masonic Lodge

strategy is focused on elevating, educating, and

rented NGP the entire ground floor of the historic

supporting film industry individuals regardless

Lodge that was built in the 1890s. Now, NGP faces

of background or experience. With community

the challenge of modifying this resource into a

sponsorship and grants, our foundation has

performance center, at the same time as continuing

developed programs and events supported by our

to do shows. The use of performing arts is critical

volunteer team of experienced film professionals and

to inspire and encourage the community during

with direct service of these efforts, the potential for

recovery from devastating wildfires.

shifting the narrative and opportunities in the arts

Noteworthy | The American Association of

is greatly improved for these individuals seeking a

Community Theatres (AACT) says that U.S. theatres

career in film.

generated $166.3 billion and $27.54 billion in

Noteworthy | The poverty rate in the state of New

governmental revenue (sales tax, etc.) in 2015. Theatre

Mexico is over 18%, many individuals do not have

has a direct impact on economies. As Keating said in

access to programs that support their pursuit of

“Dead Poets Society,” “… the human race is filled with

a career in the film industry. The growth of film in

passion, poetry, beauty, romance, and love — this is

New Mexico in 2022 hit an all-time record with a

what we stay alive for.” Community theatre touches

revenue of $855 million for the state. It is imperative

the heart, and when the heart is touched, people

and urgent that individuals have opportunity and

and communities have the will to build, to believe, to

availability of educational programs and support. At

succeed.

the foundation, we can provide this with community support from grants to operate our non-profit programs.

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NM Inter-Faith Community Housing Development Corp. sileryard.org

Northern New Mexico Radio Foundation (KSFR) dba KSFR Radio Station ksfr.org

Mission | To improve the lives of all New Mexicans through the development, production, and management of affordable housing and by providing supportive services at no cost to residents in order to promote economic self-sufficiency. We strive to collaborate with other nonprofits, developers, and government entities in our community to create sustainable and welcoming spaces where diverse individuals and families can thrive and build financial stability of their own.

Proposal | Funding is requested for the Siler Yard Arts + Creativity Center Community Mural Program to create five large-scale murals on the exterior walls of the artist affordable housing complex facing Siler Road. This project will be in collaboration with the local mural collective, Alas de Agua, to

Mission | To offer independent, non-commercial programming that engages, enriches, inspires, and entertains the vibrant, diverse community we serve.

Proposal | KSFR is building and airing locally produced news and public affairs programs that resonate with and reflect the northern New Mexico communities we serve. Among those weekly programs are several presentations that center on the arts, including the business of art, literary arts, visual arts, music and live music presentations, cinematic arts. Northern New Mexico is a cultural and art mecca, we seek funding to continue build programs that inform and educate the public in these areas.

create inclusive and community driven murals with

Noteworthy | According to the Americans for the

residents and local artists that foster collaboration

Arts Action fund, New Mexico’s arts and culture

within the complex while cultivating connections

sector represents 2.8% of the state’s GDP and 26,547

with artists in the greater Siler/Rufina arts district.

jobs. The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis reports

Noteworthy | Currently, the median price of a home in Santa Fe is $605,700 — an amount unaffordable to 90% of residents in a city where the median household income is $61,900. Median home prices in the city have increased 55% in the last two years and have more than doubled since 2015. The median rent for a two-bedroom apartment in Santa Fe has increased 43% since 2017. The development of affordable housing and building community around individuals in affordable housing should be our top

that the arts and culture sector contributes $2.67 billion to New Mexico’s economy, representing 2.8% of the state’s GDP — a larger share than some other industries in the state (U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, 2017).

Northern New Mexico Regional Art Center nnmrac.org

priority as a city.

Mission | Northern New Mexico Regional Arts Center (NMRAC) is enriching the quality of life in our community by nurturing and supporting the human creative spirit through visual arts. We aim to increase the community’s awareness and understanding of visual arts; provide an avenue for artists to develop their skills and show their work; create a positive presence within the community;

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develop and maintain a stable revenue stream; and offer a welcoming place where artists and lovers of art can gather to enjoy and share ideas, creativity,

Parallel Studios, Inc. currentsnewmedia.org

and inspiration.

Proposal | We are collaborating with other

Mission | Parallel Studios fosters new media arts

organizations that need space to provide art classes.

and supports artists in creating innovative work. Our

The programs that we will partner with include

annual festival, CURRENTS, educational programs,

classes for healthy snacks, Las Cubres, Youth Project,

and exhibitions give the public year-round access

Grandparents Raising Grandkids, among others.

to immersive and expansive art experiences. Our

Noteworthy | The need we fill in our community is

commitment to artists and their use of technology

supporting the groups and individuals that need

as an expressive tool is matched by our commitment

emotional support and an outlet to create art in a

to community and the organization’s belief in the

safe space. The groups that we work with are all in

power of the arts to inspire.

need of an environment that helps them create and

Proposal | Funding will help us achieve two of our

have something different from their daily routines.

Northern Rio Grande National Heritage Area riograndenha.org | culturesandcreators.com

principal commitments. 1) Youth mentorship and education through our college and high school internship programs and guided festival tours for youth groups such as Boys and Girls Clubs and many more. 2) Equitable access for artists and audience members. We present the work of a diverse mix of emerging artists (70 in 2023) and offer the support

Mission | To sustain the communities, heritages,

Admission fees are kept low for adults and people 20

languages, cultures, traditions, and environments

years and younger are free.

of northern New Mexico through partnerships,

Noteworthy | There are 95 artists in CURRENTS 2023:

education, and interpretation. Our vision is community and economic viability rooted in the heritage and the environment of northern New Mexico.

Proposal | We are seeking funding to enhance our

68% White, 2% Black, 14% Hispanic, 14% Asian and 2% American Indian. 2023 audience members of CURRENTS are 61% White, 1% Black, 30% Hispanic, 6% Asian, and 2% American Indian. Interns for CURRENTS 2023 are 46% White, 7% Black, 27%

Artist-in-Residence program, a crucial initiative

Hispanic, 13% Asian, and 7% American Indian. We are

designed to grow the local creative economy by

striving to improve these numbers.

providing training and venues for local artists to share their work. This program includes contracting with local artists that are masters in their fields to teach, providing venues for artists to showcase their work, and providing business mentorship and guidance to help artists navigate the early stages of setting up their own creator businesses.

Noteworthy | According to the Department of Cultural Affairs, one in 18 jobs in New Mexico can be traced back to arts and cultural industries. This is roughly 5.5% of the job market in New Mexico. We would like to increase that number by enhancing our Artist-in-Residence program.

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RENESAN Institute for Lifelong Learning renesan.org

all ages, bringing ecology and performance arts together and inspiring people to live in harmony with Mother Earth. The project is seeking funding for operating expenses for the upcoming rehearsals and performances with actors, musicians, singers and

Mission | To provide a balanced and dynamic curriculum of courses and trips focused on art, cultural studies, current events, history, literature, music, and science. RENESAN is an independent nonprofit institution dedicated to the belief that everyone can learn, challenge their beliefs, and expand their knowledge and intellectual capacity at any age.

Proposal | As RENESAN enters its 28th year, we seek to enhance course offerings by addressing new and emerging audiences to the organization. To achieve this goal, we are endeavoring to complete a strategic plan in the spring of 2024. Strategic goals will guide the organization to greater stability and ensure

dancers, providing an educational and entertaining performance that teaches and inspires.

Noteworthy | We are living in the midst of the sixth Great Extinction with 2/3rds less animals than there were in the 1970’s according to The Living Planet Report. The Project will engage the audience and actors in solution-oriented activism to address how we can support innovative approaches to protecting the rights of communities and Nature.

Sangre de Cristo Chorale of New Mexico sdcchorale.org

continued low-cost services to our senior student base. Funding will be used for professional strategic planning services and new initiative costs.

Noteworthy | RENESAN enjoys a local student base of over 2,500 students. In the 2022-23 year, students enrolled for over 4,200 courses. The majority of our student base is over 55 years old. RENESAN maintains a scholarship program to ensure diversity and inclusivity.

Rights of Nature Productions - Derechos de la Naturaleza Producciones therightsofnature.com

Mission | To entertain, educate, unite, and inspire singers and audiences by performing great choral music.

Proposal | The Sangre de Cristo Chorale requests support for its apprentice, scholarship, and outreach programs to provide high-quality choral music experiences to the youth of northern New Mexico.

We are pleased to have returned to a full season of in-person performances and educational outreach activities after COVID-19 restrictions. We are delighted to welcome Dr. George Case as our new Interim Music Director.

Noteworthy | For 45 years, the Sangre de Cristo Chorale has made a significant cultural contribution to the community via choral music. It has united a diverse audience (approximately 600 annually) and

Mission | To bring beautiful music, art, and

membership (average 36 annually) to build bridges of

creativity together with ecology and environmental

understanding for a shared humanity through choral

awareness to highlight the Rights of Nature and

music. We have provided choral experiences for high

the responsibilities of local communities and global

school students through an apprentice program

governance to protect and to live in harmony with all

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life.

awards), and an outreach program to over 1,500

Proposal | The Rights of Nature folk opera is a

young singers.

bilingual educational performance project for

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Santa Fe Art Institute

Santa Fe Artist Medical Fund

sfai.org

santafeartistsmedicalfund.org

Mission | The Santa Fe Art Institute (SFAI) is an

Mission | The Santa Fe Artists’ Medical Fund was

independent arts organization with a mission to

founded in 1998 by a group of Santa Fe individuals

forge critical inquiry and cultural exchange among

who were concerned about the problems

artists, creative practitioners, and the broader

encountered by professional artists wh oare under-

community. We support and amplify dynamic artistic

or uninsured, and thus, at risk of serious financial

practices that engage complex social issues, inspire

difficulties in the case of medical emergencies.

individual transformation, and inform collective

Proposal | Contributions will support assistance

action.

Proposal | As part of our 2024 Sovereignty theme,

depending on the applicant’s circumstances. Funds are distributed to pharmacies, hospitals, health care

SFAI will bring over 60 artists to Santa Fe in 2024

providers, and medical equipment suppliers — not

from all over the world. 64% of these artists are

individuals.

BIPOC and over 75% are women, trans, or non-binary

Noteworthy | U.S. Department of Health and Human

artists. This grant will provide critical support to SFAI’s free public programming featuring the work of these diverse artists. Unique events such as the SFAI140, Process, and Art of Change invite the community

Services indicate 10.2% of New Mexico’s two million peoplehave no insurance of any kind.

into the SFAI annual thematic investigation and

Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival

encourage creative, cultural exchange.

santafechambermusic.com

Noteworthy | U.S. museum leadership is still 85% white and 87% male. In the last 15 years, only 11% of museum acquisitions included work by womenidentifying artists and only 2.2% by Black artists.

Although times are changing, there is still extreme lack of diversity in the art world. It is critically important that the artistic practices of women, BIPOC artists, artists with disabilities, and LGBTQ+ artists are deeply supported and amplified through residencies and public programming such as at SFAI.

Mission | To bring together the world’s finest musicians to perform chamber music in all its forms; to build a broad and knowledgeable audience of all ages; to provide diverse educational opportunities; and to enhance the cultural environment of Santa Fe and New Mexico.

Proposal | Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival seeks financial support to provide private lessons for students in band, choir, guitar, and orchestra classes at Ortiz Middle School, El Camino Real Academy, Nina Otero Community School, and Capital High School in Santa Fe. The program enables students to excel on their instrument or voice and achieve honors at the local and state level. We also seek funding for Strings in Our Schools, a violin program at Ramirez Thomas Elementary and Sweeney Elementary.

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Noteworthy | CDC data shows that 44% of teens in the U.S. report feeling sad and hopeless, up from 37% in 2019. Studies prove that music education has a

Santa Fe Desert Chorale desertchorale.org

directly positive effect on mental health, well-being, and social skills. Further, studies show that music study leads adolescents into a productive, satisfying life, breaking persistent family cycles of abuse, violence, and poverty. The Dream Big Private Lesson program works one-on-one with secondary students to embolden and empower their interest in music.

Mission | To excite, engage, and inspire diverse audiences with the beauty and power of great choral music. The Santa Fe Desert Chorale sings for our common humanity, hoping to deepen our collective enjoyment and understanding of choral music by performing both traditional works of enduring excellence and modern choral pieces in programs

Santa Fe Classic Theater, Inc.

designed to highlight our common bonds and bring

santafeclassictheater.org

Proposal | Each year for the last 41 years, the Santa

us together as a community.

Fe Desert Chorale (SFDC) has performed a wide

Mission | To present and promote the works of classic playwrights, from Sophocles to Shakespeare to Simon, for multi-cultural audiences in New Mexico.

Proposal | We are seeking financial support for presentation of Shakespeare’s play each summer in “Shakespeare in the Garden: Off the Page,” a reading program of plays by classic playwrights; and a second full-length winter production. This supports local actors and local theater staff. In addition, we have taken one production on tour to northern New Mexico and hope to expand our touring in 2024 to underserved rural areas.

Noteworthy | Outside of New Mexico’s major metropolitan areas, access to theater experiences is extremely limited. Santa Fe Classic Theater brings touring productions to rural schools and community centers in northern New Mexico. In 2022, a pre-show survey at a school in Tierra Amarilla showed that 90% of student attendees had never seen a play before.

variety of summer and winter concert festivals and presented informative, interactive public talks (our Insights & Sounds Symposiums). In 2017, we began a community service project (Hearts in Harmony) that offers people experiencing homelessness the chance to create music together at the Interfaith Community Shelter. SFDC’s choral programming strengthens our community’s natural connections through music.

Noteworthy | In the U.S., choral singing is the most popular way of actively participating in the performing arts according to recent Chorus America studies (2009, 2019). Nationwide, about 12,000 community choruses perform regularly, in addition to 41,000 K-12 school choruses and 216,000 religious choirs. Tens of millions of Americans sing or have experience singing in choruses. This intimate bond we have with one another through singing is the foundation SFDC uses to expand our sense of community.

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Santa Fe International Film Festival

Santa Fe Playhouse

santafe.film

santafeplayhouse.org

Mission | Santa Fe Film Institute (SFFI) is committed

Mission | Santa Fe Playhouse creates community

to the advancement of independent film,

on stage and off by holding space for unexpected

filmmaking, support of the local community, and

conversations through intriguing and vital

underserved youth. SFFI is also the fiscal sponsor

programming. Connecting artists with audiences

of the Santa Fe International Film Festival (SFiFF),

through theater, the Playhouse engages in dialogue

which is the premiere forum for international and

to examine, uplift, challenge, and heal through the

independent cinema in the area. SFiFF serves

visceral art of performance and storytelling.

as a creative center for film year-round, provides

Proposal | We request support to raise artist

professional opportunities for artists, and presents the year’s top films each October.

Proposal | SFFI presents the Santa Fe International

compensation to a living wage, allowing for the hiring of well-trained, exciting talent; continue to support an administrative team capable of steering

Film Festival each October with over 300 hours

the Playhouse towards its successful future; and

of film programming, Q&As with over 100 visiting

developing Playhouse Studio, the vibrant educational

filmmakers, educational panels and workshops,

program for youth, emerging artists, and seasoned

and industry networking events. SFiFF’s film

professionals that inspires local talent to stay in-

programs will include International films, American

state and use their skills to enhance the arts and

Independents, the New Mexico film program, the

community of Santa Fe and beyond.

Green Earth program, and SFiFF’s world-renowned Indigenous Film program, in addition to over a dozen short film programs.

Noteworthy | According to the NM Film Office

Noteworthy | The Santa Fe Playhouse cultivates and supports locally-trained artists, encouraging them to stay in-state versus moving their expertise to other markets. The 2020 census reported that nearly

Olsberg SPI survey, only 8% of total film productions

60,000 more people moved out of New Mexico than

between 2020 and 2021 would have existed in New

moved into the state. People exiting the state went

Mexico without the state’s film incentive. While

primarily to Texas, Arizona, Nevada, and Oklahoma.

some of these remaining 92% of film productions do employ local talent, many of the larger productions use above-the-line filmmakers from out-of-state for acting, directing, and producing roles, creating an opportunity disparity for New Mexico filmmakers.

Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Inc. santafesymphony.org

Mission | To be a year-round, regional cultural resource, engaging, inspiring, and enriching the Santa Fe community audiences and cultures by performances of the highest professional quality.

Proposal | The Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra & Chorus seeks support for its upcoming 40th season, featuring 11 orchestral concerts, eight choral/ orchestral concerts, two Strata concerts, and more than 20 free concerts for children, families, and seniors. Our diverse array of programming offers live

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music to audiences of all ages and backgrounds. In fact, we offer more free concerts than paid concerts each season. The Symphony’s goal is to serve all of

SciArt Santa Fe sciartsantafe.org

Santa Fe, bringing great music to life.

Noteworthy | All concerts are available free or low-

Mission | SciArt Santa Fe supports the powerful

cost ($25 or less) to adults, seniors, and children in

exchange of ideas between the arts, sciences, and

Santa Fe. 2,500 children and thousands more adults

technology. SciArt Santa Fe 1) promotes excellence in

in Santa Fe and surrounding areas are impacted

art/science; 2) encourages freedom of thought and

by The Symphony’s programming each year. Our

imagination across disciplines; 3) spreads scientific

community programming serves a community of

and artistic literacy; and 4) celebrates diverse

people that reside in underserved areas and are

perspectives and peoples of underrepresented races,

enrolled in free and reduced-price school lunch

ethnicities, religions, genders, sexual orientations,

programs. We strive to create opportunities for

national origins, citizenship statuses and ages.

communities with limited exposure to classical music

Proposal | We seek support for a series of public art/

or the performing arts in Santa Fe.

School for Advanced Research sarsf.org

science events on the topic of Deep Time Southwest (DTSW), including conversations and walks with artists, scholars, and other practitioners that aim to encourage participants to imagine far into the future or the past — i.e. seven generations or more into the future, earth versus human timescales.

Mission | The School for Advanced Research (SAR)

DTSW will include public workshops, residencies, and

advances understanding of humanity through a

collaborative projects in north central New Mexico,

unique alchemy of creative practice and scholarly

including Santa Fe, Española, and Chaco.

research in Native American arts, anthropology, and

Noteworthy | According to Americans for the

related disciplines.

Arts, arts improve individual well-being. 69% of

Proposal | The School for Advanced Research (SAR)

the population believe the arts “lift me up beyond

is requesting support for educational programming

everyday experiences,” 73% feel the arts give them

provided by SAR’s Indian Arts Research Center (IARC).

“pure pleasure to experience,” and 81% say the arts

The IARC has for decades partnered with local Native

are a “positive experience in a troubled world.” Arts

American communities to develop and implement

unify communities. 72% of Americans believe “the

programs within the communities and also to the

arts unify our communities regardless of age, race,

general public. The programs further knowledge

and ethnicity” and 73% agree that the arts “helps me

about Native arts and culture, promote and support

understand other cultures better.”

Native artists, and celebrate the deep and complex Indigenous art and history in New Mexico.

Noteworthy | Southwest Native American art has evolved for centuries, with artists modifying

SITE Santa Fe sitesantafe.org

traditional techniques and styles to reflect changing social and environmental conditions. To strengthen support for contemporary Native American artists, it is important that the public gains an understanding of the power of the arts and creativity within these communities. There is an ongoing need for programs that provide access to Native artists and awareness of how their works contextualize present-day issues.

Mission | Guided by artists, rooted in New Mexico, SITE Santa Fe celebrates contemporary creative expression.

Proposal | We request funding to pilot our PRAXIS Program (theory + practice = praxis), a series of eight hands-on workshops taught by local arts practitioners and which we provide free of charge to

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participants. Designed to empower arts workers with

and empathy, all of which are vital for our society.

opportunities to develop career skills and explore

Data has been derived from census reports and

economic opportunities, SITE anticipates serving

socioeconomic indicators as well as reports from the

250 community members annually. Workshops will

Taos Superintendent of Schools.

be filmed, edited, and hosted on SITE’s website for a secondary audience and increased accessibility.

Noteworthy | Those who visited SITE free of charge increased by 22% over July 2022 - June

Spanish Colonial Arts Society, Inc. spanishcolonial.org

2023, demonstrating that SITE is successfully promoting its Every Day Free Admission program as a vital community-centered program and is presenting programming that is engaging to our local audiences. Local visitors account for 48% of total visits with 52% out-of-state visitors. Every Day Free Admission saved visitors $173,547 in admission fees, expanding access to contemporary art to New Mexicans and visitors.

SOMOS: Society of the Muse of the Southwest somostaos.org

Mission | SOMOS supports and nurtures the literary

Hispanic New Mexico and its living traditions.

Proposal | Founded in 1928 with the purchase of one reredos (altar screen), today Spanish Colonial Arts Society’s expansive collections are unsurpassed; its reference library draws scholars, students, and artists; and it operates from the only John Gaw Meem-designed house open to the public in Santa Fe. This combination of art, reference materials, programming, and location establishes us as the only museum in the U.S. where one can learn about the cultural heritage and living traditions of Hispanic New Mexico.

Noteworthy | We are eager to raise our visibility.

Critical to this goal (in part) is increased marketing,

arts, written and spoken, by providing both place

including hosting “open houses” for constituent

and resources for writers, readers, and learners

groups unfamiliar with our work so the public can

while honoring the cultural diversity of Taos and the

learn more about us. Of note, we also are examining

Southwest.

Proposal | 2023 marks the 30th Anniversary of our Young Writers program which serves over 500 youth in Taos County ages 10-19 by offering three distinct programs: 1) 1:1 mentoring with an adult writer and student; 2) guest writers teaching in the public schools on literary topics; and 3) a biweekly young writers group facilitated by our curators. This year we’ve initiated an annual Young Writers Conference that will be free to all youth, ages 10-19. Resources for curators, supplies, and stipends is needed.

Noteworthy | Young people are our future. Many New Mexican youth live below the poverty level and Taos County has a high rate of high school dropouts and teen pregnancies. Encouraging artistic expression in the written and spoken word has been shown to increase self-esteem, critical thinking skills,

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rebranding. “Spanish Colonial Art” no longer accurately reflects our distinctive offerings that examine the cultural convergence of northern New Mexican art forms and the critical and vibrant role we play within Santa Fe’s thriving arts community.

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Tomorrow’s Women tomorrowswomen.org

Mission | Tomorrow’s Women trains young women from Palestine, Israel, and the United States to be strong, compassionate leaders who partner to resolve

Tri-Millennial Music Makers Productions dba Tri-M Productions trimsantafe.org

conflicts and inspire action that promotes equality,

Mission | Tri-M (Millennial Music Makers) Productions

peace, and justice for all.

is a Santa Fe performing arts company devoted

Proposal | The 2024 Peace Ambassadors cohort

to creating quality professional choral/musical

will consist of up to 15 New Mexican female teens.

theater productions while providing opportunities

Participants engage in six months of peacebuilding

for the local talent of early career professionals, all

training based on Tomorrow’s Women’s signature

in a sustainable manner, in collaboration and with

methodology of compassionate listening, authentic

cooperation with the Santa Fe cultural community.

speaking, and learning the core tenets of becoming

We are seeking to continue to broaden and make

an empathetic, global leader. Participants will

more diverse both our talent and our audience.

also connect with their counterparts in Israel

Proposal | We present three full productions each

and Palestine, graduates of the Young Leader

year of great American book musicals as well as

Program, through two Transformational Encounters,

multiple benefit and outreach concerts. Funding

culminating in a community-wide art project.

will help sustain our efforts to perform timely and

Noteworthy | 37% of New Mexico high school girls

important stories that appeal and emotionally move

report experiencing persistent feelings of sadness

a diverse and broad audience, while employing

or hopelessness within the past month. Only 56% of

early career professional talent and keeping them

girls reported that “outside my home and school” an

engaged and in the Santa Fe economy.

adult really cares about me. 57% shared that “outside

Noteworthy | In three years of existence, we’ve

of my home and school” there is an adult I trust. And

employed over 70 local actors and musicians in their

only 38% stated that “outside home and school,” I am

early professional careers, establishing connections

a part of group activities.

and friendships with like-minded people that keep them in the Santa Fe economy – including seven or more local music teachers who stay and teach in our community. Patron surveys and considering future shows reveal a need to attract more diverse talent and patrons from north of Santa Fe and to expand our outreach efforts in that direction.

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Untitled New Mexico Fire Project

Vital Spaces

documentaries.org

vitalspaces.org

Mission | In the spring of 2022, the Forest Service

Mission | To sustain and enhance Santa Fe’s cultural

accidentally started the largest fire in New Mexico

vibrancy by creating affordable spaces for artists

history and, in doing so, breathed life back into

working in all media to create, present, connect,

a centuries-old conflict with the rural mountain

and teach. Our focus is on fostering a collaborative

communities there. Now unless both parties grapple

creative community and supporting people, ideas,

with a path towards healing, the land and its people

and art forms that are underrepresented in Santa

may never recover.

Fe’s commercial art scene.

Proposal | Funding would support the ongoing

Proposal | We request funding to support our

production of our feature documentary film,

operations. Contributions will enable us to continue

currently titled “Untitled New Mexico Fire Project,”

serving the community by helping pay for rent,

as we work with the communities in Mora and

insurance, salaries, benefits, and other necessary

San Miguel counties to document persistent

expenses.

flooding, reforestation efforts, and the financial and

Noteworthy | We currently have 19 studio artists

personal impacts of the ongoing recovery process for individuals impacted by the Hermit’s Peak Calf Canyon Fire.

Noteworthy | During the Hermit’s Peak/Calf Canyon

and approximately 25 exhibition artists who annually rotate through our gallery space. We expect to double the number of exhibition artists in the coming year. We are currently working with

Fire, thousands of people were displaced, 900

approximately 3,000 sq ft. of studio and exhibition

structures lost, and almost 500 square miles of forest

space converted from retail and other uses.

burned. Our director lives just 20 miles from the burn scar and this film is her earnest attempt to navigate her own place as a responsible member of a historic community and steward of the land that she loves.

Wise Fool New Mexico wisefoolnewmexico.org

Fire is a reality for everyone in New Mexico: how can we adapt and prepare? How do we ensure that we aren’t leaving communities behind in the process?

Mission | To ignite the imagination, build community, and promote social justice through performances and hands-on experiences in the arts of circus, puppetry, and theatre. We are a Social Circus organization that offers equitable access to all programs and intentionally serves the LGBTQ+, disabled, and disadvantaged communities with equal emphasis. Our extensive portfolio of youth circus arts programs enables them to express their creativity through their bodies while building a supportive peer group.

Proposal | Support our youth programs that develop their resilience. When learning how to walk on stilts or hang upside-down from a trapeze, youth build life skills such as teamwork, focus, and responsibility.

Especially during team acrobatics, they develop communication skills and learn to support their peers

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and trust their coaches. In Wise Fool’s safe space, youth gain confidence and develop a supportive peer group, regardless of ethnicity, gender, or body size.

Noteworthy | Wise Fool serves more than 1,500 youth

Zia Singers theZiaSingers.com

each year. Our education programs contribute to

Mission | To promote joy by championing the

“turning the curve” primarily by preventing youth

love and craft of choral music through public

from feeling disconnected. We want every youth to

performances, education, and outreach. Zia Singers

have access to our programs. Therefore, we provide

provides women in Santa Fe and surrounding areas

free programs at Santa Fe schools; tuition assistance

with a choral organization that fosters creating

and scholarships for anyone who expresses the need;

expression through singing, strives for musical

American Sign Language interpretation; and, most

excellence, inspires interest in the choral arts through

recently, transportation services from school to our

performance, and promotes community building

studio, adding to $30,000+ each year.

between members, audiences, and the general public.

Women’s International Study Center

Proposal | We seek funding to support production

womensinternationalstudycenter.org

work “Tuvayhun,” and the lighthearted “Mama Said”

costs for our 2023-24 concert season, which will include Kim Andre Arnesen’s original contemporary featuring music from girl groups over the decades.

Mission | Inspired by the achievements of three

The versatility of the Zia Singers will be on display this season, enhanced by soloists (local high schoolers

remarkable women, the Women’s International

and adults), instrumentalists, and partnerships with

Study Center with the support of Acequia Madre

local nonprofits whose missions are in alignment

House inspires and provides a home for work in the

with the themes of the concerts.

arts, cultural preservation, and economics through

Noteworthy | Zia Singers offers women of any

residencies and public engagement.

Proposal | The Women’s International Study Center

age/background the chance to reap the mental, emotional, and health benefits of choral singing

works in partnership with Acequia Madre House to

and shares the music with our community. The

provide a unique opportunity for the community

community also benefits from the greater civic

to engage with our fellows about cultural, artistic,

engagement of the choristers. A 2019 Chorus Impact

and historical heritage by making the Collections

Study, funded in part by the NEA, found that choral

and Archives at Acequia Madre House accessible,

singers do volunteer work in their communities (84%

relevant, and full of contemporary creative potential.

vs 69% of general public). Hence the societal value

Noteworthy | “Work by women artists makes up

of choral groups like this Zia Singers goes beyond

only 3–5% of major permanent collections in the U.S.

beautiful music.

and Europe” (Western Museum Association). We inspire and enable women to achieve their goals, with a focus on empowering women working in the arts and cultural preservation. It is our mission to continue to support female artists and in doing so to participate in creating a more equitable and representative art world.

