2024-2025 Giving Together Catalog

INTRODUCTION

2024 - 2025

Giving Together

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Giving Together The Santa Fe Community Foundation’s Giving Together program is made possible through the support of our Community Leadership Fund (CLF), which underwrites many of the services we provide to build strong connections in the community and stay attuned to local needs — including our community grants program, donor services, nonprofit skill-building, community partnerships, and more. Please consider supporting our work with a gift to CLF today.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION

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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

INTRODUCTION

Letter from the President & CEO Dear Friends, Philanthropy has the power to transform lives and communities, but its true strength lies in collective action. When people come together, pooling their resources, time, and care, our impact is far greater than any individual effort.

With this spirit of collaboration, I’m pleased to welcome you to our 2024-2025 Giving Together catalog — a resource designed to showcase the nonprofits that enrich our region and an invitation for you to support their vital work in concert with us.

Since its inception in 2010, Giving Together has generated more than $10 million in grants to our nonprofit partners, with our generous community of fund advisors investing as much as $2 million in Giving Together proposals in 2023 alone. As your community foundation, we’re honored to facilitate this collaborative philanthropy that fosters connections, strengthens our communities, and drives meaningful, lasting change.

To that end, please explore this catalog to help advance your own philanthropic goals in support of our local community. By Giving Together, we amplify our impact and ensure that services and resources reach those who need them most.

Thank you for your partnership,

Christopher Goett | President & CEO

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INTRODUCTION

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 fund advisors to use Giving Together to amplify 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.

This edition of Giving Together includes initiatives and funds anchored here at the Santa Fe Community 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 fields of interest: Animal Welfare, Arts & Culture, Civic & Economic Opportunities, Education, Environment, and Health & Human Services.

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INTRODUCTION

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, Civic & Economic Opportunities, Education, Environment, and Health & Human Services) 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.

Alternatively, fund advisors may log into the new Fund Advisor Portal to initiate your grant request online. Please indicate “Giving Together” in the Grant Purpose section. The minimum grant amount is $250. To request a copy of the grant request form, please email giving@santafecf.org.

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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 &

Donor Relations

Community Impact

srobertson@santafecf.org

dhamamoto@santafecf.org

505.988.9715 ext. 7006

505.988.9715 ext. 7008

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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. We use strategies that go beyond traditional grantmaking to emphasize community outreach, partner collaboration, skill strengthening, research, and narrative sharing. We thank you for learning more about initiatives and funds and joining us in this vital work.

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PHOTO: EMPOWER! BLACK FUTURES COMMUNITY FUND 2024 EVENT WITH DR. OPAL LEE

SFCF INITIATIVES & FUNDS

Community Leadership Fund

Envision Fund

santafecf.org/community-leadership

santafecf.org/lgbtq

Mission | Our Community Leadership Fund

Mission | To promote the health, safety, and

supports the Santa Fe Community Foundation’s

empowerment of at-risk and underserved LGBTQ+

general operations and underwrites many of the

New Mexicans.

services we provide that allow us to build strong

Proposal | Your gift will help us support nonprofit

connections in the community and stay in tune with local needs.

Proposal | Contributions to CLF are among the

organizations that are working toward creating an HIV-free generation in New Mexico; combating discrimination against LGBTQ+ people (such as

most critical resources that contribute to the

employment, housing, immigration, access to health

work we do here at the Foundation each day

services, etc.); supporting school-based programs

— from our identity-based giving circles to our

that create a safe environment for all students;

nonprofit Learning Hub, donor services, community

and/or promoting holistic reproductive health

partnerhips like Empty Stocking Fund, and beyond.

and gender-affirming health care by ensuring

Noteworthy | Among the many services CLF

access to comprehensive sexuality education,

underwrites is the production of our annual Giving Together catalog, which made as much as $2 million in additional grant dollars possible in 2023.

Native American Advised Fund santafecf.org/native

Mission | To enhance Native lifeways now and for future generations in New Mexico by promoting

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.

Empower! Black Futures Community Fund santafecf.org/empower

a spirit of sharing and supporting Native-led and serving community initiatives.

Proposal | Led by an advisory committee that reflects the diversity of our region’s many pueblos, tribes, and nations, the Native American Advised Fund provides grantmaking to nonprofits that emphasize a commitment to the Native core values of community, language, culture, and environment.

Noteworthy | With a legacy spanning over three decades, the Native American Advised Fund is the longest-running identity-based giving circle at the Santa Fe Community Foundation. It was originally founded in 1993 with a seed gift from the late Allan Houser, renowned artist and teacher. To date, the fund has granted over $825,000 to over 180 initiatives and nonprofits.

Mission | To support Black life, arts, and culture in New Mexico.

Proposal | Through targeted grants, strategic partnerships, and an equitable approach to community philanthropy, the Empower! Black Futures Community Fund will foster Black artistic expression, promote cultural heritage, advance community development, and build up financial literacy for generations to come.

Noteworthy | Donations made this year will help seed the fund’s permanent endowment, which will grow over time and serve Black New Mexicans in perpetuity. An inaugural round of grants will be made to celebrate Juneteenth in 2025.

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SFCF INITIATIVES & FUNDS

Community Resiliency Fund santafecf.org/community-resiliency

Noteworthy | “Dollars4Schools has been instrumental in bringing quality programming to our students, and supporting STEAM for the second year in a row. These programs are vital to students

Mission | To build the resilience of our most vulnerable neighbors.

Proposal | On October 15th, 2021, the Santa Fe Community Foundation turned 40. In honor of this milestone, we created a Community Resiliency

as they provide a chance to extend their learning.

Thank you Dollars4Schools!” – Célangé Santiso Black M.A., NBCT, Digital Learning Coach, Santa Fe Public Schools

Fund to support programs that build the resilience

Learning Hub

of those most vulnerable to emergencies, including

santafecf.org/learning-hub

efforts to adapt and recover from the effects of climate change, such as drought, extreme weather events, floods, and other natural disasters;

Mission | Our Learning Hub is an educational

organizations responding to urgent public health

gathering place for the nonprofit sector. We partner

needs, including pandemics and behavioral health

with local facilitators to support skill building,

crises; and initiatives for long-term systemic

peer connection, leadership development, and

changes that prevent hate crimes and promote

ecosystem strength. We are committed to fostering

anti-racism.

equity through this work.

Noteworthy | Communities across our funding

Proposal | Funding supports our annual work

region of Mora, San Miguel, Rio Arriba, and Santa Fe

providing learning opportunities that address

counties are still recovering from the devastating

nonprofit board responsibilities, finance,

effects of the Hermit’s Peak/Calf Canyon Fire, the

communication, fundraising, program delivery,

largest wildfire in New Mexico’s history. This fund

and leadership skills. Programs include the BIPOC

continues to support long-term recovery efforts.

Leaders Growing Nonprofit Power Together,

Dollars4Schools santafecf.org/dollars4schools

Executive Director Learning Circle, Fundraising Immersion, Nonprofit Board Fundamentals, Racial Healing & Renewal, and support for Women of Color nonprofit leaders.

Noteworthy | “I have deep gratitude for the 2024 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 public school 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.

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Racial Healing Program, the facilitators and all of the group members. It was especially valuable to have a forum where authenticity, self reflection, and open and nonjudgmental dialogue were celebrated and encouraged to such a great degree. In untangling the complexities of these topics and themes, there is a natural healing that arises, and to share in that with others through active listening and expressing has been inspiring and meaningful. Thank you to all involved!” – Naveen Kanithi, 2024 Racial Healing cohort

SFCF INITIATIVES & FUNDS

PHOTO: LEARNING HUB 2023 NONPROFIT BOARD FUNDAMENTALS PROGRAM

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SFCF INITIATIVES & FUNDS

Santa Fe Baby Fund santafecf.org/early-childhood

Mission | To promote the healthy development of babies and toddlers in northern New Mexico and raise awareness about the critical importance of investing in the early years of life.

Proposal | The Santa Fe Baby Fund has served our region’s youngest and most vulnerable neighbors for over a decade. The Fund’s priority focus areas include: 1) increasing access to affordable, high quality early childhood care and education; 2) supporting programming for young parents ages 29 and under, and their infants and toddlers; 3) supporting grandparents or other non-parent kin raising infants and toddlers; 4) supporting ongoing training, professional development, and programming for the early childhood workforce; and 5) improving access to reproductive health services for adolescents and young adults.

Noteworthy | For every $1 invested in high quality early childhood programs, there are $4 to $9 in returns over that person’s lifetime. Last year, the

Fund for Refugees & Asylum Seekers 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; and legal 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 LGBTQidentifying people, from a wide refugee diaspora.

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

Santa Fe Baby Fund granted $70,000 to nonprofit organizations in Santa Fe, Mora, Rio Arriba, and San Miguel counties addressing early childhood needs.

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

Proposal | The merger process can be very expensive due to attorney fees and due diligence.

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.

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SFCF INITIATIVES & FUNDS

Safe, Stable, and Supportive Housing Fund

Special and Urgent Needs (SUN) Grants

Mission | To protect and provide safe, stable,

Mission | We created quick turnaround SUN grants

and supportive housing for our most vulnerable

to address the short-term needs of nonprofits.

residents, as well as affordable housing for all

With a relatively small amount of funding, SUN

community members.

grants help an organization take advantage of

Proposal | The Safe, Stable, and Supportive

an unbudgeted, unforeseen, and time-sensitive

Housing Fund provides grant support to nonprofits advancing the aims of the S3 Santa Fe Housing Initiative, a collaborative effort between local

opportunity or emergency that will enhance or preserve the ability of the organization to meet its mission.

governments and philanthropic organizations,

Proposal | Funds further our support for nonprofits

including Anchorum Health Foundation, Santa Fe

who apply for funding in times of critical and

Community Foundation, Thornburg Foundation,

unforeseen situations.

City of Santa Fe, Santa Fe County, and the New

Noteworthy | Given the very small size of this pool

Mexico Coalition to End Homeless.

Noteworthy | We have helped the city and county

of funds and the overwhelming need in this area, we do not have the capacity to consider requests

re-launch the “Built for Zero” model, a data-

for operating expenses due to budget deficits or

informed framework, to address homelessness in

shortfalls.

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.

Noteably, cost-burden among renters (43.9%) is higher than homeowners (28.4%), largely due to lower income levels among renters. A decreasing supply of affordable housing options, for both renters and homeowners, coupled with increasing demand as the state’s population grows, threatens to worsen cost burden rates (Housing New Mexico 2024 Affordable Housing Needs Assessment). Santa Fe County had a larger number of cost-burdened homeowners per capita than did New Mexico and the United States, with 78% of renters below 30% Area Median Income (AMI) and 74% of renters between 31-60% of AI being cost burdened (2020 Fe Housing Report - SF Assoc of REALTORS).

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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, tribes, and countless nations.

This year, the Native American Advised Fund welcomed proposals from Indigenous-serving organizations across the state that emphasize a commitment to the Native core values of community, language, culture, and environment.

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PHOTO: ALLAN HOUSER, COURTESY OF EMILY HAOZOUS

NATIVE AMERICAN ADVISED FUND

Changing Woman Initiative cwi-health.org

Noteworthy | According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the poverty rate among Native American and Alaska Native communities is 25.4%, nearly double the national average. This widespread economic

Mission | To empower diverse Indigenous communities to protect cultural birth resiliency and the fundamental Indigenous human right to reproductive health, dignity, and justice.

Proposal | Changing Woman Initiative requests general operating funding for our “Corn Pollen Path: It Begins in Beauty” multi-strategy implementation approach.

Noteworthy | Native American maternal health

hardship affects nearly all Native American tribes, making it challenging for many tribal members to afford travel and accommodations when participating in cultural and spiritual ceremonies.

Preservation of Native culture and language significantly increase self-esteem, confidence, and pride.

Jemez Enterprises

is underserved and underrepresented in the United States and, right now, Changing Woman Initiative is the only organization serving our community through a three-strategy approach.

Our work is innovative regarding our use of cultural interventions like centering cultural birth practices, reintroducing traditional foods to support pregnancy, and integrating traditional medicine as a normal part of care.

Church of the Flowering Sun

Mission | To be an economic arm of the Pueblo, our business is to inspire, engage, educate, and serve all visitors as well as our local community with Jemez culture, language, food, and wisdom. We aim to sustain and generate prosperity (e.g., relationships, financial, cultural exchange) for the Jemez Pueblo and to support a strong local economy through ecocultural tourism and other enterprises.

Proposal | We are looking to update our free museum. As it currently stands, we cannot house many of our own ancestorial artifacts because we

Mission | To preserve and perpetuate Native people’s culture and sacred ceremonial practices, including the Lakota Sweat Lodge, Hanblechya (Vision Quest), and Sun Dance. The foundation also fundraises and donates directly in support of traditional Native families passing on ceremonial ways. We strive to maintain the integrity and spirit of these traditions, ensuring their continuity for future generations.

Proposal | A crucial part of fulfilling our mission is ensuring that our ceremonial leaders and tribal

don’t have the proper equipment. In our museum’s current state, we cannot tell the full story of our Jemez people. Not only are we looking for new equipment to house our artifacts, but we also plan on expanding the museum. Our museum is too small to properly store and display all our artifacts.

Noteworthy | We currently only display less than 5% of our total ancestorial artifacts in our museum.

Without this remodel project and American Alliance of Museums accreditation, it will be impossible for us to house our own artifacts.

members have access to safe and comfortable accommodations during these ceremonies. Our two dormitory spaces as well as the commercial kitchen on our new community property in Lamy are in need of renovation. To continue hosting these sacred ceremonies and to honor our commitment to the well-being of our guests, we seek funding to transform these areas into clean, useful spaces.

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NATIVE AMERICAN ADVISED FUND

Keres Children’s Learning Center kclcmontessori.org

Proposal | Our Voice, Our Stories is a documentary filming curriculum that we would like to provide students of Kha’p’o Community School. Teaching traditional arts and digital storytelling captures culture, language, and intergenerational learning.

We request support for art materials, stipends for

Mission | To reclaim our children’s education and

artists, and an end of the year trip to Ancestral

honor our heritage by using a comprehensive,

Puebloan sites, including Mesa Verde and Chaco

cultural, and academic curriculum to assist families

Canyon. This is a unique opportunity that our

in nurturing Keres-speaking, holistically healthy,

students deserve.

community minded, and academically strong

Noteworthy | About half of the world’s 7,000

students.

recognized languages, which are mostly Indigenous,

Proposal | We request support for our Annual

are endangered, with 1,500 at particular risk. Some

Native Language Symposium, which will be held in

estimates say that by 2100, 40–95% of spoken

November 2024. Gaining momentum since 2016,

languages could be extinct or endangered, with

the Symposium expanded from a one-day event to

Indigenous languages making up the majority of

a two-day event. Its discussions improve the quality

those. In the U.S., about 167 Indigenous languages

of Indigenous language and education programs for

are spoken, but it’s estimated that only 20 will

Native American/Indigenous children throughout

remain by 2050. We think it is vital to learn

New Mexico and the U.S. Our focus on educational

traditional arts and language to understand past as

tribal sovereignty, including preserving Indigenous

it connects to identity.

languages, is best understood through our annual symposium with its approaches of language revitalization in early childhood, and anti-biased and anti-racist education.

Little Globe littleglobe.org

Noteworthy | Since 2012, Keres Children’s Learning Center has grown, developed, and launched other endeavors, helping to broadly pollinate tribal education sovereignty. The Symposium has allowed us to share with other tribes and educators what we have learned along our journey toward language revitalization and educational sovereignty.

Kha’p’o Community School khapoeducation.org

Mission | Little Globe envisions a world where we connect, heal, and thrive through the art of storytelling. Little Globe’s multi-generational team works with people to tell their own stories. Through partnerships, we provide tools, programs, training, and platforms to co-create and share artistic works with the wider world. Our collaborative process models a community in which everyone is seen and heard.

Proposal | For 20 years, our team of storytellers, facilitators, and filmmakers have reached millions of

Mission | To nurture our children through education

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audience members with stories of calling this place

that embodies Kha’p’o Owinge culture, language,

home. Led by young artists from local communities

and values that is academically challenging and

and working in partnership with the region’s diverse

enjoyable. Working together as a community, we

organizations and residents, we gather powerful

enable children to be proficient Tewa and English

stories and connect them with the public through

speakers, support their physical and emotional

civic discourse, schools programs, and community

well-being, encourage their critical thinking and

policymaking. We humanize the decision making

imagination, and inspire their love of learning.

processes to be more responsive to our community’s

NATIVE AMERICAN ADVISED FUND

PHOTO: NATIONAL INDIAN YOUTH LEADERSHIP PROJECT

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NATIVE AMERICAN ADVISED FUND

needs.

Noteworthy | A 2022 ProPublica report exposed

Noteworthy | 2021 CHART indicates half of the Santa

Gallup-McKinley County Schools (GMCS) as

Fe community represented in the survey report

expelling Indigenous students from school far more

feeling that the community does not care about

often than any other group, and at least four times

them or their well-being. With growing disparities

as often as White students. GMCS students faced

in income, and breaks in rapport across parts of the

735 disciplinary incidents involving law enforcement

northern New Mexixo population, there’s a sense

— a rate nearly four times as high as the rest of the

of anxiety, conflict, and disconnection. Little Globe

state. Rather than referring troubled Indigenous

provides safe means where people can connect

students to mental/behavioral healthcare services,

afresh, can hear one another’s life experiences, and

GMCS relegated them to the school to prison

thereby work together for the well-being of our

pipeline.

community.

National Indian Youth Leadership Development Project projectventure.org

Native Health Initiative lovingservice.us

Mission | To address health inequities with Indigenous youth, families, and communities. By providing Movement as Medicine, Building Youth Leaders and Indigenizing Wellness as our focus

Mission | To help Native and Indigenous youth embrace their potential through outdoor adventure and service. The National Indian Youth Leadership Development Project (NIYLP) is an Indigenous-led nonprofit that envisions a world with generations of healthy, capable, caring, resilient Native/Indigenous youth, who contribute to their groups, families, communities, and nations. NIYLP is a national leader in the field of experiential education and Indigenous positive youth development.

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 incorporates culturally responsive mindfulness practices into Project Venture, convenes a Council of Elders to advise on traditional mindfulness practices, and stimulates community discussion to address the lack of access to mental/behavior health for young people in Indian Country.

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and strategies, we aim to increase the health and wellbeing of all Indigenous people in New Mexico and beyond.

Proposal | Native Health Initiative seeks funding for our Healers of Tomorrow program. This unique 9-month mentorship program aims to increase the number of Indigenous healthcare workers in the state of New Mexico through career-readiness.

Throughout the program, high school aged youth who are interested in healthcare careers are paired with a health professional or graduate level adult.

This program is unique to New Mexico and we are seeking funding for this program’s general operating costs.

Noteworthy | According to the New Mexican Native American Indian Nurses Association, only 4% of nurses in New Mexico have tribal affiliation. While statistics for physicians in New Mexico are not easily found, only .3% of physicians nationwide identify as Indigenous. This grant will help us educate a new generation of Indigenous healthcare providers at all levels and help them reach their potential.

NATIVE AMERICAN ADVISED FUND

New Mexico Trade Alliance nmtradealliance.org

Northwest New Mexico First Born nwnmfirstborn.org

Mission | To grow New Mexico’s global connectivity and to foster economic growth and collaboration across industries in New Mexico. The New Mexico Trade Alliance is a 501(c)(6) economic development nonprofit with a mission that bridges diverse

Mission | To support the health and wellness of firstborn babies and children by building relationships with families in our community.

communities and sectors to create a more inclusive

Proposal | General operating funds received from

and prosperous economic landscape. Our initiatives

this request would be used to support the following

focus on building trust, promoting collaboration,

organizational performance measures: Prevent

and ensuring that all voices are heard in the

Adverse Childhood Events (ACES) and improve

development of key industries in our state.

maternal health outcomes, as well as family stability.

Proposal | The New Mexico Trade Alliance and

We hope to improve maternal mental health

SpaceValley Foundation seek funding to build trust between Native communities and the space industry through 25 one-on-one facilitated conversations. This initiative aims to include Indigenous voices in the growing space sector,

outcomes and improve infant and child health outcomes through home visiting services focused on early childhood development and community referrals; while focusing on culturally appropriate interactions.

identify education and economic opportunities, and

Noteworthy | Northwest New Mexico First Born

foster collaboration. The program will culminate in

provides Home Visiting services to predominately

a report and proposal for a community dialogue to

tribal enrolled families on the Navajo Nation, and

promote an inclusive space industry that respects

Zuni Pueblo, making up approximately 90% of our

the region’s cultural heritage.

case load.

Noteworthy | The 2023 National Science Foundation report titled Diversity & STEM reported that: American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) individuals make up only 216,000 of the 34.9 million workers in the STEM workforce; Collectively, Hispanic, Black, AIAN, and other underrepresented

Notah Begay III (NB3) Foundation nb3foundation.org

groups make up 31% of the U.S. population but only 24% of the STEM workforce in 2021; and that

Mission | To ensure Native children achieve their full

bachelor’s degrees in science and engineering

potential by advancing cultures of Native American

earned by AIAN students declined between 2011 and

community health. The vision of the organization

2020.

is that all children live healthy, happy, and fulfilled lives.

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NATIVE AMERICAN ADVISED FUND

Proposal | This funding request is to support the second year of the NB3 Foundation Native American Youth Council. This youth council was initiated in

Silver Bullet Productions silverbulletproductions.com

2023 to inform leaders and stakeholders about community health concerns and to help propose health-related policy changes from a youth lens and perspective. The Native Youth Council members are the future of change for their communities and will drive systemic change regarding Native youth health.

Noteworthy | The National Institutes of Health states 17.4% of Native Americans report fair or poor health compared to 10% of non-Hispanic, white populations. This may be due to a lack of relevant health information or misinformation. Traditional health research in Native communities can be extractive and predatory and can perpetuate deficient-based false narratives leading to mistrust.

The NB3 Foundation is working from youth perspectives to return native-designed community health assessments and information to native communities.

in New Mexico’s Native American communities through filmmaking programs that empower tribal students, impact academic opportunities, and preserve heritage. Since 2005, Silver Bullet Productions (SBP) provides relevant learning two ways: 1) the production of documentaries on culture and history; 2) workshops for students and teachers on filmmaking and storytelling with new equipment remaining in communities.

Proposal | SBP is producing a documentary on the Pueblo resistance from the 1500s to 1700, and Pueblo Resilience that continues. This is a period of time with no photographs or written records. SBP is asking for funding for graphics and animations to support the historical and oral content of the film. A full film budget is available for your review. We have the funds for the remainder of the budget items in

Santa Fe Indigenous Center

preproduction, production, and postproduction.

santafeindigenouscenter.org

the 1600s and today highlight how historical events

Mission | To support, promote, and enrich our vital

Noteworthy | At least three connections between are tied to modern issues, making the revelations in this film crucial. In 1540, the land and population of the pueblos encompassed over 110 sovereign

and diverse community. We identify and serve the

nations with more than 100,000 people. Today, there

needs and interests of our people.

are 19 Pueblos, but they still represent a significant

Proposal | The Santa Fe Indigenous Center

force in New Mexico, with 229,000 citizens. During

requests financial support for our bi-weekly food

the COVID-19 pandemic, New Mexico’s Indigenous

distributions, traditional food package giveaways,

communities were disproportionately infected,

and for an Indigenous Harvest Feast during the

drawing a parallel between epidemics of the past

holidays. All of our programs focus on community

and present. Additionally, servitude and slavery is

building and connection.

linked to the ongoing tragedy of over 5,000 missing

Noteworthy | In Santa Fe County, there are over

and murdered Indigenous women.

11,000 different Native Americans, both rural and urban; there are many families with children and individuals that are in need of additional support services such as food security, housing, rental assistance, and utility assistance. In 2023, 510 women participated in our bi-weekly food distributions; 1,089 children were also reported in those households.

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Mission | To encourage educational achievement

NATIVE AMERICAN ADVISED FUND

Three Sisters Collective threesisterscollective.org

Underdog Animal Rescue and Rehab underdogrescuemoab.org

Mission | To restore our relationship to Mother Earth, Rematriation, and relearn to uphold matriarchs as natural leaders while strengthening our Pueblo/Indigenous community to offset the ongoing impacts of colonialism and environmental racism. Our values are land, culture, community, healing, and access. We are an Indigenous womenled organization engaging in land-based praxis to restore wellness and uplift traditional lifeways

Mission | To rescue and rehabilitate companion animals from the tribal lands in the Four Corners region of the American Southwest through vet care, spay/neuter clinics, and adoption services, all while supporting Native Americans in the care of their animals. Underdog Animal Rescue and Rehab is a nonprofit organization based in Moab, Utah.

through art, actionism, education, and community

Proposal | Underdog Animal Rescue & Rehab

building.

(Underdog) seeks funding to support our mobile

Proposal | We are seeking general operating

veterinary clinics serving the Navajo Nation in

support. Funding will go directly to developing farm programming and operating Full Circle Farm, our community-based, Indigenous heirloom crop farm and community space. In addition to overhead, this grant will pay our facilitators for the workshops and teach-ins that they will continue to do as matriarchs, artists, organizers, and healers in our community —

New Mexico. These clinics provide essential spay/ neuter surgeries, vaccinations, and medical care to underserved pet populations on the reservation, addressing significant barriers such as poverty and limited access to veterinary services. Your support will help us continue our life-saving work in this remote region.

reconnecting urban Indigenous people to the land

Noteworthy | Since 2020, we have performed over

and teaching self-sustaining skills.

3,300 spay and neuter surgeries and administered

Noteworthy | We have various educational/cultural

over 12,000 life-saving vaccines to owned pets on

workshops throughout the farm season, which we offer at no cost to the community. Programming includes adobe oven making, pottery making, preparing corn using the ancient nixtamal process, a precolonial foods cooking class, and upcoming

the Navajo Nation through our mobile veterinary clinics. These free/low-cost clinic events target underserved areas of the Navajo Nation where access to veterinary care is extremely limited or simply doesn’t exist.

workshops include herbal remedio making and land defense. We create community murals that highlight the ongoing environmental impacts we face in our region. We host twice-weekly BIPOC Family Nights, and Intersectional Fridays at our farm.

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INTRODUCTION

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:

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Creating an HIV-free generation in New Mexico; Combatting discrimination against LGBTQ+ people (such as employment, housing, immigration, access to health services, etc.); Supporting school-based programs that create a safe environment for all students, including LGBTQ+ students; 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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ENVISION FUND

Casa Q casaq.org

Proposal | Way OUT West Film Fest seeks funding from the Envision Fund to support our 22nd annual festival, dedicated to showcasing diverse LGBTQ+ stories through film. This year, we aim to expand

Mission | To provide safe living options and services for LGBTQ+ youth, as well as allies, who are at risk of or experiencing homelessness. Unlike emergency shelter programs, Casa Q provides residential and transitional living services in a home-like environment, complemented with comprehensive and individual case management. Casa Q’s services are vital in addressing the disproportionate homelessness populations of LGBTQ+ young people.