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Civic & Economic Opportunities Result: Community is engaged and involved in local issues.

We invited requests from organizations serving Santa Fe, Mora, Rio Arriba, and/or San Miguel counties that work to improve: •

Workforce development and job creation

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Open government

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Social and economic justice

Through direct service, policy advocacy and/or collaboration efforts, priority strategies will address: •

Improving access to employment opportunities and economic advancement by low-income and other disadvantaged community members;

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Providing career counseling, job training, and other programs to low wage earners to advance their skills;

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Financial literacy training;

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Increasing community involvement in activities that will influence public policy to strenghthen communities; and/or

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Supporting public policy, civic engagement, community organizing or public information to improve and strengthen local economy.

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Alliance for Local Economic Prosperity

Armand Hammer United World College of the American West

aflep.org

uwc-usa.org

Mission | To maximize local economic prosperity by

Mission | United World College makes education a

increasing equitable access to, and opportunities for,

force to unite people, nations, and cultures for peace

financial resource.

and a sustainable future.

Proposal | Our immediate goal is to create a

Proposal | We request funding to deliver a

chartered Public Bank of New Mexico (PBNM), a

community engagement program. Funds will

tool that will promote access to increased capital to

support a Community Liaison (essential staff) and

help build thriving economies in rural communities,

transportation costs. At least 111 of our 230 students

urban neighborhoods, tribal lands, and pueblos.

plus staff perform weekly needed community

Small businesses — especially food, agricultural, and

services in Las Vegas and Santa Fe communities

alternative energy businesses — are a focus. Gaps in

amounting to 17,000 hours per year for 200 students

access to capital prevent opportunities for economic

and 7 organizations in food security, sustainable

development across New Mexico. A one-time $50

farming, peer-to-peer mental health, school-age

million capitalization for a PBNM can become $400

literacy, refugee acclimation, and healthy sports.

million in lending capacity. A PBNM responds to the whole system of lending, especially equitable access.

We request funds to 1) engagewith New Mexico departments allies to further clarify investment needs/gaps; 2) engage with community leaders/ legislators to educate/advocate for a PBNM; and 3) create a video explaining investment needs in Mora, San Miguel, and Rio Arriba counties.

Noteworthy | According to the FDIC, New Mexico banks have a 56-57% deposits/lending ratio, lower

Noteworthy | Young people are well-suited to solve complicated social problems. Between the ages of 12-25, when their brains are fast and sophisticated, teenagers and young adults are especially wired to seek new experiences and take positive risks. They can adjust easily, are naturally inquisitive, and are more likely to discover creative solutions. They’re also more willing to listen to their peers than older adults.

Young volunteers and community peers need space to communicate and innovate with each other.

than the national average, and rarely lend to small, rural businesses and agricultural needs. Several years of data document the resistance of local banks to making small loans. A Littleglobe video produced last

Assistance Dogs of the West assistancedogsofthewest.org

year depicts training young farmers can only thrive with access to strategic lending. Funding is needed for additional documentation of needs, educational literature, and production of a second video.

Mission | To build successful working partnerships between clients and dogs that empower people and open doors to new opportunities. Our mission unites individuals and teams in using the power of the human-animal bond to create greater hope, resiliency, and purposefulness across a far-reaching spectrum of services and geographies.

Proposal | Funding will support the acquisition, training, and placement of service dogs to assist people with disabilities, such as mobility impairments, autism, diabetes, seizures, TBI, PTSD

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(military/civilian), anxiety, and depression. Funding

Noteworthy | In 2023 and 2024, the New Mexico

will also support placement of facility dogs who

Corrections Department projects to release 1,599

work with professionals in the investigation and

individuals. Including Federal and County jail

prosecution of crimes against special victims. These

releases, that number could easily double. While

canines help mitigate trauma in the aftermath of

we aid a significant number of those released, a

domestic violence, sexual assault, and mass violence

sizable number of people are released directly into

incidences.

Santa Fe and surrounding areas, or will be returning

Noteworthy | For people with disabilities (28%

there shortly after release. There is a definite need

of New Mexico’s population), trained assistance

for reentry services and support in Santa Fe and

dogs provide life-changing physical and emotional

surrounding areas.

support, promote greater independence, and selfreliance, increase independent daily living, and offer unconditional love and companionship. In the Judicial System, the dogs assist special victims’

Collaborative Visions CollaborativeVisions.org

advocates in providing a safe and supportive environment for depositions, mediation and trial preparation and testimony.

Best Chance bestchancenm.org

Mission | Collaborative Visions provides a spectrum of resources including network building, technical assistance, facilitation, training, and support securing financial resources so that northern New Mexico rural communities can achieve their goals and visions as they weave together a strong web of regional relationships.

Mission | Best Chance is a peer-led, clinically

Proposal | We are in need of operational funds.

supervised wellness drop-in center that provides

Following the Hermits Peak/Calf Canyon Fire, there

basic needs, case management, and transition

is a great need for community organizing and

planning. We help men and women leaving prison

disaster planning activities. Collaborative Visions has

and those experiencing homelessness and behavioral

partnered with the Rural Community Assistance

health issues transition to rewarding lives in the

Corporation to organize and facilitate placemaking

community. We work to reduce recidivism by

and disaster planning workshops so that we have a

encouraging meaningful employment and the ability

plan in place to pursue funding needs identified by

to cope with the stress of “life on the outside.”

the community to make Mora a resilient and better

Proposal | Each year, Best Chance serves more than

place for the future.

400 individuals recently released from incarceration.

Noteworthy | Mora County lost an estimated

They experience serious mental illness, traumatic

150 homes and over 100,000 acres of timber and

brain injuries, and other challenges. They come to

grasslands, a tragedy for local families who are

us homeless; we help them establish safe housing.

dependent on destroyed forest lands as their primary

People come to us unemployed; we help them find

income. Mora County has a median household

meaningful work. Men and women come to us

income of a little over $28,000 ($63,000 national

feeling hopeless; we help them establish a sense of

average) and a poverty rate of 21.2%. There are new

dignity and optimism. We are requesting funding to

job training opportunitiesthat will provide higher-

establish an office and expand our services into Santa

paying jobs for locals.

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Congregation Nahalat Shalom

Creative Santa Fe

nahalatshalom.org

creativesantafe.org

Mission | Nahalat Shalom is a welcoming, inclusive

Mission | Creative Santa Fe drives positive change

congregation that inspires understanding of the

through creativity and collaboration to promote

joys, practices, and ethics of Judaism and nurtures

cross-cultural vibrancy and economic vitality.

spiritual growth. We are a spiritual and cultural

Proposal | We are seeking general operating funds

center for Jewish Renewal in the Southwest. We affirm and support the discovery and exploration of our diverse identities and heritages. We cultivate and live our Judaism through worship, learning, dialogue, joyful celebrations, community involvement, arts, music, and dance.

Proposal | Nahalat Shalom provides essential

to continue all of our programs, which includes public events, design collaborations, and community education. Our programs provoke trans-disciplinary conversations, raise visibility, and generate creative solutions to issues affecting the entire community.

Our collaborative approach invites diverse voices and creative tension, challenging siloed thinking, in order

community programming through a Jewish cultural

to bridge the divides and strengthen the social fabric

lens to all New Mexicans. We are the only synagogue

of our community.

in the state coming from a renewal perspective:

Noteworthy | The primary problem we aim to

we embrace inclusivity, music, arts, and individual approaches to spiritual and cultural questions.

We provide events for Jews, non-Jews, and folks questioning and exploring their Jewish identity. We hope our unique approach and hospitality can foster equity, vibrancy, and connection throughout the state.

Noteworthy | In a 2014 survey, the American Jewish Foundation found that 59% of New Mexican Jews

tackle is social division and exclusion, a condition that inhibits conversations for re-imagining a more inclusive, livable world. From a recent BBER report commissioned by the City of Santa Fe: 70% of growth in Santa Fe is from migration, driving up housing prices and displacing locals. With the current median home price well over $500,000, the majority of families cannot afford to buy homes. This structural inequality inhibits conditions for sustaining diversity.

found being Jewish to be very important to them compared to 46% nationally. Brandeis University estimates there are between 14,000-19,000 Jews in New Mexico and the majority live in Bernalillo (55%)

El Rito Public Library elritolibrary.org

and Santa Fe (23%) counties. There are an unknown number of folks with Judeo-Spanish heritage, descendants of Jews forced to convert during the Spanish inquisition, who have resided in New Mexico for many centuries.

Mission | To further the aims of education for the public by serving as a portal through which individuals and families may obtain information and acquire skills and experience for enlightenment, enjoyment, and empowerment.

Proposal | Residents of El Rito drive at least 14 miles for limited choices for groceries. It is 30 miles to a wider selection of food options. We live in a genuine food desert where many residents also struggle with poverty. All library events have a food component, either by pot-luck or provided by the library. We have a kitchen that is much in need of upgrades. We need a new sink, countertops, cabinets, and more food

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prep space. We also need more financial support for food purchases our programs.

Noteworthy | Rio Arriba County figures for food

Homewise, Inc. homewise.org

insecurity show 15.8% of residents are affected (and 24% of children). Additionally, this county

Mission | To help create successful homeowners and

has an overall poverty rate of 24.1% with 28.9 % of

strengthen neighborhoods so that individuals and

children affected by this poverty (https://sharenm.

families can improve their long-term financial well-

s3.amazonaws.com/library/).

being and quality of life.

Future Focused Education futurefocusededucation.org

Proposal | | Since 1986, Homewise has been helping people achieve their homeownership goals. We do this by focusing on our customers and placing their long-term financial well-being as the highest priority.

We believe that strong homeowners help build

Mission | To create healthier and more prosperous communities by advancing the best education for the students who need it the most. FFE envisions schools as sites of innovation and opportunity, where students become the creators of healthy and more

healthy, vibrant communities. Homewise helps lowto-moderate income individuals and families achieve successful and affordable homeownership through no-cost financial literacy and homebuyer education classes, offered in-person and online.

prosperous communities.

Noteworthy | According to the 2019 Survey of

Proposal | New Mexico’s young people need

Consumer Finances, the median wealth of White

workforce skills to compete in careers wrought by the pandemic, technological growth, and demographic shifts. We request funding to scale Future Focused Education’s X3 and Next paid internship programs for underserved post-secondary youth in Santa Fe in collaboration with Communities In Schools, College & Career Plaza, Santa Fe Public Schools, Santa Fe Community College, and diverse employers.

Noteworthy | As a result of COVID-19, workers under age 25 — concentrated in low-skill jobs — experienced the greatest employment loss of any demographic (NCCI “Research Brief,” 2021). Time,

families was five times that of Hispanic or Latino families and eight times that of Black families.

Homeownership is one of the most important ways that Americans create financial security and build wealth, which are critical to a family’s well-being and quality of life. Home equity is a large percentage of most families’ wealth. As a result, increasing minority homeownership is crucial to narrowing this disparity.

Innovate-Educate NM innovate-educate.org

money, and social capital are all major hurdles for youth in accessing traditional career preparatory

Mission | Innovate+Educate NM focuses on skill-

programming, which Future Focused Education aims

based training and hiring strategies for high-need

to address with quality paid internships.

populations to prepare individuals for gainful, fulfilling jobs. For 15 years, Innovate+Educate has been creating new employment pathways for workers based on skills and competencies. We leverage the best practices and strategies from Fortune 500 companies to local businesses and apply this knowledge directly to benefit New Mexico young adults and those who have been previously incarcerated and are re-entering society.

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Proposal | Innovate+Educate serves as the thought

Noteworthy | Fire suppression practices of the last

leader and launching pad for a new endeavor, the

100+ years, along with climate change-induced

Entrepreneurial Institute of Northern NM (EINNM).

drought, have increased the risk of catastrophic

EINNM is a workforce training re-entry program

wildfire throughout the United States. Catastrophic

focused on the restaurant and hospitality industry.

wildfires threaten lives, livelihoods and property. This

EINNM provides workforce training, community

increased fire risk cries out for trained individuals

support, and has experts that have lived experiences

in pre- and post-fire forest, land, and structure

to support the candidates as they navigate into

restoration.

society from incarceration. We are collaborating with the NNEDC and WIN training grant for healthcare and trades.

Noteworthy | New Mexico has one of the highest risk

MAKE Santa Fe makesantafe.org

populations in the U.S., if not the highest. Each year, at least 49,000 different people are booked into local jails in New Mexico. The current probation and parole population totals 12,979. There are few supports in place for housing, employment, or educational offerings to help this large population once they leave the system. Our research and meeting with judges across northern New Mexico has indicated a tremendous void in workforce training.

Luna Community College Foundation luna.edu/lcc_foundation

Mission | MAKE Santa Fe is a community workspace providing access to tools, technologies, training, and resources that energize and empower craft, creativity, entrepreneurship, and opportunity throughout northern New Mexico and beyond.

Proposal | Using self-directed, project-based learning, MAKE teaches the software and tool skills necessary to create and execute new designs using computer-controlled machines such as 3D printers, routers, and plasma cutters, along with more traditional skills such as wood, metal, and textile working. Funding will subsidize course tuition so that any community member can access high-quality classes, well-maintained and safe tools, and a ready support network for their activities.

Mission | To raise and manage private resources that

Noteworthy | Currently, MAKE Santa Fe offers

support the educational mission and priorities of

three to six workshops a week, providing over 200

the College, provide opportunities for students, and

community workshops and class programs each

enhance institutional excellence in ways that are not

year. Class sizes range from four to eight participants,

possible with state funds.

resulting in an expected reach of 800-1000

Proposal | The Hermits Peak/Calf Canyon Fire burned

individuals over the course of the year. Community

over 340,000 acres in Mora and San Miguel counties.

workshops and training programs are funded 45%

The fire impacted small, rural communities that

through membership and workshop fees and 55%

largely depend on a land-use economy. Creating

through grants and other fundraising initiatives.

a Heritage Trades and Wildfire Resiliency Training Center at Luna Community College will provide trade skills needed for the restoration of our communities.

These skills are highly marketable, and this training will diminish a fire-generated population exodus and enhance workforce and economic viability in rural communities.

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New Mexico Friends of Foster Children

New Mexico Local News Fund nmlocalnews.org

nmffc.org

Mission | To grow the ecosystem of local news across Mission | To meet identified needs of children and youth who experience state or tribal foster care across New Mexico in order to strengthen their sense of community and help them thrive. By funding basic needs and education beyond state-provided support as well as common childhood activities, equipment, and experiences, we are striving to improve the outcomes for the almost 2,000 children who are in care at any given time in New Mexico.

Proposal | Your support funds direct assistance to children and youth in foster care, helping them have the experiences of childhood and grow towards adulthood. Specific examples include being able to shop for their own clothes, celebrating their birthdays, practicing money management, playing an instrument, going to a museum, and having support as they pursue their post-high school plans.

Noteworthy | As a study on outcomes states, “children who leave care continue to struggle in all areas (education, employment, income, housing, health, substance abuse and criminal involvement) compared to their peers from the general population.” (Source: Sciencedirect) A foster youth who received support from our programs told us, “[NMFFC] is honestly one of the very few resources that we have in New Mexico, and it’s very important that we try to keep our community full of people that

our state to better serve the information needs of all New Mexicans. To accomplish that ambitious goal, we work with both existing newsrooms and trusted community organizations to build programs and networks that will ensure diverse individuals and communities have the information they need to thrive.

Proposal | The New Mexico Local News Fund aims to launch a new incubator program to support news startups in rural and urban news deserts. We also aim to increase the number of fellowships in our program that place recent journalism graduates in local newsrooms. We are also looking for longterm support for our collaboration of Southern New Mexico newsrooms to cover economic development issues post-pandemic.

Noteworthy | New Mexico has five counties with no newspapers and 21 counties with only one newspaper, according to news deserts research at the University of North Carolina. We are aiming to strengthen existing local news publishers while helping support new publications to cover rural towns and urban neighborhoods that are currently underserved. During the wildfires last spring, four out of seven of the most affected counties had zero newspapers, and the other three counties only had one newspaper to cover them.

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NMCAN nmcan.org

outstanding singers and musicians.

Proposal | We have no staff. Our director and founder runs the whole company herself. A retired opera singer, her passion to give back is what makes this

Mission | NMCAN partners with young people to

company exist. We need funds to hire an assistant

build community, promote equity, and lead change.

and a stage manager, and we desperately need

We authentically engage young people impacted

funds to pay singers and orchestra members. Raising

by foster care, the juvenile justice system, and/or

money has been very difficult especially as we don’t

homelessness to advocate for systems change that

charge much. We want everyone to enjoy opera.

improves their transition to adulthood and positively

Noteworthy | We are struggling, only this past

transforms our community.

opera put us over the $50,000 threshold. Although

Proposal | NMCAN believes all young people

we barely survived the pandemic, we hope to build

are leaders and should be able to participate in

and continue to offer this high-level opera for low

leadership activities as they learn and build skills

admission. Up until now, we were only $20 however

along the way. Our programming ensures their

we need help to pay the orchestra ($10,000 just for

voices are heard. We offer trainings to young

a 13 pc. chamber orchestra). We pay our singers and

people in subjects such as communication, time

house them but we would need support to pay them

management, public speaking, advocacy, and more.

a more competitive amount.

Young people develop hard and soft skills as they become advocates and navigate personal goals around education and careers.

Noteworthy | The Social Science Research Council

Prosperity Works prosperityworks.net

reports that 16.5% of New Mexico youth are disconnected, defined as young people between the ages of 16-24 who are not in school and not working. They are more likely than their peers to not complete their education, become unemployed, and experience homelessness. In Albuquerque, 13.9% of youth are disconnected. Disconnected youth are largely those impacted by the foster care and juvenile justice systems.

Opera West

prosperity for all New Mexicans.

Proposal | Prosperity Works focuses on helping New Mexicans build and protect assets. We do this using financial tools like matched savings accounts, emergency loans and emergency savings accounts.

We also protect these assets through our policy work that ensures that assets that low-income New Mexicans build are not taken away through predatory

operawest.org

practices. We believe in a New Mexico where

Mission | Opera West is a professional chamber

get out of poverty and to end poverty. The poverty

opera company in Santa Fe. We present fully staged,

rate in New Mexico is 18.2% and is the third highest

costumed operas with professional chamber

in the US. Helping New Mexicans access financial

orchestra and include children and teens in the

capability coaching and training while being paired

community to participate and learn what opera is

with a matched savings account helps families get

and meet the pros. We cast across the nation with

out of poverty.

no age limit, we cast all races. “Opera for all” at an affordable price. Our tickets start at just $25 for adults and only $15 for students, while featuring

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Mission | To build the capacity of organizations and advocate for policies that generate economic

everyone has the chance to build financial freedom.

Noteworthy | Prosperity Works helps New Mexicans

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Rio Grande Community Development Corporation

Santa Fe Business Incubator sfbi.net

rgcdc.org

Mission | The Santa Fe Business Incubator (SFBI) Mission | To build stronger and healthier

helps local entrepreneurs launch and grow

communities by serving as a trusted and accessible

create new jobs, increase our tax base, and diversify

hub for co-developing economic and social opportunities that promote self-sufficiency, honor cultural diversity, and foster intergenerational prosperity.

Proposal | The Rio Grande Community Development Corporation (RGCDC) collaborates with over 50 organizations to build an equitable food system in New Mexico. We believe it will foster sustainable communities, promote social justice, and address the challenges faced by underinvested individuals and families across the state. Our Delicious New Mexico initiative, which is our funding request, addresses the fragmented supply chain that hinders market access for small-scale producers by creating an accessible transportation infrastructure for underinvested food enterprises.

Noteworthy | According to NMSU’s Rural Economic report, rural farm returns in income in crops and livestock sales have remained flat. Rural counties such as Mora, Rio Arriba, and San Miguel have some of the highest rates of poverty and slow employment growth. 23.5% of Mora, and 22% of Rio Arriba residents are living in poverty. Delicious New Mexico allows us to reach small farmers in northern New Mexico facing economic challenges and helps to build sustainable businesses to lift families out of poverty.

successful businesses. These emerging companies our economy, enhancing the quality of life for all in our community.

Proposal | This request will support the ongoing general activities of SFBI to assist the formation and retention of new businesses, new jobs, an expanded tax base, and new revenue in the community in an area that is one of the poorest in the City of Santa Fe. It will be used to maintain the facility and infrastructure that houses the start-ups, the shared space and equipment that helps them launch, and the training and consulting programs that help them become viable sustainable businesses.

Noteworthy | The community needs that SFBI addresses are new high-wage skilled jobs; creation and expansion of stable businesses; support for innovative firms that attract capital, revenue and broadening the tax base; diversifying a local economy long reliant on low-wage service jobs; offering opportunities to low-income, minority, women and disadvantaged entrepreneurs; encouraging entrepreneurship for young people and workers in transition; and leveraging the technology assets of national labs and universities.

Santa Fe Data Platform Fund santafedata.org

Mission | The Santa Fe Data Platform (SFDP) supports smart public policy, sound use of taxpayer dollars, and innovative strategies to grow the economy. A collaboration of public and private funders launched this project in 2019 to support data-based decision-making for the future health, prosperity, and equity of Santa Fe. The platform is currently comprised of four dashboards: Our Residents and Visitors, Public Health, Economy and

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Innovation, and Climate Resilience and Sustainability.

Noteworthy | We are creating an event for New

Proposal | Leaders and constituents need data

Mexico’s Rail Safety Week that focuses on different

to make better-informed decisions for legislation,

safety aspects. We are collaborating with the

economic growth, equity, health programs, and

Railrunner and Sky Rail on the event. We are in

appropriations. We are working with hospitals,

need funding for materials likes t-shirts, giveaways,

businesses, hotels, foundations, nonprofits, schools,

posters, and more.

and other institutions to use the SFDP to make the best possible decisions to run and grow their enterprises, recruit and house employees, and demand government accountability on issues that

Santa Fe Recovery Center sfrecovery.org

matter most.

Noteworthy | Over the past four years, we have proven that data enhances all aspects of civic life through greater government transparency, increased accountability, and for a safer, healthier, and more efficient community. Funding for this project creates a multifold benefit to our partners and funders as well as the constituents and grantees of our funders.

This year we plan to create webinars and in-person workshops to further our reach and help foundation

Mission | Santa Fe Recovery Center works with individuals to sustain lasting recovery from substance use disorders and related mental health disorders, by providing culturally relevant evidence-based treatment and education in partnership with other community organizations.

Proposal | Santa Fe Recovery Center is hosting the Rally4Recovery — a community event celebrating

partners provide their grantees’ access to data.

people in recovery from substance use disorder.

Santa Fe Railyard Community Corporation

that support mental health and overall wellness. The

railyardsantafe.com

Also participating are community organizations event serves to highlight services available to those in recovery and normalize the recovery experience and counter societal stigma. We are requesting funding to help cover event logistics including associated costs for marketing, vendors, etc.

Mission | To transform the historical Railyard into a sustainable and inviting public space for recreational,

substance use disorder (SUD). We have the highest

social, artistic, and commercial activities in a way

number of alcohol-related deaths in the U.S. It

that embraces Santas Fe’s cultural and historical

is estimated that 60% of people who need SUD

significance and upholds the community’s vision.

treatment do not receive it. Substance use disorder

Proposal | Santa Fe Railyard Community Corporation

impacts everyone in our community whether directly

(SFRCC) manages the daily operations of the Railyard.

With the increasing density and popularity of events in the Railyard, along with the addition of Sky Rail and increased schedule of the Railrunner, New Mexico’s commuter train, rail safety has become a priority for us. We are Operation Lifesaver Authorized Volunteers and have the ability to train individuals and groups on rail safety. September 20-26 is New Mexico’s Rail Safety Week.

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Noteworthy | One in 10 adults in New Mexico has a

or indirectly. Our event seeks to celebrate those in recovery and decrease stigma around SUD and related mental illness. We also hope to normalize seeking treatment and provide information for those who need it.

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Truchas Services Center, Inc. truchasservicescenter.org

University of New Mexico Foundation, Inc. unmfund.org

Mission | To provide leadership, administration, and organization for community action programs serving children, youth, families, adults, and senior citizens, and develop community as a means of uniting the diverse cultures of the region in a common goal of community improvement and education.

Proposal | Truchas Services Center provides the only public services available to the community of Truchas and surrounding villages. We operate a full-service library and preschool, and provide a variety of adult classes and food distribution. We provide a summer program for six to 12 year-olds, including science and art programs. There are no stores in this entire area, no jobs except at our community center, and no local schools. We provide a sense of community for all ages. We are requesting funding for all our programs, including the maintenance of facilities that serve the entire community and surroundings areas.

Noteworthy | Our library resources include 11,000 books, 200 audio books, 1300 DVDs, and 456 VHS tapes. We provide seven public computers and FAX, copy, and notary services. The preschool is open four days a week and we have nine children enrolled with three teachers. Last summer, we had over 20 local six to 12 year-olds in our science and art program. Library visits dropped during the pandemic. In a typical year, we have about 4,000 patron visits at the library, plus several community meetings and book readings.

Mission | The University of New Mexico’s Anderson School of Management engages students in its comprehensive educational, research, and service programs. Anderson School seeks to transform New Mexico’s economy by building and supporting entrepreneurship. To do this, we sponsor incubators for ideas, businesses, and people. We believe solutions can be found when people with different backgrounds and skills work together on real problems, while addressing the needs of local businesses and our community.

Proposal | | The University of New Mexico (UNM) Center for Responsible Entrepreneurship would like to create a mentorship program to connect small businesses and entrepreneurs from Santa Fe and northern New Mexico with students from UNM’s Business for Good Clinic. Funding would help offset the cost of the start-up logistics of the program.

Noteworthy | There are nine certified B Corporations in New Mexico. Taos Ski Valley (TSV) is the only B Corporation in northern New mexico. TSV is a successful model of a certified B Corp and UNM Anderson School of Management has collaborated on projects with them. For example, we wrote a case study about TSV’s sustainability efforts, which will be featured in a textbook. Northern New Mexico has the capacity and the mindset to grow the number of socially responsible businesses based on the 500 participants at the networking events.

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we.grow.eco wegroweco.org

Women’s Economic SelfSufficiency Team wesst.org

Mission | we.grow.eco is a coalescent frontline organization, fiscally sponsored by the New Mexico Community Foundation. Our mission is to support and facilitate unifying actions that promote healthy relationships between humans and environment.

We are building an action-oriented coalition focused on litter reduction through the lens of art, education, and conservation.

Proposal | Our projects are focused community unifying events, conservation, and education. They share a common thread that, if implemented and managed properly, can create civic and economic shifts that both strengthen our hope for a more sustainable future and build the resources and capacities that will ensure these hopes are met.

These funds will allow us to continue to develop our civilian science project education program and create job opportunities through our annual eco job & volunteer fair.

Noteworthy | Our goal is to encourage gradeschool students in classroom settings to pick up and document at least one piece of litter per day for three weeks each school year through our civilian science project “one piece a day” and produce quantitative feedback in the form of a dataset of litter that can be used through legal and policy action. So far, we have picked up and documented over 50,000 pieces of litter though education programs and community unifying events.

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Mission | To be a home to entrepreneurs. The Women’s Economic Self-Sufficiency Team (WESST) provides consulting, training, and lending to our clients so they can successfully strengthen and grow their businesses through sustainable sales, financial knowledge, and job creation.

Proposal | Diverse entrepreneurs experience historical barriers to starting and growing a business, including lack of generational wealth, education, financial literacy, and other systemic factors. WESST serves diverse entrepreneurs across New Mexico who need training, consultation, and access to capital to support the start-up and growth of their small and micro businesses. WESST respectfully requests funding to support our work with diverse entrepreneurs in our Santa Fe Women’s Business Center.

Noteworthy | In New Mexico, 88.4% have fewer than 20 employees and 60% fewer than five employees.

Between 2020-2021, 36% of New Mexico’s small businesses closed. Given the significant impact of small business on New Mexico’s economy and the disproportionate impact COVID-19 and the 2022 fires had on small businesses — particularly those owned by people of color — it is more critical than ever that small and microbusiness owners receive technical support to grow sustainable businesses.

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YouthWorks, Inc. santafeyouthworks.org

Noteworthy | In 2023-24, we are in an exciting expansion phase to construct the Social Justice Kitchen and Cafe on Cerrillos Road. The project will solidify our largest job training track, the Culinary

Mission | To remain dedicated to helping youth and young adults develop the necessary life skills to become active, productive participants in their community. YouthWorks specializes in comprehensive programs designed to assist youth in developing social, leadership, and job skills, and to expand access to education, training, and work opportunities to achieve personal resiliency, productivity, and lifelong success. We serve over 1,200 youth per year in accessing resources, training, and education.

Proposal | We formed in 2001 to fill the gaps in services and programs in northern New Mexico for disconnected, marginalized youth. YouthWorks

Arts Training Program and Catering Social Enterprise, that we created in 2008 to instill relevant local labormarket culinary arts skills in youth and young adults.

The program has grown immensely, training over 60 youth per year, leading YouthWorks to the buildout of its own commercial training and production kitchen and cafe in our own facility. We recently launched a $1.5 million capital campaign to support the effort, allowing us to bring the Culinary Arts Program into one centrally located, state-of-the-art facility, continue youth training, providing thousands daily emergency meals to children, families and the homeless, and expand our catering and cafe social enterprises. We are excited to welcome new partners.

serves youth presenting as 94% low-income, 76% Hispanic, 3% Native American, 65% male, 33% female, and 2% other with 40% housing insecure.