Proposal | Casa Q is a small and mighty team.

Funding will be used to ensure that team members are being trained in topics that young LGBTQ+ youth are facing and how to support young people.

It will also support operating programs and case management for each client to meet their individual needs.

Noteworthy | In 2023, Casa Q provided 11 LGBTQ+ youth with housing and case management, five young people were enrolled in the Transitional Living Program with Casa Q, and 12 youth engaged in aftercare case management. Casa Q provided five

our reach with more in-person screenings and community events, enhancing queer visibility in our region. Funding will help us maintain high-quality programming, engage new audiences, and ensure the festival remains a vital platform for LGBTQ+ voices during challenging economic times.

Noteworthy | In 2023, over 500 anti-LGBTQ+ bills were introduced across the U.S., targeting queer rights and visibility. This alarming trend underscores the urgent need for platforms like Way OUT West Film Fest, which provides a vital space for LGBTQ+ voices and stories, fostering community resilience and promoting understanding in a climate increasingly hostile to queer identities. Your support helps us combat this wave of discrimination through powerful, visible representation.

The Community Resource Fund h2academicsolutions.net

youth emergency housing in hotel rooms. Our youth participated in 1,000 hours of educational programs.

Closet Cinema wayoutwestfilmfest.com

Mission | To showcase queer cinema to highlight

Mission | To serve the vulnerable populations of New Mexico by providing them with access to resources that enable them to achieve their personal and educational goals. We believe in creating an inclusive space where everyone is welcome, regardless of their financial status or background. Through community engagement

the richness and diversity of the LGBTQ+ experience

and partnerships, we secure funds and

through the annual Way OUT West Film Fest, a 10-

resources that allow us to fulfill our mission of

day event in Albuquerque, founded in 2003.

providing opportunities for personal/educational development.

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ENVISION FUND

Proposal | As an organization, we have worked hard

Proposal | Midwife-led maternity care in New

to create an inclusive space for all to enjoy and use.

Mexico significantly decreases neonatal deaths,

Individual clients need individual care. Our funding

stillbirths, preterm births, C-sections, while reducing

request is to offer quick access emergency packs

maternal mortality. New Mexico midwives oversee

for LGBTQ+ youth during breaks from school, or if

25% of births, twice the national average, yet they

something were to happen in their living situation

face chronic underpayment. We are requesting

resulting in having to leave quickly. These packs

funds to enable Dar a Luz Birth and Health Center

would include resources, safety plans, stress relief

(DAL) to hire diverse, experienced midwives with

tools, blanket, journal, coloring book, basic first aid

competitive compensation and benefits, easing

kit, shelf stable snacks, water.

the workload on the team and improving staff

Noteworthy | A CYFD report states New Mexico

retention while enhancing client experience and

LGBTQ+ youth are overrepresented in the Juvenile

strengthening the team.

Justice System. Additionally, the National Network

Noteworthy | DAL is the oldest functioning birth

for research has shown, those who identify as

center in New Mexico and employs the most

LGBTQ+ are 120% higher risk of experiencing

midwives in a birth center who support the most

some form of homelessness. Our youth face

couplets in the out-of-hospital setting per year.

obstacles such as family rejection, bullying and

We’ve provided comprehensive healthcare services

lack of support. Which can lead to foster care/

— including prenatal, labor, birth, postpartum,

homelessness, running away, dropping out and

newborn, gynecological, mental health care — to

police contact. We must stay proactive in the

over 4,000 families. DAL has overseen over 1,600

potential situations these risks can lead to and have

births with an exceptional 10% cesarean section rate,

resources available.

saving New Mexico over $2 million, along with a 99%

Dar a Luz Birth and Health Center daraluzbirthcenter.org

Mission | To improve birth and breastfeeding outcomes by offering evidence-based, highquality healthcare that respects all individuals. We provide education to support healthy pregnancies, breastfeeding, and newborn care, along with ongoing breastfeeding support. We strive to increase access to community-based midwifery care and uphold reproductive justice in New Mexico, ensuring everyone has the right to choose their birth environment and access safe, communitybased reproductive care.

breastfeeding initiation rate.

Equality New Mexico eqnm.org

Mission | To build power for our communities through leadership development, policy advocacy, culture, systems shift work, and community organizing. Equality New Mexico is building power with LGBTQ communities across the state and has been doing so for 31 years!

Proposal | Equality New Mexico (EQNM) seeks support for an intensive Policy Development and Passage Fellowship that creates an opportunity for Queer and Trans New Mexicans to enter the policy world through a more compassionate, shorter process than is available through formal postgraduate study. EQNM and the Transgender Resource Center of New Mexico will collaborate on this project to support three to five LGBTQ young adults whose talent and passion for impacting their community outstrip their formal education.

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ENVISION FUND

Noteworthy | There are only five openly queer members of the Legislature and only four openly queer lobbyists in New Mexico. The New Mexico

GLSEN New Mexico glsennm.org

legislature is the last all-volunteer legislature in the nation, so the role of lobbyists and communitydriven policy experts has greater weight than in other states making this under-representation in the Roundhouse even more significant. Existing educational opportunities for LGBTQ young adults fail to meet the unique needs of this population and therefore do not close this gap.

Forward Together (Strong Families New Mexico)

Mission | To create safe and inclusive K-12 learning environments for LGBTQ+ youth and educators.

Championing LGBTQ+ issues in K-12 education since 1990, we believe that every student has the right to safe, supportive, and affirming learning environments. GLSEN New Mexico works at a local level to make this right a reality, in collaboration with a network of advocates, educators, students, and local GLSEN Chapters across the country.

Proposal | General operating support is vital to GLSEN’s mission of creating safe, inclusive schools for LGBTQ+ youth. The flexibility of general operating

Mission | To bring together organizations and community leaders statewide to build strong communities and create policies by and for our families.

Proposal | Strong Families is co-building the first of its kind full spectrum reproductive and genderaffirming healthcare center in southern New Mexico to open in 2025. Our commitment to this project is to ensure that there is a community driven and community-centered process in the visioning, planning, and operation of this comprehensive reproductive healthcare center in Doña Ana County.

This integrated model of care designed by those most impacted by the lack of access to reproductive and gender care.

Noteworthy | Only three of New Mexico’s 33 counties have healthcare centers that provide

support allows us to respond swiftly to emerging policy threats, sustain our programs, and meet the growing needs of the community. This funding ensures we can continue to empower students, train educators, and fight back against harmful policies, ultimately creating a safer, more equitable educational environment for all students in New Mexico.

Noteworthy | The 2021 National School Climate Survey showed that 97% of New Mexican students hear “gay” used in a negative way and 82% hear negative comments about transgender people.

Over 52% of New Mexico students experience verbal harassment and over 22% experience physical harassment based on their gender identity, gender expression or sexual orientation. For more details, visit bit.ly/GLSEN_NM

comprehensive reproductive healthcare services including abortion and none of these reproductive healthcare centers provide the type of culturally relevant, community-centered, and comprehensive healthcare services, including gender-affirming care, that the new southern New Mexico healthcare center will have.

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Health Equity Alliance for LGBTQ+ New Mexicans

Justice, Access, Support, and Solutions for Health

healplusnm.org

casadesaludnm.org

Mission | To address risk across social determinants

Mission | To interweave traditional and conventional

of health for lesbian, gay, bisexual, two-spirit,

medicines to meet the physical and spiritual health

transgender, gender nonconforming, questioning,

needs of its patients in a welcoming, just, creative,

queer, intersex, asexual, and pansexual (LGBTQ+)

and inclusive environment; to provide fair priced

people and their intersectional lives. Health Equity

health care to anyone in need; and to promote a

Alliance for LGBTQ+ (HEAL Plus) New Mexico works

learning and leadership development environment

to advance education, research, and support for the

for practitioners, staff, volunteers, and patients. Casa

health and wellbeing of LGBTQ+ people. We center

de Salud is a permanent project of Justice, Access,

joy, resilience, community, and artmaking as an

Support and Solutions for Health, a nonprofit

organizing principle.

organization.

Proposal | Behavioral health disparities are a top

Proposal | Casa de Salud is a nonprofit integrative

concern and primary avenue to achieve health

clinic in Albuquerque, and is expanding to Valencia

equity for queer and trans people. HEAL Plus

County. Casa provides affordable primary care,

requests funds to continue advocating for LGBTQ+

queer and trans healthcare, and addictions care.

health. Our programs include SQUINCH (Sharing

We embrace a holistic approach using a wide range

Queer Understanding, Inclusion, Nonviolent

of conventional, natural and traditional medicines,

Communication, and Health) for GSA’s and

we train the future healthcare workforce of New

SQUINCH 4 Families, digital curricula for LGBTQ+

Mexico, and advocate for health system change. We

youth and their families, and Bright Spaces

aim to expand our capacity to support queer, trans

directory, connecting queer and trans people to

and gender nonconforming New Mexicans with

health providers that affirm our identities.

dignified high-quality healthcare.

Noteworthy | One in three New Mexicans believe

Noteworthy | 75% of our patients are uninsured

homosexuality should be discouraged (Pew

and do not have access to affordable healthcare.

Research, 2014). In 2019, one in four bisexual adults

Among those who are insured, there are significant

in New Mexico attempted suicide, a rate four

struggles finding culturally humble and queer/

times that of the New Mexico population. Gay and

trans competent healthcare. Our patients trust

lesbian people attempted suicide at twice the rate

care at Casa, and come from all over New Mexico

of heterosexuals (NMDOH 2018). HEAL Plus New

and beyond. We have provided gender affirming

Mexico focuses on changing environments to be

hormone therapy for 20 years. This year, we are

more supportive of LGBTQ+ BIPOC lives and support

expanding capacity, training new providers, and

resiliency skills in LGBTQ+ community groups such

expanding care to Valencia County, where there are

as GSA’s.

no known providers for gender affirming care.

ENVISION FUND

La Casa, Inc.

The Mountain Center

lacasainc.org

themountaincenter.org

Mission | To support everyone affected by domestic

Mission | To promote wellness, personal discovery,

violence and work toward a just, safe community

and social change through innovative learning

free from violence and abuse. We have made a

experiences in wilderness, community, and cultural

significant impact in the tri-county area of Doña

environments.

Ana, Luna, and Hidalgo counties. La Casa, Inc. has

Proposal | Our NM Genders and Sexual Alliance

been a dedicated provider of service for survivors of domestic violence since 1981. Last year, we served a total of 1,652 individuals. Our commitment to inclusivity ensures that all community members receive the care and respect they deserve.

Proposal | We aim to enhance support for New

Network received funding to empower at-risk LGBTQ+ youth ages 13-24 in New Mexico. Funds support stipends for Youth Council members, fostering leadership development, and adventure programming to build confidence and provide positive role models. Additionally, the grant funds

Mexico’s LGBTQ+ community by providing cultural

swag and prizes for contingency management,

sensitivity training to staff and statewide partners,

boosting engagement in weekly queer meetups.

and developing bilingual outreach and marketing

This grant has strengthened resilience, leadership,

materials that will foster a more inclusive and

and community support for LGBTQ+ youth facing

supportive environment for all domestic violence

limited resources and challenges.

survivors. With this project specific funding, we will increase awareness, improve service delivery, and ensure that LGBTQ+ individuals feel safe when seeking help, leading to stronger community impact.

Noteworthy | In New Mexico, approximately 85,000 individuals identify as LGBTQ+, which makes up about 4.5% of the state’s population (Williams Institute). Despite our anti-discrimination policies and the state’s anti-discrimination laws, currently, only 1% of our clients identify as LGBTQ+. This may reveal a statewide outreach gap in areas of safety and support within domestic violence shelters.

Noteworthy | According to a recent survey by The Trevor Project, 41% of LGBTQ+ youth seriously considered attempting suicide in the past year. This rate is even higher among specific groups, with 46% of transgender and nonbinary youth reporting suicidal ideation. Additionally, one in five LGBTQ+ youth made a suicide attempt in the past year.

New Mexico Community AIDS Partnership nmaidspartnership.org

Our project specific grant will help bridge these gaps and better support LGBTQ+ clients in our community.

Mission | To build a world in which LGBTQIA+ people 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 disparities affecting Sexual and Gender Minorities and partner with groups who target intersecting populations, working toward equity for all. We work to develop supportive environments for sexual and gender minority people in all areas of life.

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ENVISION FUND

Proposal | New Mexico Community AIDS

Proposal | New Mexico Dream Team’s (NMDT)

Partnership’s work includes policy, training,

UndocuQueer initiative and programming is

convening and research. We support state agencies

dedicated to empowering queer immigrant

and provider organizations in amending their

students through a series of transformative events

policies, procedures, and documents to ensure they

and programs in and outside schools. These youths

are supportive of LGBTQIA+ people. We host an

face unique challenges that intersect both their

annual summit on LGBTQIA+ health for providers,

LGBTQ+ identities and immigrant experiences, by

researchers, and community members. We host

providing funding, you enable us to offer essential

professional training on LGBTQIA+ cultural fluency

resources, create safe and inclusive spaces, and

and gender-affirming care. We collaborate with

facilitate mentorship and networking opportunities

researchers at the University of New Mexico and

that affirm their identities and promote their well-

PIRE on projects to promote LGBTQIA+ equity.

being.

Noteworthy | Based on data provided by the New

Noteworthy | Overall, there are an estimated

Mexico Department of Health, LGBT adults are more

1,274,500 LGBT foreign-born adults in the U.S.,

than three times as likely as straight, cisgender

including 289,700 (22.7%) who are undocumented

adults to experience sexual assault and suicide

(LGBT Adult Immigrants in the United States

ideation. LGBT youth report experiencing frequent

-UCLA Report). Because LGBT undocumented

mental distress at more than double the rate of

immigrants lack legal status, they are ineligible for

their straight, cisgender peers and report engaging

health insurance subsidies and benefits offered by

in non-suicidal self-harm and suicide attempts at

the Affordable Care Act, and as a result often lack

more than triple the rates of their straight, cisgender

affordable options and forego care entirely (Funders

peers.

for LGBTQ Issues).

New Mexico Dream Team

Santa Fe Dreamers Project

nmdreamteam.org

santafedreamersproject.org

Mission | To build power for multigenerational,

Mission | To uphold the dignity and rights of

undocumented, LGBTQ+, and mixed status

immigrants to pursue their goals and dreams

families toward liberation. Through trainings and

by offering high-quality legal services and

leadership development, we work to engage our

representation. We partner with the immigrant

community and allies, in becoming leaders using

community and supporters to transform the

an intersectional, gender, and racial justice lens. We

immigration system through advocacy and

aim to develop and implement an organizing and

education.

advocacy infrastructure for policy change fighting to

Proposal | Santa Fe Dreamers Project provides top

dismantle systematic oppression.

quality legal services to undocumented immigrants and their families across the state of New Mexico.

Our staff’s 99% success rate is on par with the best private firms in the country. We offer high quality pro-bono and low-bono legal services across a wide variety of case types including asylum, release from detention, deportation removal defense, humanitarian visas for victims of violent crimes, permanent residence, citizenship, DACA, and more.

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ENVISION FUND

Noteworthy | According to Human Rights Watch, “... at least 67 countries have national laws criminalizing same-sex relations between consenting adults. In

SITE SANTA FE sitesantafe.org

addition, at least nine countries have national laws criminalizing forms of gender expression that target transgender and gender nonconforming people.”

Mission | To be an internationally recognized destination for art and artists and a trusted

Santa Fe Public Schools, Office of Student Wellness

community resource for creativity and learning.

sfps.info

stimulate and strengthen empathy, bring people

Founded in 1995 to nurture innovation, discovery, and inspiration through the art of today, SITE SANTA FE believes that contemporary art has the power to together, and drive social change. Guided by artists,

Mission | To provide a welcoming and inclusive environment for LGBTQ+ students. We know that when students feel included, welcomed, and affirmed, they are better able to fulfill their full potential in all areas of their lives, including academic achievement.

Proposal | Santa Fe Public Schools creates safer and

rooted in New Mexico, SITE SANTA FE celebrates contemporary creative expression.

Proposal | SITE SANTA FE requests support for its PRAXIS Program (theory + practice = praxis), a series of eight hands-on workshops taught by local arts practitioners and provided free of charge to participants. Designed to empower arts workers with opportunities to develop career skills and

more inclusive school environments for LGBTQ+

explore economic opportunities, SITE anticipates

students by developing strong inclusive policies

serving 250 community members annually.

and practices, training school staff to recognize and

Workshops will be filmed, edited, and hosted

respond to the unique issues LGBTQ+ students face,

on SITE’s website for a secondary audience and

and providing direct gender support services to

increased accessibility.

students and families.

Noteworthy | A report from the Bureau of Economic

Noteworthy | Students whose identities are

Analysis at the NEA reveals that New Mexico’s

marginalized suffer disproportionately from

arts and culture industries employed 23,766

negative health and psychosocial outcomes,

individuals and provided $1.7 billion in arts worker

including low self-esteem, self-harm, depression,

compensation in 2021. The arts added $3.2 billion

suicide, substance use, and harsher punishments.

in value to New Mexico’s economy, demonstrating

According to the 2021 New Mexico Youth Risk &

the strength of the arts and culture fields in New

Resiliency Survey, sexual minority (LGB) and gender

Mexico, and the potential for those seeking a

minority (TGQF) youth experienced significantly

creative career. SITE is committed to creating

higher rates of persistent sadness or hopelessness

accessible career development and educational

(1.8x higher for both), suicide attempts (3.4x for LGB

opportunities for arts workers.

and 3.7x for TGQF), and being bullied at school (~2x for both).

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ENVISION FUND

Solace Sexual Assault Services findsolace.org

The Sky Center / New Mexico Suicide Intervention Project skycenter.nmsip.org

Mission | To create a safe and supportive environment where all voices are heard, and every survivor is treated with dignity and respect, fostering healing and resilience in our community.

We provide compassionate and free bilingual support and advocacy for survivors of sexual assault, sex trafficking, dating violence, and stalking. We strive to empower individuals, particularly those from marginalized communities, through inclusive services, education, and prevention programs.

Proposal | Solace seeks support to better connect with LGBTQ+ youth by strengthening partnerships with Santa Fe Public Schools (SFPS) and LGBTQspecific organizations. This funding will help establish Gender and Sexuality Alliances (GSAs) in SFPS middle and high schools and create SafeZones for LGBTQ+ youth.

Noteworthy | For 20 years, Solace has developed LGBTQ-inclusive curricula for SFPS Sex Health Education Week (SHEW) with Planned Parenthood and Resolve. DOH data shows 87% of participants report increased bystander intervention and advocacy intentions. Despite this, New Mexico schools remain unsafe for LGBTQ youth (GLSEN 2021). Your funding will support our team of four preventionists, including two queer staff, in expanding outreach to establish SafeZones and GSAs while maintaining our middle school programming.

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. The current Board of Directors and Staff Strategic Plan includes the core value of “Love, through inclusivity, cultural sensitivity, listening, paying attention, setting clear boundaries, living with integrity, and offering kindness.”

Proposal | The Sky Center meets the challenges faced by LGBTQ+ and all youth by reducing suicide risk factors, strengthening resilience, and increasing supportive relationships that can transform a young person’s hopelessness and thoughts of suicide into a meaningful desire to live. The requested funds will sustain, enrich, and advance programs that aim to address the multi-layered factors that contribute to a young person’s likelihood of suicide.

Noteworthy | New Mexico has the second highest youth suicide rate in the United States. According to the CDC’s 2021 Youth Risk Behavior Survey, nearly half (45%) of LGBQ+ students in 2021 seriously considered attempting suicide — far more than heterosexual students. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Queer or Questioning* (LGBQ+) students were more likely to report persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness, and LGBTQ+ students were nearly four times more likely to attempt suicide than their heterosexual peers.

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ENVISION FUND

Transgender Resources Center of New Mexico tgrcnm.org

Noteworthy | Lack of proper support for the grieving process has far-reaching consequences on public health. Rising rates of suicidality, an escalating drug epidemic, depression, interpersonal violence, and loneliness are among the collective outcomes of this oversight. Notably, even before

Mission | To support transgender, nonbinary, and

the pandemic, loneliness posed a greater public

gender nonconforming communities through direct

health risk than smoking. Honoring the natural

services, education, and advocacy.

and intrinsic process of grieving is crucial. It not

Proposal | Transgender Resources Center of New

only repairs connections but also fosters a sense of

Mexico (TGRCNM) is seeking general operating support as we continue our work as one of the only

cohesion with life.

Mexico. Our funding request will assist in funding

The University of New Mexico Foundation

our transitional housing program and expanding

unmfund.org

Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming (TGNC) led and serving direct service organizations in New

services in our community drop-in center.

Noteworthy | TGRCNM’s Casa Lola transitional housing program, which opened on January 29, 2024, is New Mexico’s first housing program for and

by TGNC people serving TGNC adults experiencing homelessness and housing insecurity. Our communal housing site serves up to six participants

Mission | To use a team model to provide the highest quality of care with respect for human dignity through effective medical care, behavioral health services, complementary therapies, and community support. We seek to enhance the

at a time with wraparound supportive services.

physical and personal well-being of people living/

Únashay Sanctuary

Proposal | THS YOUTH2PrEP program started with increased awareness and linkage to services.

unashayhome.com

With additional funding, we would like to increase

accessing care in New Mexico.

utilization of PrEP in risk at risk of HIV through

Mission | To offer land-based and mobile presence in our grief sanctuary on the red earth of Tewa lands, space and creation for the under-resourced grieving of northern New Mexico, whilst forging a new emergent culture for grief in all its many forms.

Proposal | Grief Residency sponsorship brings

continued efforts at education and linkage and reduction of financial barriers to access.

Noteworthy | According to the CDC, youth are at elevated risk for contracting HIV due to engaging in sexual risk-taking behaviors. Youth ages 13 to 24 made up 21% of all new HIV cases. At UNM THS, approximately 383 patients receive PrEP services,

under-resourced individuals and groups into

and only 13% are under 25. The need to create a plan

the rest, connection and community care they

to facilitate access to PrEP for youth and create an

need. Companion Teams are assembled for each

HIV-FREE Generation is shown with the increasing

residency and are tailored to specific individual

number of new HIV infections referred to UNM THS.

and group needs. Teams might be comprised of therapists, artists, body workers, group facilitators, and cooks (to name a few) who bring presence to the grieving process, insisting that no one should be unnecessarily isolated while grieving.

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SANTA FE BABY FUND

Santa Fe Baby Fund The Santa Fe Baby Fund at the Santa Fe Community Foundation promotes the healthy development of babies and toddlers in northern New Mexico and raises 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: 1.

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Increasing access to affordable, high quality early childhood care and education; Supporting programming for young parents ages 29 and under, and their infants and toddlers; Supporting grandparents or other non-parent kin raising infants and toddlers; Supporting ongoing training, professional development, and programming for the early childhood workforce; and Improving access to reproductive health services for adolescents and young adults.

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CareNet of Las Vegas, NM carenetlasvegas.org

Proposal | Family Learning Center requests funding for the completion of a licensed kitchen renovation that will provide healthy and appropriate meals for our toddlers. We have been using vendors who

Mission | To provide compassionate care in a confidential, non-judgmental, and hopeful manner.

CareNet of Las Vegas, NM recognizes that every human is valuable, therefore with our Christcentered and life-affirming community support we offer realistic alternatives for every family facing crucial pregnancy decisions.

Proposal | We seek funding to provide necessary resources — such as car seats, highchairs, bassinets, cribs, as well as new and gently used clothing — for young parents to help in raising their babies and children. We also have a diaper giveaway program for babies.

Noteworthy | We help the families with serious needs in Las Vegas and surrounding areas up to 150 miles in distance. The items that are most requested and needed are toddler car seats and pull ups. The

provide meals that are not appropriate for toddlers.

We want to do our own cooking so toddlers in our program will have access to a variety of foods that promote healthy choices. We want to use this facility to promote nutrition education for young families to learn about meal planning, preparation, and nutrition.

Noteworthy | There was a 34% increase in the number of diabetes diagnoses in Rio Arriba County between 1980 and 2016 (healthdata.org).

By 2020, a rate of 15.3% of adults were diagnosed with diabetes (ibis.doh.nm.gov). Family Learning Center is being proactive in encouraging healthy food choices, healthy cooking habits, and healthy buying practices for toddlers and their families. We encourage the use of local produce.

diaper program we are involved in only gives up to

Fathers New Mexico

size 6 and as the kids grow the need is still there.

fathersnewmexico.org

We seem to have newborn car seats donated but not the ones for toddlers and older children. The other thing requested frequently is food. We have

Mission | To provide support, resources, and skills to

foodbanks available on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and

promote healthy and responsible fathering in young

Thursdays but not on the weekends.

families. Fathers New Mexico nurtures connections between the father, the family, and the community

Family Learning Center flcespanola.com

to promote self, family, and community health.

Proposal | Fathers New Mexico engages, equips, and empowers dads while building a positive community of fathers and families. We request

Mission | To empower everyone to move, learn, laugh, and grow in order to create a powerful culture of health by providing equitable access to wellness activities in a supportive community of diverse individuals.

support for this programming in Santa Fe and the infrastructure required for its effective operation.

Noteworthy | According to a 2022 Pew Research Center survey, 85% of fathers with children under 18 years of age view fatherhood as the most important, or one of the most important, aspects of their identity.

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Growing Up New Mexico growingupnm.org

Proposal | As a Preventive/Promotion Model, Kiwanis First Born of Northern New Mexico (FBNNM) will provide enhanced, quality home visiting services to expectant parents and families

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.

Proposal | Growing Up New Mexico creates opportunities for young children, their families, and their caregivers to thrive through communityoriented direct service, and systems building state advocacy and policy, with each body of work continually informing the other. Our high-quality early childhood programs promote long-term resiliency by connecting families to community resources and other tools needed to thrive, empowering them to be their own goal setters, problem solvers, and advocates.

Noteworthy | Research shows that a child’s cognitive, social, and emotional development during their earliest years is essential to future learning.

Since 85% of brain development occurs by age five, positive early experiences, combined with family stability, are critical to future outcomes in academic

with children up to five years old. The program’s target population includes families residing in San Miguel, Mora, and Harding counties, identified as communities continuing to recover from trauma and the aftereffects of the largest the state’s largest wildfire disaster in 2022 (the Hermit’s Peak/Calf Canyon Fire), including subsequent flooding and lack of drinking water.

Noteworthy | Since the fire, FBNNM has provided services to 154 adults, 55 prenatal families, and 134 children. Home visiting services include information related to the importance of accessing quality prenatal care and support through the postpartum period. Ongoing services for parents include information related to supporting their child’s learning through the program’s emergent literacy program.