Opportunity Youth — young people not working or in school — are at much higher risk of homelessness and sustained poverty without positive, practical intervention. We seek funding for our comprehensive programs that assist youth in developing leadership and workforce skills and open educational opportunities that generate youths’ stability and future success.

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Education Result: All children and youth succeed in education and are prepared for a career.

We invited requests from organizations serving Santa Fe, Mora, Rio Arriba, and/or San Miguel counties that work to improve: •

School readiness

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Reading proficiency

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Math proficiency

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High school graduation rates

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Opportunity youth* engagement (*Youth ages 12-29 struggling with school, not in school, and/or not working)

Through direct service, policy advocacy and/or collaboration efforts, priority strategies will address: •

Integrated student and family supports for at risk/vulnerable populations with strong place-based solutions supported by network of caring and appropriately trained adult and peer relationship;

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Access to quality, affordable early childhood education and out-of-school (after school and summer) opportunities

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Targeted interventions to close the academic achievement gaps across key milestones from birth to career;

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Work-based learning and career technical education through real life and personally relevant education, including career exploration and alternative pathway opportunities; and/or

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Educator/provider/family training & support so they can be strong advocates and supporters for children/students’ success – especially in high need areas.

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50CAN, Inc. dba NewMexicoKidsCAN

AAUW Tech Trek NM techtrek-nm.aauw.net

nmkidscan.org

Mission | AAUW Tech Trek NM is a STEM (Science, Mission | NewMexicoKidsCAN serves as a catalyst and conduit to advocate for community-informed, student-centered, and research-backed education policies that work best for the children of New Mexico. By connecting policy, instructional practice, and politics, we reimagine what is possible in New Mexico’s public education system.

Proposal | With your support, NewMexicoKidsCAN will empower parents as advocates for their children through engagement, training and calls to action; educate the public and decision makers through research reports, our nonpartisan education news site, NMEducation.org, and our podcast New Mexico Rising; and push for student-centered policies that improve reading and math proficiency and close the

Technology, Engineering, Math) summer camp designed to develop interest, excitement, and selfconfidence in New Mexico girls who will enter eighth grade in the Fall. Tech Trek NM features hands-on activities in STEM-related fields taught by women role-models and typically takes place on a university campus in New Mexico.

Proposal | We are requesting funds to support approximately three rising eighth grade girls from Mora, San Miguel, Santa Fe and Rio Arriba counties at a week-long summer STEM Camp to help them be prepared for the opportunities and demands of the increasingly technological twenty-first century.

Inherent in that statement is a required proficiency in reading and math.

achievement gaps in our state.

Noteworthy | According to the Bureau of Labor

Noteworthy | We are in a literacy crisis, with

Statistics, women make up 28% of the current STEM

assessments showing only one in three New Mexico students are proficient readers. In response, NewMexicoKidsCAN (1) released a Literacy Toolkit to help parents ensure their children receive highquality reading instruction; (2) launched the New

workforce (Black women 9% and Hispanic/Latina women 7% of that 28%) and they earn 83 cents for every $1.00 a man earns. Yet, STEM supports 56% of the jobs in New Mexico.

literacy in New Mexico; and (3) advanced bill HB481,

ARCC: Awareness, Resilience, Clarity and Compassion

which incentivizes districts to use high-quality

awaresilient.com

Mexico Literacy Action Center, an online hub to empower parents to take actionable steps to improve

instructional materials.

Mission | We empower adolescents and their families with mindful self-compassion trainings. These trainings build skills of awareness of suffering and ways of emotionally regulating, shown by thousands of studies to support teens and adults to build resilience, mitigate anxiety and depression, improve motivation, reinforce boundary setting, and teach practical skills in relating to self and others with more kindness, warmth, and care.

Proposal | ARCC will provide mindful selfcompassion courses for students in Santa Fe Public Schools, at Mandela International Magnet School,

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as a pilot, providing skills around Doing Challenging

Noteworthy | In 2022, 21.3% of persons with a

Things. Youth today face all of the challenges of

disability were employed. With the Navajo Nation’s

adolescence known to previous generations and so

invitation and support, Best Buddies New Mexico

many more related to lingering effects of the COVID

Pre-ETS had a one-week intensive last year in Gallup

pandemic, school shootings, global climate change,

at their regional Project SEARCH site, the Hilton

gender dysphoria, and social media impacts. Tools of

Garden Inn. Rural and Indigenous-backed immersive

mindful self-compassion create resilience.

Pre-ETS delivery is critical in the state and we to be

Noteworthy | High school graduation is more

at the forefront of this work in northern New Mexico.

complex than ever before. Suicide is now the second

The numbers speak to the need — 128 students in

leading cause of death among teens. Almost all teens

2022 and 72 in 2023 served — as of July 1.

(95%) ages 13 to 17 use social media: more than one in

ado­les­cents are linked to adverse effects, includ­ing

Big Brothers Big Sisters Mountain Region

depres­sion and anx­i­ety, inad­e­quate sleep, low self-

bbbsmountainregion.org

three report­using it “almost con­stant­ly.” Numer­ous stud­ies show higher lev­els of social media use among

esteem, poor body image, eat­ing dis­or­der behav­iors, and online harass­ment.

Mission | To create professionally supported one-to-

Best Buddies New Mexico

one mentoring relationships that ignite the power

bestbuddies.org/newmexico

guidance of life-changing mentorships, all youth can

and promise of youth. Our vision is that through the achieve their potential. Research shows that children

Mission | We are dedicated to establishing a global volunteer movement that creates opportunities for one-to-one friendships, integrated employment, leadership development, and inclusive living for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD).

Proposal | Best Buddies Pre-Employment Training Program is designed for students aged 14-21 with IDD and includes workshops and activities focused on self-advocacy and leadership skill development for the workplace, exploration of work interests and relevant employment opportunities, and engagement in critical job readiness skills. Our hope is for this program to increase the likelihood of long-term employment for people with IDD. Employment training, experiential learning, and corporate mentorship help students prepare to enter the workforce.

matched in our program are 90% more likely to do well in school, 46% less likely to use drugs or alcohol, and 89% less likely to make bad decisions.

Proposal | Big Brothers Big Sisters Mountain Region (BBBS) seeks funding to expand and enhance vital mentoring services to youth in Rio Arriba, Mora, San Miguel, and Santa Fe counties through our Big Futures Campaign. Funding will boost operations in northern New Mexico communities and extend services to rural and tribal regions. Focus includes recruiting caring volunteers to serve as mentors for children in our school and community programs and in our Outdoor Mentoring and Bigs with Badges (first responders) initiatives.

Noteworthy | Children need connection now more than ever, yet one in three of all children are growing up without a positive role model outside of their family. Research has long demonstrated that youth benefit from close, caring relationships with positive adult role models. Mentored youth fared better than those without mentors in emotional well-being, social relationships, academic attitudes, and selfreported grades. Also notable were reductions in depression symptoms.

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BOOKKIDS bookkidssantafe.com

Proposal | Breakthrough Santa Fe requests funds to support our ongoing work with young people who will be first in their families to go to college.

We provide a six-year intensive academic program,

Mission | To promote literacy and the love of reading for northern New Mexico’s children.

Proposal | Bookkids will provide about 10,000 free books to 2,000 children in six K-6 and K-8 public schools in Santa Fe in 2023-24. Increased funding will allow us to provide more books in Spanish and for seventh and eighth graders this year, as these books cost more than English-language books and K-6 books. Schools are selected for this program based on reading proficiency levels, number of English language learners, and family poverty levels,

one-on-one college counseling, tutoring services, and advocacy support for students and their families.

Please help us close the college access gap in Santa Fe!

Noteworthy | According to the 2020 Pell Institute’s “Indicators of Higher Education Equity in the United States,” 20% of New Mexican low-income students enroll in college.

Cañones Early Childhood Center

as indicated by proportion of students qualifying for free lunch.

Mission | To interrupt the cycles of rural isolation

Noteworthy | 80-90% of the children Bookkids serves

and poverty by reaching out to preschool children

are reading below grade level; studies show that

and their families, fostering confidence, a positive

children who are not reading by third grade will likely

cultural identity, and a basic, literacy-rich foundation

not graduate from high school. Children who grow

for future achievement in school. The Cañones Early

up in homes with at least 20 books get on average

Childhood Center is a small nonprofit that brings

three years more schooling than children in bookless

early childhood education, child development,

homes. Kids who read with parents or caregivers for

and emergent literacy services to an underserved

20 minutes each night are likely to score 90% better

population of rural, isolated, minority families in

than their peers by middle school.

northern New Mexico.

Breakthrough Santa Fe breakthroughsantafe.org

Proposal | In order to interrupt the impact of rural isolation and poverty, the Cañones Early Childhood Center is seeking funding to continue to provide family‐centered child development, early/emergent literacy services, and school readiness to an

Mission | Breakthrough Santa Fe supports motivated public middle school students whose identities have

underserved population of rural, isolated preschool children living in northern New Mexico.

historically been excluded from higher education

Noteworthy | New Mexico’s children are among

on their path to college. In addition, the program

the least likely in the nation to find opportunities

provides high school and college-age young adults

for success. Substandard academic performance

with a rewarding experience as teachers and

and high rates of dropping out, drug and alcohol

mentors.

addiction, unemployment, and other issues impact the state’s children at unacceptable levels (Daniels Fund 2015). The area targeted by this project has no Headstart, PreK, or other early childhood programs, and, in addition, no libraries.

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College and Career Plaza collegecareerplaza.org

Communities in Schools New Mexico cisnm.org

Mission | To provide high school students with the culturally and linguistically relevant college and career guidance and mentorship support they need and deserve to become active, engaged, and thriving adults living and working in Santa Fe and Rio Arriba counties.

Proposal | College and Career Plaza (CCP) respectfully requests funding to continue providing bilingual college and career guidance and educational programming to students and families on-site at our five partner schools in northern New Mexico. CCP now has 5,000 students within our purview and is in need of additional staffing to ensure that all enrolled students ninth to twelfth grade have consistent and convenient access to CCP’s 1:1 guidance, workshops, college and career events, and presentations.

Noteworthy | New Mexico consistently ranks #50 out of 50 in the country for K-12th grade education and the overall high school graduation rate in New Mexico is low at 79%. This means that high school counselors in northern New Mexico continue to remain focused on enrollment, attendance, and graduation.

At two CCP partner schools, counselors will have

Mission | To surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.

Proposal | Communities In Schools of New Mexico works inside northern New Mexico’s high-poverty public schools to ensure that all students — regardless of socio-economic status — have the support, resources, and guidance they need to stay in school and achieve in life.

Noteworthy | Per the U.S. Census (2021), 18.2% of Santa Fe County families with children under 18 live in poverty. Annie E. Casey Foundation researchers have found that children growing up in poverty suffer disproportionately from Adverse Childhood Experiences (hunger, housing instability, abuse, neglect, family dysfunction, and exposure to violence) and are five times more likely to drop out of school than their more fortunate peers.

Del Norte LOV Foundation delnortelovfoundation.org

400+ students in their caseloads this year. CCP’s on site staff work to fill the gap by ensuring students

Mission | To improve the lives of youth and families

have access to critical supports.

in New Mexico.

Proposal | The Del Norte LOV Foundation (DNLF) is an independent foundation associated with Del Norte Credit Union, and is an employee-driven 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization. Our support programs include scholarships, employee giving, community grants, financial literacy, sponsorships, and community engagement. The DNLF is respectfully requesting funding to support the expansion of the DNLF Financial Literacy program in Santa Fe, Rio Arriba, and Mora counties.

Noteworthy | According to the 2023 Kids County Data Book from The Annie E. Casey Foundation, New Mexico is ranked last for child well-being, last in education, and 48th in family and community in

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the United States. The DNLF has provided financial literacy curriculum and content, sponsoring 92 schools. We have 251 teachers signed up and have

Eleanor Daggett Memorial Library eleanaordaggett.booksys.net

educated over 14,320 students ages eight through 22.

Particularly, 55 out of the 92 schools are in Santa Fe, Rio Arriba, and Mora counties. We can close this gap.

Dual Language Education of New Mexico dlenm.org

Mission | To advance literacy, promote lifelong learning, and to enrich the lives of our community.

Proposal | Eleanor Daggett Memorial library serves a community of over 600 square miles. The funds requested will allow for additional staff to create and implement educational and enrichment programs for children and adults. Buying materials for projects is also needed. We have fiber optic cable installed

Mission | To develop, support, and advocate for high-quality dual language enriched education in New Mexico and beyond. Our state’s rich linguistic and cultural resources must be developed as assets.

Four decades of research provide a road map for developing a multilingual, multicultural citizenry.

Providing an enriched multilingual education combined with high expectations has the greatest potential to close the achievement gap and prepare students for success in the 21st century.

Proposal | We seek funding to provide ongoing support to SFPS and further develop our online K-8 math resources, through the Dual Language

in our library so our community will have better and faster internet access. More patrons are using our computers for numerous projects and their needs.

Noteworthy | We distribute used books for the youth and adults in our community. The books we weed out and that are donated to us are distributed to our free libraries in the community and to individuals wanting and needing them for others.

The Family YMCA laymca.org

Education of New Mexico (DLeNM) Online

Mission | To build individual, family, and community

Clearinghouse. DLeNM is aware that educators

strength by focusing on youth development, healthy

use online materials to enhance their instruction.

living and social responsibility.

Therefore, support will be used to build the online

Proposal | Funding will provide positive adult staff

resources for New Mexico educators of academic language learners and emerging bilingual students to foster deep mathematical comprehension and language skills for successful achievement.

Noteworthy | 2022 NAEP assessment, 19% of New Mexico’s fourth graders performed at or above the proficient level in math. This is a 16% difference between New Mexico and the national average. In the 2022 statewide summative assessment, 41% of caucasian students were proficient, 20% of Hispanic, and 12% of Native American students reached that bar. SFPS has seen a 13% increase in EL/EB students since 2018, and currently, Ramirez Thomas

mentors, educational support, youth development programming, and substance abuse prevention programming at the Española YMCA Teen Center.

Noteworthy | New Mexico Department of Health (DOH) reports reveal that Española and Rio Arriba County (RAC) suffer from poor educational outcomes, multi-generational substance abuse, domestic violence, poverty and high crime rates. A 2020 fiveyear cohort Public Education Department report shows Española’s graduation rate was 65.5% versus the state average of 81.7%. Opportunity to mentor toward higher education is evident.

Elementary (funding focus) has 199 EL students out of a total enrollment of 215.

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First Serve - NM, Inc. firstservenewmexico.org

Foundation for Monte del Sol Charter School montedelsolcharterschool.org

Mission | To strengthen the lives and enhance the character of Santa Fe’s children through education, life skills, and tennis. We believe that the combination of these activities in a supportive environment can 1) change a child’s total trajectory from mediocre to excellent in academics, life skills, and tennis; 2) transform a child’s life from apathy to involvement and from shyness to confidence; and 3) give each child a stronger sense of self and an inherent respect for others.

Proposal | First Serve New Mexico requests funding for our after-school and summer program that serves over 300 public school students in grades three-12 annually. We provide highly-qualified tutors, life skills coaches, and tennis instructors in a collaborative environment where students return year after year and genuine leadership skills are fostered. Participating students commit to four days of attendance weekly for the entire academic year, alternating days between academic tutoring and tennis instruction.

Noteworthy | ”According to the National Center for Educational Statistics, in 2022, New Mexico students tested at or near the bottom nationally. When using the National Assessment of Educational Progress test, only 19% of New Mexico fourth grade students tested at or above proficiency in math, with 21% proficient in reading” (Jacque Ritchie, News Reporter, https://www.durangoherald.com/articles/newmexico-education-scores-rank-near-bottom).

Mission | Monte del Sol Charter School educates and inspires Santa Fe’s diverse population in grades seven through 12, by building strong relationships and creatively engaging the local and global community.

Our four pillars are: Community, Sustainability, Global Literacy, and Arts Integration.

Proposal | Our new block schedule has been designed to improve student outcomes and teacher well-being in the wake of some of the most difficult years in education. The pandemic has presented serious challenges to student motivation and achievement. This schedule will allow us to provide various pathways for students to engage in learning activities that inspire and align with their assets.

We seek funding for supplies and field trips for this experiential model moving towards project-based learning.

Noteworthy | These inquiry-based teaching methods engage students in creating, questioning, and revising knowledge, while developing their skills in critical thinking, collaboration, communication, reasoning, synthesis, and resilience (Barron & DarlingHammond, 2008, https://www.edutopia.org/pblresearch-learning-outcomes).

Friends of the Santa Fe Public Library santafelibraryfriends.org

Mission | The Friends of the Santa Fe Public Library (Friends) advocates for and supports the public library by providing funding for non-operating expenses such as programming, services, and materials not covered by city funds. The mission of the Santa Fe Public Library (Library) is to inform, enrich, and educate the members of our community by creating and promoting access to ideas and information, by supporting lifelong learning, and

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celebrating the unique cultural and historical

supporting girls’ development.

heritage of Santa Fe.

Noteworthy | According to Kids Count Data for

Proposal | The Friends is requesting support for

2023, New Mexico is 50th in the nation for children’s

programs focused on early childhood literacy

education; 87% of New Mexico 8th graders are not

provided by the Library. The Library’s early literacy

proficient in math; and 23% of high school students

programs, such as Bilingual Books and Babies,

do not graduate on time.

Pajama Story Time, Parent and Tot Creative Movement, and its regular story times help children, ages 0-five, reach educational milestones before they start school. Our request for funding is in support

Global Give A Book ggab.org

of the expansion of these programs to reach more children in underserved areas.

Noteworthy | New Mexico is consistently ranked as one of the lowest scoring states in the nation for overall child well-being and educational well-being (Kids Count Databook, 2023). 54% of children ages three to four are not accessing free pre-school, and 60% of 4th graders are not proficient in reading.

Library programs are designed to increase early childhood literacy to help young children be ready for school. The programs are designed to create positive experiences that lead to improved educational outcomes.

Mission | Promoting youth literacy by giving awardwinning books to children in need.

Proposal | One of our major focuses is through The Food Depot of Santa Fe. With the need of food for low-income families, Global Give-A-Book (GGAB) found that this would be one of the most efficient ways to get new award-winning books to children that actually need them. We go off the statistical data from the pantries and rely on their delivery system to get them to the children 100% of the time. The Casita De Comida Choice-based serving Española Families in need would be receiving these quality books.

Noteworthy | Statistically, there is one book for every

Girls Incorporated of Santa Fe, Inc.

300 low-income children and, by age four, low-

girlsincofsantafe.org

income children have heard 30 million fewer words than children from middle-income families. Every

Mission | To inspire girls to be Strong, Smart, and Bold. We provide girls ages five to 18 with proven

dollar given goes toward closing the gap one book at a time. GGAB has a 100% track record of delivering the books directly to the children in need.

solutions to the unique issues girls face by addressing the whole girl — her mental and physical health, life skills, and academic achievement. We provide trained professionals who mentor the girls in a safe, girls-only environment; peers who share their drive and aspirations; and research-based programming.

Golden Apple Foundation of New Mexico goldenapplenm.org

We teach girls to advocate for themselves and others.

Proposal | We seek funds to hire more staff in

Mission | To catalyze teaching excellence throughout

order to meet the burgeoning requests for our

New Mexico. We engage community partners

programming. Program staff not only implement our

through collective impact, we inspire educators

field-tested programming, they also work with the

with professional development and grants, and we

girls, their families, and our school partners to ensure

celebrate teaching excellence by awarding educators

our curricula respond to the girls’ needs. The increase

the Golden Apple.

in participants also means a need for more supplies and equipment. 88 cents of each $1 raised goes to

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Proposal | The Give Me Five! Project is focused on supporting educators in their first five years of teaching in five regions of the state. Professional

The Homeschool Classroom thehomeschoolclassroomsantafe.com

Development, grants, and mentoring will be provided in five workshops that will be located in the north, south, east, west, and central region of New Mexico.

Noteworthy | We recognize the need to support

Mission | The Homeschool Classroom plays a major role in the transformation of Santa Fe homeschooling. Families seeking assistance in

educators across our state. We also recognize that

providing a stimulating and encouraging elementary

rural communities and underserved populations

education program for their historically underserved,

need our support. Research shows that if a teacher

learning disabled/different child have used our

stays past their first five years, they will continue and

program to maintain consistent social-emotional

stay in that school community. This is imperative for

and academic growth. Students who were at risk of

education improvement in our state and we focus

completely abandoning their formal schooling are

on supporting new teachers. In addition, providing

entering colleges around the United States.

quality professional learning opportunities focused

Proposal | The Homeschool Classroom is seeking

on improving school communities is critical.

The Happy Place Foundation thehappyplacefoundation.org

essential funding to support continued service to those students who need it the most. Your contribution will go directly to making sure families with children who were unsuccessful in more traditional settings get the individualized instruction they need to follow through with education and

Mission | To create deep, profound, and lasting relationships with the natural world for children, youth, families, and communities.

Proposal | Falling deeply and wildly in love with nature is a source of consciousness, creativity, wisdom, strength, resilience, interdependence, lifelong learning, imagination, joy, and stewardship.

Nature educates us in a way that no other teacher can. Through nature, we learn the truths of the universe and our place within it. We belong. Your support and generosity help us continue our mission to make nature connection available to all who desire it. Thank you.

Noteworthy | People, particularly children, who spend less time in nature may suffer a range of physical, psychological, and behavioral problems.

There has been an expanding body of scientific evidence that nature deficiency leads to a diminished use of senses, attention difficulties, conditions of obesity, and higher rates of emotional and physical illness (Louv 2010). New Mexico has a poverty rate of 19.1%, the third highest in the country (U.S. Census Bureau). The average one to five-year old spends two to five hours on screens each day.

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enter college. A small teacher/student ratio and a social/emotional curriculum helps kids to have successful skill acquisition and stay positive about their learning.

Noteworthy | The number of children registered with the state as home schoolers nearly doubled from around 8,800 before the pandemic to around 15,400 in 2021, according to Public Education Department data. The numbers continue to rise currently. These families quickly realize the daunting reality of schooling their own children and that it is extremely challenging in many ways. Most parents work and need to maintain an income. Parent/teacher/child relationship can affect families and they seek out support.

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Institute for Computing in Research

Proposal | La Fonda Foundation prioritizes

computinginresearch.org

based on the desired goals of each individual.

connecting its employees and their families to educational opportunities and skill development Using a wraparound service approach, the nearly

Mission | To prepare students for college and careers

400 employees and their families are connected to, supported, and encouraged to receive tutoring,

in advanced research. The Institute for Computing

specialized training, mentorship opportunities,

in Research trains pre-college students in the

among other resources.

use of advanced computing in research through

Noteworthy | We hope to increase by 50% the

coursework and internship experience in a variety of career fields.

Proposal | We seek funding to purchase equipment

number of La Fonda on the Plaza employees’ children who enter college or vocational education programs by 2030.

for classes in computer programming and computational research and to fund two high school interns for our summer internship program. The grant will pay for stipends and equipment for low-

MathAmigos mathamigos.org

income students.

Noteworthy | The under-representation of females and people of color in STEM, particularly computing, is a social justice issue and our area of greatest passion. Given the most generous statistics, women represent about 20% of those working in computer science, while racial and ethnic minorities represent 30% in this field. These statistics are not due to a lack of interest, but, rather, a lack of access. The Institute for Computing in Research works to address that gap in equity and access in our community.

La Fonda Foundation lafondasantafe.com/la-fonda-foundation

Mission | MathAmigos is a volunteer team of mathematicians and educators dedicated to helping teachers inspire kids to love math through professional development workshops, teacher coaching, and parent engagement in public schools across Santa Fe and northern New Mexico — now including pueblos and rural areas. Our goal is to raise math proficiency through teaching and learning strategies that excite students and deepen their mathematical thinking.

Proposal | We request funding to provide stipends for teachers attending our three five-hour Saturday workshops, including new outreach to pre-K teachers and teachers in pueblos and rural areas. We have

Mission | La Fonda stands on the firm belief that by

provided 21 teacher workshops and ~3,000 teachertraining hours since 2017 for over 250 teachers in

prioritizing employees and their families, pathways

more than 25 Santa Fe Public Schools. Teachers rank

to financial stability can be created and barriers

over 80% of workshop sessions a 4.5-5 out of 5.

will be eliminated. By empowering employees and their families through connecting them to existing organizations/resources, we encourage and support higher education, tutoring, skill development, mentorship, financial literacy, and language skills.

Through collaborations, the La Fonda Foundation will work bring upward economic mobility.

Noteworthy | We address the critical gaps in teacher preparation in math and student math proficiency.

The 2022 National Education Report Card shows that only 19% of state fourth graders and 13% of eighth graders were at or above the NAEP proficient level in math. In Santa Fe, only 22.6% of third graders and 16.5% of eighth graders were proficient in math (PED NMSSA data). Half of our workshop teachers report that they are underprepared for teaching math.

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McCurdy Schools of Northern New Mexico dba McCurdy Ministries Community Center McCurdy.org

Mission | To create hope and empower the lives

National Dance Institute New Mexico Inc. ndi-nm.org

Mission | NDI New Mexico was founded with the knowledge that the arts have a unique power to engage and motivate children. The purpose of our distinctive programs is to help children develop

of children, youth, adults, and families through

discipline, a standard of excellence, and a belief in

education, life skills, and faith-based programs in

themselves that will carry over into all aspects of their

Española, New Mexico.

lives.

Proposal | Our Collaboration will help students

Proposal | NDI New Mexico provides access to

foster intentional positive actions for the whole

high-quality educational enrichment for primarily

student: physical, intellectual, social, and emotional

low-income students at elementary schools in

as well as invite local business and governmental

Santa Fe and northern New Mexico, as well as at

agency leaders to share what they do and encourage

our Santa Fe teaching facility, The Dance Barns.

students regarding the different pathways that their

NDI-NM’s Outreach program is offered at no cost to

lives can take. These leaders will share a serious

students. During the course of the program, children

problem they are facing in their position or role and

measurably improve in educational success skills and

students will come up with creative solutions to

physical wellness. We use a social-emotional learning

problems people face in the Española Valley.

framework to foster self-discipline, confidence, and

Noteworthy | McCurdy Charter School students

teamwork.

have been changed by the greater exposure to fear,

Noteworthy | Educational Outcomes: In 2022, New

illness, abuse, and death before, during, and after

Mexico ranked 50th in our nation in education. Our

the pandemic. Española’s long-standing history of

high school graduation rate is 76.8%, and 21% of

poverty, higher rates of drug use, and 65% of children

fourth graders and 18% of eighth graders scored at or

being raised by grandparents have compounded

above proficient in reading (National Assessment of

these problems. The sixth to ninth grade students

Education Progress). Graduation rates are even lower

need additional support in becoming the caring

in Española (65.7% NMDOH, 2022). NDI-NM’s 18-year

capable adults that we wish for every child because

evaluation effort, in collaboration with the University

they are displaying less mature and undesirable

of New Mexico, found that NDI students’ grades and

behaviors than in past years.

standardized test scores are measurably higher than non-participating peers.

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National Ghost Ranch Foundation, Inc.

Proposal | Camp Invention is a turnkey, one-

ghostranch.org

that brings science, technology, engineering and

week summer program for children in grades K-6 (Campers) and 7-9 (Leaders-in-Training/LITs) mathematics (STEM) to life through engaging,

Mission | Ghost Ranch stewards a place of great

hands-on exploration. The program combats summer slide, provides more equitable opportunities

beauty to nurture the human spirit and mind,

for educational enrichment, and delivers impactful

discover the sacred, and care for creation.

professional development for the local certified

Proposal | Ghost Ranch’s Community Day Camp provides experiential STEAM education to

teachers who facilitate the program’s modules.

Noteworthy | The Wallace Foundation stated in

youth in Rio Arriba County through outdoor and

a 2022 report that during the summer months,

environmental learning over the summer. It gives

“children from families with fewer economic

underrepresented youth the chance to experience

resources lose an average of two to three months of

some of the most outstanding landscapes, geology,

learning, while their more economically advantaged

paleontology, and waterfront New Mexico has to

peers gain a month of learning.” Your support

offer, while reducing summer learning loss and

will help close this gap by providing underserved

closing the opportunity gap.

students the opportunity to experience Camp

Noteworthy | Rio Arriba County is a rural area with

Invention alongside their more affluent peers.

40,048 residents, of whom 71% reports Hispanic ethnicity, and 58% speak a language other than English at home, primarily Spanish. The poverty rate is 20.4%, nearly double the national average of 11.6%. The median income is $46,994, compared to $54,020 in New Mexico, and $69,021 nationally.

New Mexico Adult Education Association nmadulted.org

Fewer residents of Rio Arriba County pursue higher education, with only 17.7% holding bachelor degrees

Mission | The New Mexico Adult Education

or higher, compared to 33.7% nationally.

Association (NMAEA) strengthens the statewide adult education community, including students,

National Inventors Hall of Fame, Inc. invent.org

practitioners, and interested supporters through advocacy, leadership, communication, collaboration, and mentoring.

Proposal | Your support will help fund advocacy efforts that aim to increase funding for adult literacy

Mission | To be a catalyst for change through

programs in Mora, Rio Arriba, San Miguel, and Santa Fe counties. Increased funding will allow adult

recognizing inventors and invention, promoting

literacy programs to serve more adults who are

creativity and advancing the spirit of innovation

seeking to improve their literacy skills and, in turn,

and entrepreneurship. Our role is to honor the

improve their employability upward mobility in their

men and women whose inventions have made

communities.

the world a better place, and use our Inductees’

Noteworthy | Currently, adult literacy funding is

stories to inspire the next generation, advance the spirit of entrepreneurship and ensure American ingenuity continues to thrive in the hands of coming generations.

only at $750,000. This money is used for 18 programs that provide basic literacy services at no charge to adults throughout the state. Last year, 1,392 students were served by literacy programs. This is 0.067% of the population. However, 29% of adults assessed in

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uploads/2020/09/PIAAC_New-Mexico_Profile.pdf). We

New Mexico School for the Arts Art Institute

are clearly not meeting the need.

nmschoolforthearts.org

a recent national study tested at the lowest literacy level (https://educateandelevate.org/wp-content/

New Mexico High School Musical Theatre Awards nmhsmta.org

Mission | The Art Institute, the nonprofit partner of New Mexico School for the Arts (NMSA), is responsible for raising the annual $2.4 million budget for the mastery arts training program, residential program, and outreach offered by NMSA, a public

Mission | We are an awards program once a year but an education program every day.

Proposal | We recognize individual artistry in performance, honor teachers and schools’ commitment to theatre education, and celebrate accomplishments of drama students and teachers from all over New Mexico. Our goal, especially during the Enchantment Awards, is for students to learn more than just the skills of singing, dancing, and acting, but also how to employ those skills in any dramatic art form throughout their lives.

Noteworthy | At the Enchantment Awards, up to 150 students perform on stage in Popejoy Hall. We select the top 20 students in the state from participating high schools. Best Actor and Best Actress are chosen from the awards show. We send them to the Jimmy Awards in New York City. They work with Broadway pros and perform with their peers from across the country. It costs $310.00 per student plus $1,500 in scholarship awards and $2,500 in travel expenses for students and chaperones. We wish to expand upon this next year.

high school in Santa Fe, New Mexico. NMSA assists passionate young artists in developing their full potential through a rigorous mastery of arts and academic education.

Proposal | Funding raised by the Art Institute enables students to receive pre-professional arts instruction with the goal of student mastery in the fields of Creative Writing & Literature, Dance, Music (voice or instrumental), Theatre, and Visual Arts.

Through this program, the transformative power of art education serves as both a pedagogical tool and as a catalyst, engendering intrinsic motivation and anchoring students firmly within the ambit of their educational journey.

Noteworthy | NMSA’s graduation rate (97%), retention rate (95%), and college placement rates (100%) all far exceed national outcomes. Additionally, students at NMSA had a 58-point average increase in overall SAT scores from SY2022 to SY2023.

Ojo Sarco Community Center facebook.com/OjoSarcoCommunityCenter

Mission | To sustain the only public space in Ojo Sarco, to remain open, and to have a place that fosters community pride and enriches the lives of the people of Ojo Sarco and neighboring villages through programs and activities as resources allow.

To achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, create social and physical environments that promote good health for all.

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essential services are provided yearly; including a

Public Charter Schools of New Mexico

bi-monthly food pantry, four day/week summer

pcsnm.org

Proposal | Ojo Sarco Community Center (OSCC) is celebrating our 35th anniversary. Thousands of

camp, and upgrading the lending library to a NM Rural Library. OSCC supports local artists as a PopUp Gallery during the High Road Art Tour. Programs

Mission | To increase student academic achievement

for children use the Community that Cares model

by serving charter schools and advocating for charter

to increase protective factors and confidence. Our

school quality, growth, and autonomy.

funding request is targeted to supporting individual

Proposal | We request funding to enhance advocacy

and community strength.

efforts for New Mexico Charter Schools. Charter

Noteworthy | New Mexico children have been stuck

Schools in New Mexico are free, public, and open

in last place for child well-being for decades. Rio

to all, and are assisting students toward higher

Arriba County continues to have indicators that are

academic outcomes.

among the worst in the state — a very low bar. Based

Noteworthy | Only 19% of eighth grade students are

on the Rio Arriba County Kids Count Profile, the

on grade level for reading and 13% in math. We’d like

economic well-being data shows 31% of the children

to partner with the larger education community to

are at or below the poverty level, and 14% teens (16-19)

change this.

are not working or in school. High school graduation rates from PISD is 85%. Many children live in singleparent families or grandparents, 22% live in poverty.

Pojoaque Valley Schools Education Foundation pvseducationfoundation.org

R4 Creating r4creating.org

Mission | To take STEM education to the next level and turn “Learners into Leaders” through creative hands-on approaches in STEM-related activities and Career Readiness opportunities! Our programs

Mission | To inspire and promote community commitment in support of excellence in teaching, learning, and citizenship.eliminate disparities, create social and physical environments that promote good health for all.

Proposal | The proposal is to equip and develop a STEM Learning Laboratory for students in grades four and five in our Intermediate School. The funds will provide equipment, teacher development, and parent engagement activities to boost math and science learning at this critical age.

Noteworthy | Our students in these grades are less than 20% proficient in science and less than 15% proficient in math. These scores will prevent our students from becoming more skilled in these hightech areas that make up a large proportion of the skills needed for employment in our region.

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include state-wide camps, community robotics teams, outreaches, mentoring for K-12 students, and internships. R4 Creating strives to offer students a competitive advantage that links their potential to a strong and successful future.

Proposal | R4 Creating hopes to gain support in funding our award-winning programs that reach throughout New Mexico, with a focus on underserved communities. With your support, we can provide access, opportunity, STEM growth, as well as social/ emotional growth for our youth as we serve our communities.

Noteworthy | “In economic well-being New Mexico is ranked 48th; in education we’re ranked 50th” (Albuquerque Journal, August 8, 2022). According to results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), New Mexico students, like their peers across the country, had lower proficiency

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rates on NAEP tests in 2022 than any time in recent memory. The scores were the lowest in a range from 13 to 30 years, depending on the grade and subject

Rio Arriba Adult Literacy Program raalp.org

(24 October 2022, New Mexico Education).

Reading Quest readingquestcenter.org

Mission | Reading Quest provides free, equitable

Mission | To help community members transform their lives through enhanced literacy.

Proposal | RAALP seeks to address the literacy needs of adults in the Española area and its surrounding communities in Rio Arriba County. Funding supports our program in providing free, one-to-one tutoring

access to quality reading instruction for all students,

to adults who are seeking to enhance their basic

empowering them to believe in themselves. Learning

literacy skills or who are seeking to learn English

how to read well is a basic human right, and closing

as a second language. RAALP recruits, trains, and

the education gap between low and high-income

matches volunteer tutors, provides educational study

students is a powerful tool in combating inequity

materials for adult students, and on-going support to

and poverty. Teaching reading using fun, engaging,

tutors and adult learners.

and structured literacy strategies, aligned with the

Noteworthy | English literacy rates in Rio Arriba

science of reading, works to close this gap and results

County are among the lowest in the nation with

in students who love to read.

35% of adults functioning at or below Literacy Level

Proposal | We are seeking support to provide in-

3. Adults with low literacy levels earn less, are less

person tutoring to students in the public schools

likely to enter the labor force, and are less likely

who struggle with reading. Our students make

to participate in their children’s education. The

remarkable growth, and standardized test data

opportunities for adult education are limited in Rio

confirms the effectiveness of our program. For a

Arriba County, and RAALP provides the only free,

child who has been struggling, cracking the code of

one-to-one adult literacy and English language

reading is like learning a magic spell that suddenly

tutoring available in this economically challenged

opens the whole world to them. It’s a passport to an

area.

entirely different future in which they can trust their ability to shape their own life and change their world.

Noteworthy | Only 34% of public school students in New Mexico can read proficiently at grade level.

Rocky Mountain Youth Corps youthcorps.org

Illiteracy is a major pipeline for unemployment, incarceration, and homelessness. Reading Quest is dedicated to tutoring children in need in addition to providing support for teachers and parents. We hold a vision of a world in which all children are lovingly and effectively supported to become proficient and confident readers as well as emotionally literate citizens.

Mission | Rocky Mountain Youth Corps is a stepping stone to new opportunities. We inspire young adults to make a positive difference in themselves and their communities. Through training and service, Corpsmembers discover their potential for healthy, productive lives.

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Proposal | We seek funding to empower deaf and hard of hearing youth through comprehensive life skills and workforce development training in our

Santa Fe Girls’ School santafegirlsschool.org

American Sign Language Conservation Program, fostering their independence and professional growth.

Noteworthy | In New Mexico, there is a pressing

Mission | Dedicated to middle school girls, the Santa Fe Girls’ School cultivates discerning minds, strong voices, and emotional wisdom through substantive

need for comprehensive life skills and workforce

academics and authentic student-teacher

development training tailored specifically to deaf

connections.

and hard of hearing youth. With over 1,500 deaf and

Proposal | By fifth grade, girls in coed classes

hard of hearing students in the state’s educational system, our American Sign Language Program aims to bridge this gap and empower these young individuals for a brighter future.

Santa Fe Alliance for Science sfafs.org

often begin speaking less, deferring to others, questioning their abilities in STEM, and become distracted by social conflict and competition. Our all-girls middle school guides girls during early adolescence. Between sixth and eighth grade, our students develop into self-advocating, confident, and academically-prepared high school students.

Contributions to our tuition assistance fund allows students from all economic backgrounds to thrive at

Mission | To inspire the inner scientist in every

our school.

student.

Noteworthy | Girls’ School grads are six times

Proposal | A new initiative for the Santa Fe Alliance

more likely to major in a STEM field as compared to

for Science is to begin addressing the inequity issues in the SFPS when it comes student participation in science fair projects. Often families do not have the discretionary funds to use for science project supplies. We hope to create a fund (dispersed through science coordinators at the schools) to aid students in creating noteworthy projects. Through our 15+ years of judging, we have seen how this discrepancy can affect project outcomes.

Noteworthy | The SFPS median household income is $66,344 and the national is $70,784; the percentage of SFPS households using foodstamps or SNAP is 23.3% and the national is 19.3%; and the percentage

girls who attended coeducational schools. At girls’ schools, girls demonstrate confidence in female leadership and become increasingly interested in leadership positions themselves. Data shows that girls at coeducational schools become less interested in leadership positions with age. Santa Fe Girls’ School tuition assistance amounts range from 1075% of tuition. An average of 43% of students receive assistance.

Santa Fe Youth Symphony, Inc. sfysa.org

of SFCF households below poverty level 16.5% and the national is 14.5% (https://nces.ed.gov/Programs/Edge/

Mission | To inspire and engage the youth of

ACSDashboard/3502370 and https://www.census.gov/

northern New Mexico’s multicultural communities

library/publications/2022/demo/p60-276.html).

through excellent music education, the guidance of music professionals, and performance opportunities from small ensemble to full orchestra in Jazz, Mariachi, and Orchestra.

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Proposal | Santa Fe Youth Symphony Association

Noteworthy | 2022 report from the National Science

(SFYSA) seeks support to offer quality music

Foundation finds that the U.S. is no longer the world

education and sliding scale tuition for approximately

leader in key measures of scientific accomplishment

300 students during our 30th Season. We are

such as awarded patents and published papers. The

expanding financial aid, adding new programs, and

Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that between now

continuing to provide students with role models,

and 2030, jobs that require STEM skills will grow at

small-group instruction, and opportunities for self-

a faster rate than other jobs. Women and minorities

expression in order to serve our diverse community.

continue to be underrepresented in this segment

Noteworthy | SFYSA offers financial aid subsidies

of the labor force and does not reflect the true

ranging from 25-90%, meaning that program tuition can cost families as little as $45 annually

demographics of the country.

HUD’s 2022 Adjusted Home Income Limits for Santa

Talpa Community Center Association, Inc.

Fe. During the 2022-2023 Season, 26% of students

talpacc.bravesites.com

and instrument rental can cost as little as $1.50 per month. Financial aid cutoffs are closely based on

qualified for financial aid and 100% of applicants received assistance commensurate with family income and size.

Mission | To provide programs to help Talpa’s diverse community face the everchanging complexities

STEM Santa Fe

of life today. We focus on providing economic

stemsantafe.org

experiences, and assistance with social services.

opportunities for the community, continual learning

Proposal | We need funds for general core support Mission | STEM Santa Fe advocates for, develops, and provides STEM programming, mentoring and resources for all youth, especially underrepresented groups in STEM, to realize their potential and expand their opportunities in a dynamic world.

Proposal | Investing in the STEM education of New Mexico youth is more crucial than ever. We aim to increase diversity and promote equity in STEM by offering innovative STEM programming at low to no cost to families. With our in-school and out-ofschool programs and our focus on middle and high school students, we are preparing New Mexico youth for the 21st-century challenges. We are inspiring them to stay engaged in their education with enriching hands-on STEM learning experiences and mentorships.

to keep our community center open and operating so that our rural community has a Public Library and all the educational and social services we offer. Talpa Community Center (TCC) is the hub of our rural community and we strive to have a safe place for locals to gather, interact, and learn. We offer several free programs such as preteen sewing and kids art/ ceramics. We are a site for NA & AA, group meetings, shared table food distribution, and a community farmers market.

Noteworthy | The pandemic affected all of us in one way or another. We see how it has affected our families — especially our children. Our kids are struggling in school. And, sadly, some children have failed. TCC and Library strive to assist in educational resources, wifi, and computers. The rural community of Talpa is home to many low-income families that don’t have internet or computers. TCC and Library also implemented an after-school tutoring program to help our children excel in their studies.

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Think New Mexico thinknewmexico.org

Twirl: A Play & Discovery Space, LLC twirltaos.org

Mission | Think New Mexico is a results-oriented think tank whose mission is to improve the lives of all New Mexicans, especially those who lack a strong voice in the political process. We fulfill this mission by educating the public, the media, and policymakers about some of the most serious challenges facing New Mexico and by developing and advocating for enduring, effective, evidence-based solutions

Proposal | Funding supports our work to enact public policy reforms that address serious challenges facing New Mexico. Past successes include ending predatory lending, repealing the food tax, and making full-day kindergarten accessible to every child. Our current project is an ambitious agenda to improve New Mexico’s public schools, including revamping the colleges of education, enhancing training for teachers, principals and school boards, reforming school calendars, curricula, assessments, and more.

Noteworthy | New Mexico recently ranked last in the nation for education quality in five separate evaluations by Education Week, Forbes, Kids Count, WalletHub, and U.S. News and World Report. In 2022, statewide assessments found that only 34% of New Mexico’s third through eighth graders are proficient in reading, while just 25% are proficient in math.

Nearly 40% of New Mexico high school graduates need to take remedial courses in college, which reduces their chances of earning a two-year or fouryear degree.

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Mission | To support the potential of children in Taos through inspirational, community-wide opportunities to gather, learn, create, and play.

Proposal | Twirl’s delivery method of providing multimodality options at the community level allows us to more profoundly and uniquely serve children in the far reaches of our county, removing barriers to access and engaging with children and families meaningfully in their own safe spaces. We place a substantial value on providing access to well-developed and executed programming for all children in Taos County.

Noteworthy | Taos continues to have some of the lowest educational outcomes in the nation. The challenges and barriers faced by our families are significant and exacerbated by the effects of the pandemic. In Taos, 18% of 25-64-year-olds have less than a high school education. The 2020 poverty rate was 24.5%, well above the national average of 11.4%.

Children in Taos County are more likely than their peers to live in single-parent households (43%), and 17% live in a home with no working parents.

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Ubuntuworks Education Project

Under His Construction

ubuntuworks.org

underHisconstruction.org

Mission | To foster connections and resourcefulness

Mission | We provide housing education and career

for a better future. By integrating ubuntu-based

development to the underserved. We vigorously

principles such as active listening, kindness,

strive to reduce the recidivism rate, build confidence,

and ethical leadership into schools, workplaces,

and a stronger more stable community. Our goal is to

corporations, and courtrooms, the project promotes

assist men and women in developing positive futures

collaboration among a coalition of partners to create

even when they’ve had a difficult past or complex

a more interconnected world through the ubuntu

trauma. Under His Construction believes everyone

principle of recognizing our shared humanity.

deserves an opportunity to build a better life through

Proposal | The Ubuntuworks Education Project

education, hard work, and responsibility.

requests funding in support of our student

Proposal | Under His Construction (UCH) currently

and teacher training program and to address

owns three homes which provide housing for

outreach needs for bringing ubuntu-based

participants in our program. We are in the process

principles(empathic, compassionate, and active

of raising funds in order to purchase a fourth home

listening; restorative justice; and more) to the

which would add another 15 beds to the program. We

mainstream.

currently can house 33 men and women.

Noteworthy | According to the U.S. News and World

Noteworthy | Nationwide, there are 134,471 overdose

Report, New Mexico ranks last in education, and

deaths every year. 70% of men and women will

Statista Research recently reported that 33% of the

reoffend. 46% will return to prison within three years.

world’s population feels isolated. The Ubuntuworks Education Project is focused on addressing both of these needs through our education programs and through our online Ubuntuworks Resource Hub, which includes information about social connectedness such as wellbeing, relationship building, and empathy.

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Environment Result: All communities have equitable access to our earth’s critical resources — land, water, air, and food — for a sustainable and healthy ecosystem.

We invited requests from organizations serving Santa Fe, Mora, Rio Arriba, and/or San Miguel counties that work to improve: •

Protect or improve watershed and water quality

•

Preserve open space

•

Remediate land

•

Energy from renewable sources

•

Environmental justice

Through direct service, policy advocacy and/or collaboration efforts, priority strategies will address: •

Training and development of diverse food and farming enterprises and distribution infrastructure for sustainable food economy that represent a rich and diverse farming tradition;

•

Fostering connection and collaboration among multi-sector stakeholders for environmental advocacy and community development that support equitable access and stewardship of land, air, water, and ecosystem for future generations;

•

Promotion of renewable energy sources through coordinated efforts to increase consumption, production, workforce training, enterprise development, and investment; and/or

•

Ensuring the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income, with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies.

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Audubon Southwest: Randall Davey Audubon Center

Coalition of Sustainable Communities New Mexico

randalldavey.audubon.org

coalitionscnm.org

Mission | The National Audubon Society protects

Mission | The mission of the NM Climate Investment

birds and the places they need, today and tomorrow,

Center, as being formed under the Coalition of

throughout the Americas using science, advocacy,

Sustainable Communities, is to provide a financial

education, and on-the-ground conservation. For over

vehicle that addresses climate change and social

a century, Audubon has built a legacy of success by

inequality by using public and private sector money

mobilizing its network of members, nature centers,

to fill finance gaps for investments that reduce

& dedicated professional staff to connect people

greenhouse gas emissions, with an emphasis on

with nature and the power to protect it. Audubon

programs that provide economic development and

Southwest is a regional field office serving Santa

savings opportunities to low-income, disadvantaged,

Fe and other communities across New Mexico and

and tribal communities.

Arizona.

Proposal | We seek funding to form and facilitate

Proposal | Treehouses, fort building, water and sand

an Environmental Justice Advising Group at the

play, and outdoor exploration are the focus of the

Coalition of Sustainable Communities so that salient

brand new Nature Discovery Area at the Randall

input can be given to the Climate Investment Center

Davey Audubon Center. Audubon seeks funding to

board and staff to ensure environmental justice

provide free early childhood programs promoting

concerns can be accommodated in the center’s work,

access to nature, families connecting in the outdoors,

and that investments can be prioritized toward the

and learning to conserve our local resources. These

poor, disadvantaged and tribal communities.

hands-on programs prioritize exploration, connecting

Noteworthy | Over 150,000 households in New

with nature, and equitable access for the community through partnerships and outreach.

Noteworthy | On average, today’s kids spend up

Mexico spend over 15% of their income on utilities, compared to the U.S. average of 2%. These high energy burdens can be significantly eased through

to 44 hours per week in front of a screen, and less

programs that will be created at the proposed NM

than 10 minutes a day playing outside. We hear from

Climate Investment Center.

families every day: now more than ever, Santa Feans need opportunities to get out into nature. Audubon’s new Nature Discovery Area gives families a fun outdoor space for play and learning, while developing

Commonweal Conservancy, Inc. galisteobasinpreserve.com

connections to the land and wildlife. We hope these experiences grow into lifelong relationships with nature and the next generation of conservation leaders.

Mission | Commonweal Conservancy is a nonprofit conservation-based community-development organization dedicated to forging deep and sustaining connections among people, land, and the built environment. We pursue an integrative approach to resource protection and community building — one that promotes respectful, inclusive, healthy community creation, while concurrently cultivating a stewardship ethic among people and land they call home.

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Proposal | A grant to Commonweal Conservancy will be used to reclaim an abandoned agricultural well

communities.

Noteworthy | A study we co-published with Oil

and dirt “stock tank” to provide year-round access

Change International found that over 70% of new

to drinking water and wetland habitat for resident

production will come from wells that have not yet

and migratory wildlife. The project will repurpose a

been drilled, or ‘undeveloped’ oil and gas. This means

derelict windmill with a solar array and solar pump

that in 2030, 86% of projected emissions associated

to provide water for pronghorn, deer, bobcat, coyote,

with New Mexico’s oil and gas activity — 478 million

and other mammals. Concurrently, Commonweal will

metric tons (MMT) — will come from burning

construct a 10,000 square-foot wetland that provides

currently undeveloped oil and gas.These emissions

habitat for resident and migratory birds.

are equivalent to the annual emissions from 123 coal

Noteworthy | Over the past 150 years, wetland acreage in the Galisteo Basin has dwindled from

plants. We must find a way to keep these emissions in the ground.

approximately 5,000 acres to less than 1,000 acres (Galisteo Watershed Conservation Initiative, Vrooman, 2011). The pace of surface water and wetland habitat loss in the Basin has accelerated during the past two decades from warming temperatures, drought, and excessive development pressures. Strategic

Environmental Education of New Mexico eenm.org

restoration of springs and wetlands offers wildlife their best chance for adapting to a rapidly changing

Mission | Through implementing an advocacy-

climate.

focused movement as well as advancing collaboration and leadership, Environmental

Earth Care International earthcarenm.org

Education of New Mexico (EENM) will ensure every New Mexico child has equitable access to environmental and outdoor learning.

Proposal | EENM is launching our Youth Fellowship Mission | To educate and empower young people (and their families) to create healthy, just, and sustainable communities. We believe that the communities who are most directly impacted by the social and environmental challenges we face are the

environmental educators and stewards. This program will focus on historically excluded populations, opening doors for many kids who would otherwise believe that outdoor careers were out of reach.

best equipped to create the solutions, and that our

Noteworthy | In New Mexico, college-going rates

voices should be centered in sustainable community

have fallen from 72% of graduating high school

development and social and environmental justice

students in 2010 to 61% in 2018 (2022 Higher

initiatives.

Education Performance Report Card, New Mexico

Proposal | The climate crisis is upon us. We

Legislative Finance Committee).

must fundamentally transition from a fossil fuel economy based on extraction, consumption, and externalized pollution to a regenerative economy based on renewables, conservation, respect for our ecological life support systems, and justice. Funding will support BIPOC youth and families working to advance climate legislation to reduces emissions, deploy renewables, and facilitate a just transition, cleanup, and environmental justice for impacted

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Española Pathways Shelter EspanolaPathwaysShelter.org

Proposal | Farm to Table promotes locally-based agriculture through education and community outreach, capacity building, and policy advocacy.

We enhance marketing opportunities for farmers,

Mission | To prevent homelessness and to provide our homeless community with access to viable pathways, shelter, and essential services towards meeting their personal goals.

Proposal | Española Pathways Shelter (EPS) seeks funding support to provide the increasing number of clients in its Emergency Shelter with high-density nutritional meals. As EPS works to encourage and transition un-housed, substance use disorder clients into a sustainable drug-free lifestyle. Funding would increase EPS’s current $400.00 monthly allotment for food services, and afford augmentation and or completely replace the low-nutritional foods commonly consumed by persons with substance use disorder.

Noteworthy | In a 2022 county-wide survey, 32% of Rio Arriba citizens indicated difficulty accessing food security programs. With an average cost of a meal at $3.03; 15.3% of Rio Arriba’s population faces chronic food insecurity. Data is scarce on the SUD population

encourage family farming, farmers’ markets, the farm to institution value chain, the preservation of agricultural traditions, and the adoption of regenerative practices through informed public policy and furthering the understanding of the links between farming, food, health, and local economies.

Noteworthy | New Mexico’s food value chain is vulnerable. Food processing, storage, and distribution systems are insufficient. The state disproportionately exports locally-grown food outside of its borders (nearly 95%), leaving us unable to protect the natural resources used to produce that food and unable to feed our population, which has one of the highest rates of poverty and food insecurity in the country, crippling the health of our most vulnerable populations.

Fly Fish NM flyfishnm.org

of Rio Arriba and food insecurity. However, chronic substance abuse affects a person’s nutritional

Mission | To provide equitable access and inclusion

absorption. Coupling the lack of nutritional

for youth participation in outdoor activities and to

absorption and food insecurity only heightens the

provide guidance and instruction to those same

continuation of problems faced by this population.

youth as to the importance of clean air, water, and land, which are vital to our sport. Some youth

Farm to Table, Inc. farmtotablenm.org

are unable to enjoy outdoor activities due to their circumstances. We break that barrier by holding summer youth fly-fishing camps. Youth earn a fly-rod kit after cleaning the fishing habitat of debris. They

Mission | To build a local, healthy, equitable, and sustainable food system. Farm to Table firmly believes that access to food is a basic human right. We also affirm that access to regionally-grown healthy and culturally-relevant food is paramount to

keep their kit at the end of the day.

Proposal | All funds will be used to buy fly-rod kits, extra tippet, extra flies, and extra leaders for youth participants and to cover travel and lunch costs for all volunteers..

the health, economic well-being, and sustainability

Noteworthy | Over the past three years, virtually

of communities. As such, our work is centered on

every camp we sponsored was filled to capacity due

investing in New Mexico’s communities, farmers,

to its popularity. Our partner organizations, New

children, and the environment.

Mexico Big Brothers Big Sisters, New Mexico Boys & Girls Clubs, Mora Youth Council, Española YMCA, Nature Ninos, and The New Mexico Wilderness

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Society have many youth who have participated, and wish to participate in future fly-fishing camps where we stress the importance of inclusion, equitable

Hermit’s Peak Watershed Alliance hermitspeakwatersheds.org

access to the outdoors, and good stewardship for outdoor spaces and the environment.

Forest Stewards Guild foreststewardsguild.org

Mission | The Forest Stewards Guild envisions

region through ecological restoration, environmental education, and community action.

Proposal | The Hermit’s Peak Watershed Alliance restores and maintains the health of the watersheds in San Miguel and Mora counties. We are currently

ecologically, economically, and socially responsible

hard at work addressing the major ecological

forestry as the standard for professional forest

concerns caused by the Hermit’s Peak/Calf Canyon

management in the United States. We practice

Fire (HPCC) last year. We are seeking funding to

and promote sound forestry practices as a means

expand our education initiative, bringing ecological

of sustaining the integrity of forest ecosystems and

restoration topics into our local K-12 schools in order

the human communities dependent upon them.

to increase our community’s resilience, knowledge,

The Forest Stewards Youth Corps (FSYC) program

hands-on skills, and career path possibilities.

develops the next generation of skilled workers,

Noteworthy | There are approximately 3,315 K-12

educated and active citizens, and future community

students in San Miguel County. This program would

leaders.

be of particular significance to the students in this

Proposal | We aim to partner with the Hermit’s Peak

county, where so many of our community members

Watershed Alliance to involve rural youth in restoring

were directly affected by the HPCC last year. The fire

the fire-affected area of Hermit’s Peak/Calf Canyon,

burned over 340,000 acres and many of our students

combining strengths for effective post-fire efforts.

either lost their homes, had family members who

Their tasks will include building in-stream structures

lost their homes, or had to evacuate. Our program

to reduce flooding and strategically felling dead trees

will increase awareness of climate change, post fire

to stabilize soil and create planting sites for seedlings.

restoration and land and water stewardship.

Noteworthy | In 2022, New Mexico had its largest wildfire in recorded history, the Calf-Canyon Hermits Peak Fire. This fire burned nearly 350,000 acres and destroyed over 900 structures, many of which were uninsured, disproportionately impacting land grants and other communities with limited financial resources and generational ties to the land, including members of our FSYC program. For the long-term health of these ecosystems and communities, these areas require post-fire restoration.

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Mission | To protect and restore the ecological and cultural heritage of watersheds in the Hermit’s Peak

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Institute for Applied Ecology appliedeco.org

provide space for individual families to garden and learn organic gardening practices.

Noteworthy | The USDA has classified the town of Las Vegas as a “persistent poverty community,”

Mission | To conserve native species and habitats

where the per capita income is $23,090. Map the

through restoration, research, and education. We

Meal Gap estimates that across the state both

envision a world where all people and wildlands are

children and adults are “food insecure.” This means

healthy and interact positively, biological diversity

that they sometimes lack access to enough food for

flourishes, and environmental challenges are met

a healthy lifestyle. In addition, the USDA Food Access

with a social commitment to solving problems with

Research Atlas classifies Las Vegas and San Miguel

scientific principles.