Many Mothers manymothers.org

success, employment, physical health, and mental well-being.

Kiwanis First Born of Northern New Mexico firstborn.org

Mission | To provide in-home services and wraparound care to achieve health equity and wellbeing for babies and their caregivers in northern New Mexico.

Proposal | We seek funding to continue to provide and expand our services. Our flagship home visiting program is unique in that it addresses

Mission | To improve the health and well-being of expectant parents and families with children up to kindergarten age, so that the families and children in northern New Mexico thrive within their communities.

the critical need to engage with mothers directly after birth for the support they may need to take care of their newborns. Essentially, we are making postpartum doula care a reality for mothers that may otherwise not have access to this supportive service. Additionally, because we operate a volunteer-focused model, for every $1 we invest in our volunteer program, we see a $1.95 return that we can invest in our other tangible programs.

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Noteworthy | We have several programs focused on

Noteworthy | The case for math PD in EC is

infant/maternal health. We offer: 1) home visiting;

compelling. Studies show that children lacking solid

2) safe sleep education and cribs; 3) basic needs,

early math skills underperform during elementary

including diapers, formula, prenatal vitamins, and

school and beyond. According to the National

hygiene items; 4) a village closet, which includes

Education Report Card, only 19% of 4th graders and

infant equipment and clothing, and maternity

13% of 8th graders in New Mexico reached math

clothing; 5) The Family Center, which offers groups

proficiency (2022). Young children need enriched

and classes for pregnant women and families with

opportunities to relate math to daily experiences

children 0-3 years old; 6) navigation services; and 7)

and develop the math language that promotes

farm-to-families, which offers mainly organic foods.

literacy and critical thinking (Chesloff 2013; Harris &

MathAmigos mathamigos.org

Peterson 2019).

Presbyterian Ear Institute presbyterianearinstitute.org

Mission | To help teachers in northern New Mexico inspire kids to love math through

Mission | To support people with hearing loss

innovative workshops, teacher coaching, and math

(HL) to better listen, speak, and integrate into

competitions. Math proficiency in our schools still

mainstream society. Presbyterian Ear Institute (PEI)

hovers at 24%. Our workshops promote best practice

offers hope in breaking the silence for children and

strategies for teaching and learning that excite

adults, providing comprehensive early diagnosis,

students, deepen their mathematical thinking, and

intervention, education, and rehabilitation of

instill the math skills and problem-solving so vital to

deafness. Through its programs and services,

success in life and work in the 21st century.

PEI works daily to mitigate the lifelong effects

Proposal | MathAmigos has provided professional

that hearing loss has on literacy, educational

development (PD) in math for K-8 teachers since

achievement, and vocational opportunities.

2017. The Santa Fe Community Foundation has

Proposal | Childhood HL is a race against lost brain

contributed much appreciated annual support

time, so PEI’s specialists intervene quickly, use

for 27 MathAmigos workshops reaching over 230

cutting-edge technology, and partner with families

K-8 teachers. Early childhood (EC) is a critical but

to teach deaf/hard-of-hearing (D/HH) children

underutilized time to excite children about math

to listen and speak. Support for our Newborn

in the world around them. We seek funding for

Hearing Screening, Parent-Infant, and School for

workshops that bring innovative best practices to

Oral Deaf Education programs changes lives by

early childhood professionals teaching math in

empowering children with the fundamental human

northern New Mexico.

right of communication so they can connect with their families, communities, and educational/ employment opportunities.

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Noteworthy | Occurring more than any other condition screened at birth, HL affects families of all linguistic, racial, ethnic, and socio-economic

Prosperity Works prosperityworks.net

backgrounds. Over 90% of D/HH children are born to hearing parents, so PEI’s family-led, listening/ spoken-language option is crucial and helps families connect with their children. Teaching children to hear/talk changes lives, mitigating 25% higher rates of abuse/neglect, 64% un/underemployment, and average 2.8-4.5 grade reading levels affecting D/HH populations.

Mission | To help New Mexicans get out of poverty, to end poverty, and to build the capacity of organizations and advocates for policies that generate economic prosperity for all New Mexicans.

We envision a New Mexico where every person has access to the opportunities, knowledge, and relationships they need to achieve economic prosperity. Our work is guided by our core values,

Presbyterian Medical Services

each of which is cast through a lens that centers

pmsnm.org

intentional capacity building, and authentic

racial equity: community-centric solutions building, partnership development.

Mission | To design and deliver quality, accessible, integrated health, education, and human services in response to identified community needs of the multicultural people of the Southwest.

Proposal | Presbyterian Medical Services (PMS)

on access to safe and affordable checking accounts through our Bank On New Mexico coalition. We work on building assets for children and adults through our matched savings programs. We help

provides primary medical and behavioral health

families become more energy resilient through our

services to Santa Fe students through two Teen

energy efficiency and advocacy work. Finally, we are

Health Centers and on-site behavioral health

helping New Mexicans access cleaner and cheaper

services at every Santa Fe school. PMS addresses

electricity through community solar. Each of these

health inequities by providing easily accessible

builds strong families.

services that are unbiased against race/ethnicity, income, and sexual orientation, as well as being culturally and linguistically accommodating.

Noteworthy | New Mexico is 10th in the nation for

Noteworthy | The poverty rate in New Mexico is 18.2% and is the third highest in the U.S. New Mexico ranks 45 out of 50 in the U.S. for wealth equality.

Our state has one of the widest income gaps

the number of births to teens. The New Mexico

between richest and poorest households. Studies

Youth Risk and Resiliency Survey reveals the

show that being born into poverty limits economic

number of students in Santa Fe who feel sad or

mobility, decreases overall health and well-being,

hopeless has increased 43%. In Santa Fe County,

and reduces opportunity for education and higher

over 9% of children are uninsured; however, that

paying jobs.

number jumps to 13.5% for children living in poverty. Untreated or poorly managed physical and mental health in youth can lead to overuse of the healthcare, education, welfare, and juvenile justice systems for years to come. PMS provides unbiased, accessible healthcare.

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Proposal | Prosperity Works has several strategies to close the racial wealth gap in New Mexico. We work

SANTA FE BABY FUND

Santa Fe Birth Center

Santa Fe Children’s Museum

santafebirthcenter.com

santafechildrensmuseum.org

Mission | To enhance birth outcomes and

Mission | To foster children in discovering the joys

experiences by expanding place-of-birth options

of learning, play, and community. The Santa Fe

in our community. As Santa Fe’s only nonprofit

Children’s Museum builds upon a child’s sense of joy

birth center, we offer a vital alternative to hospital

and discovery by cultivating habits of inquiry in the

or home births, providing a safe, satisfying, and

arts, sciences, and humanities.

cost-effective environment rooted in the midwifery model of care. Our center welcomes clients from all cultural traditions, ensuring that every individual receives the personalized care they deserve.

Proposal | We are seeking funding to support

Proposal | The Santa Fe Children’s Museum (SFCM) seeks funding to support its programming for babies, including four separate weekly programs, a discounted admission and family membership program, complimentary Mobile Museum visits to

critical operating costs at the Santa Fe Birth Center,

rural and Tribal communities, and free field trips

including staff salaries, building expenses, and the

for Title 1 daycares and Head Starts to visit the 30+

purchase of essential medical and birth supplies.

exhibit spaces at its campus. SFCM’s programs

This funding is crucial to ensure the continued

annually serve 74,500 people across northern New

operation of our center and to provide high-quality,

Mexico and beyond with its engaging curriculum for

compassionate care to our diverse community.

children ages 0-8.

Noteworthy | According to the National Birth Equity

Noteworthy | Voices for Children reported a child

Collaborative, nearly 700 women die each year in

poverty rate of 18% in Santa Fe County, where SFCM

the U.S. from pregnancy-related complications,

is located. 30% of all children had one or more

with a disproportionate impact on low-income

parents unemployed, and 24% of family units were

and minority populations. Ensuring access to safe,

grandparents raising grandchildren while living

supportive, and affordable birth options like those

in poverty. An active support network is vital for

offered by the Santa Fe Birth Center is crucial

babies to develop properly, and these statistics

in addressing these disparities and improving

point towards barriers that may limit both babies

maternal health outcomes.

and adults. SFCM’s progressive and informal environment provides spaces for children and their caregivers to grow.

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ANIMAL WELFARE

Animal Welfare R ESULT: T H E H E A LT H A ND WE L L- BEING OF OU R R EG ION’ S D OMES TIC AND W ILD A N I M A L S I S PROT EC TED.

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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PHOTO: A CHANCE OF A LIFETIME

ANIMAL WELFARE

A Chance of A Lifetime achanceofalifetime.org

Noteworthy | Chihuahuas are the second most euthanized breed in the United States, behind Pit Bulls. More than 359,000 dogs were euthanized in 2023, a five-year high for the United States.

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

Animal Protection NM apnm.org

compassion and provided time to heal from trauma.

Mission | To advocate statewide for the rights of

While some horses are adopted out, others stay with

animals by effecting social change, resulting in the

us and learn to work with people who are likewise

humane treatment of all animals. We create policies,

challenged in their personal lives. Funding for COLT

infrastructure, and services that protect animals

supports the health care and training expenses for

and strengthen our communities. We design and

14 horses who are skilled at mirroring hope, reviving

implement humane and pragmatic solutions to

spirit, and helping people who seek solace and

seemingly intractable problems involving animals.

healing.

Our vision is to make humane the new normal in

Noteworthy | New Mexico is home to approximately

New Mexico.

150,000 horses — many of whom are abused or

Proposal | Animal Protection NM (APNM) advocates

abandoned each year. COLT addresses this issue

for pro-animal policies and provides comprehensive

through our rescue efforts. COLT also seeks to help

services to ensure companion animals, equines,

behavioral health recipients recover and heal. Since

captive chimpanzees, and wildlife are treated

the pandemic, mental health conditions have

with respect. We seek support for our extensive

increased throughout the U.S. by 30%. In a recent

programs, such as teaching people of all ages

study conducted by the New Mexico Behavioral

empathy for animals, promoting safe co-existence

Health Collaborative, 53% of 26,174 people surveyed

with native species, helping communities provide

reported symptoms of suicide ideation, PTSD,

free or low-cost spay/neuter services, providing

depression, and substance abuse.

emergency equine feed and veterinary clinics, and establishing infrastructure to protect animals.

ABQ Chihuahua Rescue abqchihuahuarescue.org

Noteworthy | Each year, 135,000 lost and abandoned dogs and cats are taken in by animal shelters in New Mexico. More than 65,000 are euthanized. APNM addresses complex issues that lead to so many

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 | The ABQ Chihuahua Rescue would like to request funding for general support to rescue homeless chihuahua and chihuahua mixes

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.

throughout New Mexico.

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ANIMAL WELFARE

Animal Welfare Coalition of Northeastern New Mexico animalwelfarenewmexico.org

Athena Fund Mission | To assist individuals of low or moderate income with veterinary expenses related to cancer

Mission | To elevate the welfare of animals in northeastern New Mexico through a multifaceted approach. We are dedicated to promoting and facilitating spay and neuter programs, recognizing these practices as crucial steps in addressing the issue of animal overpopulation and ensuring a humane future for all animals. We will engage with the community to offer education initiatives aimed at preventing cruelty, cultivating empathy, and instilling responsible pet ownership values.

Proposal | The main goal of the Animal Welfare Coalition of Northern New Mexico (AWC) is to serve as a resource. We believe the most significant ways we can help turn the tide on overpopulation and neglect in our community are through offering

care for their pet, including chemotherapy, radiation treatment, pain management, and supportive care.

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

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

Felines & Friends New Mexico fandfnm.org

free or low-cost spay/neuter services, vaccine and microchip clinics, and bringing humane education into our schools. In addition, the AWC would love to spearhead a Trap/Neuter/Return program, expand our Food Pantry program, and provide winter support for pets living outdoors.

Noteworthy | Despite pivoting and rebranding in 2022, the AWC retained its focus on the importance of spay/neuter. Since November 2022, the AWC has provided approximately 950 free spay/neuter surgeries, with the number increasing with each clinic. We have hosted five spay/neuter clinics, two vaccine/microchip clinics, and served 636 households.

Mission | To rescue and place cats in need of a second chance, working towards zero pet overpopulation by facilitating low cost spay/neuter and improving the lives of companion animals through on-going educational programs.

Proposal | We are looking for funding to expand our free and low cost spay/neuter program for the community’s cats. Currently, we are projecting spaying/neutering approximately 100 cats per year at an average of $150 per cat. We would also like to expand our education program in support of spay/ neuter so that the community understands the impact of lack of spay/neuter on the community — including overcrowding of shelters, increased feral populations, abandoned litters of kittens and cats, etc.

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ANIMAL WELFARE

Noteworthy | In New Mexico in 2023, 24% of pets entering shelters were euthanized. Although Santa Fe Animal Shelter has attained a “no kill” status in

The Horse Shelter thehorseshelter.org

2023 (which signifies a 90% save rate or better), the save rate for cats is 91.7%, meaning that over 8% of cats entering the shelter are euthanized. Many of these cats are feral, or have health issues due to age, abandonment, abuse, neglect, etc. It is our goal to reduce the number of cats being euthanized at our

Mission | To rescue, rehabilitate, and facilitate the adoption of abused, abandoned, and neglected horses throughout New Mexico.

Proposal | The Horse Shelter currently provides

local shelters due to unwanted litters.

shelter to 96 horses. Between September and

Friends of Estancia Valley Animals

rescue, most of them of young age, to save them

fevanimals1.org

equine citizens will take considerable time and each

December of 2023, we admitted 31 feral horses into from going to slaughter. These were all found by the Livestock Board of NM and were in dire need of placement. Training these horses to become good horse will require at least six months of training,

Mission | To help reduce the number of unwanted pets in our communities by providing low cost spay neuter options and educating the public about the importance of spay-neuter in keeping our community pets happy and healthy. Friends of Estancia Valley Animals (FEVA) is an all-volunteer organization that has been partnering with local vets to offer low cost spay/neuter options to the Estancia Valley and East Mountain communities since 2004.

Proposal | We seek funding to continue providing our services. FEVA charges a nominal fee from the pet owner, which has not increased in 20 years, and never rejects an application for lack of funds. We also work with local municipal shelters to help with requests for spay/neuter.

which costs us $1,000 per month/horse.

Noteworthy | In 2023, the Horse Shelter admitted a total of 69 horses into rescue (a 50% increase over 2022) and we were able to adopt 43 horses into good homes (a 65% increase over 2022). After the horses have been vetted, re-fed, and rehabilitated from any medical issues, training is the single most important task and expense on their road to adoption. A well-trained and safe horse is much easier to adopt and also much more likely to stay in their new home.

Horseshoe Canyon Rescue Ranch horseshoecanyonrescueranch.org

Noteworthy | In six years, if unchecked, a dog mating pair can produce 62,000 puppies. Cats can double that number. Many of these puppies and kittens are euthanized because there are not enough loving homes. FEVA is an all-volunteer organization that has been partnering with local vets to offer low cost spay/neuter options to the Estancia Valley and East Mountain communities since 2004. In 2024 we saw a request for help with 70 dogs and 45 cats.

Mission | To ensure that no animal endures the pain and suffering of a life of abandonment and neglect.

We provide care, comfort, and compassion to horses and animals in need. A forever home where they will live out their lives in a beautiful natural setting treated with kindness and respect, strengthening the human-animal bond. We committed to rural communities ensuring that every animal and person we touch experiences hope, healing, and a brighter future.

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Proposal | Horseshoe Canyon Rescue Ranch

Noteworthy | Each year, New Mexico’s animal

(HCRR) addresses the urgent need as our region

shelters take in over 135,000 homeless, lost and

lacks adequate resources for horse rescue leading

abandoned dogs and cats; of these, over 65,000

to a higher rate of abandonment and neglect. We

are euthanized annually (Animal Protection New

seek funding to support our rescue operations,

Mexico).

veterinary care, facility maintenance, expansion of horse fencing, and specialized training. Additionally, we aim to expand community outreach to promote responsible animal ownership. Your support helps

Light In the Desert Sanctuary facebook.com/lightinthedesert

us save lives, build compassionate communities, and ensure a brighter future for these majestic animals.

Noteworthy | On average, it costs $3,000 to rescue and rehabilitate a horse. This past year we have successfully rescued over 20 horses to loving homes, and three horses joined our forever sanctuary at HCRR due to health conditions, daily medical needs, and ongoing veterinary care. We need 1,000 bales of hay each year, specialized feed and supplements to assist in recovery, farrier, veterinary, and dental care. At HCRR we are just finishing the expansion of the horse facility using pipe fencing, ensuring their

Mission | To provide the best quality of life in our permanent care sanctuary for abandoned, abused, and neglected dogs in New Mexico. We focus on dogs that have previously been deemed unadoptable. Many of our dogs are from hoarding cases or were on the euthanasia list in New Mexico shelters. We are a 100% volunteer organization.

Proposal | Recently, we have been partnering with other local animal rescues, and we would like to bring in a trainer to assess some of our dogs that we believe, with some training, could be adoptable. We

safety.

would also have the trainer work with these dogs so

Lap Dog Rescue of New Mexico

family pets. This will require funds that we currently

lapdogrescue.org

that they learn the necessary behaviors to become do not have.

Noteworthy | Light in the Desert Sanctuary was formed when we pulled 73 dogs from an abuse/ hoarding situation in 2019. All but 24 were adopted out and those that weren’t remain at the sanctuary.

Mission | To rescue, rehabilitate, and re-home small companion dogs. Our goal is to place them in loving, forever homes and do this through a rigorous screening and adoption process. We operate strictly through volunteerism, counting on the generosity of others and of ourselves to further our mission.

Proposal | We cannot keep up with the demands of taking in dogs from shelters and individuals, so we have developed a program to reduce unwanted pregnancies and shelter over-population by providing low cost/no cost spays and neuters using a voucher system and the cooperation of local Veterinarians.

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We also brought in other dogs from euthanasia lists and many of those were adopted out as well.

Although most of the dogs were unsocialized, now are accustomed to people and exhibit friendly behaviors when someone comes to the kennel to feed them or give them water. We believe that some of these dogs could be trained to become household pets.

ANIMAL WELFARE

Max & Tucker Canine Welfare Fund Mission | Established by a single donor, the Max

Noteworthy | In 2024, our herd experienced notable expansion, with a 32% increase overall and a staggering 400% rise in unsocialized equines alone.

This increase results in extended stays, significantly escalating our costs for food, medical care, farrier services, and training. Feeding an equine

and Tucker Canine Welfare Fund assists individuals

is a substantial ongoing expense for WNCR. On

of low or moderate income over age 60 with

average, it costs approximately $6 per day to feed

veterinarian expenses for their companion dog.

a single horse, with 50 horses on the property, and

Proposal | Your gift will support treatment for a

sometimes more, this means feed alone costs $300

curable condition for seniors’ pets.

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

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

or more a day.

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 has been providing veterinary care and rehabilitation to injured, ill, and

Mission | To provide all rescued equines with new beginnings and productive lives with caring adopters. We are also dedicated to educating the community on responsible equine care and handling to help ensure safe, healthy futures for all equines. New Mexico Horse Rescue at Walkin N Circles Ranch, Inc. (WNCT) is a nonprofit organization that has rehabilitated, trained, and found adoptive homes for abandoned, abused, and neglected equines since 2002.

Proposal | We seek support to expand our equine rescue efforts, ensuring comprehensive care, consistent training, and successful rehoming for atrisk horses, donkeys, and mules in our community.

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 900-1,000 wild patients brought to us annually by the general public from across the state. New Mexico Wildlife Center (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 very few facilities providing veterinary care and rehabilitation to wildlife. NMWC is unique in having the only Level 2 veterinarian working full-time in wildlife care in the state. Since opening in 1986, over 30,000 animals of more than 260 species have been treated in our hospital. A key part of our work is New Mexico’s Species of Greatest Conservation Need. From 2006 through 2023, we cared for over 800 animals representing 25 Species of Greatest Conservation Need species.

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ANIMAL WELFARE

Northern New Mexico Street Homeless Animal Project nmshap.org

Pueblo of San Felipe Department of Natural Resources sfpueblo.com

Mission | To alleviate suffering of companion animals living as bonded family in Santa Fe and northern New Mexico’s homeless communities.

Northern New Mexico Street Homeless Animal Project (SHAP) provides vital veterinary care (preventative, emergency, spay/neuter) for these beloved companion animals living with their homeless guardians, as well as food, water,

the land, water, and air resources of the Pueblo for enhancement and the beneficial purposes of this and future generations in a manner that reflects the cultural and traditional beliefs of San Felipe Pueblo and its Tribal Council.

harnesses, leashes, and other supplies. We are the

Proposal | There is an abundance of horses on the

only nonprofit offering all these critical services for

Pueblo of San Felipe range lands. The wild horses

the companion animals of our homeless amidst this

are considered wildlife here on the Pueblo. They

challenging community crisis.

have a place on the land, and have been here from

Proposal | Your support provides vet care, food, and

time immemorial. However, changes over time

supplies for companion animals living with their homeless, guardian families. Companion animals ease depression, loneliness, provide emotional support, and a reason to keep going in tough times.

As a unique, nonprofit treasure in Santa Fe, SHAP does this life-sustaining work every day. We’ve built

including the transition to a motorized society, increased urbanization of the state, prolonged drought, and lack of funding from the federal trustee to manage the rangeland has resulted in a system out of balance and both the horses and the range suffer.

essential trust within the homeless community by

Noteworthy | The problems in New Mexico

working one-on-one, seven days a week. Please help

and across the West stem largely from herd

keep our vital work in motion, sometimes love has

overpopulation. There are around 300,000 free-

no address.

roaming horses, including on tribal lands, according

Noteworthy | Since 1998, we’ve helped the northern

to a July 2021 study in the Journal of Wildlife

New Mexico homeless community with this crucial support. Each year, we handle 299+ client calls for help with 38% being under age 21. Demand for aid increases each month. 26% of homeless folks have companion animals for protection, unconditional love, and to ease mental/emotional stress. We offer a hands-on Street Team approach that communicates directly with homeless families. We assess situations, provide support, and offer compassionate understanding without judgment.

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Mission | To protect, conserve, sustain, and manage

Management (stateline.org). “The bottom line is Rome is burning,” said Terry Messmer, a professor of wildland resources at Utah State University and one of the study’s authors. “You have to be innovative in seeking some of these solutions, and we have to do it now.”

ANIMAL WELFARE

PHOTO: NORTHERN NEW MEXICO STREET HOMELESS ANIMAL PROJECT

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ANIMAL WELFARE

The Santa Fe Raptor Center santaferaptorcenter.org

Sky Mountain Wild Horse Sanctuary skymountainwild.org

Mission | To provide excellent and necessary care to all injured and orphaned wild birds that come our way, with the goal of returning these animals back to the wild. Additionally, our educational goals are to engage, excite, and interact with the public

horses and other wildlife while giving refuge to vulnerable mustangs where they roam free forever.

using our non-releasable birds at public and private

Proposal | Sky Mountain Wild Horse Sanctuary

venues, with an emphasis on children’s programs.

(SMWHS) works for healthy wild horses, healthy

Proposal | The Santa Fe Raptor Center’s funding

wildlife, and healthy range lands. We balance

requests are to aid with nutritional and medical needs for rescued birds. This includes food, vitamins, and medication, which are the bulk of where requests support these animals. The dietary needs are as diverse as the birds rescued, which usually require vitamin and mineral supplements for the those being rehabbed. Special medication for leadpoisoned eagles is necessary as we get them in yearly. Generous donations sustain birds for release.

Noteworthy | Requesting capital for food and nutrition is a necessary part of our work and success.

Food and vitamin supplements are an integral part of keeping birds healthy and continuing their healing. One third of the birds that come to us are in starvation with the rest being at risk, needing attention. Their inability to hunt from another injury or illness perpetuates this. Starvation requires special formulas which must be ready for starvation cases. Nutritional care is a big part of this work.

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Mission | To create healthy ecosystems for wild

herd numbers with range capacity by reducing reproduction via the immunocontraceptive PZP. We’ve treated 65% of herd mares on the 55,000 acre forest of this project. Using immunocontraception science, technology, and on-going results monitoring is a more humane, cost-effective, and livable way forward for wild horses now and in the future. We request funding for PZP treatment and project monitoring.

Noteworthy | National Academy of Science researchers have noted that the primary management practice of round up and removal of wild horses is facilitating high rates of population growth, requiring more removals (National Academy of Sciences, 2013). Today, 63,034 wild horses and burros live in government holding facilities after removal from the range, at a cost of over $108 million in 2023 alone (Bureau of Land Management).

ANIMAL WELFARE

WildEarth Guardians

Wildlife for All

wildearthguardians.org

wildlifeforall.us

Mission | To protect and restore the wildlife, wild

Mission | To reform wildlife management in the U.S.

places, wild rivers, and health of the American West.

to be more democratic, just, compassionate, and

A key focus area is working to protect wild species

focused on protecting wild species and ecosystems.

and to shift the paradigm of wildlife management across the West from persecution to protection.

Founded in Santa Fe in 1989, WildEarth Guardians takes bold action and has been a relentless voice for the vulnerable for over three decades, working at the local, state, and federal level to push for lasting change.

Proposal | The WildEarth Guardians’ Wildlife

Proposal | Wildlife for All seeks support to expand our campaign to prevent animal cruelty by reforming New Mexico’s wildlife management policies. Through legislative and regulatory changes, we aim to reduce bias toward trophy hunting and ensure compassionate, science-based protections for maligned carnivores like black bears, mountain lions, and wolves, fostering a more just and humane

program is focusing our energy on several key

approach to wildlife stewardship.

campaigns, ranging from protecting wild and

Noteworthy | In New Mexico, where nearly 40% of

endangered species to fundamentally reforming Wildlife Services. Our work spans across New Mexico and the American West, weaving coexistence into our work to protect critical habitat and healthy rivers. We seek partners in this work and funding to assist with our ongoing, successful work to protect critical species and habitat in New Mexico. Join us in this fight for the wild!

Noteworthy | In April of 2022, a ban on traps, snares,

native vertebrate species are left unprotected by the current wildlife management system, carnivores like cougars, wolves, and bears are particularly vulnerable to cruelty. With a state agency lacking the legal mandate to protect this natural diversity and the will to listen to diverse constituents who value native carnivores, comprehensive legislative reform is urgently needed to prevent animal cruelty and ensure the humane treatment of all wildlife.

and poisons on over 30 million acres of public lands across New Mexico went into effect following a decade of advocacy by WildEarth Guardians. Using the things we learned doing this work, we are focused on similar bans in states like Nevada. We have also continued to focus our efforts on strategic and lasting protections for threatened species like beavers in New Mexico and wolves, grizzlies, lynx, and lesser prairie chickens across the West.

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Arts & Culture R ESULT: ARTS A N D C U LT U RE I S CELEBR ATED AND R EFLECTED IN TH E COMMUN ITY.

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 Openness and acceptance of the community toward people of diverse backgrounds Diverse participation in art and cultural community programs and events 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: • • • • •

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Lifting up and preserving cultural and historical heritage, tradition, and assets of the region; Using art as a bridge to communicate across cultures and languages and build transformational relationships to advance equity; Using art, culture, language, and community stories to shift narratives, shape public conversations, and influence policy; Improving access to arts and cultural programs to benefit youth and families who otherwise would not have the opportunities; and/or 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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516 ARTS 516arts.org

Proposal | We are a BIPOC-led grassroots organization requesting operational funds in support of our southside Santa Fe-based arts program. The funding will cover facility costs and

Mission | To connect contemporary artists and diverse audiences. 516 ARTS presents relevant exhibitions and public programs, which feature a mix of local, national, and international artists, and inspire curiosity and creative experimentation. 516 ARTS is a non-collecting contemporary art museum that celebrates thought-provoking art in the here and now.

Proposal | 516 ARTS requests funds to enhance its capacity for supporting and presenting innovative, socially relevant contemporary art exhibitions and educational programming, with a focus on Indigenous and Latinx perspectives.

Noteworthy | Since 2006, 516 ARTS has worked with over 1,500 established and emerging local, national, and international artists. Always seeking to increase the support of artists, 516 ARTS established

program administration.

Noteworthy | We are the only People of Color arts organization that is fully BIPOC and provides art resources and services on the southside to youth and adults. We are the only BIPOC arts organization housed near Airport Rd. Our summer arts program provides an enriching and intensive opportunity to 20 BIPOC teens every summer. We have been around for seven years and our Barrio Arts School Summer program has serviced the community for three years now. We want to create sustainable funds for our organization to thrive.

The Archaeological Conservancy archaeologicalconservancy.org

the Fulcrum Fund in 2016 with the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and has distributed more than $800k in unrestricted grants to over 320 independent artists and art spaces in New Mexico.

In 2022, 516 ARTS received a prestigious five-year grant from the Ford Foundation to bolster our Latinx Initiative.

Alas De Agua Art Collective alasdeagua.com

Mission | To provide resources and opportunities

Mission | To build a national system of archaeological preserves that ensures the survival of our irreplaceable cultural heritage. The Archaeological Conservancy is the only national nonprofit organization that identifies, acquires, and preserves the most significant archaeological sites in the U.S. Since its beginning in 1980, the Conservancy has preserved more than 585 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 is

for artists of color, Native artists, immigrant,

requesting funds for general support. This will help

undocumented, and queer artists who have been

all our preservation efforts including acquisition,

marginalized and not afforded the same resources,

maintenance, and site interpretation.

both historically and in the present day. Alas De Agua Art Collective is an intersectional grass roots space that removes barriers and goes around them.

We believe in abundance where there seems to be scarcity. We believe in compassionate conflict.

We help support artistic visions that are counter narratives to dominant culture.

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Noteworthy | In the 1840s, the Bureau of Ethnology of the Smithsonian Institution surveyed the ancient mound builder sites of the Ohio and Mississippi

ArtWalk Santa Fe artwalksantafe.com

River Valleys. During the survey, investigators recorded over 20,000 mound sites. Today, archaeologists estimate that less than 1,000 of those sites remain. Looting, road construction, agricultural practices, erosion, and increasing development have contributed to the leveling of mounds and destruction of sites.

Art Through The Loom Weavers Guild artthroughtheloom.org

Mission | To provide New Mexico artists at all levels, and especially those whose careers are emerging, with low-barrier opportunities to sell their goods, get exposure, and connect with the Santa Fe community through our monthly arts and crafts markets and networking events. Our long-term vision is to become a leading source of opportunities and a resource hub for New Mexico’s artists at all levels, from emergent to seasoned. ArtWalk was created by two local women artists in 2021.

Proposal | ArtWalk Santa Fe is actively seeking sponsors and funding for our monthly arts & crafts

Mission | To promote the exchange of techniques and ideas, to further the expertise of weavers and other fiber artists, and to further the knowledge of New Mexico residents and visitors of the history, tradition, variety, and quality of weaving, spinning, dyeing, and related fiber arts fields in New Mexico.

Proposal | We are a local guild of fiber artists, each of whom own their own fiber arts business. We wish to get financial support for hosting events and shows that introduce children and families to the rich world of fiber arts in New Mexico, starting with the animals that produce the local fiber to the finished goods our guild members create that are made from animal fibers and worn everywhere in the state.

Noteworthy | In the past two years, the Art Through The Loom Weavers Guild hosted two introductory fiber arts events that were each well attended by 200-300 people. These events were held at a Santa Fe Library. We brought three alpacas for attendees to see and feed. Eight to 10 guild members participated in these events by demonstrating combing, spinning, weaving, and needle felting.

Visitors were able to weave their own bookmark or wet felt their own coaster. We have a third one scheduled in October at the Children’s Museum.

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and networking events. Supporting our organization means providing opportunities for local artists, especially emerging artists, to establish and grow their businesses, while helping us activate a variety of locations throughout the city.

Noteworthy | We have a database of 413 local artists (and growing!) that have signed up to be invited to our monthly events to sell their creations.

Depending on the venue, we can fit anywhere between 25-65 artists each month, but about 100 apply for each event, which means every time we host an event we have a waitlist; this is testament of the need for these types of low-barrier opportunities in our arts community. In 2023, we generated over $100,000 in economic development for our participating artists.

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ArtWorks

Atrisco Heritage Foundation

sfpartnersineducation.org

traditionalspanishmarket.org

Mission | To marshal resources and create

Mission | To promote and preserve New Mexico’s

alliances to foster excellence in Santa Fe’s public

ancestral and cultural heritage. Through the

schools. The Partners in Education Foundation

Traditional Spanish Market, founded in 1926, the

for the Santa Fe Public Schools (Partners) is an

Foundation celebrates New Mexico’s artistic and

independent nonprofit organization. As a program

cultural essence, seeking to educate, promote, and

of Partners, ArtWorks seeks to make the arts

safeguard this rich and unique cultural heritage

personally meaningful to Santa Fe’s public school

by providing an immersive experience for the

students and teachers through an integrated

community where the history of Spanish Colonial

program of art-making, viewing live performances

Art comes to life in Santa Fe’s Historic Plaza.

and exhibits, and achieving understanding through

Proposal | The Traditional Spanish Market seeks

inquiry and reflection.

funding to support New Mexico’s artist community

Proposal | For over 20 years, ArtWorks, a

and preserve cultural art forms while creating a

program of Partners, has been connecting the

memorable experience for locals and visitors. The

public school community with Santa Fe’s world-

Market fosters economic opportunities and nurtures

class art museums and performances. ArtWorks

a youth market where young people are mentored

pairs professional teaching artists with local arts

by juried artists and learn ancestral traditions. By

institutions and public school classrooms in a series

preserving these unique artistic practices, we aim to

of inquiry-driven workshops that build lasting

safeguard an essential part of New Mexico’s cultural

community connections, nurture creative potential,

heritage, keeping our rich history alive and vibrant.

and provide the opportunity for continued arts

Noteworthy | In 2023, the Traditional Spanish

integration in the classroom. Funding will directly support these workshops.

Noteworthy | ArtWorks reaches more than 75

Market’s attendance figures underscored its cultural and economic significance. Drawing nearly 10,000 visitors, with an impressive 4,000+ from

Santa Fe Public School classroom teachers and over

out of state. This highlights the market’s crucial

1,800 Santa Fe Public School students on average

role in promoting cultural exchange and driving

every year, 76% of whom come from economically

local economic growth. The attendance alone

disadvantaged families. Research has shown that

emphasizes the event’s importance as a regional

economically disadvantaged young people who

attraction, bringing diverse audiences together

have high levels of arts engagement and arts

and showcasing the enduring appeal of Spanish

learning experiences are more likely than their peers

traditional arts and crafts.

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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Canyon Road Summer Walk canyonroadsummerwalk.com

Center for Contemporary Arts Santa Fe ccasantafe.org

Mission | To breathe new life into this historic artery, creating a dynamic, living museum that honors the past, actively shapes Santa Fe’s artistic future, and sets an example for sustainable cultural tourism.

Our goal is to ensure that Canyon Road remains a thriving artistic and community hub for generations to come, while respecting and preserving the

celebrates the creativity of our community, through our cinema and arts, generating transformative experiences designed to ignite minds and connect people.

natural environment that has inspired artists for

Proposal | Since 1979, the Center for Contemporary

centuries.

Arts Santa Fe (CCA) has operated as a welcoming,

Proposal | Our funding request is largely to support

community-based arts center. Each week, CCA

security, traffic directors, signage, and other safety measures. The rest goes to local artists, musicians, and businesses. Surveys from businesses and attendees show that we brought locals and a wide range of demographics to Canyon Road. Our event has also directly led to art and retail sales on Canyon Road, with some businesses doubling and

presents the best independent and foreign films and documentaries, contemporary classical music, immersive theater, contemporary visual arts, and more. We also host many events each year for other Santa Fe nonprofits at our facility. Your gift will help ensure the year-round community programming we feature at this treasured local institution.

tripling their usual revenue during our event. Both

Noteworthy | Our weekly activities now attract more

participants and attendees are all thrilled with the

than 40,000 annual visitors to CCA, and readers of

events.

the Santa Fe Reporter recently voted CCA one of the

Noteworthy | We hold five events total each

Best Nonprofits for the Arts and Best Movie Houses

summer. The approximate number of attendees per event is 2,500+ (geofencing data), and 100% of funds have gone directly back into the community. Each event has 60 participating Canyon Road businesses and 85+ participating local businesses. The cost to produce each event is $12,000.

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Mission | The Center for Contemporary Arts

in Santa Fe. Collaboration is key to our success, and we’re proud to have Chatter (music), Exodus Ensemble (theater), and Tia Collection (visual arts) as artistic partners. CCA also serves as the main venue for the annual Santa Fe International Film Festival, the largest film festival in New Mexico.

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Chimayó Cultural Preservation Association chimayomuseum.org

Proposal | KHFM requests general operations support for the station, which provides classical music around the clock, on air and streaming, to 40,000 listeners per week at no charge, and which supports the local performing and visual arts ecosystem in the state of New Mexico by bringing

Mission | To celebrate and preserve the living

awareness to local events and performances, and

culture, land, and history of the Chimayó region.

by connecting listeners to the arts organizations in

The Chimayó Cultural Preservation Association’s

their communities.

(CCPA) goals include fostering community pride

Noteworthy | Many find the cost of a night at the

and encouraging community members to preserve

symphony or opera to be out of reach, especially in

and sustain Chimayó’s cultural heritage; educating

a state like New Mexico, which has persistently high

the community and young people through active

poverty rates (the highest in the nation in 2022). At

outreach; and preserving and protecting historic

KHFM, we believe that all people deserve access to

buildings, agricultural land, and water essential to

the centuries-old art form of classical music, and

the cultural heritage of the Chimayó region.

we provide that resource for free, day-in and day-

Proposal | The Chimayó Cultural Preservation

out. In addition, we partner with more than 60 arts

Association seeks general operating support to

organizations in the Santa Fe, Albuquerque, Taos,

maintain core programs and the Chimayó Museum,

Ruidoso, and Roswell areas to highlight their work.

support our cultural programming and events, and foster community-led efforts to restore the historic Plaza del Cerro to a community hub where Chimayo’s cultural history is alive.

Coro de Cámara corodecamara-nm.org

Noteworthy | The Plaza del Cerro is one of the most celebrated, and least protected, historic sites in northern New Mexico. Scholars have noted its significance as “the best surviving example of a Spanish colonial plaza in the Southwest,” but it has received almost no preservation funding. General operating support would increase the CCPA’s capacity to develop a community-led master planning process to restore the Plaza del Cerro as a community hub.

Classical 95.5 KHFM khfm.org

Mission | To enrich northern New Mexico with captivating chamber choral music. We are dedicated to excellence through a diverse repertoire and innovative programming, sharing our artistry with the community through concerts, outreach, and educational opportunities for students.

Proposal | Coro de Cámara is an amateur, auditioned chamber chorus creating enchanting choral music for northern New Mexico, educating and developing area musicians of all ages, from seasoned singers to promising youth, as evidenced through rigorous rehearsals and an apprentice program for young singers. Over our 36 years of operation, we’ve amassed a library of music scores

Mission | To provide access, without cost, to classical

by diverse composers; this year we hope to purchase

music for New Mexican audiences and beyond on

insurance for our music to protect it for many more

the air and online. To promote, provide, and support

seasons to come.

live music, the performing and visual arts, and arts continuing education in New Mexico. To promote New Mexico arts and artists worldwide.

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Noteworthy | Communities with a vibrant arts scene report 18% higher civic engagement and a 50% higher rate of volunteerism compared to

Dancing Earth Creations dancingearth.org

communities with fewer artistic opportunities

Creative Santa Fe creativesantafe.org

Mission | To create contemporary dance and related arts through global-Indigenous and intercultural relationships centered in ecological and cultural diversity for creativity, health, and wellness. Dancing Earth Creations is fiscally sponsored by the New

Mission | To drive positive change in Santa Fe and

Mexico Dance Coalition.

throughout New Mexico, partnering with mission-

Proposal | Dancing Earth’s annual Summer

focused organizations. We advance community

Institute, “Dream Visions: Intercultural Eco-Arts

initiatives geared toward building a more vibrant,

festival,” ignites Global-to-Local Climate Justice

inclusive, and adaptive future.

arts advocacy in Santa Fe and beyond with Eco-

Proposal | For nearly 20 years, Creative Santa Fe has

Artivism education and experiences, featuring

bridged silos and created meaningful community

community workshops and performances led by

engagements to educate, inspire, and rally aligned

world-class international, national, and local cultural

actions to advance initiatives that fosters creative

artist leaders. Our 2025 focus is Water; from water

placemaking and entrepreneurship. Our current

issues/rights to sacred water dances, shifting hearts

flagship initiative is PechaKucha Night, which is

towards repair of our relationship with this precious

a quarterly storytelling night celebrating local

force of Life.

changemakers and creatives from all walks of life.

Noteworthy | “Climate change observations

These gatherings showcase the diversity, creativity,

indicate that the already water-stressed lands in the

and cultural richness of Santa Fe.

Southwest United States are becoming increasingly

Noteworthy | Creative Santa Fe’s PechaKucha Night

drier as warmer temperatures increase evaporation

Initiative provides a platform for approximately 32

and reduce soil moisture. The Southwest will also

presenters and 1,000 audience members annually,

experience more precipitation variability including

ranging from 11-80+ years old. Presenter gender

extreme precipitation events that cause disruptive

profiles include 7% non-binary, 53% women, and

flooding. Since 2000, the Southwest experienced

40% men. Diversity profiles include 34% People of

a “megadrought” that were the driest ~24 years in

Color and 66% Anglo. Through PechaKucha Night’s

1,200 years.” - Pacific Institute, March 2024

global platform, we also elevate our community on the global stage. There are over 32,000 online views from our most recent 20 events. PechaKucha Night is co-presented with SITE Santa Fe.

El Rancho de las Golondrinas golondrinas.org

Mission | To protect the legacy of the land and the cultural traditions of New Mexico.

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Proposal | El Rancho de Las Golondrinas is the Southwest’s premier living history museum.

Located in the lush La Cienega Valley, our

The Exodus Ensemble exodusensemble.com

costumed interpreters bring history to life through demonstrations of weaving, blacksmithing, horno baking, tin smithing and more; they encourage visitors to get hands-on with history.

Las Golondrinas is open June through October and welcomes over 55,000 visitors each year, 20,000 under age 18. We seek funding for the day-to-day running of our 500-acre museum.

Noteworthy | Unlike a four walls museum, our entire 500-acre property is our collection and exhibition space. We feature 34 historic buildings, a nationally registered acequia, wetlands, mature cottonwood trees, agricultural fields, heritage churro sheep, goats, burros, bees and more. Las Golondrinas is open June-October. Funding will help us continue to maintain this incredible New Mexico treasure.

Ensemble Music New Mexico chatterabq.org

Mission | To create approachable and authentic

Mission | To redefine and reimagine theater through original, immersive, and transcendent theatrical experiences that thrust audiences into the epicenter of the story. Our innovative, donationbased model broadens our reach, allowing us to engage diverse audiences with immersive adaptations of classic texts.

Proposal | The Exodus Ensemble is Santa Fe’s only professional immersive theater company, presenting over 100 performances each year of innovative adaptations of classic texts using a repertory model — completely free to the public. By operating on a 100% donation model, we attract a diverse range of audiences and provide many with their first experience of live theater. We seek funds for our 2025 performance season that includes seven original adaptations of classic texts to audiences free of charge.

Noteworthy | The Exodus Ensemble was awarded the 2023 Mayor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts in the category of innovator as well as the 2023 New

musical experiences. Chatter performs in

Mexico Entertainment Award for Top Performing

unconventional, intimate venues and offers

Arts Group.

adventurous programming, interweaving new and traditional classical music. Chatter offers engagement between musicians and audience, plus challenging opportunities for professional

Georgia O’Keeffe Museum okeeffemuseum.org

musicians. Chatter brings music and poetry together every week, and brings youth to the stage and to the audience.

Proposal | Ensemble Music New Mexico requests funding to support our weekly Chatter North concerts at the Center for Contemporary Arts. Each program features 40-45 minutes of classical and contemporary chamber music performed by local professional musicians, along with 10 minutes of poetry/spoken word and a two minute celebration of

Mission | To celebrate the art, life, and independent spirit of Georgia O’Keeffe. Inspired by O’Keeffe’s remarkable story, the Museum champions creativity and lifelong learning for local, national, and global audiences. Through its programs and services, the O’Keeffe strives to be relevant and responsive to the needs of its community by centering the people, landscapes, and cultures of northern New Mexico.

silence.

Noteworthy | The number of paid admissions expected for Chatter’s Santa Fe events over the next year is 6,500.

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Proposal | The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum requests

Proposal | Adults with intellectual disabilities have

support for Art to G.O., a new mobile art studio that

historically been one of the most underserved

expands access to creative learning opportunities

populations in northern New Mexico. Once these

for children and adults in communities throughout

young people graduate from high school, they

New Mexico. In collaboration with schools, libraries,

lose their school communities they have relied

and community organizations, Art to G.O. provides

on for learning new skills and social interactions.

free hands-on creative projects in painting, drawing,

HCSL requests support to re-create this sense of

printmaking, and more led by local teaching artists

community through its free Day Programs where

in safe, trusted neighborhood settings where

young disabled adults can nurture friendships,

families live, work, and play.

increase their access to the arts, and learn how to

Noteworthy | In its first year on the road, the Art

become more independent.

to G.O. truck has traveled more than 7,500 miles,

Noteworthy | According to the CDC, 15% of New

expanding the Museum’s reach beyond Santa

Mexico adults have a cognitive disability and, of that

Fe and Abiquiú to connect with communities in

number, 40% experience depression. HCSL’s Day

Albuquerque, Farmington, Roswell, and Taos, as well

Programs create a welcoming environment where

as Jemez Pueblo and Santa Clara Pueblo. Onboard

intellectually disabled adults can develop thriving

are the tools and supplies needed to provide hands-

social connections with their peers and experience

on art projects tailored to the needs and interests

the joy of self-expression through the visual arts,

of each community partner. To date, Art to G.O. has

music, dance, and cooking. HCSL’s Day Programs

served more than 2,060 families in 78 unique events.

offer intellectually disabled adults an opportunity

High Country Supported Living hcsliving.org

Mission | To create a community living and learning center for New Mexicans of all abilities where

to become engaged members of a stimulating and creative community.

Historic Santa Fe Foundation historicsantafe.org

culture, art, land, and diversity are celebrated. In

Mission | To preserve, protect, and promote the

addition to offering residential opportunities, High

historic properties and diverse cultural heritage

Country Supported Living (HCSL) offers free Day

of the Santa Fe area, and to educate the public

Programs that incorporate the natural environment

about Santa Fe’s history and the importance of

of its rural property in Jacona, New Mexico with

preservation.

visual art, music, movement, and cooking activities

Proposal | Historic Santa Fe Foundation (HSFF)

that are engaging and educationally appropriate for adults with intellectual disabilities.

hosts monthly, bi-monthly, or quarterly exhibits on New Mexico architectural preservation, local arts, and New Mexico’s cultural heritage, along with other mission-related programming. Each exhibition features artwork, visuals, interpretation panels, expert or artist-led talks, workshops, and public programming. HSFF displays relevant books and archival materials from our reading room connected to the exhibitions.

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Noteworthy | Our preservation initiatives began in 1961 with our Register of Properties Worthy of Preservation now with over 100 sites. We offer 14 unique preservation easements, partnering with homeowners to preserve their historical features

Institute of Contemporary Art, Santa Fe icasantafe.org

in perpetuity. In 2025, we celebrate 20 years of our hands-on preservation internship for graduate students. The Endangered Properties Program aids

Mission | To support artistic practice through the creation of exhibitions, performances, research,

low-income families in repairing historic homes. Our

and publications for a diverse public audience. The

education program supports students through two

Institute of Contemporary Art, Santa Fe is dedicated

Fellowships.

to the exchange of ideas across disciplines, cultures,

IndigenousWays indigenousways.org

and generations through the arts.

Proposal | The Institute of Contemporary Art, Santa Fe is a dynamic arts platform that hosts a rigorous cross-pollination of ideas and practices to explore and build creative and sustainable culture.

Mission | To promote living in balance for diverse communities through music, arts, outreach, and events. Our vision is to reach Indigenous and 2SLGBTQIA+ communities through outreach with

artists, thinkers, and practitioners, centering artistic practice and imagination as catalysts for social engagement and change.

music, the arts, and Indigenous Wisdom that

Noteworthy | Three artists were given $10,000 to

creates and enhances survival and sustainability.

create new commissioned visual art projects. Three

IndigenousWays bridges cultural exchange with

artists were given $3,000 for new commissioned

people globally.

performance projects. 10 artists were given $500

Proposal | On January 15, 2025, the IndigenousWays

for additional performance projects. 67 community

Wisdom Circle (IWWC) program series is to be presented at the Vital Spaces Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico. IWWC scholars, artists, and presenters are connected in our shared mission statement; to serve Indigenous, 2SLGBTQIA+, and Deaf & Hard of Hearing, and all allied communities, to preserve Indigenous Wisdom, to promote healing and social justice, and to enrich others to be a part of our ways of being through humanities and the arts.

Noteworthy | Our IWWC program creates relevant expressions to work towards creative solutions, and

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Funding will support diverse programs featuring

members attended workshops. There were approximately 1,000 in-person and 1,000 online attendees at events, including performances, lectures, and screenings.

The International Folk Art Market folkartmarket.org

promotes healing and social justice to enrich all

Mission | To create economic opportunities for

others to be a part of our ways of being through the

and with folk artists worldwide who celebrate and

arts and humanities. Unemployment rates for Native

preserve folk art traditions. The International Folk

Americans nationally stood at 10.5%; suicide is their

Art Market (IFAM) envisions a world that values the

second leading cause of death; 54% of Americans

dignity and humanity of the handmade, honors

say parents should be able to opt their children out

timeless cultural traditions, and supports the work

of learning about 2S issues; and more than 90% of

of artisans serving as entrepreneurs and catalysts

deaf children are born to hearing parents (2024).

for positive social change.

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Proposal | Every summer, IFAM transforms Santa Fe into a global cultural hub, welcoming over 150 international artists. This extraordinary

KMRD Inc kmrd.fm

gathering not only fosters economic opportunities worldwide but also creates a space for profound cultural exchange. The Market enriches the lives of artists and attendees alike, celebrating diversity and sparking meaningful dialogue. IFAM seeks operational support to further promote global perspectives and foster harmony in our community and around the world.

Noteworthy | IFAM brings the world to Santa Fe. In 2024, IFAM welcomed 18,500 visitors to its 20th anniversary festival, including over 10,000 New Mexico families and youth. The Market provides a rare opportunity for our local community to engage with artists from over 50 different countries — sharing diverse cultural traditions, languages, art, and customs.

Juneteenth New Mexico Mission | To provide and promote positive cultural, social, and educational programs, events, and activities to the citizens and communities of New Mexico.

Proposal | A week-long camp, the Juneteenth

Mission | To provide 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 for entertainment, information, skillbuilding, and creative social connection. KMRD-LP is a freeform, volunteer-run, commercial-free, and listener-supported Low Power FM community radio station.

Proposal | KMRD-LP 96.9FM Madrid Community Radio seeks multi-year, unrestricted funding to expand its role as a rural media hub, enhancing local quality of life through broadened outreach, strengthened community connections, and expanded educational opportunities. This support will address governance and capacity challenges, enabling deeper volunteer engagement, improved financial stability, and more impactful programming for our diverse audience.

Noteworthy | KMRD, a community media outlet in a rural, unincorporated Santa Fe County, serves as a critical resource by hosting over 90 individual volunteers weekly and potentially reaching more

African-American Academic and Arts Camp, filled

than 15,000 listeners on the FM dial. Through

with positive cultural activities offered to youth ages

promoting access, encouraging participation, and

10-14 focusing on African-American leaders in New

offering diverse programming, KMRD actively

Mexico past and present.

contributes to economic justice and strengthens

Noteworthy | The Juneteenth African American Arts

rural resilience.

and Academic Camp was created in 2020 during Covid. The camps have operated in two states, one camp in Las Vegas, Nevada and four camps in Omaha, Nebraska for a total of five successful camps. We have also been successful in recruiting 10 to 15 participants with the retention of 11 students completing the camp.

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Media Arts Center San Diego

Nat Gold Players

mediaartscenter.org/home/about-us/fiscal-sponsorship

natgoldplayers.com

Mission | To support the development of a

Mission | To entertain, educate, and inspire through

documentary film exploring the life of a remarkable

the performing arts. Politicians and business people

19th century Catholic priest and political leader from

may determine next week or even next year’s world,

northern New Mexico whose story has been erased

but it is the artists who determine the direction for

from our regional history. As a longtime filmmaker

humanity. Societal forecaster Joel Lapin essentially

in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, Paul Espinosa, who

says that the future is determined not by those who

grew up in New Mexico, is exploring the historical,

control but by those who inspire. Nat Gold Players

cultural, and multi-generational connections

(NGP) seeks to do just that for the people of the Las

between his own family and that of Padre Antonio

Vegas, New Mexico area.

José Martínez, who lived in Rio Arriba, Santa Fe, and

Proposal | As part of the process of renovating

Taos counties.