County as a food desert.

Proposal | The New Mexico Conservation in Prisons Project (CIP) involves a partnership with the Institute for Applied Ecology and the Penitentiary of New Mexico to grow over 5,000 native plant plugs for

New Energy Economy newenergyeconomy.org

restoration each year. A central goal is to partner with adults in custody as stakeholders to develop the program. This includes an education component, which provides an opportunity for adults in custody to develop new skills and knowledge while inside prison to prepare for re-entry into civic life.

Noteworthy | Recidivism is the repetition of criminal behavior and reimprisonment (Maltz, 1984).

Researchers Mohammad and Mohamed (2015) found individuals who engaged in vocational and/ or educational programming had lower rates of recidivism compared with those who did not engage or enroll in programming. Research in a study with 3,000 offenders across three states found that a continuing education program reduced recidivism and cut incarceration costs by half (Lewin, 2001).

Mainstreet Las Vegas mainstreetdelasvegas.org

Mission | To build a carbon and nuclear free energy future for our health and the environment. We use targeted litigation, public policy advocacy, and high impact public education campaigns to push for bold climate justice solutions.

Proposal | 1) Energy Democracy Campaign: public policy solutions that build local power, control, and benefits from clean energy development. 2) Regulatory interventions that challenge fossil fuel and nuclear investments by big utilities and hold energy corporations accountable by strengthening and enforcing regulatory protections for state residents and the environment. 3) Sol for All: solar installations on vital community buildings, allowing energy dollars to be repurposed and making solar benefits more equitable.

Noteworthy | New Mexico has increased oil and gas production by 125% in the last decade and its production is projected to rise another 85% by 2030. The world’s leading scientists have warned

Mission | To unify the historic commercial corridor

we must cut global emissions in half by 2030 and

and engender pride in the community while

reach net-zero emissions by 2050 in order to keep

promoting economic development and preserving

global temperature rise below 1.5 degrees celsius.

historical, cultural, architectural, and natural

New Mexico’s projected emissions from new wells

resources through partnerships and community

would exceed the Paris Agreement goals by 10 times.

collaboration.

Help us stop all new development of oil and gas

Proposal | We seek funding to help fund the Las

infrastructure, and advance a just transition.

Vegas Community Garden. This garden is in an economically depressed part of Las Vegas and will

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New Mexico Environmental Law Center

New Mexico In Depth, Inc. nmindepth.com

nmelc.org

Mission | To foster and enrich the democratic Mission | To work with frontline, low-income, Indigenous, and communities of color to protect our air, land, and water in our fight for environmental justice by using the power of the law, policy, and advocacy/public education. We are the only environmental justice nonprofit law center in New Mexico that provides free legal representation to clients from communities most impacted and

conversation in New Mexico through comprehensive, deeply reported stories, with an eye on solutions that can be a catalyst for change.

Proposal | We are seeking funding to support our work to publish a series of stories on how climate change and drought affect the ecosystems, economies, and cultures of Rio Chama and Rio Grande communities in northern New Mexico.

disproportionately overburdened by pollution and

Noteworthy | Owing to a 22% decrease in the

discriminatory practices.

number of newspapers across the state, New Mexico

Proposal | Funding is needed to support

In Depth aims to bring coverage of stories that

environmental justice casework in northern New Mexico to prevent and address environmental threats to our air, land, and water. We provide the legal expertise, advocacy, and public education needed to ensure the meaningful involvement of frontline

matter in communities without news coverage.

New Mexico Land Conservancy nmlandconservancy.org

communities in the development, implementation, and enforcement of equitable environmental laws, regulations, and policies.

Noteworthy | Low-income, Indigenous, and People of Color in northern New Mexico live with disproportionate impacts of environmental degradation caused by extractive and polluting industries and are more likely to live in polluted areas and have unsafe drinking wate (Healthy People 2030). Environmental health threats shorten lifespans and reduce quality of life. Low-income, Indigenous, and other People of Color — especially children — are disproportionately impacted by environmental degradation (Child Trends, 2021).

Mission | To preserve New Mexico’s land heritage by helping people conserve the places they love.

Proposal | We seek funding to increase our capacity to monitor more than 658,000 acres annually through the purchase of a drone. The remote monitoring will particularly allow us to reach inaccessible and sensitive areas to diminish the impact of vehicle or foot.

Noteworthy | According to New Mexico Agriculture, farmers and ranchers provide habitat for 75% of the state’s wildlife. According to American Farmland Trust, 204,965 acres of New Mexico’s farmland and ranchland will be paved over, fragmented, or converted to uses that jeopardize agriculture by 2040, if recent trends continue. This is more than six times the size of Santa Fe.

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New Mexico Volunteers for the Outdoors

New Mexico Wilderness Alliance nmwild.org

nmvfo.org

Mission | New Mexico Wilderness Alliance is Mission | New Mexico Volunteers for the Outdoors (NMVFO) is an inclusive all-volunteer, action-oriented, non-political nonprofit organization that promotes involvement and education of the public in the maintenance, improvement, and stewardship of New Mexico’s public lands. NMVFO specializes in constructing and improving trails and other outdoor facilities to increase outdoor recreation opportunities in New Mexico for all as well as enhancing wildlife habitat and protecting the environment.

Proposal | NMVFO promotes public lands stewardship by direct action. Our volunteers improve access to and enjoyment of public lands in northern New Mexico and across the state. This improved access promotes rural community economic development by increasing recreational activities.

To sustain our all-volunteer organization, we request operating and capacity building funding for tool and equipment purchases and maintenance, cooking supplies, insurance, volunteer appreciation, and direct project expenses.

Noteworthy | Public land agency budgets are

dedicated to the protection, restoration, and continued enjoyment of New Mexico’s wildlands and Wilderness areas.

Proposal | New Mexico Wild seeks funding that will support our work to protect the Upper Pecos River watershed from the toxic impacts of mining. Through the Stop Tererro Mine Coalition, we will use advocacy, stewardship, and educational outreach to inform the public and decision-makers about the threat of mineral development to this fragile ecosystem.

Noteworthy | In 2019, Comexico LLC, a subsidiary of an Australian mining company, acquired 20 mining claims in the Jones Hill area near Tererro, NM. Comexico applied for a state permit to conduct exploratory drilling for gold and other metals.

This could adversely affect more than 400 acres and five tributaries of the Pecos River. Alarmingly, Comexico has acquired over 236 other mining claims throughout the Pecos headwaters covering 4,300 acres, potentially impacting both the Pecos and Santa Fe watersheds.

limited. NMVFO augments agency efforts to build

Northern Youth Project

and maintain trails and recreational facilities and

northernyouthproject.org

enhance wildlife habitat. Since our founding in 1982, we have completed over 800 projects to improve New Mexico public lands. In 2022 and to date in 2023,

Mission | To better the outcomes and opportunities

we have completed 52 stewardship projects and

for rural northern New Mexico youth through hands-

volunteered over 7,950 hours (equivalent to $226K

on art, agriculture, and leadership projects that honor

savings to land agency budgets). In addition ,our staff

the past and look to the future. We were founded

volunteered over 1,800 hours ($52K) to sustain the

in 2009 by local teens in response to staggering

organization.

statistics of high school dropout rates, teen substance abuse, low academic achievement, and a lack of programs for teens in the area. Collectively, teens have set out to “be the change” in their community. We are a part of the journey!

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Proposal | Northern Youth Project (NYP) introduces

Noteworthy | The current budget request for

youth to healthy life skills, traditional methods

cleanup at Los Alamos National Laboratory is only

of agriculture, and the preparation of culturally

5.7% ($292 million) of the total budget request of $5

relevant foods. We provide internships, allowing

billion. At this rate it will take many decades more

teens to earn a stipend and we employ dedicated

to clean up the wastes that have buried for decades

and knowledgeable program staff while also

above our groundwater aquifer that supplies 270,000

providing stipends to mentors and teachers. We are

people, just three miles uphill from the Rio Grande.

requesting funding support to continue our legacy in providing employment for both our youth and adult community members as well as support for sustaining our programming.

Railyard Park Conservancy railyardpark.org

Noteworthy | According to the 2021 Youth Resiliency and Risk Survey, New Mexico youth report higher rates of being “sad” or “hopeless,” with an increase of 35.4% in Rio Arriba County (the survey is from 20112021). Our goal is to decrease rates of suicide and risk behaviors by increasing connection to the earth, their community, and their peers as a tool for supporting and nourishing healthier young community members.

Nuclear Watch New Mexico nukewatch.org

Mission | Through comprehensive research, public education, and effective citizen action, Nuclear Watch New Mexico seeks to promote safety and environmental protection at regional nuclear facilities; mission diversification away from nuclear weapons programs; greater accountability and cleanup in the nation-wide nuclear weapons complex; and consistent U.S. leadership toward a world free of nuclear weapons.

Proposal | We seek to educate public, media, civic leaders, and lawmakers about the true impacts to the

Mission | The Railyard Park Conservancy (RPC) provides community stewardship and advocacy for the horticultural care, educational programming, and public art in Santa Fe’s 11-acre Railyard Park.

Proposal | We seek funding for three key areas of our horticulture programming: Graze Days/Healthy Soils, Youth-In-Service, and Green Job Skills Training. Your support will position these programs for ongoing success and longevity, and ensure that the Railyard Park continues to serve as both a model of public investment in sustainability and as a practical buffer to the ongoing effects of climate change.

Noteworthy | July 2023 was the hottest month in history. In Santa Fe, the average daily temperature was almost 8 degrees above normal, with only .11 inches of rain. With rising temperatures and increasingly severe weather events, it’s critical that communities invest in conservation efforts to preserve our fragile ecosystem, especially in public greenspaces. One California study found that widespread replacement of turf grass with drought tolerant vegetation could lower nighttime temperatures by 5.6 degrees.

environment from Los Alamos National Laboratory nuclear weapons operations and help to ensure genuine cleanup; work to speed up cleanup at the Lab, including the remediation of a large chromium plume that threatens the regional aquifer; and force a reexamination of decisions to leave radioactive and toxic waste in place in unlined pits.

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Rio Arriba Concerned Citizens

Santa Fe Conservation Trust

rioarribaconcernedcitizens.com

sfct.org

Mission | Rio Arriba Concerned Citizens (RACC)

Mission | Santa Fe Conservation Trust (SFCT)

is a grassroots organization that protects the Rio

partners with our community to keep northern

Chama Watershed in northern NM while educating

New Mexico’s living lands and people flourishing

and advocating for sustainable and safe energy

together. We protect culturally and environmentally

and income sources in our region. Our mission is

significant landscapes, ignite people’s passion for

to inform and educate our community on current

nature, and enable the continual regeneration of our

issues that affect public health, safety, land, air and

healthy place. We envision a future where everyone

water quality in the Rio Chama Watershed, and to

in northern New Mexico cherishes nature and works

promote the Rio Chama Watershed as a model for

to preserve it for this and future generations.

sustainable development and renewable energy.

Proposal | SFCT is your local land trust with a strong

Proposal | The northern New Mexico Chama

trails legacy. We improve your quality of life by

Watershed allocation is at risk! RACC seeks

conserving land, scenic views, wildlife habitat, water

donations to fund a phased signage program to raise

resources, and public access to the outdoors from the

public awareness of the extent of this Watershed

Las Vegas, NM area to the Colorado border; creating

supplying one third of Rio Grande flow. Water

new trails in and around Santa Fe while maintaining

from a 3,000 square-mile drainage area is critically

the City’s 55 miles of dirt trails; and providing

important in supporting many rural and recreational

equitable access to nature for people of all ages and

users. Environmental justice around water-use

abilities through our community programs. Please

allocation is inadequate. RACC seeks to build

support this impactful nonprofit.

community awareness to advocate for a fair share for rural sustainable and subsistence uses.

Noteworthy | Per the State Engineers report in 2022,

Noteworthy | Scientists say that at least 50% of the planet’s land and water must be protected to halt the collapse of the natural world and prevent the

water compact allotments in the Chama Watershed

extinction of over one million species. The 30 x 30

are being reduced. Allocations are increasing to Rio

campaign is a stepping stone to protect 30% of our

Grande downstream urban uses. Rio Arriba County

land and water by 2030. Yet only 12% of the U.S. land

has a population of 40,000, with 70% are Hispanic/

is currently protected via National Forests, BLM land,

Native American and 20% below the poverty line. An

etc. If we are to reach the 30 x 30 goal, land trusts

estimated 90% need water for traditional agricultural

will play an important role working with private

use including sustainable/subsistence needs.

landowners to protect land and ecosystems.

The impact on land use in Rio Arriba and Chama Watershed is disproportionate and increasing by Water Compacts.

Santa Fe Watershed Association santafewatershed.org

Mission | To protect and restore the health and vibrancy of the Santa Fe River and its watershed for the benefit of people and the environment.

We achieve this through education, restoration, stewardship, and advocacy. From the River’s headwaters to the Rio Grande, we honor the connection of people and the watershed.

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Proposal | We seek support for our general

Noteworthy | Approximately 60% of wild species

programming fund, which enables us to continue

in the U.S. are declining, as is democracy. New

our essential role as a community bridge figure,

Mexico ranks among the top five states in plant

fostering collaboration among diverse stakeholders

and animal species diversity, but its century-old

and living our outward-facing values in the ways we

wildlife management system leaves about 40%

support our staff and workplace culture internally.

of native vertebrates and almost all invertebrates,

General funds enable our team to effectively respond

including pollinators, unprotected. Despite being

to emerging and ongoing issues concerning our

responsible for wildlife protection, the state lacks

river and watershed and engage in important work

the legal mandate and authority to protect much

outside of specifically funded programming.

of this natural diversity, emphasizing the need for

Noteworthy | 100% of the people who live, work,

comprehensive reform.

and play in Santa Fe or anywhere between Lake Peak and Cochiti Pueblo are dependent on the Santa Fe River Watershed for drinking and irrigation water, wastewater disposal, stormwater conveyance,

Trout Unlimited, Inc. tu.org

greenspace, and ecological and cultural value. The Santa Fe Watershed Association works to deepen the connection and sense of responsibility everyone has to this shared landscape and to center its needs as water becomes scarcer and our needs as a community evolve.

Southwest Environmental Center dba Wildlife for All wildlifeforall.us

Mission | To bring together diverse interests to care for and recover rivers and streams so that our children can experience the joy of wild and native trout and salmon.

Proposal | Trout Unlimited (TU) proposes to establish The Indigenous and Hispanic Youth Fly Fishing Camp in northern New Mexico, partnering with Uncivilized Outdoorsman, an Indigenous-owned outdoor education company. The camp will engage 10 students, their parents, and elders in an outdoor mentorship experience for youth from tribal and

Mission | To reform wildlife management in the U.S. to be more democratic, just, compassionate and focused on protecting wild species and ecosystems.

Proposal | We seek support to expand our campaign for transformative state wildlife management reform by driving fair, inclusive, and humane practices that safeguard wild species and ecosystems. Through legislative and regulatory reform that empowers diverse and historically disenfranchised voices in wildlife policy, we aim to help New Mexico enter an era of increased environmental and social justice, where policies and practices address dual crises of climate change and biodiversity loss.

land grant communities. Funds will support payroll expenses for Uncivilized Outdoorsman and TU staff coordination support.

Noteworthy | TU is addressing cultural inequity with this pilot program. Rio Arriba County schools average 25.5% Native American and 81.3% Hispanic, many students of two or more races/ethnicities. 63% of students spend more than three hours of screen time per day, and 30% engage in daily physical activity, and 19% have no daily physical activity at all.

Indigenous and Hispanic youth are at high risk of substance abuse, have highest rates of victimization from abuse & bullying & are most affected by suicide.

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Health & Human Services Result: All people are healthy and safe.

We invited requests from organizations serving Santa Fe, Mora, Rio Arriba, and/or San Miguel counties that work to improve: •

Access to affordable housing

•

Food Security

•

Safety

•

Access to health care

•

Healthy neighborhood living conditions

Through direct service, policy advocacy and/or collaboration efforts, priority strategies will address: •

Affordable housing and shelter for homeless and at-risk populations;

•

Access to affordable and high-quality food, including food banks, pantries, and community centers that distribute food and promote healthy eating and work to address “food deserts;”

•

Efforts to address safety for vulnerable populations, including domestic violence and child abuse prevention, bullying prevention in schools, safety issues specific to immigrant populations, low wage workers and communities of color;

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Access to health services, including programs providing unand under-insured populations with culturally appropriate and equitable access to quality health and wellness services such behavioral health (including addiction services), senior services, and groups working on cultural and generational trauma. Priority will be given to efforts applying a social determinants of health lens to the work;

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Building healthy communities, including built environment and infrastructure, environmental quality (toxins and air/water quality), affordable and reliable transportation, parks and recreation; and/or

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Systems change, including public policy, civic engagement, community organizing or public information to improve health and well-being of local residents.

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Alzheimer’s Association, New Mexico Chapter alz.org/newmexico

proud to uphold our pledge to the American people: when the Red Cross is needed, we respond 100% of the time.

Noteworthy | This past fiscal year in New Mexico, we responded to 438 local disasters, including

Mission | To lead the way to end Alzheimer’s and all other dementia — by accelerating global research, driving risk reduction and early detection, and maximizing quality care and support. Our vision is a world without Alzheimer’s and all other dementia.

Proposal | Alzheimer’s disease is our nation’s largest

47 in Santa Fe, Rio Arriba, Mora and San Miguel counties; assisted 846 families/1937 individuals, including 186 families/443 individuals in those four counties; provided $440,000+ in financial assistance for families to meet immediate emergency needs; installed 736 smoke alarms, including 229 in those four counties; made 762 homes safer, including 75

under-recognized public health crisis. It is the

in those four counties; and served 2,100 individuals,

seventh-leading cause of death in the United States.

including 424 in those four counties.

Too few of those affected have the information and resources they need to live well today and plan for tomorrow. The Alzheimer’s Association provides a comprehensive continuum of direct services and

Atalaya Search and Rescue atalayasar.org

care and support programs for all New Mexicans affected through information referral, our 24/7 helpline, education, and support groups.

Noteworthy | More than 43,000 New Mexicans are living with Alzheimer’s or other dementia, and more than 85,000 of their family members and friends are providing them with unpaid care valued at more than $2.643 billion per year. By 2025, more than

Mission | Atalaya Search & Rescue (ASAR) is an allvolunteer nonprofit organization dedicated to the search and rescue of lost or injured people in New Mexico’s backcountry.

Proposal | Our needs in 2023 span three key areas: gear, training, and operations. Our rigorous training

53,000 are expected to be living with dementia.

schedule requires us to replace technical gear

American Red Cross, New Mexico Chapter

2023, we plan on replacing our titanium litter and

redcross.org/local/az-nm

regularly. Ropes alone can cost upwards of $400. In upgrading supplemental equipment. We train biweekly and periodically bring in specialized technical experts. This year, we are undertaking an advanced rigging course. We also need support for regular operations expenses to help us keep the (head)lights

Mission | To prevent and alleviate human suffering in

on.

the face of emergencies by mobilizing the power of

Noteworthy | In 2022, Atalaya Search & Rescue

volunteers and the generosity of donors.

responded to 16 missions in northern New Mexico’s

Proposal | The Red Cross alleviates suffering

backcountry resulting in the search, rescue, and/

in the face of emergencies. We provide relief after disasters; we install free smoke alarms in vulnerable neighborhoods; we meet the needs of

or recovery of 39 individuals. ASAR has 32 active members who collectively trained over 1,400 hours in 2022 alone.

our communities for life-saving blood; we support U.S. military families; we empower people to help in emergencies with life-saving skills, like CPR and First Aid; we help to save lives around the world. We are

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Bienvenidos Outreach, Inc. bienvenidosfoodpantry.org

Proposal | Since doula services are not yet reimbursed by insurance or medicaid in New Mexico, families who are unable to afford this essential care cannot access it. Doula services not only provide

Mission | To provide food and clothing to those in need.

Proposal | Since 1989, Bienvenidos Outreach has provided assistance with food, clothing, and household items to our clients — always at no cost or obligation to them. We request funds in order to continue enhancing our food programs with healthier food selections for children, the elderly, and those with medical conditions who are the most vulnerable of our clients. Funds would also help with adding new programs such as our pet food program, which helps clients keep their pets healthy and safe in the homes that they love.

Noteworthy | According to Feeding America, 271,210 people are facing hunger in New Mexico and of them 99,100 are children. One in eight adults and one in five children face hunger each day.

The Birthing Tree Fund thebirthingtree.org

Mission | The Birthing Tree Doula Project has grown out of our community’s need for prenatal, birth, and postpartum education and support. For many folks, childbirth can be a stressful and fragile time, particularly for families who do not have adequate resources and support. Our mission is to support families experiencing social and economic disadvantage across northern New Mexico. By increasing access to birth support, parents are given a strong foundation to build on as they continue along their parenting journey.

information and advocacy, but also physical and emotional support during birth and postpartum period, linking them to additional resources as needed. We have a steady stream of referrals from pregnancy providers and are currently unable to meet the demand due to lack of sufficient funding for our project.

Noteworthy | There is strong evidence to show doulas impact infant and maternal morbidity and mortality rates. Recent statistics for New Mexico show that prenatal care among New Mexico residents lags behind that of the country as a whole.

Doulas encourage parent engagement in their prenatal medical care (Trotter et al, 1992 Wolman, 1993). Consistent prenatal care reduces the risk of pregnancy-related complications for the mother and baby and increases a woman’s chances of having a healthy full-term baby.

Black Health New Mexico blackhealthnewmexico.com

Mission | Black Health New Mexico (BHNM) is a dedicated resource for Black people in New Mexico.

We work to address high health disparity rates and improve community health through innovative and collaborative community driven programming and solutions. We believe that interventions working to improve health outcomes must be deeply rooted in and influenced by the expertise, leadership, and lived experience of the communities most impacted.

Proposal | Our Farm to Table Program resists food segregation and the real and imagined structures that make fresh, locally grown organic and pesticidefree produce less accessible to BIPOC people. Funds will support greater infrastructure and capacity to ensure participation of our elders and families. It will support a growing farm team, including the hiring of a part time community organizer to specifically support this program and directly assist the BHNM

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Farm to Table Coordinator.

Noteworthy | Data indicates that discrimination and violence against African American farmers in

Breath of My Heart Birth Place breathofmyheart.org

the United States led to their decline from 14% of all growers in 1920 to less than 2 percent today, with a

Mission | To bring to reality a sustainable birthing

corresponding loss of over 14 million acres of land.

place that celebrates pregnancy and birth as a

According to NM DOH, the Black population in New

sacred rite of passage through midwifery care. To

Mexico is disproportionately impacted by obesity,

raise awareness and promote wellness, growth,

cardiovascular disease, and high diabetes rates. In

and healing in our multicultural communities by

2018, African American adults were 60% more likely

honoring women and birthing people as “the first

than non-Hispanic white adults to be diagnosed with

environment.”

diabetes.

Proposal | Breath of My Heart (BMH) is a birth center

Books for Prisoners Project BooksForPrisonersProject.org

and community midwifery clinic that provides culturally relevant care for low-income people of color in the Española Valley. We provide respectful, high-quality maternal care that reduces racial and economic health disparities. At BMH, midwifery

Mission | The idea behind this endeavor is to get

care encompasses the full range of reproductive

leadership, motivational, inspirational, and recovery

healthcare, including preconception care,

books from Sun Publishing’s extensive catalog of

contraception, referral and counselling for abortion,

self-help books into penal institutions. Sun’s goal is

prenatal care, and birth options.

that these types of books will be made available to all

Noteworthy | OB services are increasingly rare in

prisoners who have an interest in self-improvement.

small communities in New Mexico, requiring many

We sincerely believe that the dissemination of this

women and families to drive long distances in order

type of material will not only create opportunities for

to access basic prenatal care and birth services.

growth and self-awareness but will also help to cut

Medicaid pays for the majority of births that occur

down on chronic recidivism.

in New Mexico (76%) and Medicaid reimbursement

Proposal | We also believe that by making this

rates are low, and falling, compared to those of

material available to inmates, we can help prevent

private insurance payers. This financial climate

even one life from being lost then it will have been

demands a lower cost solution for high-quality

worth the effort and expense. We need funding to

perinatal services to families in the rural regions of

pay for the storage, re-printing, and dissemination of

the state.

these materials to prisoners and prison libraries. We also hope to be able to hire a grant writer to secure additional funds.

Noteworthy | The current costs of storage for these books is somewhat in excess of $400.00 per month.

Acquiring books to make available to prisons and prisoners can exceed $1,000.00 per month. Paying for someone to process orders and deliver books to the various state prisons could exceed $1,000.00 per month. The cost of office space could exceed $750.00 per month.

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Cancer Foundation for New Mexico cffnm.org

in foster care, and our newly launched Abrigo Advocates for all children in need. We see many of these children blossom when they have the support of a caring, well-trained advocate by their side.

Noteworthy | CASA First is the only nonprofit in our Mission | To help save lives by removing barriers and providing needed support to northern New Mexicans with cancer seeking medical treatment in Santa Fe.

Proposal | The Cancer Foundation for New Mexico

area dedicated to supporting children who have been abused and neglected. This past fiscal year, 127 children had a devoted CASA First Advocate, with 95% of our CASAs stating that their child was safer by virtue of them being assigned on the case: “We

(CFFNM) is the only local, independent organization

raised the bar, and let the child and parent better

to offer essential services to ensure access to

comprehend what supports a child and makes her

treatment for all low-income northern New Mexicans

safe.”

with cancer who suffer disproportionately in their effort to start and complete their cancer treatment.

CFFNM seeks funding for its patient support services, specifically the Travel to Treatment program, which

Casa Milagro casamilagrosantafe.org

provides mileage reimbursement for patients traveling to Santa Fe for cancer treatment.

therapeutic home that nurtures the well-being and

the poorest states in the nation, placing 48th in

thriving of each of our formerly homeless residents.

overall poverty levels. Mora, Rio Arriba, and San

Proposal | Casa Milagro provides permanent

Miguel counties have poverty rates above 21%, well above the national average. The rural population also exceeds the national average, with 26 of New Mexico’s 33 counties being considered either totally or mostly rural. For New Mexicans undergoing cancer treatment in Santa Fe, these statistics represent real barriers to accessing treatment.

CASA First casafirst.org

Mission | To support and promote volunteer

supportive housing in a community life environment to individuals who have been experiencing debilitating mental health challenges and homelessness. We strive to provide a space for people to stabilize physically, emotionally, mentally, and socially as they stabilize and develop their own life goals. We provide around-the-clock care, medication management, mental health support, meals, groups, etc. We are fundraising to sustain this essential work in FY 2024.

Noteworthy | 20% to 25% of the unhoused population in the United States suffers from some form of severe mental illness. The vast majority of

advocacy so that children and youth from Santa

those lack appropriate treatment for their underlying

Fe, Rio Arriba, and Los Alamos counties who are

health conditions, compounding the challenges of

trauma-impacted or system-involved can be safe,

finding affordable housing.

have permanent connections, and the opportunity to thrive.

Proposal | With your support, CASA First can ensure that the most vulnerable and trauma-impacted children and youth in our community are safe and can thrive. CASA First recruits, trains and supports Court Appointed Special Advocates for children

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Mission | To provide a sustainable, safe, and

Noteworthy | New Mexico consistently ranks among

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Catholic Charities ccasfnm.org

Children’s Grief Center of New Mexico griefnm.org

Mission | To put faith in action to improve the lives of those in need and our vision is to honor human dignity. Catholic Charities provides a broad spectrum of human services, including immigration legal assistance, refugee support, housing/case management programs, affordable housing development, adult education, senior transportation, and more. We are dedicated to working with and serving all regardless of religion, race, disability, gender, age, or sexual orientation.

Proposal | Funding would help support the various human service programs of Catholic Charities, such as CC Housing, which provides affordable housing for low-income and special needs families and individuals throughout the state of New Mexico.

We work in partnership with government agencies and private developers to identify new construction development opportunities and to provide more affordable housing options to the community. We also provide social services to residents.

Noteworthy | Throughout New Mexico, there is a shortage of rental homes affordable and available to extremely low-income households, whose incomes are at or below the poverty guideline or 30% of the area median income (AMI). Around 63% of these households are severely cost burdened, spending more than half of their income on housing. This often leads to sacrifices of other necessities like healthy food and healthcare to pay the rent and creates unstable housing situations like evictions.

Mission | To provide compassionate and safe support, understanding, healing, and hope to the grieving community.

Proposal | Our vision is that all grieving people will receive compassionate support needed to foster hope for the future. The Grief Center provides free peer support groups and other special programs to kids and adults who are grieving a death. We are located in Albuquerque and also offer programs virtually to serve grieving people throughout New Mexico. Our annual camp program serves grieving youth in rural communities. We are requesting funding to support our operating costs that enable all programs to exist.