Proposal | We seek support for preproduction activities, including travel, interviews, and research in historical sites and archives in Abiquiu, El Rito, Santa Cruz, Embudo, and Chimayó. Espinosa’s ancestors were contemporaries of Martínez, living in the same towns. Neither they nor Martínez crossed the border, the border crossed them. The film presents the rich cultural heritage of New Mexicans to a general audience, shifting the narrative for those who often associate Latinos only with recent immigration.

Noteworthy | Today, as we witness alarming assaults on our democratic institutions, our film presents an overdue re-telling of the birth of our democracy from the site of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. Educated in a Jesuit seminary in Durango, Padre Martinez was an activist priest who

a theatre in a historic building, NGP is currently striving to raise $50,000 for productions and key renovations.

Noteworthy | The nonprofit community theatre sector contributed $2.8 billion to the U.S. economy in 2019 (SMU DataArts, National Center for Arts Research). Theatre has a direct impact on economies. As Keating said in the movie Dead Poets Society, “The human race is filled with passion, poetry, beauty, romance, and love. This is what we stay alive for.” Community theatre touches the heart, and when the heart is touched, people and communities have the will to build, to believe, to succeed.

National Institute of Flamenco nifnm.org

believed that education was critical for democracy to flourish. He taught people like Espinosa’s ancestors, who became citizens of a democracy almost overnight, how to read, write, and participate in their community’s civic life.

Mission | To preserve and promote flamenco’s artistry, history, and culture by presenting the finest flamenco in the world and by educating the American family in this art form while emphasizing the positive influence of art on family and community.

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Proposal | The National Institute of Flamenco

Noteworthy | A 2019 report by Americans for the

respectfully requests support to expand its

Arts found that among local arts agency grant-

Flamenco in Your Neighborhood program into

making organizations, the largest 16% of grant

San Miguel and Santa Fe counties, offering free

recipients (by budget) received 73% of the dollars

flamenco classes, supplies, subsidized performance

awarded. The report noted, “Ensuring equitable

attendance, and cultural engagement opportunities

funding for arts and culture organizations is a vital

to underserved communities, while ensuring

step in creating an inclusive, balanced, and vibrant

equitable compensation for local teaching artists.

cultural landscape.”

This support will empower youth and families by fostering community engagement, cultural enrichment, and access to flamenco.

Noteworthy | On average, Flamenco in Your Neighborhood has engaged approximately 500 students per season across six seasons from

New Mexico Performing Arts Society nmpas.org

Fall 2022 to Summer 2024. This consistent and significant level of participation underscores the program’s impact and the importance of securing

Mission | To bring high quality performances to communities throughout the state. We train

continued funding to sustain and grow these

talented young people to become even better

opportunities for New Mexico communities.

performers, and we do so with a sustainable model

The New Mexico Actors Lab nmactorslab.com

that both pays our artists a living wage and keeps our overhead costs low. New Mexico Performing Art Society (NMPAS) is the leading nonprofit performing arts organization in New Mexico that exclusively uses and develops New Mexican talent.

Mission | To focus on the work of the actor in plays that touch the heart and challenge the mind.

Our ensemble of professional actors, directors, and designers is dedicated to collaboration, experimentation, and outreach.

Proposal | New Mexico Actors Lab seeks funding for a season of five fully-staged theater productions and free readings of new scripts by playwrights from marginalized groups, followed by Talk Backs to engage the audiences in dialogue about the plays.

The readings will be free and open to the public, with particular outreach aimed at community members who don’t typically attend theater performances. Readings also help determine future fully-staged productions.

Proposal | NMPAS is seeking operating support to diversify participation in our fiscal year 2025 concert series and educational events for New Mexicans by New Mexicans. In the wake of the pandemic, we saw audience numbers decline among presenters nationally and worldwide. We seek grant support to implement our new marketing strategy, to stage our season programs, to continue to move further toward professionalization, and to fully realize the goals of our six-year Sustainability Plan, Fostering Excellence.

Noteworthy | In fiscal year 2024, ticket sales covered 23% of NMPAS’s operating costs; this needs to increase to 33% or more. We aim to increase attendance through a careful update of our Marketing Plan for fiscal year 2025 and have made a grant request through the ABQ Community Foundation to bring programs into four schools in Santa Fe, Albuquerque, and Clovis. This request for a Santa Fe Community Foundation Fall Grant in the Arts & Culture area will help us to bridge the gap during the Succession Planning period (2024-2026).

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New Mexico Rural Library Initiative nmrurallibraryinitiative.org

Proposal | Support the New Mexico School for the Arts in shaping the future of New Mexico’s talented young artists. Your donation, whether directed to specific programs in music, creative writing, theater, visual arts, dance, or ArtReach, or to our community engagement initiative, will make a lasting impact

Mission | To advocate for and address the needs of

by inspiring and empowering students across

New Mexico’s rural libraries by providing services

the state with a high-quality, tuition-free arts and

and connecting them with resources.

academic education that prepares them to succeed

Proposal | More than books, libraries help sustain

and thrive. By supporting our programs, you help

small villages and pueblos, providing gathering space, promoting economic development, being a hub during natural disasters, and providing cultural

sustain an institution that exceeds state and national educational benchmarks and expands arts opportunities to underserved communities.

programs, adult education, STEM, after school, and

Noteworthy | The 2024 graduation rate for New

early childhood programs. Some provide essential

Mexico School for the Arts is 95%, compared to the

services like telephone use and potable water for

state average of 77%. Approximately 40% of our

people without. Unfortunately, many lack sufficient

students come from rural areas across New Mexico.

funding. New Mexico Rural Library Initiative

Noteworthy | As a result of our advocacy, 55 rural

New Mexico Gay Men’s Chorus

libraries throughout New Mexico will receive about

nmgmc.org

advocates for and connects these libraries with resources.

$15,500 each this year to help hire staff, increase salaries toward a living wage, or repair infrastructure.

New Mexico School for the Arts nmschoolforthearts.org

Mission | 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 to voice, and that understanding between people of diverse cultures and orientations blossoms each time we present our musical offerings. Our motto is

Mission | To provide access to a rigorous mastery arts and academic high school education for youth with passion and aptitude in the arts, leading to post-secondary learning, careers in the arts, and lives that contribute to society.

Changing the World Through Music.

Proposal | Primary focus for this funding request is to continue our collaboration with other artists in the state in helping to make our performances be even more impactful and attract larger audiences.

The New Mexico Gay Men’s Chorus (NMGMC) is also requesting funding support for our first rural University tour featuring our Spring performance, “The Unbreakable Harvey Milk.” This event highlights the powerful civil rights history of the LGBTQ+ movement. Performances will be held at Eastern New Mexico University, Western University of New Mexico, New Mexico State, and Highlands University.

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Noteworthy | NMGMC would like to continue to provide high-quality entertainment in the Albuquerque and Santa Fe areas that brings the

Old Santa Fe Association oldsantafe.org

community together in celebration through music and performance. We also plan to extend our reach to serve the college age population in select rural areas of New Mexico with our Spring performances.

Nuestra Senora del Rosario Foundation nuestrasenoranm.org

Mission | To preserve the priceless heritage, historical structures, traditions, cultural assets, and environment that distinguish the city and county of Santa Fe.

Proposal | Contributions develop Old Santa Fe Association (OSFA) programs that educate locals and newcomers on the virtues of preserving our city’s historic built environment and cultural traditions. This programming dips into our city’s

Mission | To preserve, protect, and maintain historic buildings, artwork, and artifacts (Santos, Reredos) in our communities. The beauty and stability of our historic sanctuary, Nuestra Senora del Rosario Church, located in Truchas, New Mexico, needs to be conserved. It is imperative that our Church remain a vital and active part of our communities and heritage.

Proposal | A four-foot base of the mission church is mud plaster and, with the passage of time and weather, the mud has deteriorated and has to be replaced. We need to mud the building in the year 2025.

Noteworthy | Mission churches were adobe

history but also reflects on contemporary issues such as land development code reforms, affordable housing, and historic monuments. Santa Fe’s histories and their representations in architecture are particularly threatened when the city changes without stewardship of people, places, and processes.

Noteworthy | As shown by controversies surrounding the Obelisk and large-scale developments in town, Santa Feans are engaged in debates at the nexus of history, culture, and our built environment, but need more information and structure to have meaningful conversations about our shared future as a city. According to the city’s Residential Development Pipeline indicates,

structure. Stucco was added to the building to

affordable housing accounts for only a fraction of

beautify the building. However, as moisture gets

built housing, yet design standards on new luxury

between the adobe and the stucco, the adobe

apartments are lacking.

deteriorates. If the stucco is not removed from the base of the building, the building is at risk to collapse. Removal of the stucco has been done, but now we need to add mud to cover the adobe bricks every five years to keep it in good condition. 2025 is the year we need to redo the mudding.

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Performance Santa Fe performancesantafe.org

Noteworthy | Studies show that youth participating in afterschool programs experience a 20% increase in academic performance and a 30% reduction in risky behaviors compared to their peers who do not

Mission | To delight our audiences with

have access to such programs.

extraordinary performing artists as we provide area

Pueblo de Abiquiú Library & Cultural Center

students opportunities through arts education.

Proposal | Now in its 88th year, Performance Santa Fe greatly appreciates contributions toward artistic and operating expenses, which allow us to provide a

abiquiulibrary.com

cross-cultural assortment of programs to the Santa Fe community and surrounding areas statewide.

Our award-winning educational programs have expanded this year to include our very first summer program as well as private musical instruction.

Such outreach can only continue to grow with the support of generous community funders.

Noteworthy | Our 2023-2024 season was closed with a performance by the Isidore String Quartet.

The appearance of this young, but already renowned award-winning ensemble, was a significant milestone for Performance Santa Fe and our education program in that it marked the professional homecoming of violinist Phoenix Avalon, who is not only a founder of the Quartet, but

Mission | To provide support services, promote learning and literacy, host programs and events, and be a safe space to collaborate, create, and engage with community. Pueblo de Abiquiú Library & Cultural Center (PALCC), located in the plaza of a Genizaro land grant community, is the primary source for educational, cultural, and historical information.

Proposal | PALCC works to preserve the history, culture, and traditions of the Genizaro heritage.

The PALCC Walking History Tour would provide an opportunity for visitors to connect with a deeper history of Abiquiú.

is also a Santa Fe native whose performance career

Noteworthy | PALCC is a community asset, and

was enriched during his high school years by his

the primary source for library services, as well

participation in our education program.

as educational, historical, and cultural support, learning, and literacy for over 26 years. Everyone is

Pomegranate Studios pomegranatestudio.org

Mission | To create and present high quality artistic dance productions in New Mexico, as

Queen Bee Music Association queenbeemusicassociation.org

well as to educate the community and empower

Mission | To cultivate connection through learning,

young women’s lives through an innovative dance

creating, and sharing music. Our vision is a vibrant

education program.

local music community of professionals, learners,

Proposal | Support the Pomegranate SEEDS

and enthusiasts strengthened by quality hands-on

(Self-Esteem, Empowerment, and Education through Dance) program by making a donation to help empower under-served students through mentorship and educational opportunities in the arts. Your contribution will directly impact their

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academic growth and future success.

education and joyful experiences in our nonprofit community music school.

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Proposal | Queen Bee Music Association requests

Noteworthy | Each year, Radius Books provides

funding to support our music education programs

1,000 free art and photography books to 52 New

for folks of all ages living in northern New Mexico.

Mexico-based organizations across 25 counties.

Since our founding in 2019, we have strived to

From tribal libraries to public K-12 classrooms, our

create a music community where all are welcome

donation sites represent a broad cross-section of

and can experience the joy of making music with

community organizations and libraries serving

others. From our group classes at our main location

diverse publics. For communities with limited

in Santa Fe, to our programs in the community, we

access to museums, galleries, or studio resources,

encourage everyone to find their inner musician. It’s

art books offer transformational and intimate access

in there, we promise.

to artists of all backgrounds, mediums, and ranks.

Noteworthy | Our free community programs are at the heart of our mission and belief that everyone can have access to music education and

San Gabriel Historical Society

experiences no matter their age, aspiration, ability, financial status, or geographic location. Of the nearly 13,000 music engagements completed in 2024 so far, 72% were at no-cost to participants in accessible community spaces, and 50% were held in partnership with Santa Fe Public Schools.

Radius Books radiusbooks.org

Mission | To promote the preservation of the history of the Española Valley by the collection and preservation of artifacts, promotion of exhibits at the Bond House Museum, and education of our community and the general public.

Proposal | The San Gabriel Historical Society (SGHS) requests support for our general operating costs that promote volunteer docent activities, which includes but is not limited to: 1) community collaboration and outreach to the general public,

Mission | To create and promote through our publication, education, and donation programs an ongoing dialogue among writers, thinkers, and artists. Radius Books is a nonprofit publishing company based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. It is our firm belief that all of the arts are vital to our nation

school districts, and art and cultural organizations; 2) curating new exhibits; 3) printing, marketing, and advertising; 4) developing an inventory database; 5) recruiting additional volunteers to expand hours of operation; and 6) increasing the number of guest speakers via the Speaker’s Bureau.

and our culture’s future.

Noteworthy | Through consistent outreach

Proposal | Radius Books seeks crucial funding

activities, the number of visitors to the Bond House

to ensure the continued success of our Donation Program, which distributes free copies of our art publications to educational sites. Since its inception

Museum grew by over 50%, from 242 visitors in calendar year 2023 to 578 visitors as of mid-August 2024.

in 2007, our Donation Program has donated over 90,000 thoughtfully crafted art books to libraries, schools, and art programs across the U.S. Requested funds will support the expansion of the program within New Mexico, allowing us to provide as many books as possible per year to underserved communities of readers, educators, and aspiring artists across the state.

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Sangre de Cristo Chorale sdcchorale.org

Proposal | Funding will support SFAI’s 40th anniversary programs in 2025 with a focus on civic and community engagement. Our core programming — artist residency, open studios,

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 continue providing highquality choral music experiences to the youth of northern New Mexico. As evidence of the value of these programs, we note the case of a former Apprentice and Scholarship recipient who, following his master’s degree in music in another state, returned home to become Choral Director at the same northern New Mexico middle school he himself attended.

Noteworthy | For 46 years, the Sangre de Cristo Chorale has made a significant cultural contributions to the community through choral music. It has united a diverse audience (700 annually) and membership (avg. 36 annually) to build bridges of understanding for a shared humanity through choral music. It has provided choral experiences for high school students through an apprentice program (70 participants), a music scholarship program (49 awards), and an outreach program to over 1,500 young singers.

exhibitions, and creative workshops — engages artists and community members in what it means to be in a Community of Practice, which is our 2025 theme. Santa Fe Community Foundation funding will support free public programming that invites the local creative community of all ages into meaningful exchange with diverse local, national, and international artists.

Noteworthy | Practicing artists have always been diverse, but national statistics still reveal significant disparities in support between BIPOC and white artists. For example, works by white artists in 18 major U.S. museums comprise 85% of their collections. Diverse artists encourage diverse audiences. SFAI prioritizes support for BIPOC, women, and LGBTQIA+ artists and artists with disabilities by addressing structural barriers and providing opportunities to expand diverse participation among local audiences.

Santa Fe Artists’ Medical Fund santafeartistsmedicalfund.org

Mission | The Santa Fe Artists’ Medical Fund was founded in 1998 by a group of Santa Feans who

Santa Fe Art Institute

were concerned about the problems encountered

sfai.org

and thus at risk of serious financial difficulties in the

by professional artists who are under- or uninsured, case of medical emergencies.

Mission | To forge critical inquiry and cultural exchange among artists, creative practitioners, and the broader community. The Santa Fe Art Institute (SFAI) is an independent arts organization that supports and amplifies dynamic artistic practices that engage complex social issues, inspire individual transformation, and inform collective action.

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Proposal | Contributions will support assistance depending on the applicant’s circumstances. Funds are distributed to pharmacies, hospitals, healthcare providers, and medical equipment suppliers — not individuals.

Noteworthy | The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services indicate 10.2% of New Mexico’s two million people have no insurance of any kind.

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Santa Fe Classic Theater, Inc.

Santa Fe Desert Chorale

santafeclassictheater.org

desertchorale.org

Mission | To promote and present the works of

Mission | To excite, engage, and inspire diverse

classic playwrights, from Sophocles to Shakespeare

audiences with the beauty and power of great

to Simon, for multi-cultural audiences in New

choral music. The Santa Fe Desert Chorale sings

Mexico. Santa Fe Classic Theater (SFCT) is a

for our common humanity, hoping to deepen our

nonprofit theater company whose annual flagship

collective enjoyment and understanding of music

production since 2019 presents live “Shakespeare in

by performing both traditional works of enduring

the Garden” each summer at the Santa Fe Botanical

excellence and modern choral pieces in programs

Garden in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

designed to highlight our common bonds and bring

Proposal | SFCT requests funding support from

us together as a community.

the Santa Fe Community Foundation as part of the

Proposal | The Santa Fe Desert Chorale offers choral

$145,000 in operational expenses it expects to spend

music of unmatched quality performed by 24 world-

in 2025 on multiple theatrical productions. It will

class vocal artists who come from across the United

present Henrik Ibsen’s “An Enemy of the People”

States to form one of America’s premier chamber

in reading format in January, 2025; Albee’s “Who’s

ensembles. Our Summer Festival offers three

Afraid of Virginia Woolf” in March, 2025; and a

programs of both familiar and rarely performed

tragedy in July/August, 2025 with its Shakespeare in

works, along with newly commissioned music, as

the Garden program (likely, “Macbeth”).

well as chamber recitals and educational programs.

Noteworthy | The premiere season of SFCT’s

Our Winter Festival offers joyous holiday themed

summer Shakespeare performed “Romeo and Juliet” nine times in 2019, with 890 audience

concerts, along with free performances of carols throughout Santa Fe.

members. Its 2019 income totaled $35,575.00. In

Noteworthy | Our nation is increasingly polarized

its fifth production in 2024 (“Twelfth Night”), even

by political, ethnic, and racial differences, but choral

with four rainouts, SFCT reached 2,200 audience

singing helps bring people together. 54 million

members with box office income of $100,000. Our

people in America participate regularly in choirs,

audiences included over 110 students from Dulce

and a Chorus America survey (2018) found that 82%

Schools in the Jicarilla Apache Nation, a program

of choral groups include African Americans, 75%

we will again do in 2025. This diverse cultural

include Latinx members, and 75% include Asian

programming deserves your support.

Americans, making choirs a nexus of racial and ethnic inclusion in today’s America.

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Santa Fe Film Institute santafefilminstitute.org

Santa Fe International Literary Festival sfinternationallitfest.org

Mission | To advance independent film, filmmaking, support of the local community, and underserved youth. Santa Fe Film Institute (SFFI) is the fiscal sponsor of Santa Fe International Film Festival (SFiFF). SFiFF’s mission is to demonstrate the value of investing in the arts, creativity, and culture by showcasing the forward-thinking artistic spirit and energy of Santa Fe in a celebration of cinematic and media accomplishment that sets an example for the rest of the country.

Proposal | SFFI presents the acclaimed Indigenous Film Program at the SFiFF each October. This program features films created by an Indigenous Director and/or Creative Producer and supports the cinematic creativity of Indigenous filmmakers.

This program also benefits New Mexico’s Native American audiences with access to films that have accurate and sincere representations of Indigenous people and promote awareness among a widespread audience.

Noteworthy | According to the University of Southern California Annenberg Inclusion Initiative’s 2023 study of 1,600 popular films released from 2007-2022, less than one percent of film characters were Native American. Similarly, the University of California, Los Angeles’ Hollywood Diversity Report reported on 2023’s English-language, theatrical releases that were ranked in the global box office top 200 that, “None of the top theatrical films in 2023 were directed by a Native person,” and, “there were no Native leads in theatrical films in 2023.”

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Mission | To connect writers, readers, and thinkers from around the world and close to home in the celebration of words and story. To provide space for meaningful conversations, intellectual exchange, and shared experiences that create community and strengthen social ties across diverse groups. Santa Fe International Literary Festival (SFILF) recognizes the power of story as a catalyst for building a more just, equitable, and connected world.

Proposal | The SFILF seeks support for the May 2025 Festival. SFILF showcases diverse voices and perspectives, fostering a love of literature and appreciation for the human experience. Funding enables SFILF to engage high-quality regional, national, and international authors, keep ticket prices accessible, and provide free tickets to New Mexico students and educators to encourage attendance by young writers and readers.

Noteworthy | Building on the city and state’s rich, centuries-long history of storytelling, SFILF is Santa Fe’s only major annual celebration dedicated to the literary arts. Since its inception in 2022, attendance has surged from 9,000 to over 15,000 seats, with 893 free tickets provided to New Mexico students, educators, and residents with financial need.

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Santa Fe Performing Arts Collaboration dba Santa Fe Improv santafeimprov.com

Santa Fe Pro Musica sfpromusica.org

Mission | To bring together outstanding musicians to inspire and educate audiences of all ages through the performance of great music. During Santa Fe’s

Mission | To bring the benefits of improv to every New Mexican by teaching comedy improvisation.

At Santa Fe Improv (SFI), we strongly believe in the power of improvisation to inspire creativity, promote teamwork, and build self-confidence. Our goal is to create an inclusive community where students of any culture, age, and background can

Orchestra Series, a Bach Festival, String Quartet Series, Youth Concert Series, and Organ Recital Series, in addition to varied educational programs.

Pro Musica’s excellence and innovation have received national recognition including a GRAMMYnominated recording for Best Classical Album.

learn and showcase their talents, and individuals

Proposal | In addition to 43 years of performing

can participate in learning experiences that nurture

concerts for public audiences, Santa Fe Pro

their educational, personal, and professional growth.

Musica also presents a Youth Concert Series. These

Proposal | The SFI Improv4Schools program is a

guided-listening concerts are free to all students

multi-week, free, high school program for public school students in northern New Mexico. We invite teens to showcase their learning at the SFI Theater at the close of each semester where they meet students from other public schools and backgrounds. Your donation will help local teens

from throughout northern New Mexico grades K–12, however, they are not without cost to create, administrate, and perform. Santa Fe Pro Musica is seeking financial support for this Series to ensure that all students can experience the power of live classical music.

develop skills such as teamwork, confidence, and

Noteworthy | Every year, Santa Fe Pro Musica’s free

public speaking; all the while building a sense

Youth Concert Series reaches 3,000 students, with

of community and benefiting from the anxiety-

a total attendance of 90,000 students since the

reducing properties of improv.

program’s inception in 1994. This series assists the

Noteworthy | A 2019 study conducted specifically

teachers in meeting the New Mexico Department

with middle and high school age youth across a ten- week period indicated that teens screened for social phobia showed reduced anxiety after improv training, and the reduced anxiety was correlated with improved social skills, hope, and creativity. They reported “increases in social skills, hope, creative self-efficacy, comfort performing for others, and willingness to make mistakes, along with marginal decreases in symptoms of depression.” -Dr. Peter Felsman

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fall-winter-spring season, Pro Musica presents an

of Education Benchmarks and Standards for Arts Education, and has provided many students with their first experiences with the power of live classical music.

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Santa Fe Teen Arts Center dba Warehouse 21

Santa Fe Women’s Ensemble sfwe.org

warehouse21.org

Mission | To present adventurous programming in Mission | To support diverse, inclusive, positive programs for young people by encouraging art, mentoring, and meaningful exchanges that challenge and inspire youth artistic development.

For 28 years, the purpose has been to support the creation of emerging artistic talent and pioneering new ways that prepare youth for successful futures.

Proposal | Support for a nostalgic arts exhibition entitled ‘e·phem·ERA’ and RAD, a magaZINE with both on the shaping of Santa Fe’s youth culture spanning the decades of the 80s and 90s to 2023. What did teenagers and young adults do in Santa Fe and at six notable nonprofit youth art organizations written via personal and community memoirs? The public will experience memorable artifacts and unique stories revealing rebellious ethos and freedom of expression opportunities that made a difference in their lives.

Noteworthy | Since 1982, the author and curator of the nostalgic exhibition and the magaZINE has supported hundreds of young people who were emerging artists and are now ages 20-50. Research shows that the older we get, the more we can

live and online choral performances, to commission new music for treble voices, and to engage in community outreach and education.

Proposal | Funding received through this request will fund operating support positions for an Administrator and assistants. These positions will carry out seasonal support tasks for fundraising, concert production, marketing, bookkeeping, and financial reporting, freeing up board members to focus on development and furthering community engagement through music performances reaching less-served populations.

Noteworthy | Nonprofits are more sustainable with ongoing staff. Board members change annually, and there must be supporters who know what’s needed to meet season goals. According to Voice magazine from Chorus America, “..the decision to hire an administrative leader or support person is often a reactive one for volunteer-run organizations feeling the pressure of maintaining operations. Inevitably, volunteers move on, sometimes with little notice, and sometimes because the workload has burned them out.”

forget. Nostalgic events can stimulate memories that are lifelong treasures. The RAD MagaZINE will be a unique publication that will encapsulate how teen culture has changed through time in our City Different from the history and views of participants.

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School for Advanced Research

SciArt Santa Fe

sarweb.org

sciartsantafe.org

Mission | To advance understanding of humanity

Mission | To support the powerful exchange of ideas

through a unique alchemy of creative practice

between the arts, sciences, and technology. We

and scholarly research in Native American arts,

promote excellence in art and science, encourage

anthropology, and related disciplines. Through

freedom of thought and imagination across

scholar and artist fellowship programs, research

disciplines, spread scientific and artistic literacy,

seminars, and public programs, the School for

and celebrate diverse perspectives and peoples

Advanced Research (SAR) advances creative

of underrepresented races, ethnicities, religions,

thought, intellectual inquiry, and human

genders, sexual orientations, national origins,

understanding. SAR is home to the Indian Arts

citizenship statuses, and ages.

Research Center (IARC), a leader in community-

Proposal | While science and art are often portrayed

advised and collaborative Indigenous arts engagement and collections management.

Proposal | SAR is requesting support for its public

similarities that make them compatible. The two fields have melded over time to become known as

programs. As part of its commitment to community

SciArt. SciArt Santa Fe promotes excellence in art

engagement, SAR annually offers dozens of events

and science in New Mexico and our region through

open to the public. These range from lectures by

year-round talks, exhibitions, film screenings, and

well-known thought leaders in a venue that seats

collaborations, and seeks support for a physical

800+, to more intimate book discussions on SAR’s

space or ‘hub’ in Santa Fe that can be our long-

campus. Since 2019, most of these events have been

term home and where we can host and expand our

recorded and published via SAR’s YouTube channel

public programs.

(@sarsantafemultimedia) where they are available free of charge and have garnered nearly one million views.