Noteworthy | New Mexico is second in the nation for childhood bereavement with one in nine kids experiencing the death of a parent or sibling by age 18 (Judi’s House/JAG Inst. 2022). “Research shows that bereaved kids are at an increased risk of disrupted development. Unaddressed childhood grief and trauma can lead to short- and long-term difficulties including decreased academic performance, mental health issues, and early mortality” (Judi’s House/JAG Inst. 2023). Our programs work to address adverse outcomes for kids and adults.

Collins Lake Autism Center CollinsLakeRanch.org

Mission | To provide supported living, education, and therapeutic services in a nature-based setting for our extended community family.

Proposal | We plan to expand our behavioral health services, not only to our DD Waiver clients, but to the community-at-large. Between the COVID pandemic and last year’s wildfires, we are seeing a huge increase in trauma and other mental health issues. In addition to our current staff, we have seen

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other therapists that would like to provide services at Collins Lake Ranch. Our tranquil setting and variety of outdoor spaces create great environments for

Cooking With Kids, Inc. cookingwithkids.org

dealing with emotional issues.

Noteworthy | The students at our local school are

Mission | To educate and empower children and

exhibiting greater behavioral problems than in years

families to make healthy food choices through

past. We are planning to add counseling to the Friday

hands-on learning with fresh, affordable foods.

Environmental Education sessions being held at the

Proposal | We address the nutritional health and

Ranch. We are seeing similar issues with the adult population. Conversations with local therapists, both at the Mora Clinic as well as private practitioners confirm our observations. Outside groups have expressed an interest in helping out but need a place to work from.

Comedor de San Pascual, Inc. comedorsoupkitchen.wordpress.com

Mission | To provide regular free community meals

well-being of children, impacting not only overall health but educational success. CWK requests funding for hands-on nutrition education activities, where students explore, prepare, and enjoy fresh, affordable foods from diverse cultural traditions. We aim to positively change eating behaviors, increase home cooking, and support public schools in their efforts to engage students in creative and crossdisciplinary ways.

Noteworthy | In northern New Mexico, one in four kids live in homes without consistent access to adequate food, and one-third of third graders are

and opportunities to socialize for children and adults,

overweight or obese. Most children need repeated,

and to provide free supplementary food to persons of

positive experiences with new foods in order to

need.

accept them, and many families can’t afford the

Proposal | Each week, Comedor offers two hot

risk of introducing healthy foods that their kids may

takeout meals from the OLOS Parish Hall as well as food pantry bags and produce as available. Meals are going up from 125 each day to 150. San Pascual’s Pantry offers home delivery of meals three times a week to persons without utilities or essentially homebound under the age of 60. The 2020 census indicates 34% of children in San Miguel County live in poverty. That means around 9,000 children can

refuse to eat. With this in mind, Cooking with Kids exposes students to a variety of positive food choices while honoring the individual choice and preference of each child.

Dental Care In Your Home dentalcareinyourhome.org

use help with additional food. We wish to expand outreach.

Noteworthy | The 2020 census indicates 24.9% of

and special needs patients in their home or care

adults and 34% of children in San Miguel County

facility.

live in poverty, +/-8%. Takeout food requests are

Proposal | Dental Care In Your Home requires more

increasing up to 150 for each of the two days. Because

staff and equipment to meet the ever growing need

of continued risk of COVID, Comedor continues to

of homebound and special needs patients needing

only do takeout meals. Disposable containers add a

oral healthcare.

cost to meals. Home deliveries vary and have ranged

Noteworthy | We have 1,654 active patients. We

from two to 15 meal each of the three days. Costs to get food more accessible for children are unknown at this time. The plan is to work with the school systems.

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Mission | To provide oral healthcare to homebound

received 400 new patient forms in the last week and are in contract to see 900 school aged children beginning in the fall.

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DreamTree Project, Inc.

dixonmarket.com

dreamtreeproject.org

Mission | Governed by cooperative principles, the

Mission | To provide housing and compassionate

Dixon Cooperative Market (DCM) aims to serve

support services to youth, adults, and families

the citizens of the greater Embudo Valley by

experiencing housing instability. Our vision is that

strengthening food security, offering quality foods

everyone in northern New Mexico has stability,

and products at reasonable prices, and emphasizing

support, and the opportunity to pursue their dreams.

the sale of healthy food. We invigorate the local economy by providing a market conduit for locally grown produce and products, improve the quality of life and the health of our community through education, and foster community involvement in a welcoming and friendly atmosphere.

Proposal | COVID-19 restrictions brought increased community reliance on the DCM. As restrictions have eased, the DCM has been struggling with rising costs outpacing profits. We have actualized a plan to increase storage space which will allow us to reduce the cost of products, support and incentivize local businesses to supply fresh goods and services, and help retain the quality jobs that were created during the pandemic. We seek funds to help stabilize our efforts while we complete our expansion.

Noteworthy | Total sales in 2021 increased 60% over pre-pandemic numbers, however recent drastic fluctuations in cost of goods and increases for wages have outpaced profits. While our sales increased by 25% from one period to the other, costs increased by 41%. The DCM improved pay — raising wages to a

Proposal | Funding keeps our programs operating and serving some of the most vulnerable people in our community, including the Street Outreach Program for youth, adults, and families on the streets; the Emergency Youth Shelter for youth ages 12 to 17; the Transitional Living Program for youth ages 16 to 24; and the DreamTree Families Program for young parents and their children. We provide housing in Española, Raton, and Taos, and by the end of 2023, Las Vegas.

Noteworthy | The Youth Risk and Resiliency Survey (YRRS) has shown that 6.6% of teenagers in New Mexico struggle with housing instability every year; in our 5-county service area, this rate jumps to 7.9%. This amounts to hundreds of young people throughout north central and north east New Mexico who are sleeping in a shelter, in a motel or hotel, in public spaces, doubled up, and/or couch surfing.

End of Life Options New Mexico endoflifeoptionsnm.org

minimum of $15.00 (from $9.00 in 2019 and over the State minimum of $11.50) — a rapid improvement of over 67% in only four years. We are proud of this shift

Mission | To provide accurate information and caring

toward more equitable pay.

support to all New Mexicans who seek options for care at the end of their lives, including medical aid in dying.

Proposal | Lack of information and support may restrict the options that dying people have for endof-life care that respects their autonomy. End of Life Options New Mexico (EOLONM) aims to expand its capacity to better serve clients, the public, and New Mexico clinicians in a manner that reflects our values of compassion, inclusivity, respect, integrity, and non-judgmental support. Funding will help us to hire

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an executive leader who offers strong administrative

Proposal | The Food Depot (TFD) addresses food

support for these activities and their expansion.

insecurity in a nine-county, 26,000-square-mile

Noteworthy | In 20 months of operation since

service area by acquiring and distributing food to

incorporation, EOLONM has conducted 126 public

people in need. Partnering with some 80 agency

outreach events, provided information or direct

partners in hunger relief; nonprofits, schools,

support to 426 individuals and families, responded

churches, community centers, etc., we distribute

to 73 clinician inquiries, and provided medication

food in local communities to those confronting

assistance support to 7 individuals. More than 250

food insecurity. To assist this work, TFD respectfully

people have taken advantage of medical aid in dying.

requests funding to support our new program, Casita de Comida; a free choice-based grocery store located

Esperanza Shelter esperanzashelter.org

in Española.

Noteworthy | Northern New Mexico’s nine counties have a 15% food insecurity rate; that is 39,761 people experiencing hunger each day. Most alarming is the

Mission | To shelter those threatened by domestic violence and to support healthy relationships.

Proposal | Esperanza Shelter is in need of general operating funds to support the important mission and no cost services we provide to adult and child survivors. We provide emergency shelter, a 24/7 crisis line, transitional housing, adult/child/family therapy, infant mental health, child life skills groups,

23% food insecurity rate among our communities’ children; equating to 12,563 children! Specific to Casita de Comida, data indicates there are 5,520 food insecure individuals in Rio Arriba County and 15,770 in Santa Fe. For comparison, the national food insecurity rate is 10.2%, Rio Arriba ranks 40% higher than the national rate while Santa Fe is 4% higher.

parenting groups, court advocacy, community

Food is Free Albuquerque

navigation, advocacy, psychoeducational groups for

fifabq.org

both survivors and offenders, aftercare groups for survivors, and outreach education and prevention.

Noteworthy | In 2022, we provided 7,931 days of shelter beds; answered 1,539 crisis calls; held 471

Mission | To encourage social empowerment through the growing and sharing of fresh food.

counseling sessions; and provided ~2,000 hours of

Proposal | We address the need for fresh, healthy,

advocacy, including legal advocacy.

and locally-grown food that is accessible to everyone, regardless of income or social status. Our gleaning

The Food Depot

program reduces food waste and provides nutritious

thefooddepot.org

otherwise. With our expansion to Santa Fe in 2021,

produce to those who may not have access we hope to increase our impact and serve even more

Mission | Our vision is simple: healthy, hunger-free communities in northern New Mexico. We work toward that vision by engaging a network of partners to develop real solutions to create a hunger-free New Mexico. The Food Depot fosters healthy communities by engaging a network of partners and developing solutions for a hunger-free New Mexico.

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people in need. We are requesting funds to support our efforts in gleaning and distributing excess produce in both Albuquerque and Santa Fe.

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Noteworthy | According to the USDA, New Mexico has the second-highest rate of food insecurity for children in the country, with over 15% of households

The Friendship Club friendshipclubsantafe.org

experiencing food insecurity. At the same time, we estimate that over 1 million pounds of fresh, locallygrown produce go to waste in the Albuquerque area alone each year. Our organization helps to address both of these issues by gleaning excess produce and distributing it to those in need.

Friends of the Santa River friendsofthesantaferiver.org

Mission | To provide and maintain a multi-use, safe community center that promotes activities and events focusing on mental, spiritual, and physical recovery. We provide an inviting, supportive environment where people in recovery can heal and help one another.

Proposal | Post-pandemic experience depicts the increase of people seeking face to face recovery for themselves and their communities. Through your support, our facilities will provide instructional

Mission | To remove invasive and non-native

classes and programming in music, art, and

trees and plants from the Santa Fe River corridor;

podcast development for all ages in recovery and

to encourage the growth of native trees, plants,

their families. We request funding to provide some

and grasses; and to continuously maintain the

musical instruments, art supplies, hardware, classes,

improvements. We aim to help unite Santa Fe’s

and space for these programs to begin and become

diverse communities by providing green space for

sustainable beyond our reach.

recreation, contemplation, and education. Our work

Noteworthy | Statistics indicate that people engaged

strives to inspire us all to be better stewards of the

in community recovery beyond meetings have a

environment.

greater chance to achieve long term recovery. 87.6%

Proposal | The Santa Fe River corridor is one of the

of northern counties identify with a race or ethnicity

largest green spaces in the city and it has received little care or attention making community access difficult and dangerous. Working with the Santa Fe Parks and Recreation Department, we remove invasive trees and plants, and improve paths and trails along the river. Our funding request is for labor, native trees, and plants to replace the removed species, and for gravel and rocks to maintain and improve the trails along the river.

Noteworthy | Just last year, our organization

other than White with extremely high poverty levels.

Services by funding of this Grant will provide recovery and artistic opportunities to the less fortunate, their families, and the community. This Program can be replicated throughout the state.

Free Flow NM, Inc. freeflownm.com

spent over $8,000.00 on tree removal crews and

Mission | To end period-poverty in our community.

$36,000.00 on labor.

We believe period products should be as easy to access as toilet paper. No individual should miss work or school because they do not have menstrual materials. We strive to serve any population in need of these services, including, but not limited to, students of all ages, people experiencing homelessness, and working individuals who cannot afford menstrual products.

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Proposal | Free Flow NM has doubled monthly

Noteworthy | Gerard’s House’s role is particularly

distributions from 300-bags to 600-bags in the last

relevant in New Mexico, the state with the second

year. Each month, we assemble and distribute these bags containing a one-month supply of tampons, pads, and liners. Recipients can receive their bags from distribution points, our period pods, or by dropoff. We also offer reusable period products: cups, underwear, and pads. Funds will be used to secure our own warehouse space, and double our impact again this year in Santa Fe and northern New Mexico.

Noteworthy | One in four low-income menstruators report missing work, school, or similar events due to lack of access to period products. One infice college students experience period-poverty. SNAP and EBT do not cover menstrual materials. When an individual’s basic necessities are taken care of,

highest percentage of bereaved children nationally.

According to the Children’s Bereavement Estimation Model, one in 10 New Mexico children will experience the death of a parent or sibling by the age of 18.

While many grieving children and teenagers feel unsupported or alone, 80% of Nuestra Jornada (Our Journey) school-aged participants report feeling more supported by others after 10 weeks of grief support groups.

Girls on the Run Santa Fe, Inc. gotr-sf.org

they are able to thrive... period products are a basic

Mission | To inspire girls to be joyful, healthy, and

necessity. Free Flow NM is now distributing 108,000

confident using a fun, experience-based curriculum

pads, 36,000 tampons, and 36,000 liners every year!

which creatively integrates running. Girls on the Run

Help us to end period poverty in and around Santa

Santa Fe is a physical activity-based Positive Youth

Fe!

Development program (PYD). Girls learn life skills through dynamic, interactive lessons and running

Gerard’s House gerardshouse.org

games. Important social, psychological, and physical skills are developed and reinforced during the 10week program.

Proposal | We are committed to the physical, social/ Mission | To create safe spaces where healing happens through acceptance and peer support for grieving children, teenagers, families and adults. We offer seven free services to address different needs, with one program for grieving youth and families who have immigrant roots, another for emergency needs, and a new collaborative program supporting grieving students at Ohkay Owingeh Community School.

Proposal | Gerard’s House is Santa Fe’s center for kids grieving the death of — or separation from — a loved one. We seek funding partners for weekly peer grief support groups, individual grief support sessions, safety and suicide interventions, and assistance meeting basic needs. Each program is tailored to the unique strengths and needs of youth, families, or adults experiencing life-changing loss. All services are free of charge to program participants.

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interpersonal, and psychological development of girls aged eight to 13 years. Our intentional curriculum and systemic coach training are aligned with best practices for PYD programs, including opportunities for skill building, a safe physical and psychological space, appropriate structure, supportive relationships, and feelings of belonging.

Our lessons focus on three themes: identity (selfawareness), connectedness (healthy relationships), and empowerment.

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Noteworthy | 1) By age 9 girls’ self-confidence drops.

2) 50% of girls ages 10-13 experience bullying such as name calling and exclusion. 3) Physical activity

Inside Out recoveryinsideout.org

levels decline at age 10 and continue to decrease throughout adolescence. Our results: 1) Girls who were least active at the start of the program increased in physical activity by 40%. 2) 97% of the participants learned critical life skills and strategies.

3) Physically active girls have improved cognitive performance and behavioral health.

Growing Up New Mexico: The Early Childhood Partnership growingupnm.org

Mission | We believe that all lives have meaning, and offer peer support through our own experiences to individuals and families reaching toward recovery. As a community, we can create change! Inside Out has served the most indigent populations of northern NM since 2008. Our services are completely peerdriven and we offer individual peer support, life skills, trauma curriculum and conflict resolution groups in addition to distributing food, clothing, and serving breakfast and hot lunch daily to the homeless.

Proposal | Inside Out serves a minimum of 250 meals each month to the homeless, including

Mission | To engage the whole community, bringing together people and resources to create increased opportunities for young children and the adults in their lives to achieve their dreams and aspirations.

Our vision is that all children and families thrive.

Proposal | All families will thrive if given the right opportunities and resources at the right time.

Each year, we provide high-quality early childhood programs, prenatally through age five, to between 3,000 and 3,500 families living in Santa Fe and Rio Arriba Counties. We offer home visiting services, child care and PreK, family coaching and referrals to community resources, and book distribution as an official Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library affiliate.

Noteworthy | Investing in quality early childhood programs and systems has been proven to yield the highest return for society, with ROI estimates between 7% and 13%. To sustain long-term

breakfast and hot nutritious lunches. Although Inside Out serves many who are addicted, we also serve community members who are elderly as well as families with assistance for their needs. We also outreach to the rural El Rito community twice a month, taking our services to the library as many people in rural communities who are indigent have little access to reliable transportation.

Noteworthy | Inside Out serves well over 2,000 individuals every year. Our services are peer-driven and we meet monthly with people who are receiving services to gather opinions and ideas to improve or add services. The agency has always operated by the people for the people. We have seen exponential growth in numbers with the homeless population and also the elderly seeking assistance. We conduct homeless outreach to reach those who are extremely marginalized. In 2022, we served 2,143 people.

improvements in the early learning and care ecosystem, we leverage private dollars with public funding. Committed investment from our public and private partners makes it possible to enact significant changes to our New Mexico’s early childhood landscape.

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Interfaith Community Shelter Group, Inc. (Pete’s Place)

Kitchen Angels kitchenangels.org

interfaithsheltersf.org

Mission | To provide free nutritious meals to our Mission | Working with volunteers and community groups, we provide short-term survival services, active service experiences for volunteers, and additional long-term services in collaboration with the City of Santa Fe and local service provider partners.

Proposal | As the needs of the Santa Fe community and individuals experiencing homelessness have evolved, so have the services provided by the Interfaith Community Shelter (ICS) at Pete’s Place.

The latest change has been in response to the rising number of homeless encampments that have arisen in our city. In response to this issue, ICS is expanding our shelter services and admitting both men and women (and their children) to overnight Shelter yearround. The Summer Safe Haven for All began in May 2023.

Noteworthy | The Interfaith Community Shelter at Pete’s Place provides a life-saving service and owes its very existence to the faith group leaders who came together to solve a heartbreaking problem: 25 homeless individuals died from hypothermia on the streets of Santa Fe. Since the creation of the Shelter, dying from hypothermia has become a thing of the distant past in Santa Fe. People who are sheltered are also much less likely to use the emergency room or to be incarcerated.

homebound neighbors living with life-challenging conditions.

Proposal | Kitchen Angels mitigates the impact of poverty on chronic illness and being homebound by delivering free, freshly-prepared and nutritious meals to clients’ homes each weekday. Services are provided without regard to clients’ age, race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, or cognitive impairment. Nearly all of our clients live at or below federal poverty. We are requesting funding to help subsidize food costs and meal preparation.

Noteworthy | New Mexico ranks 47th nationwide in food insecurity and estimates of food insecurity in northern New Mexico run as high as 18%. Throughout the United States, one in three chronically ill individuals cannot afford food, medications, or both.

The New Mexico Department of Health estimates that, in Santa Fe County, 23.7% of the population has a chronic medical condition and as much as 12% of the country’s population is estimated to be homebound. These are the clients Kitchen Angels serves.

Las Cumbres Community Services, Inc. lascumbres-nm.org

Mission | To provide quality services, public awareness, and integrated community supports for children, adults, and families facing social, emotional, and/or developmental challenges.

Proposal | Since our founding in 1971, Las Cumbres has been one of northern New Mexico’s only consistent providers of services for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families. Delivering quality supports for this population requires highly-trained, reliable direct

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support staff. However, our agency has historically received low reimbursement rates from Medicaid/ Medicare and other government sources. This can

Luciente, Inc. lucienteinc.org

inhibit staff recruitment and retention.

Noteworthy | Direct Support Professionals provide

Mission | To support children in our communities

essential supports to people with intellectual and

by working to eradicate hunger; to reduce the

developmental disabilities. U.S. Department of Labor

social determinants that negatively impact a child’s

findings reveal a national workforce crisis in this area,

ability to connect, learn, and thrive; and to support

and little progress on equitable wages has been

hunger, educational, and social programs that enable

achieved. In fact, since 2010, wages have declined for

progress for all. Our vision is a future where healthy

New Mexico’s 36,000 home health aides.

kids are the fabric of strong communities in northern

Life Circle lifecirclenm.org

Rio Arriba County.

Proposal | Luciente is requesting funds to support our in-school Grab-n-Go food pantries, which serve over 330 school children and their families at the Coronado School complex in Gallina and Abiquiu

Mission | To raise the level of care and participation for elders, their families, and caregivers through education, advocacy, and empowerment.

Proposal | There is an urgent need for adult day care for cognitively or physically disabled seniors who are unable to be left alone during the day. Local families, who are trying to balance the care needs of a loved one along with their own responsibilities of work, other family members, or community commitments need additional support. Stressful situations at home for caretakers can lead to a deep level of frustration and even elder abuse.

Noteworthy | Our Santa Fe community has an aging population with 23.8% over the age of 65 years old. With cases of dementia on the rise, there is an insufficient number of caregivers available to meet

Elementary School in Abiquiu. The pantry in Abiquiu serves students enrolled at Abiquiu Elementary School and Abiquiu Head Start. The Coronado pantry provides food for every school in the Jemez Mountain School District, including the Lybrook School, which serves children from the Navajo Nation.

Noteworthy | We are serving food insecure families in northern Rio Arriba county, including Abiquiu, Canoñes, Gallina, Coyote, and Youngsville. 100% of students in our schools are eligible for free school lunch, but in too many cases, that lunch is their only nutritious meal of the day. It is very difficult for hungry kids to focus, learn, and thrive. We hope to improve the health, well-being, and academic performance of our region’s school children by making sure they do not go hungry.

the need. While our local community in Santa Fe has an elite population of the very wealthy, it also has 13% of the population on the poverty level. This creates a disparity in who can afford professional care. In 2023, 43,000 people over age 65 are living with Alzheimer’s in New Mexico.

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Many Mothers, Inc. manymothers.org

To Care courses and Caregiver Education Days; and 3) connecting people to services, including assessments and diagnoses. We are seeking funds to expand services to under-served people, including

Mission | To provide in-home services and wraparound care to achieve health equity and well-

rural towns, Spanish speakers, and Indigenous communities.

being for babies and their mothers/caregivers in

Noteworthy | In 2020, there were 43,000 New

northern New Mexico.

Mexicans with dementia, and this is expected to

Proposal | Many Mothers would like to request

increase to 53,000 by 2025. There are an estimated

funding to enhance our Farm-to-Families program that reaches children zero to three years and their families. We can triage new and expectant mothers, and/or their families, in regard to their access to healthy foods; then direct them internally to healthy foods onsite as a stopgap; and lastly, work with them to gauge their eligibility for longer-term solutions such as WIC, SNAP, and food other programs.

Our program has a mandate that 85% of our food offerings must be organic.

Noteworthy | Our goal is not just to offer food yet

85,000 caregivers providing 157,000,000 hours of unpaid care. Of these, 56.3% reported at least one chronic health condition, and 4.2% reported having depression. Additionally, 24% live in “Frontier Areas,” defined by both low population density and distance from urban centers, making it even harder for families-in-need to access services.

Mesa to Mesa mesatomesa.org

rather to offer foods we have determined are the best options for the infants, toddlers, and lactating

Mission | To bring people together to improve

mothers, who ultimately pass along their ingestion

the health, safety, and security of low-income

activities to baby. Food stamps benefits have been

homeowners in northern New Mexico by performing

cut by the federal government, and we serve families

minor repairs to their homes, facilitating larger

affected by this. According to Feeding America, one

repairs by means of referrals and collaborations, and

in five children face hunger in New Mexico. This stat

providing home maintenance education. All of our

places New Mexico very low on the food secure list in

services are free of charge to our clients.

terms of child hunger.

Proposal | Our goal, specific to this funding request,

Memory Care Alliance for Northern New Mexico thememorycarealliance.org

is to continue serving our clients through our home repair program. The need for home repair services to a vulnerable population continues to increase.

Low-income homeowners, especially the elderly and disabled, are in desperate need of the services we provide free of charge. The cost of labor and materials

Mission | To provide ongoing education and support to families impacted by Alzheimer’s and dementia, replacing social stigmas with compassionate understanding, and a vision for life after diagnosis.

Proposal | We support people living with Dementia — the person with the illness and family members caring for them — through 1) direct services, social activities, support groups, and respite care; 2) information and advice through our unique Prepare

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has increased dramatically, which means that we are forced to do fewer projects. The price per project has also increased.

Noteworthy | The majority of our clients are lowincome, disabled seniors. Rio Arriba County has a poverty rate of 22.8% higher than the state average of 18.4% and twice the national rate of 11.6%. Rio Arriba County is ranked among the least healthy counties in New Mexico, and approximately 20% of the population is over 65. The poverty rate in Los Alamos

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homeowners who are low wage earners or on a fixed

Mora Valley Community Health Services, Inc.

budget.

mvchs.org

County is 4%. The percentage of the population over 65 is 17%. There is a population of low-income

Mora Creative Council/ Mora MainStreet ourmora.org

Mission | To stimulate, preserve, and enhance Mora,

Mission | To provide excellent primary health care and other services to Mora residents, while ensuring exceptional customer service.

Proposal | Mora Valley Community Health Services (MVCHS) provides primary medical, dental and behavioral health services to Mora County residents.

New Mexico through education, historic preservation,

In addition to primary care services, MVCHS operates

creative economy, beautification, and the promotion

a personal care and adult day service program.

of community and civic pride.

MVCHS provides services to those most in need —

Proposal | The Mora Creative Council is requesting

the vulnerable, at risk, poor, and those with limited

funding to help increase access to healthy food.

The Mora community recently experienced fires and flooding throughout the county due to the Calf Canyon/Hermit’s Peak Fire that started as a control

or no access to services. WE request funding for two purposes: our Indigent Medication Fund and for assistance to aid in the recruitment of medical, dental, and behavioral health providers.

burn by the National Forest Service. During this

Noteworthy | Mora County has over 4,000 residents.

period of time, the community soon realized that it

Most of the residents live within the federal poverty

was and still is ill-prepared for any type of disaster

guidelines and MVCHS provides clinical and other

(manmade or natural).

services to nearly 2,000 patients, clients, participants,

Noteworthy | Last year’s wildfires illuminated the

etc. Although MVCHS provides services to everyone

great need for a food bank or pantry in Mora County, one of the poorest counties in the state. During the fires and subsequent flooding, residents of Mora found themselves without access to running water, access to food, or access to any type of grocery facility. We are thankful for Mora Head Start, Santa Fe Food Depot, and the Governor’s Office for their partnership in bringing food to Mora residents.

regardless of their ability to pay and offers a 340B drug room, which allows for heavily discounted drugs through federal discount pricing, some patients cannot afford medications. It is our belief that patients shouldn’t be denied medication.

National Forest Foundation nationalforests.org

Mission | The National Forest Foundation, chartered

by Congress, engages Americans in communitybased and national programs that promote the health and public enjoyment of the 193-million-acre National Forest System, and administers private gifts of funds and land for the benefit of the National Forests.

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Proposal | Much of northern New Mexico’s forests

Noteworthy | One in five children experience

are in degraded health and prone to disturbances

food insecurity in New Mexico. 11,588 are homeless

like uncharacteristic catastrophic fire. At the same

children/youth enrolled in public schools. One in

time, many homes on Indigenous Nations face

two children attend schools operating school meal

home heating pressures. The NFF seeks to address

programs. One in three children attending schools

both challenges by conducting restoration work,

that operate school meal programs qualify as paid.

expanding job opportunities, and promoting the

40% of children that could qualify as paid live under

movement toward energy self-sustainability through

400% of the poverty level. 80% of children that attend

the Wood for Life program. We request funds to

public school in New Mexico consume meals. More

cover coordination, transportation, and distribution

than 69,740 children pay full-price for meals while at

costs of fuelwood.

school.

Noteworthy | The Census Bureau estimates that over 2.3 million households (around 1.9%) use wood as a primary heating source. This percentage increases significantly for counties with a high

New Mexico CASA Association newmexicocasa.org

percentage of tribal communities, often exceeding 30% of households. The price of firewood has steadily increased, and many are finding it difficult to heat their homes. Additionally, leaving piled wood on forest restoration project sites is strongly discouraged because of high fire and insect infestation risk.

New Mexico Appleseed nmappleseed.org

Mission | New Mexico Appleseed corrects structural barriers to opportunity by designing and advocating for effective solutions to poverty through policy, legislative, and market-based reform. While many organizations offer important direct services — serve meals, educate children, and assist the poor — New Mexico Appleseed’s goal is to make systemic change that yields permanent or long-term improvement on issues like hunger, homelessness, family economic security, child maltreatment, and education.

Proposal | New Mexico Appleseed focuses on systemic solutions to the causes and consequences of poverty. We work from the tiniest communities to the state, tribal, and federal government to define problems and create solutions. New Mexico Appleseed’s work is thoughtful, innovative, and effective. Our focus will be child hunger and homelessness in the educational context.

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Mission | To develop and support the Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) programs that provide volunteer advocacy for abused and neglected children in foster care in local communities throughout the state of New Mexico and to advocate for effective public policy statewide for children and families involved with the state’s child welfare system.

Proposal | Our organization provides services (training, tools, technical assistance, and other capacity-building support) that help local CASA programs provide effective advocacy services for foster youth in our state. We also address the need for public policy leadership in the child welfare arena and are requesting support for our statewide policy and advocacy efforts on behalf of Native American children in foster care.

Noteworthy | Native American children have historically been separated from their parents, extended families, and communities by state child welfare agencies. Studies show that Native American children in foster care, disconnected from their family and culture, are at high risk for behavioral and mental health problems. Our policy and advocacy work is designed to address these issues and achieve better outcomes for children, families, and communities when Native American children are in foster care.

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New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty, Inc.

New Mexico Coalition Against Domestic Violence

nmpovertylaw.org

nmcadv.org

Mission | To advance economic and social justice

Mission | To lead an effective, coordinated response

through education, advocacy, and litigation. New

to domestic violence.

Mexico Center on Law and Poverty (NMCLP) works

Proposal | Through a growing network of providers

with our communities to improve living conditions, increase opportunities, and protect the rights of people living in poverty. We offer legal research and education, administrative and legislative advocacy, and representation in the courts on a broad spectrum of issues prioritized by families. Our focus is on obtaining system-wide changes that advance justice and respect the dignity of all people.

Proposal | Funds will support NMCLP’s collaborative

and stakeholders, New Mexico Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NMCADV) facilitates the development of increased capacity to address the problem of domestic violence in New Mexico. Post pandemic, the already inadequate responses of the system to domestic violence further declined. We therefore researched national models of successful coordination, delivered numerous Coordinated Community Response (CCR) trainings and

advocacy with families and community leaders to 1)

conferences, and secured funding for a nationally-

transform New Mexico’s public education system to

lauded CCR project.

be sufficient and equitable for all students; 2) expand

Noteworthy | In New Mexico, the criminal justice

access to quality, affordable healthcare; 3) improve workers’ pay and healthy working conditions; 4) remove barriers to public assistance programs to improve nutrition and income security; and 5) increase access to safe affordable housing and protections against exploitative financial practices.

Noteworthy | New Mexico has strong families

system has been ineffective in reducing and preventing domestic violence. Conviction rates are low-between 8% and 11% depending upon the location. Approximately 80% of domestic violence cases are simply dismissed. A report from LFC in 2014 noted fragmentation and lack of coordination among systems — a condition that has worsened over time.

and communities, but long-standing structural

Effective coordination between law enforcement,

inequities have created significant financial barriers

courts, and service providers is known to improve

and hardships. Nearly 24% of New Mexican children

outcomes for survivors.

are growing up in poverty, and our families face widespread food and housing insecurity. A court ruled the public education system is insufficient for more than 230,000 students. NMCLP’s work serves hundreds of thousands of individuals statewide by building access to resources and opportunities.

New Mexico Coalition to End Homelessness nmceh.org

Mission | To assist communities to create solutions to homelessness; from prevention through permanent housing by using action, advocacy, and awareness.

We believe everyone deserves a home.

Proposal | At the New Mexico Coalition to End Homelessness, we work with over 80 agencies and partner providers around the State to offer comprehensive services, housing options, resources,

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funding, and advocacy to support individuals and

Noteworthy | The 2016 Global Burden of Disease

families experiencing homelessness. Our funding

Study reported that four of the top 30 prevalent

request is to support our Coordinated Entry System

diseases are related to oral health: untreated dental

(CES) services in Mora, Rio Arriba, San Miguel, and

caries-adults, severe periodontitis, untreated dental

Santa Fe counties, in order to streamline housing for

caries-baby teeth, and severe/complete tooth loss.

individuals/families experiencing homelessness.

These rankings reflect the oral disease experiences

Noteworthy | In 2022, our HMIS data team logged

of 3.5 billion people worldwide. 96% of participants in

1,545 people in Santa Fe County who experienced

our programs describe lack of dental insurance/cost

homelessness and were served by a government-

as the biggest barrier to dental care. By providing

funded agency. This statistic does not account for

free services in their community, we eliminate this

individuals not served by a government-funded

barrier.

agency. Additionally, the Santa Fe Journal found that

“there is an estimated shortage of 7,343 rental units

New Mexico Health Equity Partnership

in the Santa Fe Metropolitan Statistical Area.”

nmhep.org

New Mexico is 32,000 affordable housing units short and the 2021 Santa Fe Housing Report noted that

New Mexico Foundation for Dental Health, Research and Education nmdentalassociationfoundation.org

Mission | New Mexico Health Equity Partnership (NMHEP) strengthens the capacity of communities to shift power relations and advocate for policy and systems changes by working with community partners to (re)shape the narrative around health and

Mission | To improve oral health literacy and access

racial equity in New Mexico. We do this by providing

to care for all New Mexicans.

tools and support for capacity building through

Proposal | Good oral health is fundamental for overall

community-driven research and creative storytelling,

health and well-being. When oral health care is delayed, it can lead to an unhealthy mouth and oral diseases. An unhealthy mouth is associated with poor

creating funding opportunities for grassroots groups, and facilitating connections and spaces for building collective power.

nutrition, diabetes, heart diseases, and Alzheimer’s

Proposal | Communities have the knowledge and

disease. There are major barriers to accessing dental

wisdom to achieve greater health and racial equity.

treatment, including high cost, lack of accessible

NMHEP builds community capacity to make this

dental services in the community, geographic

possible. NMHEP provides training and technical

isolation, fear and anxiety, and other social and

assistance to support grassroots organizations to

economic factors, especially among poor and rural

make a more compelling case to decision makers on

communities.

issues that affect the health and well-being of their communities. Additional funding will support us in reaching more communities with our trainings.

Noteworthy | Since 2012, NMHEP has provided support for 19 Health Impact Assessments (HIA) in 10 counties across New Mexico. Many of these HIA have resulted in tangible policy changes, including free bus passes for youth in Albuquerque, the opening of a reintegration center for people exiting incarceration in San Miguel County, and the creation of a food bank for the Native community in Santa Fe.

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New Mexico Immigrant Law Center nmilc.org

move easily in/out of their home. The result is virtual imprisonment. A safe, well-designed ramp opens this prison. Ramp recipients can remain in their homes/ communities, with families supporting them. Ramp recipients can more easily access medical care,

Mission | To advance justice and equity by empowering low-income immigrant communities through collaborative legal services, advocacy and education.

Proposal | We seek funds to ensure health access

averting more costly health issues through routine care.

Noteworthy | Government data indicates approximately 335,708 people in New Mexico are disabled (16.1% of population), with an estimated 36,000 residing in the Santa Fe Community

and safety for immigrant victims of violence,

Foundation service area of Mora, Rio Arriba, San

including those experiencing domestic violence or

Miguel, and Santa Fe counties. Many of these people

child abuse, victims of human trafficking, and asylum

suffer mobility problems. The byproduct of a safe,

seekers fleeing violence in their home countries.

well-constructed ramp is significant relief to taxpayer

Funds will be used to provide free immigration

funded services, mainly savings on Medicaid/

legal services and advocacy for these vulnerable

Medicare resources for assisted living facilities –

immigrants in partnership with community

materials for a ramp cost about $2,000 compared

organizations.

to the annual cost of assisted living at more than

Noteworthy | According to recent census data, there

$100,000 per year.

are 21,250 immigrants in the City of Santa Fe. An estimated 30% of this population are undocumented, and therefore at heightened risk of violence and exploitation due to victims’ fear of deportation, lack

Noise For Now noisefornow.org

of knowledge of their rights, power imbalances between abuser and victim, and language and cultural barriers to reporting crimes.

New Mexico Ramp Project nmramp.org

Mission | The New Mexico Ramp Project (NMRP)

that enables artists and entertainers to connect with and financially support grassroots organizations that work in the field of Reproductive Justice. Small local-level Reproductive Justice organizations do not have the capacity for sophisticated public relations and fundraising. NOISE FOR NOW is the bridge between public figures and organizations within the

provides ramps at no charge for low-income people

reproductive health and justice framework that don’t

with mobility issues across New Mexico. Recipients

have household name recognition on their own.

are identified by local health care providers and

Proposal | Access to abortion is under attack. By

organizations knowing the financial and medical

organizing campaigns, NOISE FOR NOW provides

condition of the individual. Volunteer labor is used to

opportunities for artists and entertainers to use their

build the ramps. Ramps are provided without regard

talents to raise money to support organizations on

to race, religion, ethnicity, age, gender and/or sexual

the front line of the fight. While NOISE FOR NOW

orientation.

works nationally, one third of the money that we raise

Proposal | NMRP promotes health and wellness by

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is directed to New Mexico-based abortion funds and

filling a gap in the current healthcare continuum,

clinics. Our request is for funding to continue our

which routinely provides a wheelchair to a person

work with New Mexico-based abortion funds on our

with mobility issues, but no safe way for them to

first-ever Spanish language campaign.

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Noteworthy | The Guttmacher Institute estimates that 48% of New Mexican women live in a county where there is no abortion clinic. This is a troubling

PINK “ME” pink-me.org

statistic as distance to an abortion clinic is a critical factor in whether a person accesses abortion. There are no clinics in Rio Arriba, Mora, or San Miguel counties. The Dobbs decision placed more pressure on reproductive health organizations in New Mexico.

New Mexicans in need of abortion now compete with non-residents to access our state’s clinics.

Pegasus Legal Services for Children pegasuslaw.org

Mission | To compassionately support women during and after their breast cancer journey through education, inspiration, and advocacy so they can lead healthy, fulfilled lives within a supportive community.

Proposal | We provide financial assistance to women diagnosed with breast cancer and survivors. Financial assistance is provided to women in active treatment up to $1,500 each quarter for a 90-day time period, and $600 to breast cancer survivors. Mammograms Matter Program mobilized a mammogram-screening program that offers free screening options to those who would typically have difficulty accessing or

Mission | To promote and defend the rights of children and youth to safe, stable homes, quality education and healthcare, and a voice in decisions that affect their lives. Based out of Albuquerque, New Mexico, we offer services statewide, including Mora, Rio Arriba, San Miguel, and Santa Fe counties. We are the only non-profit law firm representing New Mexico children’s civil legal needs, and provide these services at no cost to our clients.

Proposal | Pegasus’s Kinship Guardianship Program (KGP) provides free, bilingual legal services to grandparents and other kinship caregivers caring for

affording these services.

Noteworthy | In 2022, we provided $8,323.13 financial assistance bill payments were paid on behalf of women in our financial assistance programs. In 2021, $12,155.65 financial assistance bill payments were paid on behalf of women in our financial assistance programs.

Presbyterian Ear Institute presbyterianearinstitute.org

children whose parents are unable or unwilling to

Mission | To assist people with hearing loss to

provide them with proper care. Even if the parents

better listen, speak, and integrate into mainstream

are deceased, custody is not automatic. Only a court

society. Presbyterian Ear Institute (PEI) offers hope

can grant Guardianship, hence the need for help

in breaking the silence for children and adults,

from organizations like Pegasus. Without this legal

providing a comprehensive approach to early

protection, the children are at risk of returning to an

diagnosis, intervention, education, and rehabilitation

unsafe environment and experiencing more trauma.

of deafness. In fulfilling our mission and through our

Noteworthy | We have seen a continued increase

programs and services, PEI works daily to mitigate

in Kinship Guardianship demand since 2020. The number of New Mexico children living in kinship

the lifelong effects of hearing loss on literacy, education, and vocational opportunities.

care is up from 6% to 7%, about 33,000 children.

Proposal | PEI supports deaf and hard-of-hearing

Proportionally, the U.S. average for such families is

(DHH) individuals to realize their unlimited potential

only 3%. While some of these children have a parent

and actively participate in the hearing/speaking

that died or became unsheltered due to COVID-19,

world. Through advanced technology and evidence-

even children who did not lose a parent or caregiver

based programs for infants, children, and adults,

directly to the disease are still impacted by the

PEI identifies and rehabilitates hearing loss (HL) to

pandemic’s overload on our community resources.

mitigate its lifelong effects on literacy, education,

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employment, and relationships. Funding would

Noteworthy | Violence is a public health crisis in New

support PEI’s state-wide HL/communication

Mexico. According to the FBI, our state has the third

workshops to reach more D/HH children, families,

highest per capita incidence of rape and domestic

adults, and caregivers.

violence in the country and ranks second for violent

Noteworthy | Over 90% of the 12,000 DHH infants

crimes. One-third of female survivors and one-fourth

born annually have hearing parents (AG Bell). We

of male survivors experience sexual violence before

teach children to hear and/or talk so families can

the age of 18; and half of all middle school students

connect and avoid 25% higher rates of abuse and

in New Mexico report being bullied at school over the

neglect (RTI), 64% un/underemployment, and

course of one year. Prevention and early intervention

average 2.8-4.5-grade reading levels (NM Task Force).

are key in ensuring a brighter future.

Hearing loss in older adults increases social isolation and dementia (Shukla, 2020; Lin, 2011). Consistent hearing aid and cochlear implant use mitigates this.

Patient and family education links individuals to

Reunity Resources reunityresources.com

treatment, support, and fuller lives.

Resolve Violence Prevention resolvenm.org

Mission | Resolve is a nonprofit organization whose

Mission | Reunity Resources creates closed loop systems that turn waste into value for our community and provide environmental education to increase access and participation in such practices.

Proposal | Reunity Resources addresses the need of nourishing local community on multiple levels —

mission is to prevent violence by building skills

food access and equity, long-term climate change

and inspiring individuals to be agents of personal,

resiliency of our food supply, and connection

community, and cultural change. By reducing the

to one another and our food growing practices.

fear and impact of violence, we help to create a

We are dedicated to growing climate change

community where people live powerfully, experience

resiliency, growing intersectional interdependence,

freedom, and pursue joy.

and growing food for those in need. Our funding

Proposal | Resolve’s skill-based programs teach youth

request is to optimize our capacity and deepen our

and adults to prevent violence in their communities

community impact toward an equitable food access

and defend themselves and others against violence

and a resilient food system.

through collaborations with schools, pueblos, and

Noteworthy | Reunity Resources is located in the

nonprofits. Our students learn to challenge beliefs

heart of Agua Fria Village, a small community located

and behaviors that create violence; they also learn

in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, adjacent to the

concrete bystander and self-advocacy strategies to

city of Santa Fe. In 2019, it was categorized in the

prevent violence. By reducing the impact of violence,

USDA Food Research Atlas as Low Income and Low

we make our communities stronger and healthier.

Access at one and 10 miles (the original definition for a food desert, census tract 35049001203). The only commercial establishment selling food of any kind in Agua Fria Village is the Reunity Resources Farmstand, which is currently seasonal.

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Rio Grande Alcoholism Treatment Program, Inc.

Proposal | Homelessness is an ongoing and

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increasing problem in Santa Fe and northern New Mexico. The 2023 point-in-time survey by the New individuals in Santa Fe homeless on one specific day

Mission | To provide substance use disorder

but did not count those living in cars, sleeping on coaches of friends, camping out, etc. St. Elizabeth

treatment, behavioral health services, and access

alone served more than 1,500 homeless people

to supportive services in order to enable men and

in 2022, while Adelante estimates there are 1,700

women to live productive, drug-free lives —Una Vida

homeless children in Santa Fe families.

Buena y Sana (A Good and Healthful Life).

Noteworthy | St. Elizabeth assisted more than 1,500

Proposal | Based in Taos with offices in Taos and Las Vegas, we have served northern New Mexico since 1978. We request funding to help expand our recovery-friendly community services to our Las Vegas office, serving San Miguel and Mora Counties, in order to reduce the barriers to services and recovery created by stigma and discrimination.

Noteworthy | Northern New Mexico is a place of great physical and natural beauty, deep diversity, proud cultural traditions, and strong communitybased values. However, structural inequities have negatively impacted our people. Our low-income, ethnically/racially diverse communities have been

homeless men, women, and children in 2022 by providing housing (70,152 bed nights), food (53,703 meals), case management and counseling (14,576 units), referrals (27,690), and disbursements (35,887), while successfully moving 138 people into housing — 49% of those leaving one of our five residential programs.

The Salvation Army, A Ca. Corp., dba The Santa Fe Corps santafe.salvationarmy.org

disproportionately impacted by substance use.

According to the 2023 County Health Rankings, San

Mission | The Salvation Army, an international

Miguel is ranked among the least healthy counties in

movement, is an evangelical part of the universal

the state with alcohol-impaired driving deaths at 43%

Christian church. Its message is based on the

vs. 29% in New Mexico and 27% the U.S.

Bible. Its ministry is motivated by the love of God. Its mission is to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ

Saint Elizabeth Shelter Corporation steshelter.org

and to meet human needs in His name without discrimination.

Proposal | In Santa Fe, we provide a breakfast and shower/hygiene program, Monday through Friday,

Mission | To assist homeless individuals and families by providing emergency shelter, food, case management, counseling, supportive housing, and referrals to partnering human services agencies. St. Elizabeth Shelter’s ultimate goal is to end the cycle of homelessness.

for those who are unhoused, food insecure, or lack utilities. We offer emergency food boxes and vouchers, and utility assistance for area residents to maintain their housing. The Corps needs critical capital repairs, including replacement of two washers and dryers on site for individuals who have no place to do laundry. The Corps also needs support to meet the demand for items like food, hygiene supplies, and new socks and underclothes. 1,700 homeless children in Santa Fe families.

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Noteworthy | Over the last six months, the Santa Fe Corps has significantly increased service delivery for clients over the full previous year by 210%. Between

San Martin de Porres Soup Kitchen smdpsoupkitchen.com

July and December 2022, the Corps served 350 unduplicated singles on average seven times, for a duplicated count of 2,435. 72% of those served are adults, 20% seniors, and 8% youth.

Samaritan House, Inc. Mission | Samaritan House (SAM) collaborates with

Mission | The San Martin de Porres Soup Kitchen was formed in 1992 to help feed the poor and hungry.

Proposal | With the Cooperation of the City Fathers and the director of the HUD Program, we operate at the Apple Valley Senior Center five times a week — Monday through Friday — serving a hot lunch and providing a food box to anyone referred to us by a church or State Agency. Our program is to feed

others to provide assistance and advocacy for people

the poor and hungry of the Española Valley and

who are hungry, unsheltered, or unable to fulfill

surrounding communities. The funding received will

basic human needs. At the same time, SAM seeks

be used to help purchase the much-needed food

social transformation by identifying, confirming,

supply that is not provided by donations or readily

and actively addressing the disparate impacts and

available.

crises so as to lead to improved personal, dignified,

Noteworthy | The San Martin de Porres Soup Kitchen

sustainable self-sufficiency for all.

Proposal | We need funding to fuel our humanitarian

is located in the center of a low-income community.

We serve approximately 500+ meals a week to

efforts. We want to better understand, practice,

clients ranging in age from one to 60+, many of

and create didactic modalities that work to reduce

whom are small children and young mothers. The

or eliminate social and health disparities first in

average income is $0 to $1,200 per month. Serving

Las Vegas and then in surrounding counties.These

prominently Hispanic (55%); Anglo (25%); Native

disparities manifested as under or undiagnosed

American (10%); Black American (5%); and Asian/

mental health issues, addictions, and multiple

Other (5%). In 2022, we provided 41,145 meals.

undefined criteria, however, cloaked in homelessness, food insecurity, and social/economic poverty.

Noteworthy | For every 10,000 people in a catchment area, 10 to 12 people are homeless. This is manageable

Santa Fe Birth Center santafebirthcenter.com

and is accurately reflected in smaller rural areas of New Mexico, using NMCEH point-in-time data.

However, the statistic fails when considering some rural areas and Albuquerque and Santa Fe. They have significantly more unsheltered.

Mission | To attend women and families in the physiological process of birth with a midwifery model of care, at a place designed solely for birth. To facilitate good outcomes, we also provide prenatal care to all women eligible for care — ensuring women know and trust the providers who will attend them. We provide postpartum care for six weeks at home and in the clinic to support families during this vulnerable transition recovering from birth and caring for a newborn baby.

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Proposal | Santa Fe Birth Center provides care to all

Noteworthy | Per the National Center for

eligible clients including Medicaid clients. Medicaid

Complimentary and Integrative Medicine at the

reimburses the Center cover approximately 40%

National Institutes of Health, yoga “improve[s]

less than our cost of care. Almost half of our clients

general wellness by relieving stress, supporting good

use Medicaid insurance. Our funding request is

health habits, and improving mental/emotional

for financial help to continue to provide care to all

health,” helps “people with chronic diseases manage

women and families who seek our care. The Center

their symptoms and improve their quality of life,”

employs two licensed midwives, two birth assistants,

helps “people who are overweight or obese lose

one contract midwife and an administrator. As our

weight,” helps “people manage anxiety or depressive

census grows, we will hire a third midwife.

symptoms associated with difficult life situations,”

Noteworthy | Since the Birth Center’s inception in

and many more benefits.

2019, we have enrolled approximately 75 women and families into care. We currently have 17 women in care, eight of whom are Medicaid clients. Our cost of care for the facility, prenatal, labor and

Santa Fe Dreamers Project santafedreamersproject.org

birth, newborn, and postpartum care is $7,300 — a considerable saving in health care cost. Medicaid insurance pays between $3,500 and $4,000 for care.

In this time of increased growth, our census increases daily. We hope to attend three to four births per month in 2023.

Santa Fe Community Yoga Center santafecommunityyoga.org

Mission | To provide free legal services to immigrants to promote economic empowerment, community development, family unity, and liberation from detention. Our work is centered around the belief that supporting immigrants makes our whole community stronger.

Proposal | Santa Fe Dreamers Project is a leading non-profit organization offering immigration legal services. With offices in Santa Fe and Albuquerque, our team has served thousands of undocumented

Mission | To cultivate holistic well-being through

individuals and families. Our legal services are on par

yoga and other mindfulness practices.

with the best private law firms in the country, and,

Proposal | The Santa Fe Community Yoga Center

unlike other legal nonprofits, we provide not only

(SFCYC) seeks funding to support our accessible yoga programming. Yoga improves physical and mental health. However, many do not attend due to

brief one-time legal consultations but actual legal representation. We request funding in support of our Domestic Violence Survivors Program.

high cost and a misconception that yoga is only for

Noteworthy | According to the National Organization

women or only for people who are thin or flexible.

for Women (NOW), intimate partner violence

SFCYC removes these barriers by offering affordable,

impacts one in three women, but that figure rises

identify-affirming yoga classes, including Bilingual

exponentially among immigrant and undocumented

Yoga, 40+ times a week. SFCYC also brings yoga

women. Language, cultural, and social barriers, as

to underserved communities through its Yoga in

well as immigrant status, make them especially

Schools program and its budding Yoga in Prisons

vulnerable to this problem. Abuse rates among

program.

immigrant women are as high as 49.8%, according to the National Organization for Women.

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Santa Fe Farmers’ Market Institute

Santa Fe Habitat for Humanity

farmersmarketinstitute.org

santafehabitat.org

Mission | To advocate for farmers, ranchers and other

Mission | To promote affordable home ownership

land-based producers; provide equitable access

for Santa Fe area residents by constructing simple,

to fresh, local food; own and operate a year-round

adequate, and energy efficient new homes and

venue for the Santa Fe Farmers’ Market; and manage

repairing or rehabilitating existing homes through

programs to help sustain a profitable, locally-based

the cooperative efforts of partner families, volunteers,

agricultural community.

donors, and staff.

Proposal | The Institute maintains the Market

Proposal | The requested funds will be addressing

Pavilion, a community hub and home to the Santa Fe

two needs. First, we are providing solar panels

Farmers’ Market; supports the Del Sur Market with

for our Habitat homeowners to help lower their

family-oriented programs and services to address

monthly electric bill. Secon, we are providing

food insecurity on the underserved Southside of

a unique education opportunity for the local

Santa Fe; administers the Fresh Rx and Double Up

disconnected youth to learn about and to install solar

Food Bucks programs, doubling SNAP recipients’

panels through our partnership with the Santa Fe

purchasing power; and encourages small-scale

YouthWorks and YouthBuild programs.

farmers and ranchers through Microloan, Professional Development, Women in Agriculture, and Healthy Soils programs.

Noteworthy | New Mexico has the third highest

Noteworthy | Santa Fe Habitat was founded in 1987 and we have completed 133 homes to date. Santa Fe Habitat believes that a healthy community is where homes are built with concern for our environment

poverty rate in America at 19.1%. 26% of our children

and valuable energy resources. We received both

live in poverty and with food insecurity. 30% of New

local and national awards for our Green Building.

Mexicans live in food deserts. 75% of residents eat

Habitat builds high quality, low maintenance,

overly-processed foods. Children are at a higher risk

and energy efficient homes that will enable the

of obesity, diabetes, and impaired cognitive and

homeowners to be successful. We are now reaching

physical development. 28% of New Mexicans receive

out to our earlier homeowners offering retrofitting

SNAP benefits. Families with children comprise

solar on their homes.

67% of SNAP recipients. 50% of New Mexico’s SNAP participants are in working families, including 2,000 agricultural workers.

Santa Fe Indigenous Center santafeindigenouscenter.org

Mission | The Santa Fe Indigenous Center, established in 2008, is designed by and for Indigenous peoples with the mission of supporting, promoting, and enriching our vital, diverse community by identifying and serving the needs and interest of our people.

Proposal | SFIC has continuously served as a pillar in the Indigenous community since 2008. Our organization recognizes needs and offers solutions or refers to partner organizations to fill in the gaps.

We address food insecurity and for our Indigenous

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community members we offer food access through our bi-weekly food distributions. We recognize that our community may need financial assistance for emergencies and we still offer our financial emergency assistance program to the community.

Noteworthy | 70% of Native Americans live outside the reservation and are considered urban Natives.

SFIC recognizes the needs that urban and rural Indigenous community members face, and we want to be that continuous servant that meets their needs.

Santa Fe Mountain Center, Inc. dba The Mountain Center themountaincenter.org

Santa Fe Public Schools ADELANTE Program sfps.info/page/adelante-program

Mission | To strengthen opportunities for academic achievement and life success of children and youth experiencing homelessness by providing culturallycompetent, empowering services and collaborating with others to end child homelessness.

Proposal | As of March 2023, students experiencing homelessness make up approximately 7% of the Santa Fe Public School District. The NM Youth Risk and Resiliency Survey results from 2020 show that youth living in unstable housing reported a significantly higher rate of physical and sexual

Mission | To promote wellness, personal discovery, and social change through innovative learning experiences in wilderness, community, and culture environments.

Proposal | The Mountain Center works with clients from several types of referral agencies including the County and State Detention Centers, in-patient hospitalization, residential treatment centers, shelters, teen court, tribal/pueblo programs, schools, survivors of violence, and other populations in vulnerable situations. As the needs of the populations we serve continue to evolve, our staff relies on collaborative and functional development to continue to expand in a sustainable way.

Noteworthy | In fiscal year 2022, our Harm Reduction program had 4,478 encounters and

violence, being bullied on school property, and missing school because of safety concerns. Students who experience homelessness are often hungry, face family issues, and have not reached their potential academically.

Noteworthy | Adelante advocates for the empowerment of students and families experiencing homelessness and housing instability. Through the provision of bilingual, culturally-competent services, including academic assistance, material aid, case management, emergency funds, and weekly food distribution, Adelante creates a support system, promoting positive long-term student trajectories, by focusing on community collaboration to end child homelessness. Funds received will support students and their families.

426 successful overdose reversals; our Gender and Sexualities Alliance Network served 3,276 community members; our Therapeutic Adventure Program had 3,078 program hours and 6,541 clients served; our Counseling Services Outpatient Program served 1,749 clients; and our Transitional Living Program served 62 clients and had 2,667 total clinical hours with an average total of 40 staff members.

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Santa Fe Striders santafestriders.org

Noteworthy | New Mexico’s population is aging. By the year 2030, New Mexico’s population over age 65 will move from 29th to fourth largest in the nation, according to the NM Aging and Long-Term Services

Mission | To promote a healthy lifestyle through running in northern New Mexico.

Proposal | As an all volunteer organization the Santa Fe Striders are requesting a grant to host a free kids running/walking event for ages three to 14 in Santa Fe. We want to provide children with an opportunity to improve their physical and mental health through being active, fitness education, and building community. Children will run in age specific groups and appropriate distances for their age as

Dept. This will impact Medicare and Social Security, potentially decreasing the resources available to a vulnerable population. The average costs for 24/7 end of life care for an individual or a loved one can easily exceed $20,000 a month, which is not an option for many in our community.

Self Help, Inc. selfhelpla.org

approved by our governing body, Road Runners Club of America (RRCA).

Mission | To provide support and services as a bridge

Noteworthy | From 2017-2021, the prevalence of

to self-reliance for people in northern New Mexico.

obesity was 19.7% and affected about 14.7 million

Proposal | Self Help, Inc. requests funds for its

children and adolescents ages two to 19 years.

Emergency Basic Needs Program, which provides

Obesity prevalence was 12.7% among two to five-

financial and support services, including utility

year-olds, 20.7% among six to 11-year-olds, and 22.2%

assistance and eviction prevention, to approximately

among 12 to 19-year-olds. Childhood obesity is also

500 low-income households each year. We assist an

more common among certain populations (cdc.gov/

additional 500 households through our information

obesity/data/childhood.html).

and referral services, connecting clients to a wide range of community resources that contribute to

Scott’s House, Inc. scottshouse.org

their economic stability.

Noteworthy | Recent studies show that more than one-third (35%) of families cannot afford basic needs despite working full-time and year-round.

Mission | To provide a free social model hospice residence and free care for those nearing end of life and respite in Santa Fe, New Mexico. A social model hospice reflects the spirit and culture of the community.

Proposal | As the only free hospice home serving northern New Mexico, Scott’s House is guided by the belief that everyone has the right to quality health care, especially at the end of life, regardless of religion, ethnicity, gender, sexual preference, or economic status. We seek funding to continue developing our pilot model of a volunteer-driven social model hospice home that can be implemented throughout the state in order to address the growing need for these services in a cost-effective and compassionate manner.