Noteworthy | Last fall, SAR Public Programs

Noteworthy | There is a surge of interest in SciArt, including frequent articles in Science, new art-science laboratories around the world, and National Education Association programs. A

offered its first Humanities Festival, which was well

growing number of institutions are creating centers

received, with most events at or near capacity and

including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

participants praising the “diverse topics,” “wonderful

Media Lab and University of California, Los Angeles.

work of SAR,” and “new perspectives.” With the

Recent major initiatives include Getty’s PST ART:

theme “American Identities,” the festival offered

Art & Science Collide in California with over 800

scholar lectures, community forum discussions,

SciArtists. Over the past two years on a tiny fraction

a music performance and a documentary film

of the Getty budget, SciArt Santa Fe has supported

opening. SAR will continue to promote important

presentations by 81 regional SciArtists.

conversations among diverse audiences through its public programming.

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as polar opposites, they have fundamental

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Society of the Muse of the Southwest

Spanish Colonial Arts Society, Inc.

somostaos.org

nmheritagearts.org

Mission | To support and nurture the written and

Mission | To showcase the cultural heritage of

spoken word with both places and resources for

Hispanic New Mexico and its living traditions.

writers, readers, and learners while honoring the

Proposal | Spanish Colonial Arts Society, Inc. (SCAS)

cultural diversity of Taos and the Southwest.

Proposal | The Society of the Muse of the Southwest

is eager to raise its visibility and accessibility, seeking to further expand the critical and vibrant role it

provides over ten annual programs as well as

plays within Santa Fe’s thriving arts community.

ongoing community readings and workshops

It has significantly restructured its organization,

since 1983. Our Young Writers Program, on its 31st

renamed its museum to better reflect its distinctive

year, provides a writing group, 1:1 writing mentors,

offerings examining the cultural convergence of

and writers-in-the-schools to over 300 youth every

northern New Mexican art forms, and adopted a

year. We are seeking financial support to keep our

new business model challenging donors to embrace

programs current and dynamic. This has become

a new value proposition: when you give to SCAS, you

more of a challenge since the economy has shifted

in turn give back to the community.

and there are no longer emergency funds available to apply for (post COVID).

Noteworthy | New Mexico is ranked 50 in the

Noteworthy | Founded in 1925, SCAS is one of Santa Fe’s few nonprofit arts and culture organizations still in operation after 100 years. It runs the only museum

list of the lowest states in the US in terms of its

in New Mexico dedicated exclusively to collecting

percentages of students who graduate from high

and exhibiting the regional Hispano art of the 20th

school as well as those pursuing a college degree.

and 21st centuries and related art and artifacts from

In addition, 16.8% of New Mexicans live in poverty, in

over 500 years and four continents to place it in a

comparison to 11.4% nationally. One in four children

global context. It operates in the only John Gaw

in NM live in poverty. (2023 survey) It is critical that

Meem designed residence open to the public in

we encourage education in all areas, especially in

Santa Fe. Free admission signals openness to all.

the arts as a creative outlet for youth. Our Young Writers Program is free and open to all.

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Tarjama Ensemble LLC megyork.com

Proposal | Teatro Paraguas, as Santa Fe’s de facto community theatre, gratefully requests support to help fund our 21st season of presenting contemporary award-winning Latinx plays,

Mission | To celebrate and elevate world dance music performance artists. Tarjama, which means “Translation,” plays authentic and ethnic community dance music for concerts, parties, weddings, celebrations of life, and movement workshops.

Proposal | Tarjama Ensemble LLC hosts accessible community world folk dance music events at the Old Town Mission Community Center in Las Vegas, New Mexico. Mundo Music Mondays start in October and lead up to our annual World Music Weekend, the weekend before Thanksgiving.

Noteworthy | There were no world dance music events here in Las Vegas, New Mexico before Tarjama director Meg York and Eric Koenig arrived in 2023. Tarjama has hosted eight events so far since winter 2023, four to capacity of 100 audience

providing tuition-free bilingual children’s theatre, sharing our two intimate venues and resources with many other performing arts companies and individuals, and participating in public events celebrating community and culture in Santa Fe.

Noteworthy | Over 150 public events take place at Teatro Paraguas each year in our two venues, which include plays, poetry readings, dance concerts, music concerts, staged readings, workshops, children’s theatre, and lectures. Umbrella Children’s Theatre has a limit of 40 tuition-free students for the spring and fall semesters and summer camps, and has to turn away many eager would-be participants.

In 21 years, Teatro Paraguas has produced almost 100 plays, several of them world premieres.

members. We include Highlands and United World

Tomorrow’s Women

College students, community members, and hire

tomorrowswomen.org

local pro musicians. We need funding to continue these events, and an annual weekend event is in order. We have received a $2,500 Las Vegas Lodgers

Mission | To bring young women from Palestine,

Tax for publicity.

Israel, and the United States together and provide them with the skills and opportunities to become

Teatro Paraguas

compassionate changemakers in their communities

teatroparaguasnm.org

Proposal | The 2025 Peace Ambassador cohort

and beyond. will consist of up to 20 young New Mexico female

Mission | To stage English and bilingual productions of contemporary award-winning Latinx plays, Hispanic/Latinx poetry, and traditional cuentos (folktales), while promoting children’s theatre, producing the works of New Mexico playwrights, providing venues for guest performers and companies, and celebrating the history, richness, and diversity of New Mexico’s many cultures and artistic talent.

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teens. Participants will engage in six months of leadership and peacemaking training based on Tomorrow’s Women’s (TW) signature methodology of compassionate listening, authentic speaking, and therapeutic arts. Participants will also connect with their counterparts in Israel and Palestine, alumnae of TW’s peacemaking intensives, culminating in community-wide service projects.

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Noteworthy | According to the New Mexico Risk and Resiliency Survey, 37% of New Mexico high

Tumbleweed Productions

school girls report experiencing persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness within the past month.

Only 56% of girls reported that “outside my home and school” an adult really cares about me, 57% shared that “outside of my home and school” there is an adult I trust, and only 38% stated that “outside home and school,” I am a part of group activities.

Tri-M Millennial Music Makers Productions trimsantafe.org

Mission | To develop entertaining multi-media theater experiences that reflect the diversity and rich history of New Mexico. Our state’s melting pot is a blend of Natives, Hispanics, and the New Mexicans who have left us a history filled with fascinating sagas and adventures. We are focusing on themes of social justice and historical relevance. The productions will blend stage, film, music, and dance to artistically relate the many legendary stories of The Land of Enchantment.

Proposal | Tumbleweed is seeking grants and funding to produce an original story of the 19th-

Mission | To create choral/musical theater

century New Mexico Territory. It will combine the many diverse influences that make up our

productions and provide opportunities for the

multicultural state with a blend of folklore, music,

local talent of early career professionals, all in a

dance, and art. The production will consist of artists

sustainable manner, in collaboration, and with

from the state’s growing and talented pool of

cooperation with the Santa Fe cultural community.

actors, dancers, and musicians. Our audience will

Proposal | Tri-M Productions seeks operational

experience an immersion into the nascent Land

funding to continue to do three Broadway musicals

of Enchantment and the world of the Natives,

annually, with live orchestra accompaniment and

Hispanics, and the Pioneers.

using local northern New Mexico acting and musical

Noteworthy | This production targets a tourist-

talent that we pay for performances. We do open

based audience as well as locals. The growing

auditions, constantly give new actors opportunities,

population of 151,000 in Santa Fe County along

and have significantly increased the diversity of our

with its 2 million annual visitors have created

talent, all of which enhances the art and culture

opportunities for unique attractions and areas such

of our community, as we are a primary source for

as Meow Wolf and the Railyard District. A market

musical theater in Santa Fe.

exists for colorful attractions such as the multi-

Noteworthy | In four years of operation, Tri-M

media theatrical event Tumbleweed is developing.

Productions has employed over 80 actors in over

It will be presented annually and will elevate

240 roles for our various shows. Our Hispanic-

awareness of our state’s cultural history while

identifying talent has grown from typically less

promoting its talent pool.

than 25% of a cast to over 40% of our cast for our last two big June musicals, when more people can commit to the shows. This growth is enhanced by our Artistic Director, Marilyn Barnes, providing free individual vocal lessons and coaching to early career professionals wanting to continue to perform.

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Unhoused Art

United World College - USA

steshelter.org/unhousedart

uwc-usa.org

Mission | To use the healing power of art to

Mission | To make education a force to unite people,

uplift and transform lives of those who have

nations, and cultures for peace and a sustainable

experienced homelessness by providing a sense

future. We embrace the arts as a unique access

of purpose, income, and self-pride to participants

point for a broader exploration of the role that

in our art workshops. Our program offers a unique

culture plays in our lives and in the world, as well

opportunity for the public to connect with the

as an opportunity to help us communicate across

unhoused in a meaningful way, break stereotypes,

barriers of language, politics, and divergent ways of

and create a greater sense of connection to the

learning. Coupled with our value of service, our Arts

community.

and Culture program serves as a powerful way of

Proposal | We are seeking support to cover

building community locally.

payments to artists leading workshop in shelters

Proposal | Our ultimate goal is to bring an ongoing

and transitional housing along with the cost of

stream of world-class artists to Montezuma as

materials needed for each workshop.

artists-in-residence for the mutual benefit of United

Noteworthy | On a typical night, Santa Fe County

World College - USA (UWC-USA) students and local

has 336 individuals in congregate shelters or transitional housing. The annual Point-In-Time count of homeless individuals for January 2024 was 424. Although the counts for Santa Fe County have gotten increasingly more accurate over time, providers of services for the unhoused believe the latest numbers are still an under count.

community residents. These artists would educate UWC-USA students; provide master classes where local residents and our students learn together to deepen opportunities for intercultural exchange and learning; and help design and arrange performances that challenge students and provide low-cost access to culture for local residents.

Noteworthy | San Miguel County, where UWCUSA is located, has a median annual income of approximately $32,310 per year, well below the New Mexico average of $51,243. 25.7% of the county’s residents live below the poverty line, a far larger share than the state’s average of 18.7%. Access to free or low-cost art and cultural performances is limited. Each year, UWC-USA offers free cultural performances, exhibitions, and master classes to serve approximately 1,700 residents. We’d like to expand these offerings.

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Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian

Wise Fool New Mexico wisefoolnewmexico.org

wheelwright.org

Mission | To ignite imagination, build community, Mission | To promote the living traditions and creative expressions of Native peoples through exhibitions, collections, programming, and research.

Proposal | The Wheelwright Museum, New Mexico’s oldest nonprofit museum, is requesting funds to support its commitment to honoring Native voices through art. For 87 years, the museum has promoted diverse ways of seeing and experiencing Native art histories and cultural traditions, giving voice to living artists past and present.

Noteworthy | The Museum’s building is an architectural landmark based on the Navajo hogan.

Designed by architect and furniture designer William Penhallow Henderson, the building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places and the New Mexico State Register of Cultural Properties in 1990. The main gallery reflects the building’s architectural distinction. The museum

and promote social justice through performances and hands-on experiences in the arts of circus, puppetry, and theatre.

Proposal | Wise Fool is requesting general operating support to fund 2024-2025 programming, including professional productions, community performances, and arts education for youth and adults.

Noteworthy | According to the New Mexico’s Department of Health, in 2021, nearly half of the 1,265 Santa Fe High School students surveyed that year reported feeling sad or hopeless; 12% reported they had planned suicide, while 15% said they had seriously considered suicide and nearly 10% reported they had attempted it. Wise Fool youth programs support youth mental health by building self-determination through opportunities for accomplishment, self-esteem, responsibility, trust, significance, respect, and teamwork.

was conceived by Mary Cabot Wheelwright (18781958) and Hastiin Klah (1867-1937), an esteemed Diné ceremonial practitioner and weaver.

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Civic & Economic Opportunities R ESULT: TH E COM M U NI T Y I S E NG AG ED AND INVOLVED IN LOCAL IS S U ES.

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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Community engagement

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Social and economic justice

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Support of hourly workers

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

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Alliance for Local Economic Prosperity

Best Buddies International in New Mexico

aflep.org

bestbuddies.org/newmexico

Mission | To promote local control of the

Mission | To establish a global volunteer movement

identification, management, and investment of local

that creates opportunities for one-to-one

resources through democratic decision-making

friendships, leadership development, integrated

for the common good. Alliance for Local Economic

employment, and inclusive living for people with

Prosperity (AFLEP) is a statewide nonprofit that

intellectual or developmental disabilities (IDD).

works to maximize local economic prosperity by

Proposal | To expand the Workforce Development

increasing equitable access to financial resources.

We prioritize rural community development, local entrepreneurs, alternative energy, and adaptive regenerative agriculture.

Proposal | AFLEP seeks support to increase social and economic justice statewide through 1) Public policy advocacy toward statewide fiscal policy change, including the implementation of a Public Bank of New Mexico (PBNM) in the 2025 legislative session; and 2) Community stakeholder engagement projects designed to develop a shared vision of prosperity, and build local leadership to enact viable place-specific regional action plans and aligned PBNM support and lending templates.

Noteworthy | The Federal Reserve Bank of

programs at Best Buddies in New Mexico, including the Pre-Employment Transition Services and Project SEARCH to improve access to employment opportunities and economic advancement for low-income and other disadvantaged community members, specifically those with IDD.

Noteworthy | Best Buddies was established in New Mexico in 2009. Since that time, we have grown to support over 850 members at 58 school friendship chapters in elementary, middle, high school, and colleges throughout the state and 66 jobs participants in Bernalillo County. Per National Core Indicators, the unemployment rate for those with IDD remains more than double that of their counterparts without IDD. Of those employed with

Philadelphia reports that 92% of money comes into

IDD, half of the jobs are in a sheltered setting and

existence as the result of a bank loan. However, in

are not inclusive or competitively paid. Those with

alignment with global banking trends to maximize

IDD working only part-time are double the rate

profits by minimizing admin costs, small business

of those without IDD. Best Buddies International

loans from New Mexico banks have recently

in New Mexico provides critical career readiness

dropped over 50%. According to the FDIC, New

services to students with IDD to increase their

Mexico banks have a below national average

likelihood of finding and retaining inclusive long-

“deposits to lending” ratio. Minimal lending to

term employment.

small business and agriculture outside the I-25 corridor excludes the majority of New Mexico’s rural communities.

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Bike Santa Fe bikesantafe.org

Proposal | Funding will allow Chainbreaker to continue to organize community members to have a meaningful voice in decisions that affect their lives, continue to win real and concrete victories to

Mission | To promote cycling as a healthy, safe, affordable, and environmentally-sound means of transportation and recreation that benefits all neighborhoods and residents of Santa Fe. Through advocacy, events, and education, Bike Santa Fe (BSF) seeks to make Santa Fe a world class cycling city.

Proposal | BSF has existed as an organization for more than 14 years but, like many organizations, it lost steam during the height of the pandemic.

Re-energized in 2023, BSF’s new and larger board of directors has created a stronger organizational structure via updated bylaws and active committees (Administration, Education, Events, Advocacy, Communications, Membership). Funding will help address our administrative needs, such as bookkeeping, meeting support, and systems improvement.

Noteworthy | Spending on bikes and bike accessories rose by 620% between 2020 and 2023, showing that biking growth during the pandemic was not just anecdotal. BSF membership has grown

better Santa Feans’ lives, and continue to serve as a cornerstone in low-income neighborhoods of color in Santa Fe.

Noteworthy | Over the last 20 years, our work has shifted narratives and policies on the issues of housing, social determinants of health, and transportation in Santa Fe. Over the last year, Chainbreaker has been organizing in a Mobile Home community with one of the lowest voter engagements in the city and which is mostly dismissed by traditional voter education and mobilization campaigns. In the previous city election, this precinct had no votes reported at all.

After a year of organizing around renter issues and a 501(c)(3) education campaign about related issues appearing on the ballot, the same precinct reported 42 people had voted in the most recent city election.

Coalition For Quality Childrens Media kidsfirst.org

to more than 125 individuals and businesses, our email list is more than 900 contacts, and our social media channels have a robust number of followers.

BSF events (bike swap, member socials, bike valets) are well attended, creating more interest in our activities, which requires improved organizational tools and responsiveness.

Chainbreaker Collective chainbreaker.org

Mission | To teach children critical viewing skills and to increase the visibility and availability of quality children’s media. We empower underserved middle and high school students with cutting-edge digital skills, equipping them to craft compelling short films that capture the essence of their identities and communities and sharing their films locally and across the state.

Proposal | The groundbreaking KIDS FIRST! Digital Media Lab embarks on a transformative

Mission | To expand access to affordable transportation and sustainable communities for working people, low-income people, and people of color in Santa Fe and surrounding areas through community organizing.

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journey, forging dynamic partnerships with local Indigenous tribes, school districts, and youth service organizations across rural New Mexico.

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Noteworthy | With a blend of in-person and remote instruction, this innovative project uses a ‘train the trainers’ approach, wherein we empower educators and adult leaders in each community to directly mentor and inspire students and give

Embudo Valley Library & Community Center embudovalleylibrary.org

them skills to replicate the program after the initial implementation period. Our aim is to nurture a new generation of digital storytellers and provide them

Mission | To build community by providing educational, cultural, and recreational resources

with lifelong skills they can apply to careers in the

for area residents. The library provides public

entertainment business and beyond.

library service, literacy programming for children

Davis New Mexico Scholarship davisnm.org

and youth, formal and informal public space for meetings and resolana (gatherings), and an evening cultural series. Our property is home to a volunteer community radio station, a public park, a farmer’s market, and a cooperative grocery store.

Mission | The Davis New Mexico Scholarship breaks the generational opportunity gap in New Mexico by supporting first-generation college students as they earn a Bachelor’s degree and become economically self-sufficient adults. Alongside these life-changing scholarships, the program creates and strengthens pathways to higher education for all first-generation college-going students in New Mexico.

Proposal | We seek funding to support college access programs for first-generation college students throughout northern New Mexico. Under the umbrella of the Davis New Mexico Scholarship, students and schools receive help navigating the competitive college application process, regardless of whether or not students end up becoming Davis New Mexico Scholars. This year, we have conducted professional development workshops in Gallup, Albuquerque, Española, and Raton and have visited schools statewide.

Noteworthy | In half of New Mexico counties, not a single student submitted a Common Application in the 2023-24 cycle. There were 33 in Rio Arriba and 30 in Taos County. The Common App, the application used to apply to competitive college outside of New Mexico, is the gateway for students who are seeking options both in and outside of the state.

Proposal | The library offers a wide range of services, from one-on-one computer assistance, computer access, Wi-Fi, notary services, and digital support with devices. We are committed to centering anti-racism and justice and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) work by acknowledging our role in supporting systems of oppression. We are actively diversifying our collection and board of directors; engaging with marginalized community members; prioritizing community-driven programming; and facilitating difficult conversations about gentrification, culture, and land loss. We seek funding to continue to provide and expand our offerings.

Noteworthy | Systemic change within our organization entailed a critical evaluation of our leadership, board structure, and membership.

Recognizing the lack of diversity and inclusion, we prioritized increasing representation of marginalized individuals in both our board and leadership. Through intentional DEI efforts, we have successfully expanded our board to include nine members, with seven identifying as People of Color (POC) or other marginalized groups. In addition, we have decentralized our leadership and now have two POC directors.

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Friends of Architecture Santa Fe architecturesantafe.org

Proposal | We request funding to scale Future Focused Education’s X3 and NeXt paid internship programs for underserved youth ages 16–24 in Santa Fe and Española, in collaboration with schools, community organizations, and employers. Quality coaching and work-based learning connects

Mission | To advance civic engagement and

education to a career path that enables youth to

constructive dialogue about design and the built

experience economic mobility and contribute to the

environment. Our interdisciplinary events invite

health of their families and communities.

architects and allied professionals, the creative

Noteworthy | There are few youth workforce

community, policymakers, and members of the

development opportunities for youth, with just 4%

public to participate in shared learning, critical

of all New Mexico high school students participating

thinking, and creative visioning about the future of

in work-based learning (LANL Foundation, 2022).

Santa Fe.

This is a fatal gap, as New Mexico is facing a 19.6%

Proposal | Our city needs a platform for design

rate of youth disengagement from school and

dialogue that is provocative and forward

work, one of the highest in the nation (Measure of

thinking. The programs and events we host allow

America, 2022). The result is a devastating social

professionals and residents alike to engage in

cost of $900,000 per disengaged youth over their

constructive conversation about our local built

lifetime (Civic Enterprises, 2012).

environment in a setting not tied to design proposal reviews. Funding will support the production of these programs, the digitization of content in order to have a broader reach, and the salary of part-time staff who is essential to this work.

Noteworthy | In January 2024, our organization hired a part-time Communications and Operations

League of Women Voters of Santa Fe County lwvsfc.org

Manager at $15,000/ year. This role provides crucial

Mission | To promote community and civic

support for our all-volunteer board, who plans and

engagement, empowering citizens to actively

produces our programs. Additionally, this part-time

participate in the democratic process. The League of

staff member works to spread the content of our

Women Voters of Santa Fe County (LWVSFC), an all-

programs to a wider reach through social media,

volunteer nonprofit, is the local entity of the League

video, audio, and writing initiatives.

of Women Voters of the US (LWV). The LWV officially began in 1920 when women won the right to vote.

Future Focused Education

LWVSFC is a nonpartisan, grassroots organization

futurefocusededucation.org

ensure everyone is represented.

working to protect and expand voting rights and

Proposal | The LWVSFC proposes to undertake an Mission | To create healthier and more prosperous communities by advancing the best education for the students who need it the most. Future Focused Education envisions schools as sites of innovation and opportunity, where students become the creators of healthy and more prosperous communities.

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expanded public engagement campaign focused on enhancing community involvement in the democratic process. This campaign will center on digital activities aimed at building a better social media presence, expanding LWVSFC’s email newsletter following, and collaborating with local media organizations. This proposal outlines the importance of fostering informed decision-making among residents of Santa Fe County.

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Noteworthy | Local and general elections are not attracting Santa Fe County voters. Approximately 112,300 Santa Fe County residents are eligible to

Main Street de Las Vegas mainstreetdelasvegas.org

vote. The November 2023 local election turnout was approximately 31% (NM SOS) and the November 2022 General Election turnout was 68% (NM SOS).

Two 2024 Pew Research Center studies reported that, of those who had broadband internet connection, 86% used smart phones, tablets, or computers, and 58% used apps or websites; and, of those who used social media, 83% used YouTube, 68% used Facebook and 47% used Instagram.

Literacy Volunteers of Santa Fe lvsf.org

Mission | To provide free tutoring to adults in

Mission | To unify the Las Vegas historic commercial corridor and engender pride in the community while promoting economic development and preserving historical, cultural, architectural, and natural resources through partnerships and community collaboration. We work to help create a unique and vital downtown that supports our business community, embraces history, celebrates the arts, preserves our natural environment, and promotes community events.

Proposal | Main Street de Las Vegas (MSLV) requests funding to cover expenses related to a facade squad we will organize in our Main Street Downtown District. A facade squad is an efficient

reading, writing, and speaking English to strengthen

and cost-effective way to make high impact, visible

our community, families, and the workforce. Our

improvements to a group of historic buildings

vision is a literate and thriving community where

in need of repair. A facade squad assists private

words can be read, written, spoken, and understood,

property owners with front, street-side facade

and where people can attain their goals and fully

renovations and helps owners imagine what their

participate in society.

buildings could be. These improvements include

Proposal | Literacy Volunteers of Santa Fe requests

wood repair, painting, cleaning, and glass repair.

support for staff coordination of our core tutoring

Noteworthy | Las Vegas, New Mexico has over 937

programs, wherein trained, volunteer tutors work

buildings on the National Historic Register. About

with students under the 6th grade level equivalency

half of these building are in disrepair and many have

individually or in small groups, on their literacy

been abandoned. A project like a facade squad can

goals.

change the look of a blighted block and show fellow

Noteworthy | According to the National Center for

building owners what the block could be. MSLV

Educational Statistics and a 2017 Program for the

worked with the E. Romero Firehouse on Bridge

International Assessment of Adult Competencies

St. to organize a facade squad, and a year later

survey, 24% of adults in Santa Fe County function

MSLV and the City of Las Vegas raised over $500k

at literacy Level 1 (skills equivalent to kindergarten

to restore this important landmark including $150k

to 1st grade level), and 29% function at a Level 2

from American Express.

(skills equivalent to 2nd-3rd grade levels). To put this into perspective, over half of the adults in Santa Fe County would benefit from English as a second language (ESL) or basic literacy tutoring, and 60% would benefit from numeracy tutoring.

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MANA del Norte manadelnortenm.org

Proposal | Mora Creative Council seeks support to foster community engagement through historical preservation and heritage storytelling. We empower youth with a contest titled “What our elders tell

Mission | To create a better life for all Latinas/os.

MANA del Norte was founded in 1989 by a group of Latinas sharing a common interest to serve as a voice and resource for Latinas in the northern New Mexico counties of Los Alamos, Mora, Rio Arriba, Santa Fe, San Miguel, and Taos.

Proposal | MANA del Norte requests funding to send our five current board members to the 2024 MANA National Conference that will take place in Washington, D.C. Four of the five members are very new to MANA del Norte and MANA National, and so the MANA National Conference/Training will be extremely beneficial. By attending this conference, the board will be able to bring back new ideas, programs, and opportunities to our northern New Mexico communities. We serve six counties within northern New Mexico.

Noteworthy | The MANA del Norte board members work hard to achieve full and equal participation of Latinas in our country’s political, social, educational, and economic domains.

us about our heritage” by creating a sense of belonging and attachment to the community, encouraging residents to stay and contribute to the preservation and development of their heritagerich environment. This is especially important in the wake of recent wildfires to help reduce depopulation.

Noteworthy | Investing in heritage storytelling is crucial in today’s dynamic landscape influenced by factors like climate change and economic shifts.

As pride in cultural heritage diminishes and rural communities depopulate, acquainting young generations with their heritage fosters a sense of belonging and preserves the richness of local culture. Moreover, after the devastating Hermit’s Peak/Calf Canyon fires in 2022, there’s opportunity for long-term ways of engaging, rebuilding, and empowering Mora.

New Mexico Acequia Association

Mora Creative Council/ Mora MainStreet

lasacequias.org

moramainstreet.org

healthy food for our families and communities, and

Mission | To protect water and our acequias, grow honor our cultural heritage. In our vision, acequias

Mission | To stimulate the preservation and enhancement of Mora, New Mexico through education, historic preservation, creative economy, beautification, and promotion of community, and civic pride.

flow with clean water, people work together to grow food, and communities celebrate cultural and spiritual traditions.

Proposal | We are requesting funding to support ongoing work, expansion, and development of various New Mexico Acequia Association (NMAA) programs that support youth in rural communities to become engaged civic leaders in relation to issues of water and land protection, and social and environmental justice for New Mexico’s acequia communities.