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Approximately 50% of Black/Hispanic families working full-time do not earn enough to meet their basic needs. More than half of our clients live in Rio Arriba County which has one of the highest percentages of single-parent households with kids in the state (57%).

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The Sky Center/New Mexico Suicide Intervention Project skycenter.nmsip.org

Sol Sundays - a fiscally sponsored project of Partners in Education Foundation for SFPS solsundays.org

Mission | To meet the challenge of youth suicide in Santa Fe and northern New Mexico through lasting solutions that encourage resiliency, courage, connection, and hope.

Proposal | Northern New Mexico’s most vulnerable youth are struggling with a number of negative health conditions that put them at increased risk for suicide and self-harm. Additionally, they experience significant absence of prevention and treatment options as well as barriers to accessing care. The Sky Center/NMSIP provides accessible preventative measures and no-cost treatment for youth and their family members.

Noteworthy | According to data from the National Alliance on Mental Illness, suicide is the secondleading cause of death among people age 15 to 24 in our country. Nearly 20% of high school students report serious thoughts of suicide, and 9% have made an attempt to take their lives. The 2019 NM YRRS reports that 40% of high school students responded that they felt sadness or hopelessness for two consecutive weeks and stopped usual activities; 19% seriously considered suicide; and 9% made an attempt.

Mission | To create a vibrant and safe community through music, wellness, and the arts. We envision a thriving Santa Fe where resources for wellness are accessible to all, and sober community events support the full spectrum of Santa Feans through relationships, creativity, music, fitness, lifelong learning, positive recreation, and access to resources for support in various social determinants of health.

Our festivals are the embodiment of our mission and vision.

Proposal | We believe all Santa Feans have a right to thrive. We break barriers to access of health and wellness resources by presenting them in a fresh appealing way. We are organizing a free largescale block party in the Railyard that functions as a community intervention for wellness, bringing ‘wellness’ out of the box of clinics, agencies, or home visits, and making it experiential, engaging, hip, fun, approachable, and relatable.

Noteworthy | Community Initiatives and ReThink Health developed a framework called “The Seven Vital Conditions for Well-Being” (communitycommons.org/collections/Seven-VitalConditions-for-Health-and-Well-Being). Sol Sundays provides access to resources, services, and support for all seven vital conditions: Humane Housing, Belonging as a Civic Muscle, Lifelong Learning, Thriving Natural World, Meaningful Work & Wealth, Basic Needs for Health & Safety, and Reliable Transportation.

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Solace Sexual Assault Services findsolace.org

strengthen the community.

Proposal | Given new stressors from COVID, fire, and flooding — in addition to usual stressors of poverty, substance abuse, parenting, and domestic violence

Mission | To empower survivors of sexual violence

— residents of San Miguel and Mora counties have

by restoring dignity, strength, and resilience. We

unprecedented needs for mental health services

envision a community where people have agency

right now. Somos Familia can help meet these needs

in their own healing, feel safe to exist as their fullest

with funding support to reorganize and operate.

selves, and have access to resources that meet their

Noteworthy | Prior to COVID, fire, and flooding,

needs to thrive.

which disrupted operations, Somos Familia provided

Proposal | We are requesting funds that will enable

approximately 4,000 hours of mental health services

us to 1) continue providing therapeutic clinical

per year. We were an organization with the most

services to children and adults who have been

referrals from CYFD, courts, District Attorney, and

impacted by sexual assault and other violent crimes;

medical facilities. When Somos Familia temporarily

2) continue providing bi-lingual advocacy services

closed, the largest provider of mental health services

to families navigating the criminal and family court

was lost at the same time as the need for mental

systems and connect them to the essential wrap-

health services was at its highest.

around services they need; and 3) continue to provide evidence based, violence prevention workshops to schools and community groups.

Noteworthy | Last year, our Child Advocacy & Clinical

Southwestern College swc.edu | tierranuevacounseling.org

Services Department provided 2,765 sessions for 310 clients, answered 291 crisis calls, conducted 202 forensic interviews, and provided services to 994 people. Our Education & Prevention Services gave 78 school presentations, 84 professional organization presentations, and reached 13,516 people. We are asking for your financial support to continue providing these critical services to children and families in Santa Fe, Rio Arriba, and Los Alamos Counties.

Somos Familia Family Institute, Inc. somosfamilialv.org

Mission | To provide much needed mental and

service that is responsive to client needs. We are person-centered and our services are grounded in our values of empathy, love, and kindness. We have reverence for the worth of every person and we are committed to diverse individuals and perspectives.

Our goal is to serve the whole client and we provide supportive services, like navigation, to help resources and connect qualifying clients.

Proposal | We are requesting funding to underwrite clinical mental health services for individuals and families who are underinsured and uninsured.

These funds will help cover sliding scale sessions for individuals who cannot access insurance and come from low socioeconomic backgrounds. We know that 44% of our clients are self-pay, uninsured, or underinsured, and most of them use our sliding scale

behavioral health services to members of the

program. Partnership is key for our sustainability and

community who have been referred by our local

success of our agency and our community.

court systems, local school districts, community network agencies, or through self referrals. We do not distribute funds to individuals or families; however, we provide education and therapeutic services to

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Mission | We provide Counseling and Art Therapy

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Noteworthy | According to our data, we serve residents of Santa Fe and northern New Mexico of which 66% are female, 34% are male, and 40%

St. Vincent Hospital Foundation stvinfoundation.org

Hispanic or Native American. This includes 30% of residents who are immigrants from Spanishspeaking countries to the south and includes 12,225 people who are not U.S. citizens living in Santa Fe County. Notably, 70% of the clients we serve are very low-income, and 35% of all clients report annual incomes less than $22,000 per year.

St. Felix Pantry Inc. stfelixpantry.org

Mission | To restore hope to families and individuals

Mission | To support and promote CHRISTUS St. Vincent Regional Medical Center in providing exceptional healthcare that meets the diverse and ever-evolving needs of our north central New Mexico communities.

Proposal | We are seeking funding to support our Cancer Care Fund that was established to support payments of co-pays for medications for cancer patients who are seeking treatment.

Noteworthy | In 2022, the St. Vincent Hospital Foundation (SVHF) paid $125,706.30 for medications, with additional funding provided from national

in need by providing food, compassionate support,

foundation support of $740,315. The average cost

and referral services in the Felician Franciscan

of medications is $1,093 based on 115 patients on a

tradition.

monthly basis. The CHRISTUS St. Vincent pharmacy

Proposal | St. Felix Pantry is the only food pantry in

will request funds from SVHF and work on behalf of

Sandoval County that allows weekly access to high-

cancer patients to ensure that no one goes without

quality groceries. Our only requirement is that one be

the medications they need as they receive cancer

a resident of New Mexico (and we serve guests from

treatments. This is funding is vital for these patients.

every single county in the state). We request funding to remain viable and able to purchase nutritious produce to serve those from Mora, San Miguel, Rio Arriba, and Santa Fe counties.

SuperHealth, Inc. super-health.org

Noteworthy | Your support will allow St. Felix Pantry to focus on providing the key puzzle piece of food access on a weekly basis while also allowing us to collaborate, research, and offer resources to support our guests with a full spectrum of puzzle pieces needed to thrive. St. Felix Pantry’s campus is fully ADA compliant. We care deeply for our guests (as evidenced by our Google and Facebook reviews). We served 105,850 times in calendar year 2022.

Mission | To create a global culture of optimal health by aligning physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being through the science of Kundalini Yoga, meditation, and nutrition, including therapeutic juices, vitamins, counseling, and sound therapy.

Proposal | SuperHealth provides outpatient treatment under contract with a Rio Arriba County Health and Human Services to individuals experiencing substance use disorder. The program uses individual and family counseling and, within its scope of service, yoga, meditation, and nutrition as a primary concept to address the cause and effect of substance use. SuperHealth seeks funds to provide educational materials supporting counseling services at no charge to client and general operating cost support.

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Noteworthy | Since 2014, the average number of clients per month has increased 575% while the fees paid under the contract have decreased 57%.

Villa Therese Catholic Clinic vtccsf.org

Continued external funding is needed to continue this important work.

Transgender Resource Center of New Mexico tgrcnm.org

Mission | To serve the underserved with quality health care in a responsible manner continuing the mission of the Sisters of Charity established in 1937.

Proposal | As of 2023, undocumented residents remain ineligible for health insurance coverage and documented residents have long waiting periods for coverage. There is a vast unmet need for healthcare

Mission | To support transgender, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming communities through direct services, education, and advocacy.

Proposal | Our non-medical case management provides resources and opportunities for transgender, non-binary, and gender nonconforming people in New Mexico to succeed in creating thriving lives for themselves. This includes access to food, temporary and emergency housing, connection to care with other community resources, individual advocacy in completing forms, applications, and other documents, and much more. Funds are consistently needed to meet the demands for this programming.

Noteworthy | The most recent (2015) U.S. Transgender Survey, the only census-like survey for transgender people, reported that Indigenous transgender people were experiencing homelessness at a rate of 21%. Transgender people of Hispanic descent experienced homelessness at a rate of 14%.

Both of these populations encompass a majority of those seeking non-medical case management. For the general population of the U.S., the prevalence of homelessness is estimated at around .17%.

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among a population that has little access to care due to many barriers like no health insurance, inability to pay for healthcare costs, and disparities that are present (i.e. transportation, food insecurity, safe & healthy living environment, etc.).

Noteworthy | In Santa Fe, the highest population of uninsured and percent living in poverty are in the Agua Fria Village (37%) and Airport Road (27%) areas. The patients we serve are mostly young and/ or multigenerational families living within the same household. They primarily reside on the south side of town. The majority are Hispanic immigrants, Spanish speaking with a median household income of $26,000. Villa Therese moved to the Hopewell-Mann area to increase access.

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Villages of Santa Fe

Youth Shelters and Family Services

villagesofsantafe.org

youthshelters.org

Mission | To provide online and in-person exercise

Mission | To deliver life-changing solutions to

programs that keep our senior community healthy,

homeless, runaway, and in-crisis youth in northern

active, and engaged. We provide regularly scheduled

New Mexico.regularly scheduled exercise that fights

exercise that fights isolation and supports physical

isolation and supports physical and mental health.

and mental health. We encourage seniors to “just

We encourage seniors to “just keep moving.”

keep moving.”

Proposal | Youth Shelters and Family Services

Proposal | Villages requests funding to expand

(YSFS) provides shelter and addresses health, safety,

our free online exercise classes and our content

education, and workforce opportunities so youth

library. Our programs, open to all, keep the senior

experiencing homelessness can achieve lifetime

community healthy, engaged, and active. Since 2020,

independence. We are located in Santa Fe though

over 3,400 people have participated in our online

our programs span multiple counties across the

classes and, according to our recent client survey,

state: Youth Emergency Shelter, Transitional Living

94% of participants said they would continue online.

Program, Street Outreach Program, Rapid Rehousing

Noteworthy | We want to age in our home of choice,

Program, and Pregnant and Parenting Initiative.

but a fall can easily wipe out one’s ability to live independently. Extensive research indicates that

We are requesting funds to support the general operations of our programs.

physical activity improves balance and strength and

Noteworthy | YSFS served over 500 youth in 2022,

is the most effective at decreasing the incidence of

helping route clients to case management, shelter,

falls. The CDC recommends 150 minutes of physical

permanent housing, and to other vital services.

activity per week, but only about one in five adults

University of Chicago’s Chapin Hall notes that youth

gets enough exercise. Seniors need exercise for

with less than a high school diploma have a 346%

balancing, strength, and flexibility (CHNA 2020-2021).

increased risk of homelessness. LGBTQ+ youth are

Falls are a danger to New Mexicans 65 and older.

found to have a 120% increased risk of homelessness.

YSFS embraces a culture of diversity and ensures that all youth in need are met with services tailored to their particular circumstances.

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A AAUW Tech Trek NM Education

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A Chance of a Lifetime

Animal Welfare

33

Alliance for Local Economic Prosperity

Civic & Economic Opportunities

63

Alzheimer’s Association, New Mexico Chapter

Health & Human Services

109

American Red Cross, New Mexico Chapter

Health & Human Services

109

Animal Protection of New Mexico, Inc.

Animal Welfare

33

ARCC: Awareness, Resilience, Clarity and Compassion

Education

77

Archaeological Conservancy

Arts & Culture

41

Armand Hammer United World College of the American West

Civic & Economic Opportunities

63

ArtWorks - Partners in Education Foundation for the SFPS

Arts & Culture

41

Assistance Dogs of the West

Civic & Economic Opportunities

63

Atalaya Search and Rescue

Health & Human Services

109

Athena Fund Animal Welfare

34

Audubon Southwest: Randall Davey Audubon Center

Environment

97

Axle Projects, Inc.

Native American Advised Fund

13

Education

78

B Best Buddies New Mexico

Best Chance Civic & Economic Opportunities

64

Bienvenidos Outreach, Inc.

Health & Human Services

110

Big Brothers Big Sisters Mountain Region

Education

78

Birthing Tree Fund

Health & Human Services

110

Black Health New Mexico

Health & Human Services

110

BOOKKIDS Education

79

Books for Prisoners Project

111

Health & Human Services

Breakthrough Santa Fe Education

79

Breath of My Heart Birth Place

111

Health & Human Services

Bueno Para Todos Envision Fund

23

C

142

Cancer Foundation for New Mexico

Health & Human Services

112

Cañones Early Childhood Center

Education

79

Carfagno Films Ltd

Arts & Culture

42

CASA First Health & Human Services

112

Casa Milagro Health & Human Services

112

Catholic Charities

Health & Human Services

113

Celebrate Planet Earth

Santa Fe Baby Fund

31

CENTER Santa Fe

Arts & Culture

42

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Chama Valley Arts

Arts & Culture

42

Chatter, fiscally sponsored by Ensemble Music New Mexico

Arts & Culture

43

Children’s Grief Center of New Mexico

Health & Human Services

113

Chimayó Cultural Preservation Association

Arts & Culture

43

Coalition of Sustainable Communities New Mexico

Environment

97

Collaborative Visions

Civic & Economic Opportunities

64

College and Career Plaza

Education

80

College Horizons, Inc.

Native American Advised Fund

13

Collins Lake Autism Center

Health & Human Services

113

Comedor de San Pascual, Inc.

Health & Human Services

114

Commonweal Conservancy, Inc.

Environment

97

Communities in Schools New Mexico

Education

80

Community Leadership Fund

SFCF Initiatives & Funds

7

Community Resiliency Fund

SFCF Initiatives & Funds

7

Congregation Nahalat Shalom

Civic & Economic Opportunities

65

Cooking With Kids, Inc.

Health & Human Services

114

Cornerstones Community Partnerships

Arts & Culture

43

Creative Santa Fe

Civic & Economic Opportunities

65

Dancing Earth Creations

Arts & Culture

44

Del Norte LOV Foundation

Education

80

Dental Care In Your Home

Health & Human Services

114

Dixon Cooperative Market

Health & Human Services

115

D

Dollars4Schools SFCF Initiatives & Funds

8

Drag Story Hour Envision Fund

23

DreamTree Project, Inc.

Health & Human Services

115

Dual Language Education of New Mexico

Education

81

E Earth Care International Environment

98

Earthseed Community Fund

SFCF Initiatives & Funds

8

Eleanor Daggett Memorial Library

Education

81

El Rancho de Las Golondrinas, Inc.

Arts & Culture

44

El Rito Public Library

Civic & Economic Opportunities

65

Embudo Valley Library and Community Center

Arts & Culture

44

EmiArteFlamenco Academy

Arts & Culture

45

Enchantment Chihuahua Rescue

Animal Welfare

33

End of Life Options New Mexico

Health & Human Services

115

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Environmental Education of New Mexico

Environment

98

Envision Fund SFCF Initiatives & Funds

8

Española Pathways Shelter Environment

99

Española Valley Fiber Arts Center

Arts & Culture

45

Española Valley Humane Society

Animal Welfare

34

Esperanza Shelter

Health & Human Services

116

Arts & Culture

45

F Family Theatre of Santa Fe

Family YMCA Education

81

Farm to Table, Inc. Environment

99

Film Prize Foundation

Native American Advised Fund

13

First Serve - NM, Inc.

Education

82

Fly Fish NM Environment

99

The Food Depot

Health & Human Services

116

Food is Free Albuquerque

Health & Human Services

116

Forest Stewards Guild Environment

100

Foto Forum Santa Fe

Arts & Culture

45

Foundation for Monte del Sol Charter School

Education

82

Free Flow NM, Inc.

Health & Human Services

117

The Friendship Club

Health & Human Services

117

Friends of the Estancia Valley Animals

Animal Welfare

34

Friends of the Santa Fe Public Library

Education

82

Friends of the Santa River

Health & Human Services

117

Fund for Refugees & Asylum Seekers

SFCF Initiatives & Funds

10

Future Focused Education

Civic & Economic Opportunities

66

Georgia O’Keeffe Museum

Native American Advised Fund

14

Gerard’s House

Health & Human Services

118

Girls Incorporated of Santa Fe, Inc.

Education

83

Girls on the Run Santa Fe, Inc.

Health & Human Services

118

G

Global Give A Book Education

83

Golden Apple Foundation of New Mexico

Education

83

Growing Up New Mexico: The Early Childhood Partnership

Health & Human Services

119

The Happy Place Foundation

Education

84

Heart and Soul Animal Sanctuary

Animal Welfare

34

H

144

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Hermit’s Peak Watershed Alliance

Environment

100

High Country Supported Living

Arts & Culture

46

High Desert Winds Santa Fe

Arts & Culture

46

Homeschool Classroom Education

84

Homewise, Inc.

66

Civic & Economic Opportunities

Horse Shelter Animal Welfare

35

Horseshoe Canyon Rescue Ranch

35

Animal Welfare

I IndigenousWays Native American Advised Fund

14

Innovate-Educate NM

66

Civic & Economic Opportunities

Inside Out Health & Human Services

119

Institute for Applied Ecology

Environment

101

Institute for Computing in Research

Education

85

Interfaith Community Shelter Group, Inc. (Pete’s Place)

Health & Human Services

120

In the Family Way

Arts & Culture

47

Envision Fund

24

Health & Human Services

120

J Justice, Access, Support and Solutions for Health: Casa de Salud K Kitchen Angels

KMRD Inc. Arts & Culture

47

KSFR Radio Station

51

Arts & Culture

L La Fonda Foundation Education

85

Las Cumbres Community Services, Inc.

120

Health & Human Services

Learning Hub SFCF Initiatives & Funds

9

Lensic Performing Arts Center

47

Arts & Culture

Life Circle Health & Human Services

121

Lightning Boy Foundation Inc.

15

Native American Advised Fund

Littleglobe, Inc. Arts & Culture

48

Live Arts Santa Fe

48

Arts & Culture

Luciente, Inc. Health & Human Services

121

Luna Community College Foundation

67

Civic & Economic Opportunities

M Mainstreet Las Vegas Environment

101

MAKE Santa Fe

67

Civic & Economic Opportunities

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Many Mothers, Inc.

Health & Human Services

122

MathAmigos Education

85

Max & Tucker Canine Welfare Fund

Animal Welfare

37

McCurdy Ministries Community Center

Education

86

Memory Care Alliance for Northern New Mexico

Health & Human Services

122

Mesa Prieta Petroglyph Project

Native American Advised Fund

15

Mesa to Mesa

Health & Human Services

122

Mora Creative Council/Mora MainStreet

Health & Human Services

123

Mora Valley Community Health Services, Inc.

Health & Human Services

123

The Mountain Center

Health & Human Services

135

MoveWest Arts & Culture

49

N

146

Nat Gold Players

Arts & Culture

50

National Dance Institute New Mexico Inc.

Education

86

National Forest Foundation

Health & Human Services

123

National Ghost Ranch Foundation, Inc.

Education

88

National Indian Youth Leadership Development Project, Inc.

Native American Advised Fund

16

National Inventors Hall of Fame, Inc.

Education

88

Native American Advised Fund

SFCF Initiatives & Funds

8

Native Forward Scholars Fund

Native American Advised Fund

16

New Energy Economy Environment

101

New Mexico Adult Education Association

Education

88

New Mexico AIDS Services

Envision Fund

24

New Mexico Appleseed

Health & Human Services

124

New Mexico CASA Association

Health & Human Services

124

New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty, Inc.

Health & Human Services

125

New Mexico Coalition Against Domestic Violence

Health & Human Services

125

New Mexico Coalition to End Homelessness

Health & Human Services

125

New Mexico Community AIDS Partnership/SRIC

Envision Fund

24

New Mexico Environmental Law Center

Environment

102

New Mexico Film Foundation

Arts & Culture

50

New Mexico Foundation for Dental Health, Research and Education

Health & Human Services

126

New Mexico Friends of Foster Children

Civic & Economic Opportunities

69

New Mexico Gay Men’s Chorus

Envision Fund

25

New Mexico Health Equity Partnership

Health & Human Services

126

New Mexico High School Musical Theatre Awards

Education

89

New Mexico Horse Rescue at Walkin N Circles Ranch

Animal Welfare

37

New Mexico Immigrant Law Center

Health & Human Services

128

INDEX

New Mexico In Depth, Inc.

Environment

102

NewMexicoKidsCAN Education

77

New Mexico Kids Matter Inc.

Native American Advised Fund

18

New Mexico Land Conservancy

Environment

102

New Mexico Legal Aid Envision Fund

21

New Mexico Local News Fund

Civic & Economic Opportunities

69

New Mexico Ramp Project

Health & Human Services

128

New Mexico School for the Arts - Art Institute

Education

89

New Mexico State University Foundation

Envision Fund

26

New Mexico Volunteers for the Outdoors

Environment

104

New Mexico Wilderness Alliance

Environment

104

New Mexico Wildlife Center

Animal Welfare

37

Nizhoni Smiles, Inc.

Native American Advised Fund

18

NMCAN Civic & Economic Opportunities

70

NM Inter-Faith Community Housing Development Corp.

51

Arts & Culture

NMOBA Fund Envision Fund

26

Noise For Now

Health & Human Services

128

Nonprofit Merger Fund

SFCF Initiatives & Funds

10

Northern New Mexico Regional Art Center

Arts & Culture

51

Northern New Mexico Street Homeless Animal Project Inc.

Animal Welfare

37

Northern Rio Grande National Heritage Area

Arts & Culture

52

Northern Youth Project Environment

104

Notah Begay III Foundation, Inc.

Native American Advised Fund

19

Nuclear Watch New Mexico

Environment

105

Office of Student Wellness, Santa Fe Public Schools

Envision Fund

27

Ojo Sarco Community Center

Education

89

O

Opera West Civic & Economic Opportunities

70

P Parallel Studios, Inc.

Arts & Culture

52

Pegasus Legal Services for Children

Health & Human Services

129

Pet-A-Bulls Inc. Animal Welfare

38

PINK “ME” Health & Human Services

129

Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains

Envision Fund

27

Pojoaque Valley Schools Education Foundation

Education

90

Presbyterian Ear Institute

Health & Human Services

129

Presbyterian Medical Services

Santa Fe Baby Fund

31

Prosperity Works

Civic & Economic Opportunities

70

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Public Charter Schools of New Mexico

Education

90

R4 Creating Education

90

Railyard Park Conservancy Environment

105

Reading Quest Education

91

RENESAN Institute for Lifelong Learning

Arts & Culture

53

Resolve Violence Prevention

Health & Human Services

130

Reunity Resources

Health & Human Services

130

Rights of Nature Productions

Arts & Culture

53

Rio Arriba Adult Literacy Program

Education

91

Rio Arriba Concerned Citizens

Environment

106

Rio Grande Alcoholism Treatment Program, Inc.

Health & Human Services

131

Rio Grande Community Development Corporation

Civic & Economic Opportunities

71

River Source Native American Advised Fund

19

Rocky Mountain Youth Corps

91

R

Education

S

148

S3 Housing Fund SFCF Initiatives & Funds

10

Saint Elizabeth Shelter Corporation

Health & Human Services

131

Samaritan House, Inc.

Health & Human Services

132

Sangre de Cristo Chorale of New Mexico

Arts & Culture

53

San Martin de Porres Soup Kitchen

Health & Human Services

132

Santa Fe Alliance for Science

Education

92

Santa Fe Art Institute

Arts & Culture

54

Santa Fe Artist Medical Fund

Arts & Culture

54

Santa Fe Baby Fund

SFCF Initiatives & Funds

9

Santa Fe Birth Center

Health & Human Services

132

Santa Fe Business Incubator

Civic & Economic Opportunities

71

Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival

Arts & Culture

54

Santa Fe Children’s Museum

Santa Fe Baby Fund

31

Santa Fe Classic Theater, Inc.

Arts & Culture

55

Santa Fe Community Yoga Center

Health & Human Services

133

Santa Fe Conservation Trust

Environment

106

The Santa Fe Corps

Health & Human Services

131

Santa Fe Data Platform Fund

Civic & Economic Opportunities

71

Santa Fe Desert Chorale

Arts & Culture

55

Santa Fe Dreamers Project

Health & Human Services

133

Santa Fe Farmers’ Market Institute

Health & Human Services

134

INDEX

Santa Fe Girls’ School Education

92

Santa Fe Habitat for Humanity

Health & Human Services

134

Santa Fe Indigenous Center

Health & Human Services

134

Santa Fe International Film Festival

Arts & Culture

56

Santa Fe Playhouse

Arts & Culture

56

Santa Fe Portalfest Envision Fund

28

Santa Fe Public Schools ADELANTE Program

Health & Human Services

135

Santa Fe Railyard Community Corporation

Civic & Economic Opportunities

72

Santa fe Raptor Center Animal Welfare

38

Santa Fe Recovery Center

Civic & Economic Opportunities

72

Santa Fe Reptile and Bug Museum

Animal Welfare

39

Santa Fe Striders

Health & Human Services

136

Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Inc.

Arts & Culture

56

Santa Fe Watershed Association

Environment

106

Santa Fe Youth Symphony, Inc.

Education

92

School for Advanced Research

Arts & Culture

57

SciArt Santa Fe

Arts & Culture

57

Scott’s House, Inc.

Health & Human Services

136

Self Help, Inc.

Health & Human Services

136

Silver Bullet Productions

Native American Advised Fund

20

Singing Out Las Cruces

Envision Fund

28

SITE Santa Fe Arts & Culture

57

Sky Center/New Mexico Suicide Intervention Project

Health & Human Services

137

Sky Mountain Wild Horse Sanctuary

Animal Welfare

39

Society of American Indian Dentists

Native American Advised Fund

20

Solace Sexual Assault Services

Health & Human Services

138

Sol Sundays Health & Human Services

137

Somos Familia - Family Institute, Inc.

Health & Human Services

138

SOMOS: Society of the Muse of the Southwest

Arts & Culture

58

Southwestern College

Health & Human Services

138

Spanish Colonial Arts Society, Inc.

Arts & Culture

58

Special and Urgent Needs (SUN) Grants

SFCF Initiatives & Funds

10

STEM Santa Fe Education

93

St. Felix Pantry Inc.

Health & Human Services

139

St. Vincent Hospital Foundation

Health & Human Services

139

SuperHealth, Inc.

Health & Human Services

139

SWAIA Native American Advised Fund

21

T Talpa Community Center Association, Inc.

Education

93

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Think New Mexico

Education

94

Tomorrow’s Women

Arts & Culture

59

Transgender Resource Center of New Mexico

Health & Human Services

140

Trees, Water & People

Native American Advised Fund

21

Tri-M Productions

Arts & Culture

59

Trout Unlimited, Inc.

Environment

107

Truchas Services Center, Inc.

Civic & Economic Opportunities

73

True Kids 1

Envision Fund

29

Twirl: A Play & Discovery Space, LLC

Education

94

Ubuntuworks Education Project

Education

95

Under His Construction

Education

95

University of New Mexico Foundation, Inc.

Civic & Economic Opportunities

73

University of New Mexico TREE Center

Envision Fund

29

Untitled New Mexico Fire Project

Arts & Culture

60

Villa Therese Catholic Clinic

Health & Human Services

140

Villages of Santa Fe

Health & Human Services

141

Vital Spaces

Arts & Culture

60

we.grow.eco

Civic & Economic Opportunities

74

Wildlife for All

Environment

107

Wise Fool New Mexico

Arts & Culture

60

Women’s Economic Self-Sufficiency Team

Civic & Economic Opportunities

74

Women’s International Study Center

Arts & Culture

61

Youth Shelters and Family Services

Health & Human Services

141

YouthWorks, Inc.

Civic & Economic Opportunities

75

Arts & Culture

61

U

V

W

Y

Z Zia Singers

150

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OUR M I S S I O N

The Santa Fe Community Foundation inspires philanthropic generosity, strengthens nonprofits, and fosters positive change to build a more vibrant, healthy, and resilient region.

OUR V I S I O N

We envision a thriving northern New Mexico, where all people can find opportunity, build connections, and contribute to the well-being of their communities.

OUR VA LU E S

Out of reverence for this unique place we call home, we value equity, perseverance, listening, and generosity.

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website.

santafecf.org

email.

foundation@santafecf.org

telephone.

505.988.9715

physical.

501 Halona St. Santa Fe, NM 87505

mailing.

P.O. Box 1827 Santa Fe, NM 87504

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