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Noteworthy | There are more than 700 acequias

Noteworthy | The number of Hispanic-owned

(community-maintained waterways) across New

companies has grown by 31.6%, more than double

Mexico, each operating under the historic and

the growth rate of all U.S. firms, which is 13.8%.

sovereign leadership of local community members

Additionally, it states that the Kauffman Index of

caretaking land, water, and culture. NMAA is

Entrepreneurial Activity (2016) shows a 140% growth

committed to training and supporting the next

in the ratio of new Latino entrepreneurs, from 10%

generation of young leaders who will take up the

to 24% of all businesses, compared to just 10% a

mantle of this work and ensure the social, economic,

decade before. Comparing these inhabitants to the

cultural, and environmental integrity and health of

general population, Latinos are 1.5 times as likely to

their home-places. We consider this to be vital work

launch a business (Bernstein, 2016).

for our community.

New Mexico Highlands University nmhu.edu

New Mexico Local News Fund nmlocalnews.org

Mission | To grow the ecosystem of local news across our state to better serve the information

Mission | To be the best small business department in the Southwest, preparing students to be confident, competent, ethical, and responsible decision makers, managers, leaders, and agents of economic and social betterment in today’s changing global business environment. The Department of Business Administration is committed to the success of our students and to the highest observance of our professional accreditation standards.

Proposal | The Entrepreneurship for Latinos project is a new course that will set itself apart from similar projects as we will deliver all the topics in Spanish by native speakers who hold terminal degrees in business disciplines, e.g., Entrepreneurship, Marketing, and Strategy, among others. Our target participants are individuals who possess entrepreneurial spirits and are willing to start their purpose-driven businesses to foster economic development in the region.

needs of all New Mexicans. To accomplish that ambitious goal, we work with both existing newsrooms and trusted community organizations.

Our goal is ultimately for everyone to have access to the local news and information they need to thrive.

To achieve that, we produce a business accelerator program for newsrooms and a fellowship program for recent journalism graduates.

Proposal | We request funding to serve more newsrooms and communities with our accelerator and fellowship programs. This would help underserved rural and urban communities that are in need of more vital information for civic engagement. Improving business outcomes for newsrooms and boosting reporting resources would help communities thrive.

Noteworthy | Here are some noteworthy statistics related to our Local News Fellowship & Internship program, which is in now in its fourth cohort: in the past, four fellows won awards, including from the New Mexico Press Association and Society of Professional Journalists. 74% of fellows and interns are people of color. 67% of fellows and interns are women. 46% of current participants identify as LGBTQ+.

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NM Health Equity Partnership

NMCAN

nmhep.org

nmcan.org

Mission | To strengthen the capacity of

Mission | To authentically engage young people

communities to shift power relations and advocate

impacted by foster care, the juvenile justice system,

for policy and system changes by working with

and/or homelessness to advocate for systems

community partners to (re)shape the narrative

change that reflects their values, improves their

around health and racial equity in New Mexico. We

transition to adulthood, and positively transforms

do this by providing tools and support for capacity

our community. NMCAN partners with young

building through community-driven research and

people to build community, promote equity, and

creative storytelling, creating funding opportunities

lead change. We believe all young people are

for grassroots groups, and facilitating connections

leaders and their lived experiences in systems

and spaces for building collective power.

are essential for creating equitable systems. Our

Proposal | The NM Health Equity Partnership

strategies to engage young people are rooted in

(NMHEP) believes communities have the knowledge and wisdom to achieve success and equity. NMHEP

community building, leadership development, and advocacy.

builds community capacity to help make this

Proposal | With your support, NMCAN will continue

possible. NMHEP provides training and technical

leveraging our expertise in listening to young

assistance to support grassroots organizations in

people’s experiences, centering their voices in

conducting community driven research, to make

decision-making spaces, and translating their needs

a more compelling case to decision makers on

into policy.

issues that affect the health and well-being of communities. Additional funding will support us in reaching more communities with our trainings.

Noteworthy | Since 2012, NMHEP has provided

Noteworthy | In 2021, the Census Bureau reported that in New Mexico, 25% of children under the age of 18 and 28% of children under the age of five live in poverty; making New Mexico the 3rd highest

support for 19 Health Impact Assessments in 10

poverty rate in the U.S. Nearly 2,000 children were

counties across New Mexico. Many of these Health

separated from their families in 2021 according to

Impact Assessments have resulted in tangible

NM Children Youth and Families Department Data.

policy changes, including free bus passes for youth

However, the majority (74%) of reported Child Abuse

in Albuquerque; the opening of a reintegration

and neglect cases that were substantiated are not

center for people exiting incarceration in San Miguel

related to child abuse but rather neglect. Neglect

County; the creation of a food distribution for Native

is largely associated with the conditions of living in

communities; and a warming center and outdoor

poverty.

safe spaces for the unsheltered in Santa Fe.

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CIVIC & ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES

Rocky Mountain Youth Corps youthcorps.org

Proposal | This request will support the ongoing general activities of Santa Fe Business Incubator (SFBI) to assist the formation and retention of new businesses, new jobs, an expanded tax base, and

Mission | To address New Mexico’s community challenges by blending life skills, job experiences, and service. Inspired by the 1930s Civilian Conservation Corps, it was founded in 1995 with park restoration in Questa. Now, Rocky Mountain Youth Corps (RMYC) annually trains 160+ Corpsmembers across diverse programs, from land conservation to substance abuse prevention, serving various populations and enhancing local economies.

Proposal | Rocky Mountain Youth Corps seeks funding for its ASL Program, aimed at empowering Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing youth through work experience and personal development in New Mexico, enhancing communication and integration within the community. This request includes funds for interpreters, training, and supplies to support the program’s growth and effectiveness.

Noteworthy | In New Mexico, where the employment rate for people with disabilities was just 33.0% in 2020 and with over 1,500 deaf and hard-of-hearing students in the state’s educational system, there’s a pressing demand for initiatives like RMYC’s ASL Program that offer essential workforce experience and personal development opportunities for this underserved community.

Santa Fe Business Incubator sfbi.net

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 SFBI addresses are new high-wage skilled jobs; creation and expansion of stable businesses; support for innovative firms that attract capital, revenue and broaden 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 Chamber Opportunities Fund dba Santa Fe Chamber of Commerce santafechamber.com

Mission | To strengthen the local economy and serve as the voice of business in community affairs.

Our Feria Southside Initiative has as its mission to nurture the community spirit and economic

Mission | To help local entrepreneurs launch and grow successful businesses. These emerging companies create new jobs, increase our tax base and diversify our economy, enhancing the quality of life for all in our community.

development through support and empowerment of the Hispanic immigrant community in Santa Fe, predominantly focused on the Southside.

We strive to create an inclusive and accessible business community by being the gateway for entrepreneurial growth and job creation, and by celebrating our unique cultural heritage while driving economic vitality for this hugely underserved population.

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Proposal | We are seeking financial support to sustain the vibrancy of our Feria Southside Initiative that encompasses quarterly markets, an annual

Searchlight New Mexico searchlightnm.org

fair, educational workshops, and bilingual resource material, providing a sustainable ecosystem for community engagement and economic opportunities for our Hispanic entrepreneurs.

Noteworthy | To date, our Feria Southside Initiative has supported approximately 57,000 lives, fostering inclusivity and prosperity in our diverse business community. As we have dived into this work, we see the continuous need for these services, and in order to make an impact we need sustainable funding to grow.

Santa Fe Woman’s Club & Library Association sfwomansclub.org

Mission | To deliver high-impact investigative reporting to inspire New Mexicans to demand action on systemic problems that plague our state.

Searchlight New Mexico is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization dedicated to investigative and public service journalism in the interest of the people of New Mexico. We believe that great reporting can motivate all New Mexicans to confront racial and economic inequities, government corruption and negligence, and abuses of power.

Proposal | We request funding to support coverage about the most critical issues facing our region: child and family well-being, education, the environment, and the health of the region’s citizens.

The organization draws its strength from its sharp editorial focus, talented reporters, extensive media

Mission | To serve women and children, focusing on

network, innovative strategies, and proven ability to spark reforms. Our investigations have helped end

scholarship, literacy, cultural enrichment, and well-

practices that were secretive, illegal, retaliative, and

being while forming lasting friendships.

in some cases potentially lethal.

Proposal | We provide reasonably priced rental

Noteworthy | Searchlight New Mexico fulfills a

space for groups and individuals to hold events.

specific need for long form, investigative, and

We’re requesting funds to complete two large

enterprise journalism. The number of journalism

projects: 1) purchase and install an integrated

jobs that have been lost in the last ten years is

lighting system in our auditorium and 2) replace

over 50,000. New Mexico is one of the states that

aging carpet throughout the building. Numerous

is considered a “news desert” with five counties

theater groups have suggested that theatrical

having no local paper and many more with minimal

lights will enhance the utility of our auditorium for

coverage or little online presence. Searchlight covers

their purposes. The carpet has been patched and

pressing issues across the state and provides free

repaired multiple times and it’s now a concern that

content to every media outlet in New Mexico and

some areas present tripping hazards.

beyond.

Noteworthy | We offer affordable and attractive rental spaces for community events. In 2023, over 115 individual events, such as baby showers, graduation parties, wedding receptions, birthday parties, and memorial services have been held. 14 groups, including the Rotary Club, River Church, and KADAMPA meet weekly; and 16 groups held theater events, art markets, sales, and other events open to the public. Our spaces have been used free of charge for 12 vaccine clinics and five library talks.

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Somos Un Pueblo Unido somosunpueblounido.org

Southwest Women’s Law Center swwomenslaw.org

Mission | To build communities that guarantee the civil rights and worker’s rights of all people irrespective of national origin or immigration status.

We were born a Santa Fe-based immigrants’ rights group in 1995 but have evolved into a statewide immigrant-led organization promoting racial and worker justice.

Proposal | Somos Un Pueblo Unido is seeking funding to continue providing and expanding our work in co-leading a statewide table of workerbased organizations elevating the social and structural barriers for BIPOC, rural, immigrant, Indigenous, LGBTQ+, low-wage, and other “difficultto-reach” workers to skills-building and workforce development opportunities, as well as advancing worker-driven solutions to ensuring equitable

realize their full economic and personal potential by eliminating gender bias, discrimination, and harassment, lifting women and their families out of poverty, and ensuring that all women have full control over their reproductive lives through access to comprehensive reproductive health services and information.

Proposal | The Southwest Women’s Law Center seeks funding to continue to advance the wellbeing, rights, and power of women in New Mexico through legal research, policy analysis, advocacy, community and stakeholder education, and coalition work at the local, state, and national levels.

pathways to quality jobs.

Noteworthy | Many working New Mexico families

Noteworthy | New Mexico has a low labor

live paycheck-to-paycheck, and any disruption in

participation rate and a major shortage of qualified workers across all sectors (estimated at over 30,000 more vacancies than residents looking for work).

Disengaged, difficult-to-reach, and over-employed low-wage workers encounter social, structural, and financial barriers to skills building opportunities, including inadequate support services and childcare.

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Mission | To create opportunities for women to

income can have devastating impacts on a family’s financial well-being. When workers have access to Paid Family & Medical Leave, no New Mexico worker will be forced to choose between their livelihoods and welcoming a new child or managing a serious medical condition for their family member or themselves.

CIVIC & ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES

Visiones CollaborativasCollaborative Visions

WESST wesst.org

visionescollaborativas.org

Mission | To be a home to New Mexicans starting Mission | To nurture the people or Mora and Mora County through a culture of collaboration.

Proposal | Never has the concept of collaboration

or growing a small business. We provide a support system of consulting, training, incubation, and lending to help women, people of color, and lowwealth individuals successfully strengthen and grow

been more important to the people of Mora County

their businesses through sustainable sales, financial

than it is now. During fire and flood recovery,

knowledge, and job creation.

community-based leadership and decision-making

Proposal | WESST offers comprehensive business

is critical. Collaborative Visions (CV) continues to spearhead efforts to coordinate and facilitate multiagency effectiveness. We seek funding to further grow our efforts.

Noteworthy | Over 100 homes were destroyed by

development services targeted to women, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) and low-wealth New Mexicans who have experienced historical, systemic barriers to starting and growing a small business. Core services include business

the Hermit’s Peak/Calf Canyon Fires in Mora County

training and consulting, business incubation, and

alone, and over 350,000 acres of prime forest and

access to capital. WESST requests support to help

farmlands were burned in the area. Many depended

us reach more disadvantaged minorities in Santa Fe

on agriculturally based income, so they face not

who require support to start/grow a small business.

only the immediate devastation but the economic

Noteworthy | 45% of businesses fail within their first

challenges of loss of income. FEMA has been slow in reimbursing residents, and CV continues to work with Neighbors Helping Neighbors to address immediate needs. Long-term planning is critical for the next five-plus years.

5 years of operations, and a significant percentage of new businesses in Santa Fe fail within their first few years. This suggests a need for organizations like WESST who provide entrepreneurship support, mentorship, and resources to help businesses succeed. Supporting small businesses helps diversify and strengthen the local economy, which is particularly important Santa Fe, which can be subject to the inherent fluctuations of a tourismbased economy.

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EDUCATION

Education R ESULT: ALL C HI L DRE N A N D YOU TH S U CCEED IN EDU CATION AND AR E PR EPA RE D F OR A C A RE E R.

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

•

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;

•

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

•

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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PHOTO: COLLINS LAKE AUTISM CENTER

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The Academy for Technology and the Classics

ARCC — Awarness, Resiliency, Clarity & Compassion

atcschool.org

centerformsc.org

Mission | To take students into the wild to inspire

Mission | To support teens at local high schools and

a love for the environment and culture of New

middle schools to relate to themselves in difficult

Mexico, explore the limits of their courage, expand

times, when struggling with stressors, with kindness

their bounds of compassion, develop kindness in

and explicit behaviors of care via the Mindful Self

action, and foster an attitude of service and love in

Compassion for Teens program. Empower teens

all aspects of life.

with the three elements of self-compassion: self-

Proposal | We are requesting support to fund the

kindness versus self-judgment; common humanity

Academy for Technology and the Classics (ATC) Mountain Club’s service learning expeditions in the Santa Fe National Forest, Picuris Pueblo, Chimayo Cultural Preservation Association, and the Army

as opposed to isolation; and mindfulness as opposed over-identification with negative emotions.

Lessen anxiety and depression in teens, giving them tools of resilience, self-care, and awareness.

Corps of Engineers at Abiquiu Lake. This will allow

Proposal | We seek support to implement the

us to pay for transportation, food, and coordinators/

Mindful Self-Compassion for Teens program, and

teachers planning and work on the expeditions.

tailored trainings thereof, as adapted for adolescents

Noteworthy | Over 150 students have graced this

from Kristin Neff & Chris Germer’s original program.

club since it was founded in 2017. Over half of our members joined because they were disenfranchised by school due to failing grades and a lack of connection with the academic nature of school.

Time and time again, I have had kids who join the club who are on the verge of dropping out; after a season with us, their grades improve and they are

For a second year, all 10th graders at Mandela International Magnet School will participate in the entire program. Additionally, students at Capitol High, Ortiz Middle School, and other schools collaborating with Communities in Schools will receive SEL workshops. Communities in Schools staff will receive training, too.

ready to create a deep and meaningful life. For the

Noteworthy | According to a 2021 CDC report,

first time in their lives, they were able to see the

42% of teens, 57% of females, and 29% of males

power of their hands and heart.

experienced persistent feelings of sadness and hopelessness to the degree that they could not engage in regular activities; 13% of females and 7% of males attempted suicide. In a recently published study by Dr. Karen Bluth, a group of teens taught the Mindful Self-Compassion for Teens program, after six months, were more than two and a half times less likely to develop full-blown depression than the other students in the study.

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Books on the Bosque

Bridges Project for Education

booksonthebosque.com

bridgesproject.org

Mission | To bring books and literacy to New

Mission | To expand access to college and

Mexico’s most valuable and cherished resource, its

vocational training, with an emphasis on students

youth.

who are from historically underrepresented groups.

Proposal | With your support, Books Beyond the

Postsecondary education access is a community

Bosque will distribute over 100 books into middle school and high school students, as well as bring in authors for its literacy days.

Noteworthy | At 70.9% New Mexico has the lowest literacy rate in the country and according to New Mexico’s KID COUNT Profile, our national rank for children living in poverty is 48th with 24% of New Mexican children living in poverty, 79% of fourth graders are not proficient in reading, and 87% of

issue. Inequality hurts us all. Bridges takes steps to level the playing field. Demystifying the path to postsecondary education helps students find their way forward in education and in life.

Proposal | Since 1997, Bridges has helped over 3,200 students in northern New Mexico access postsecondary education. We respectfully request support for our continuum of free services. Bridges increases access to college and vocational training

eighth graders are not proficient in math.

by providing free individualized counseling, free

Breakthrough Santa Fe

and workshops, and free alumni outreach to support

breakthroughsantafe.org

Noteworthy | By 2027, it’s projected that 70%

early awareness outreach through presentations students enrolled in their program. of jobs will require some form of postsecondary

Mission | To support motivated public middle and high school students whose identities have historically been excluded from higher education on their path to college. In addition, the program provides high school and college-age young adults with a rewarding experience as teachers and mentors.

Proposal | Breakthrough Santa Fe requests funds

education, leaving over two-thirds of people in the greater Taos community at risk of being unqualified.

Research shows that disparities in college access disproportionately impact minority, low-income, and first-generation students — a reality that is deeply felt in our community. The majority of Bridges clients come from these groups, which are statistically two-thirds less likely to pursue postsecondary education.

to support our ongoing work with students from families to go to college. We provide a six‐year

Collins Lake Autism Center

intensive academic program, one‐on‐one college

collinslakeranch.org

across Santa Fe County who will be first in their

and financial aid 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 2018 Pell Institute’s “Indicators of Higher Education Equity in the United States,” only 22% of low-income New Mexican students enroll in college.

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Mission | To provide supported living, education, and therapeutic services in a nature-based setting for our extended community family.

Proposal | We are working to expand the scope of our services and to offer them to the Mora community at large, in addition to the number of therapeutic services we currently provide to our residential clients.

EDUCATION

Noteworthy | Of the many beneficial therapeutic services that our clients require, only behavioral health is accessible within the community. For other

Del Norte LOV Foundation delnortelovfoundation.org

services, such as Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, and Speech and Language therapies, residents must travel to Santa Fe or Albuquerque, which often puts these services out of reach for our clients and many other community members. Our new Integrated Therapy Center will provide parttime space for a variety of traveling providers as well as for our Ranch staff

Communities In Schools of New Mexico cisnm.org

Mission | To improve the lives of youth and families in New Mexico. The Del Norte LOV Foundation (DNLF) is an independent foundation associated with Del Norte Credit Union, and is an employeedriven nonprofit organization. We fulfill our mission through community support programs; scholarships, employee giving, community grants, financial literacy, sponsorships, and community engagement.

Proposal | We respectfully request support from the Santa Fe Community Foundation to expand our Financial Literacy program in Santa Fe, Rio Arriba, and Mora counties.

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 (CIS) works inside Santa Fe’s Title I high-poverty public schools to provide wraparound support to students and their families. CIS’s Student Success Facilitators provide or coordinate a wide variety of community-based resources to improve academic achievement, attendance, family engagement and well-being, and social-emotional and behavioral health. The goal of CIS’s work is to ensure that all students, regardless of socioeconomic status, have the support they need to succeed.

Noteworthy | 100% of the students CIS serves attend Santa Fe’s Title I (high-poverty) public

Noteworthy | The 2023 Kids County Data Book from The Annie E. Casey Foundation has ranked New Mexico last for child well-being, last in education, and 48th in family and community in the United States. We provide financial literacy curriculum and content, sponsoring 93 schools. Currently 275 teachers participate and we have educated over 17,000 students ages eight-22. 63 out of the 93 schools are located in Santa Fe, Rio Arriba, and Mora counties. We can close this gap by expanding to more schools and districts.

Dual Language Education of New Mexico dlenm.org

schools and qualify for the federal free and reduced school meals program; 42% are English Language Learners. Primary risk factors include low family socioeconomic status (87.7%), family disruption and stress (67.8%), and food insecurity (57.9%).

A 2024 Survey of School Staff found that 93% of teachers and staff in schools CIS serves feel CIS

Mission | To develop, support, and advocate for high-quality dual language enriched education in New Mexico and beyond. Desarrollar, apoyar, y abogar por una educación de lenguaje dual de la más alta calidad en Nuevo México y más allá.

has a transformative impact on creating a positive learning environment.

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Proposal | Dual Language Education New Mexico

Noteworthy | Our local Mesa Vista High School

prioritizes providing diverse learners access to high-

students show a 16% math proficiency, 32% reading

quality educational opportunities; these students

proficiency, and only 73% graduate. They are nearly

typically struggle with reaching grade-level math

100% economically disadvantaged and they are 94.7

proficiency, which we know impacts their future

Hispanic. Any engagement or enrichment we can

professional options. Funding for this project will

offer these youth will make a difference.

support the development of a real-world math experience that will be piloted within Santa Fe Public School’s classrooms.

Noteworthy | 19% of New Mexico’s 4th graders were proficient in math, the lowest proficiency rate of all states (2022 National Assessment of Education

Embudo Valley Tutoring Association embudovalleytutoring.com

Progress). 23% of the students in Santa Fe Public Schools in Grades 3rd - 8th and 11th grade scored proficient (M-MSSA 2023-2024 school year). The

Mission | To provide free tutoring and mentoring support to children in financial need in rural areas.

state average was 24%; 5% of ELs were proficient in

We strengthen the quality of education in several

Santa Fe Public Schools compared to 10% in New

rural schools in Rio Arriba and Taos County by

Mexico; and 11% of economically disadvantaged

providing trained tutors in reading and math, and

students were proficient in Santa Fe Public Schools

empower local children so that they can achieve

compared to 15% in New Mexcio. This data illustrates

their full potential as human beings, responsible

the need to provide additional approaches to

parents, and leaders of society. We adapt tutoring

teaching math.

to the needs of the students in changing times by

El Rito Public Library elritolibrary.org

providing both in-person and virtual tutoring and mentoring.

Proposal | Embudo Valley Tutoring Association empowers New Mexico’s students through free tutoring and mentoring services to high

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. We serve people of all backgrounds and ages in rural northeastern Rio Arriba County.

Proposal | In order to further extend a welcoming face to our community from the library’s front yard, we want a vibrant outdoor mural on our 40-ft. rail container storage unit. The mural would be the work of our local high school students and youth from the Northern Youth Project under the experienced direction of high school and UNM-Taos educator, Ed Hefferman. The budget for this effort is $1,200 for the paint and other supplies, $1,200 stipend for Ed Hefferman, and $3,000 stipends for six students.

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priority students at Dixon, Velarde, and Alcalde Elementaries and the Embudo Valley Library in Rio Arriba County. We work to identify students needing support in language arts, math, and science and to provide them with individualized, highly effective academic tutoring and mentoring support. At the Embudo Valley Tutoring Association, we support a discovery learning after school program.

Noteworthy | The aftermath of the pandemic has left students struggling to catch up to the lost learning time, even while New Mexico continues to be challenged by its 50th ranking in the U.S. educational system. Current proficiency scores at our Rio Arriba County Schools range from 14%-42% in Reading and 7%-44% percent in math and 7%25% in science (NM PED AVT Proficiency 2022-2023).

Teachers struggle, with little district support, to meet the range of needs they encounter in every grade level.

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PHOTO: MESA PRIETA PETROGLYPH PROJECT

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Explora

First Serve New Mexico

explora.us

firstservenewmexico.org

Mission | To create opportunities in our innovative

Mission | To transform Santa Fe’s students

experiential learning center for inspirational

into champions both on and off the court by

discovery and the joy of lifelong learning through

empowering them to reach their full potential and

interactive experiences in science, technology,

become lifelong learners and leaders. Our holistic

engineering, art, and math (STEAM).

approach to youth development intentionally

Proposal | Funding will go towards 24 Explora-led

integrates education, life skills, and tennis to nurture

educational STEAM outreach programs at public libraries and schools in Mora, Rio Arriba, San Miguel, and Santa Fe counties. Collectively, these programs would impact up to 1,200 learners and their families.

Noteworthy | According to a 2023 study published in the Journal of Technology and Science Education, STEAM outreach programs can have major impacts on students’ math reasoning abilities. The analysis demonstrated that average pre-test scores of elementary school students went from 40.44 to

the mind, body, and spirit of each child. We envision a future where New Mexico’s youth lead community transformation and spark societal change, leaving behind a legacy of progress.

Proposal | First Serve New Mexico is seeking funding to enhance the quality of our after school and summer programs, which currently serve over 100 students during the school year and up to 200 students in the summer months. In order to provide our program at no cost to the participants and

84.01 after implementation of a STEAM project.

their families, First Serve New Mexico (FSNM) relies

The Family YMCA

highly qualified tutors, tennis instructors, and life

laymca.org

students.

on donations and grants which enable us to hire skills coaches who provide the direct services to our

Noteworthy | First Serve New Mexico is presently in Mission | To build individual, family, and community strength by focusing on youth development, healthy living and social responsibility.

Proposal | Funding will provide positive adult staff

funding sources are needed in order to continue providing the highest quality program to the families we serve. In the past three years alone, our school year program has nearly doubled in size,

mentors, educational support, youth development

while our tennis summer camp has expanded from

programming, and substance abuse prevention

50 youth participants up to 200 in this same time

programming at the Española YMCA Teen Center.

period. This rapid growth is by far the most dramatic

Noteworthy | New Mexico Department of Health

increase that FSNM has experienced in its 21-year

(DOH) reports reveal that Española and Rio

history.

Arriba County (RAC) suffer from poor educational outcomes, multi-generational substance abuse, domestic violence, poverty, and high crime rates. A 2020 five-year 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.

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the middle of a rapid growth spurt and additional

EDUCATION

Jobs for America’s Graduates New Mexico jagnm.org

Noteworthy | Our school serves a student population in which 80% are considered “economically disadvantaged” and 100% qualify for “free and reduced lunch.” In addition, this school resides on the south end of Santa Fe, which is known for having a high population of families

Mission | To transform communities, one student

who reside in low-income areas with minimal

at a time, by re-engaging academically vulnerable

existing services and is home to the majority of our

high school students and preparing them to reach

immigrant population.

their potential through graduation and beyond.

Proposal | Funding awarded from the Santa Fe Community Foundation will directly support the Jobs for America’s Graduates New Mexico vision

May Center for Learning maycenter.org

of becoming the go-to solution among educators and policymakers throughout the state for closing equity gaps in education, graduating students most at risk of dropping out, and preparing graduates to thrive in college, career, and life.

Noteworthy | The most incredible impact statistics

Mission | To empower students with learning differences to be successful, confident learners who recognize the importance of communication, collaboration, and community. We accomplish this goal by focusing on four specific success attributes:

that give both context and results of Jobs for

Literacy, Empowerment, Advocacy, and Principles.

America’s Graduates – New Mexico are the following:

May Center is committed to developing the

49% of students are Latino(a), 48% of students

understanding of literacy and learning differences

are Native/Indigenous, 27% of students have a

by providing consultation and professional

diagnosed disability, 90% receive Free/Reduced

development to educators in New Mexico.

lunch at school, 90% Graduation Rate (compared to New Mexico’s current graduation rate of 77%).

Kearny Elementary School kearny.sfps.info

Proposal | At May Center for Learning, we know that when children have the skills and confidence to read, they are empowered to self-advocate and lead emboldened lives. With your support, we can continue our work of supporting students with learning differences and of improving literacy outcomes across the state of New Mexico.

Mission | To nurture the whole child and develop

Noteworthy | May Center has partnered with

strong pathways to college, careers, and community

schools statewide in implementing The May Way™

involvement, which lead to thriving New Mexico

structured literacy model of learning in public

communities. At Kearny, our caring and capable

school settings. In Pojoaque, 1st grade students

staff cultivate equitable, relevant, and vibrant

at Pablo Roybal Elementary who participated in

learning opportunities for our students and families.

The May Way™ model saw an increase in reading

Proposal | We are asking for general operating

proficiency from 42% to 53% during the 2022-

support to continue our efforts in providing expanded, culturally enriched learning opportunities, rigorous community-connected classroom instruction, and overall school readiness by continuing our efforts in implementing the

2023 school year alone. Three consecutive years of working with Pablo Roybal has led to the school making the largest literacy gains in the state as reported by the New Mexico Public Education Department in 2023.

Community School strategy.

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Mesa Prieta Petroglyph Project mesaprietapetroglyphs.org

Proposal | Since 1994, NDI New Mexico’s fundamental conviction is that every child has the capacity to learn to work hard, never give up, do their best, and ultimately experience success.

Mission | To protect a place. Mesa Prieta Petroglyph Project (MPPP) is exclusively organized for charitable and educational purposes, including the protection and preservation of archaeological features and the environment and cultural landscape of the Mesa Prieta region of the northern Rio Grande Valley through documentation, education, outreach and promotion of heritage stewardship.

Proposal | Our nonprofit works tirelessly to educate students and rural communities about the importance of cultural sites in northern New Mexico.

We have a need to not only address erosion control and upkeep on the mesa but to continue providing quality programming and outreach to local school districts, tribes and rural communities. Our funding request is to support general operations of staffing to continue our mission and outreach. With three staff, we depend heavily on dedicated volunteers.

Noteworthy | Mesa Prieta is on the National Register of Historic Places; the State Register of Cultural Properties and our work continues to

Our commitment is to offer all children, especially those with the greatest need, an opportunity to experience success through our unique dance programs offered during the school day and out-ofschool; our programs teach important life skills that result in a greater academic engagement, success, and self-confidence.

Noteworthy | The 2023 Kids Count Data Book ranked New Mexico as last in the nation for education and child well-being, and second to last in children’s economic wellbeing. NDI New Mexico’s programs address the gaps in education and healthcare faced by the state’s most vulnerable children, bring transformative educational and health enriching programs to more than 8,000 children per year.

New Mexico Art Education Association newmexicoarteducators.org

keep the site protected in perpetuity. We believe that education and outreach to local schools and communities will lead to being better stewards for future generations. Our continuous need is to fulfill our mission by recording the 140,000+ petroglyphs and other archaeological features at Mesa Prieta.

Mission | To advance and enhance high quality, licensed, art education within our state by offering professional development, leadership and service opportunities for its members.

Proposal | Art Education improves artistic abilities

National Dance Institute

as well as academic performance and graduation

ndi-nm.org

communities overall. Additional funding matters

rates, social emotional well-being, and strengthens to expand and deepen the impact of quality art

Mission | To help children develop discipline, a

professional training, and our efforts to support

standard of excellence, and a belief in themselves

all students’ skills, knowledge, and opportunity

that will carry over into all aspects of their lives.

regardless of poverty, ability, or location for career

National Dance Institute (NDI) New Mexico is

opportunities and life-long learning.

founded with the knowledge that the arts have a unique power to engage and motivate children.

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Noteworthy | Of the 322,989 New Mexico students, only those in grades K-6 are supported with direct arts funding through the Fine Arts Education Act of 2003. Roughly 49% of New Mexico students, those in grades 7-12, have not been included for over 20

Northern New Mexico College Foundation nnmc.edu

years, even though New Mexico is home to one of the most robust arts economies in the country. As a 1% tax on oil and gas, this model legislation provides

Mission | Northern New Mexico College is an inclusive, student centered teaching and

$53m serving approximately 165,000 k-6 students

learning community, dedicated to excellence,

at almost all New Mexico elementary schools, that

empowering students and transforming lives. We

does not extend through high school. Imagine.

support philanthropic stewardship in partnership

NewMexicoKidsCAN nmkidscan.org

with Northern New Mexico College (NNMC) by empowering student success.

Proposal | The President’s Eagle Fund (PEF) is designed to drive student success and innovation across the university. If this grant is approved,

Mission | To serve as a catalyst and conduit to advocate for community-informed, studentcentered, and research-backed education policies that work best for the children of New Mexico. By

the funds will be allocated to the PEF rather than earmarked for a specific initiative or project. This flexible funding approach allows us to address the most pressing needs of our students.

connecting policy, instructional practice and politics,

Noteworthy | Nearly 100% of students enrolled

we reimagine what is possible in New Mexico’s

at Northern New Mexico College qualify as

public education system.

underserved be it students who are first-generation

Proposal | With your support, NewMexicoKidsCAN

college students, those with limited English

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 achievement gaps in our state.

Noteworthy | We are in a literacy crisis, with assessments showing only one in three New Mexico students are proficient readers. In response, NewMexicoKidsCAN (1) released a Literacy Toolkit

language proficiency, households living below the poverty threshold, and/or those who identify as Native American or Hispanic. NNMC welcomes more than 10% of its students from Tribal Lands; and 72% of its students identify as Hispanic.

Northern New Mexico Recreation and Outdoor Conservation Foundation nnmroc.org

to help parents ensure their children receive highquality reading instruction; (2) launched the New Mexico Literacy Action Center, an online hub to empower parents to take actionable steps to improve literacy in New Mexico; and (3) advanced bill HB481, which incentivizes districts to use highquality instructional materials.

Mission | To provide opportunities to improve the quality for youth of northern New Mexico. We do this by investing in Recreation, STEAM, Literature, and Outdoor Conservation programs and activities. All of our programs are free.

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Proposal | We will be providing the After School Program to the kids of the Chama Elementary school K-6. This will be a free program that will be

Reading Quest readingquestcenter.org

Monday through Thursday from 3:45 p.m to 5:45 p.m.

Noteworthy | This district’s average testing ranking is 1/10, which is in the bottom 50% of public schools in New Mexico. Public Schools in Chama Valley Independent Schools District has an average math proficiency score of 11% (versus the New Mexico public school average of 25%) and reading proficiency score of 19% (versus the 34% statewide average).

Operation Warm operationwarm.org

Mission | To provide equitable access to quality reading instruction for all students, empowering them to believe in themselves as they become strong, enthusiastic readers. We accomplish this by providing individual and group tutoring to children who are below grade level in reading; intensive reading camps to groups of children during the summer; and workshops for public school teachers, parents and tutors for other organizations to improve their ability to teach reading.

Proposal | Reading Quest provides free individualized reading tutoring using explicit Structured Literacy aligned to the Science of Reading. We serve 440 students each week in

Mission | To provide warmth, confidence, and hope

grades 1-8 in Santa Fe, West Las Vegas, Taos,

through basic need programs that connect under-

Santo Domingo Pueblo, Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo,

resourced children to community resources they

and Cochiti Pueblo. Reading Quest’s innovative

need to thrive.

approach, while strictly adhering to science,

Proposal | Your support will help provide 792 Santa

makes literacy exciting, multi-sensory, and fun. We

Fe children with a new coat or a pair of new shoes and of socks in 2024, promoting equitable access

serve some of the most vulnerable children in our community: 85% of our students are low-income.

to education, healthy outdoor play, and improved

Noteworthy | According to the National Assessment

emotional health. New apparel will help children

of Educational Progress, only 24% of New Mexico’s

prepare for the school year with a boost to their

fourth graders scored at proficient levels in 2019

confidence and an improved physical and emotional

(Nation’s Report Card, 2019), and only 12% of

mindset.

New Mexico’s Native American students read at

Noteworthy | In Rio Arriba County, 29% of children

proficient levels (NM Voices for Children, 2019). These

live in poverty and 26% are food-insecure. 13 elementary schools in the county have a Free & Reduced Meals rate of 100%, and many families experience homelessness or addiction.

statistics dramatically illustrate the stark reality facing so many of New Mexico’s students: without a solid foundation in reading, their academic career and later life outcomes are severely limited.

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Santa Fe Christian santafechristian.org

Proposal | The Santa Fe Symphony seeks support to continue providing quality music education and sliding scale tuition for youth of all income levels and backgrounds. Our Youth Education

Mission | To equip generations of children with a quality education based on Biblical values and principles, that they will know the truth, live the truth, share the truth, and influence our community and the world for Christ.

Proposal | Santa Fe Christian School is seeking grant funding to provide tuition assistance to families in need, ensuring that every child has access to a quality Christian education, regardless of financial circumstances. Your support will help us continue to serve our diverse community and invest in the future of our students.

Noteworthy | Currently, 35% of the families at Santa Fe Christian School require financial assistance to afford tuition. This grant funding is essential to ensure that we can continue to provide support to these families and maintain our commitment to accessible education for all students.

The Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra & Chorus santafesymphony.org

Programs provide positive mentoring through classes in mariachi, jazz, orchestra, and chamber music, helping youth develop self-confidence, discipline, social emotional skills, and teamwork which supports their academic success and social emotional well-being.

Noteworthy | New Mexico is rated one of the worst states in the nation for education and for children’s chances of success; SFS’ Youth Education programs help to fill the gap in access to high quality arts education programming to help children succeed and thrive. Many families cannot afford after-school activities or other opportunities for their children.

Our youth programming helps to fill these gaps by offering reduced tuition, instrument rentals, and concert tickets for free or on a sliding scale.

Stagecoach Foundation Inc stagecoachfdn.org

Mission | To create career pathways for New Mexicans in the film and television industry through free training and workforce development facilitated by film and television professionals.

Mission | To be a regional cultural resource that

Proposal | Funding for administrative expenses,

inspires, engages, and enriches audiences of all ages

capacity building, and staffing will ensure the

and cultures through high-quality performances

continuation of and collaborative workforce

year-round. The Santa Fe Symphony (SFS) also

development initiatives designed to assist in job

aims to enrich the lives of children and their

creation for New Mexicans seeking to join the film

families in northern New Mexico through providing

and TV industry.

access to the performing arts and world-class

Noteworthy | Between 2020 and 2023, direct

music education and training for children of all

production expenditures surpassed $2.6 billion

backgrounds, ages, and abilities.

in New Mexico, opening up thousands of middleclass jobs opportunities for New Mexican TV and film crew. Stagecoach Foundation and partners are rallying to this opportunity, designing unionapproved training to enhance technical skills in film and digital media to create a ready and waiting skilled workforce.

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STEM Santa Fe

Supercomputing Challenge

stemsantafe.org

supercomputingchallenge.org

Mission | To advocate for, develop, and provide

Mission | To provide a venue for budding scientists,

STEM programming, mentoring, and resources

researchers, and engineers to learn computational

for all youth, especially underrepresented groups

science skills (modeling or simulations, data

in STEM, to realize their potential and expand

collection, visualization, research, and algorithms)

their opportunities in a dynamic world. We seek

applicable to numerous STEM fields. Middle

family and community engagement to create

and high school students are introduced to

an ecosystem of support from the beginning of

multidisciplinary research skills through a project-

schooling through college, including advanced

based learning framework where they develop and

degrees.

solve problems from description to implementation.

Proposal | Investing in the STEM education of New

Proposal | The Supercomputing Challenge is

Mexico youth is crucial now more than ever. Support

requesting funding for the 2024 - 2025 Challenge

from the Santa Fe Community Foundation helps

beginning in September 2024, to cover operating

sustain our newly-implemented programs. It allows

expenses such as personnel salaries, equipment

us to continue providing youth with role models and

maintenance, software licenses, and travel costs.

hands-on experiences that illustrate how science,

Noteworthy | Investing in the Supercomputing

technology, engineering and/or mathematics disciplines support the common goal of giving back to one’s community. Our initiatives foster curiosity and exploration with role models and experts in the STEM fields.

Noteworthy | We intend to increase the number

Challenge yields significant returns. Research shows students participating in STEM programs like ours are 3x more likely to pursue STEM degrees and careers, driving innovation and economic growth for the nation.

of students served from about 750 to more than 1,100 in fiscal year 2024-2025 with our newly implemented programs and updated outreach plan.

We forecast our student contact hours to increase from 7,160 to approximately 10,000 hours in fiscal year 2024-2025. We will also increase our student engagement programming beyond Santa Fe by an estimated 20% through our northern expansion initiatives currently taking shape.

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TOTAL NM

Twirl

totalnm.org

twirltaos.org

Mission | To support equitable outdoor learning

Mission | To support the growth and potential of

spaces for all prek-12th grade New Mexico students

children in Taos through inspirational, community-

by providing spaces for relationship building,

wide opportunities to gather, learn, create and play.

professional development, and resource sharing.

engagement and education service to children

to build capacity within our organization as we

in the Taos area. Outlying areas such as Dixon,

grow our efforts, support website design, internal

Embudo, Velarde, Ojo Sarco, and Ohkay Owingeh

programs to be more efficient, and community

lie midway between the county seats of Rio Arriba

outreach efforts to increase awareness, and finally,

and Taos Counties. Due to the regional spread and

to expand our ability to reach more partners and

topography, existing Rio Arriba educational services

create more programs and opportunities to support

often overlook this area. With your support, Twirl

outdoor classrooms for all learners statewide.

can continue to bring rich and engaging STEAM

Noteworthy | TOTAL NM has begun the first-of-

learning to the families and children in these remote

its-kind six-month Outdoor Educator Leadership

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Proposal | Twirl offers a singularly distinct STEAM

Proposal | We are requesting operational support

areas.

Program working together to create a statewide

Noteworthy | According to the New Mexico Vistas

adaptable framework supporting outdoor

report, Velarde has less than 10% of children who are

classrooms for all learners. Studies at Stanford

grade-level proficient in Math, while Dixon has 40%.

University demonstrated that environmental

However, public information for the smaller outlying

education has led to a number of positive impacts,

areas is masked because of community size.

from improving academic performance to

Notably, Twirl has a consistent presence in Peñasco

enhancing critical thinking skills to developing

Elementary School, which is attended by children in

personal growth and life-building skills including

the Ojo Sarco area, with documented success data.

confidence, autonomy, and leadership (North

This school’s children rank 80% in math proficiency

American Association for Environmental Education).

according to the same report.

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Upstart Crows of Santa Fe

YouthWorks

upstartcrowsofsantafe.org

santafeyouthworks.org

Mission | To allow kids to learn memorization,

Mission | To create opportunities for disconnected

presentation, projection, and the meaning of

youth ages 14-24 to become engaged and valued

Shakespeare’s words. No auditions are required.

members of their communities. Given a supportive

Upstart Crows of Santa Fe is a Youth Theatre group

environment, youth develop the healthy attitudes

producing four plays a year for youth ages 10-18

and behaviors necessary for coping with life’s

focused on understanding the text of principally

challenges. YouthWorks (YW) was founded in 2001

Shakespeare and sometimes other plays where

and specializes in programs designed to assist youth

youth not only act, but fill rolls of Stage Manager,

to develop social, leadership, and workforce skills,

House Manager, Fight Director, and other technical

and to expand educational opportunities while

theatre jobs to produce plays for the public.

achieving productivity and success.

Proposal | Upstart Crows requests support to

Proposal | YW seeks funding for youth-focused

purchase lighting instruments for our theatre space

training/mentoring and youth transportation and

in Eldorado. We have recently installed new battens

supply costs. YW delivers a variety of youth skills

as we improve our space step by step, and now

training tracks: construction trades, environmental

need the lamps to hang for our currently planned

restoration, farming, water conservation, customer

January 2025 Crows production of As You Like It,

service/retail management, solar installation, home

and December 2024 Shakespeare Gym production

energy efficiency retrofitting/weatherization, and

of Loves Labors Lost, as well as future productions.

a robust culinary arts training program to prepare

Noteworthy | Our space in Eldorado is exclusively

young people with meaningful skills to build

a theatre and is used by the Upstart Crows, The

tenacity, resiliency, and successful futures.

Shakespeare Gym, our annual Youth Shakespeare

Noteworthy | YW serves youth who are 94% low

Festival, and “Fight Call” training in safe stage

income, with 38% housing insecure or homeless,

combat. We also lend space to an improv group and

all of whom have encountered barriers to success.

the Incite Shakespear Company as rehearsal space.

We assist over 1,000 youth per year from Santa

We serve kids from Santa Fe, including the Indian

Fe and northern New Mexico to address the high

School and surrounding communities of Eldorado,

unemployment rate youth face and to equip them

Los Alamos, Abiquiu, and Ojo Caliente. Helping us

for workforce and career pathways. Our team is

light our stage will improve both the experience and

dedicated to support youth to overcome obstacles

quality we offer to our performers.

and connect them to practical, real skills through education and training to achieve lifelong success.

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Environment R ESULT: ALL COM M U NI T I E S H AV E EQU ITABLE ACCES S TO OU R EARTH ’ S CR ITICAL R E SOU RC E S — L A N D, WATER , AIR , AND FOOD — FOR A S U S TAINABLE AND HEALTHY ECOSYS T E M .

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

•

Create sustainable food production systems

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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All Aboard Earth / Tessa Foundation tessafoundation.org

Proposal | Treehouses, fort building, water and sand play, and outdoor exploration are the focus of the brand new Nature Discovery Area at the Randall Davey Audubon Center. Audubon seeks funding to provide free childhood programs promoting access to nature, families connecting in the outdoors,

Mission | To provide sustainability education for

and learning to conserve our local resources.

green jobs workforce pathways.

These hands-on programs prioritize exploration,

Proposal | We seek funding to build the mobile

connecting with nature, and equitable access for

sustainability workshop trailer, which includes 1) an

the community through partnerships and outreach.

aeroponic Tower Garden; 2) a vermicompost and soil

Noteworthy | Treehouses, fort building, water and

microbiology lab,; 3) a portable solar array; and 4) a

sand play, and outdoor exploration are the focus of

mini plastics recycling and manufacturing studio.

the brand new Nature Discovery Area at the Randall

This facility will be a focal point of the Sustainability

Davey Audubon Center. Audubon seeks funding to

Career Fairs which will be created in collaboration

provide free childhood programs promoting access

with Communities in Schools at schools through

to nature, families connecting in the outdoors,

Santa Fe.

and learning to conserve our local resources.

Noteworthy | The outlook for green jobs is

These hands-on programs prioritize exploration,

promising. The U.S. is expecting a remarkable growth rate of 9% over the next decade. This growth rate is eight times greater than the expected

connecting with nature, and equitable access for the community through partnerships and outreach.

(climateactionpathways.org/building-a-green-

Biomimicry for Social Innovation

economy). The opportunity is ripe to catalyze youth

bsisocial.org

expansion of the workforce, highlighting the rapid pace at which green jobs are flourishing

in the passion and pursuit of jobs that conserve and/ or improve natural resources and ecosystems.

Audubon Southwest & the Randall Davey Audubon Center southwest.audubon.org

Mission | Biomimicry for Social Innovation (BSI) helps leaders and changemakers learn from nature and apply evolutionary intelligence to cultivating a thriving, just, resilient, and regenerative world.

Founded in 2013, BSI creates tools and resources, and supports an ecosystem of practitioners who are applying nature’s genius to topics such as TrustBuilding & Collaboration; Equity & Social Justice; Adaptation & Resilience; Distributed Leadership

Mission | To protect birds and the places they need,

& Decision-making; and Network Building &

today and tomorrow, throughout the Americas

Communication.

using science, advocacy, education, and on-theground conservation. For over a century, Audubon has built a legacy of success by mobilizing its network of members, nature centers, and dedicated professional staff to connect people with nature and the power to protect it. Audubon Southwest is a regional field office, serving Santa Fe and other communities across New Mexico and Arizona.

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Proposal | Nature teaches us that thriving, resilient

Noteworthy | Coalition of Sustainable Communities

ecosystems are diverse, with organisms that each

New Mexico leads programs reducing greenhouse

bring unique strengths and contributions to their

gas emissions to benefit disadvantaged

community. Inspired by these natural systems,

communities. We played a lead role developing New

BSI is seeking funding to expand our educational

Mexico’s Community Solar Program providing a 30%

programs to participants from historically

carve-out for low-income subscribers. We created

marginalized communities in New Mexico. This

the New Mexico Climate Investment Center, the

“Cross Pollinator Fund” covers direct program

state’s first green bank, prioritizing investments in

costs for participants, including lodging, food, and

emissions reducing projects; and partnered with the

educational materials.

City of Santa Fe in 2023 in administering Solarize

Noteworthy | Our “Cross Pollinator Fund” has

Santa Fe, expanding access to rooftop solar and

ensured our workshops and retreats remain racially

energy efficiency.

diverse, inclusive, and accessible — contributing to program cohorts in which 40-50% identify as Black, Indigenous, and People of Color.

Coalition of Sustainable Communities New Mexico coalitionscnm.org

Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety nuclearactive.org

Mission | To protect all living beings and the environment from the effects of radioactive and

Mission | To develop and implement equitable climate and sustainability solutions and policies in collaboration with local governments and communities in the state of New Mexico. We advocate for climate action legislation, regulations, and administrative actions; promote local and state renewable energy and water conservation policies;

Proposal | Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety proposes creating a Nuclear Literacy: Educating Nuevomexicano Communities on the Los Alamos National Laboratory Site-Wide Environmental Impact Statement (SWEIS) curriculum and hold learning sessions in northern New Mexico.

and advance energy efficiency and clean energy

Noteworthy | In the past five years, the budget

projects, especially for low-income households.

for Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) has

Proposal | We seek funding to support our work

doubled to $5.15 billion in fiscal year 2024. The

to increase access of disadvantaged households to rooftop solar, community solar, and energy efficiency in order to reduce their utility bills. We do this by working at the state level through legislation, program and policy development, and partnerships with low-income serving organizations to provide education and outreach.

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other hazardous materials now and in the future.

LANL Site-Wide Environmental Impact Statement (SWEIS) is six years late. LANL is operating on an out-of-compliance SWEIS while more buildings, renovations, and operations have expanded. The public does not have a voice. DOE must release the draft SWEIS for public review and comment of all of the changes received through funding windfalls.

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Conservation Lands Foundation

Conservation Voters New Mexico Education Fund

conservationlands.org

cvnmef.org

Mission | To protect, restore, and expand the

Mission | To engage the people of New Mexico in

National Conservation Lands through education,

our long-standing shared values of protecting our

advocacy, and partnerships. The Conservation Lands

air, land, water, and the health of our communities.

Foundation (CLF) is the only nonprofit dedicated

We do this by mobilizing people to advocate on

solely to securing and expanding the National

policy, enhancing the voting process, encouraging

Conservation Lands, the most ecologically rich

people to vote, cultivating conservation leaders and

and culturally significant of lands managed by the

amplifying the voices of those most affected. Our

Bureau of Land Management (BLM).

vision is for a New Mexico where decision-makers

Proposal | CLF works to protect, restore, and

and public policies represent the conservation

expand valuable and vulnerable public lands across

values of our people.

the West, including in New Mexico. Believing

Proposal | We seek support to continue our

that conservation is best achieved through the

coalition work with diverse communities to protect

dedication of local communities, we created an

New Mexico’s public lands and waterways and

effective, powerful, and diverse constituency called

build support and engagement for state funding

the Friends Grassroots Network (FGN). Together, we

for conservation and community resilience.

advocate for land protections, build toward greater

Through convening coalitions, connecting affected

social justice, and safeguard landscapes essential to

communities with decision-makers, and amplifying

both people and the planet.

voices from frontline communities, we aim to

Noteworthy | The Santa Fe community, especially

address the root causes of the climate crisis that is

the south side, is made up of people earning lower than the area’s average income. With 70%

threatening communities with extreme weather events.

of low-income communities in the U.S. living in

Noteworthy | In 2022, only 6% of New Mexico’s

nature-deprived areas and only 6% of New Mexico’s

lands were protected. New data will be released

lands protected as national parks, monuments,

soon to quantify progress, but with the climate

or wilderness, protecting the Caja del Rio would

crisis, increasing development, and land and water

provide the region with outdoor access and the

degradation, there’s an urgent need to protect

opportunity for economic growth, preserve the

more land and waterways. We’re working to meet

cultural significance of the area, and support climate

the Governor’s Executive Order to protect 30% of

resiliency and biodiversity.

public lands and waters by 2030 to mitigate threats and make landscapes more resilient. Frontline communities must be centered in decisions so their concerns inform solutions.

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Continental Divide Trail Coalition

Food is Free Albuquerque fifabq.org

continentaldividetrail.org

Mission | To encourage social empowerment Mission | To complete, promote, and protect the Continental Divide National Scenic Trail (CDT). The Continental Divide Trail Coalition (CDTC) will do this by building a strong and diverse trail community, providing up-to-date information to the public, and encouraging conservation and stewardship of the trail, its corridor, and surrounding landscapes.

Proposal | CDTC seeks funding to continue to manage stewardship and trail completion programs to improve the quality and protection of the CDT and serves as a facilitating body between land managers and partners working along the CDT. CDTC has four pillars of focus: stewardship of the Trail, promotion of the Trail, building a strong Trail community, and building an organization with sound governance. These pillars guide our longterm direction as well as our day-to-day efforts to complete, promote, and protect the CDT.

Noteworthy | CDTC and its partners provided over 32,000 volunteer hours valued at $1.019 million dollars in 2023 alone, which when combined with privately raised funds by CDTC, collectively match the federal funding invested in CDTC and partners, with a return on investment of 7:1. Specific to 2023,

through the growing and sharing of fresh food.

Proposal | We are seeking funding to expand our efforts in gathering excess produce from local farms and backyard fruit trees to northern New Mexico, which we then distribute to those in need. With 10 years of experience and over 100 community partners in the greater Albuquerque area, this support will help us reach more people and enhance our impact by bringing fresh, nutritious food to underserved communities.

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 experiencing food insecurity. At the same time, we estimate that over 1 million pounds of fresh, locally grown 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 Las Vegas National Wildlife Refuge fws.gov/partner/friends-las-vegas-national-wildlife-refuge

CDTC Field Operations engaged over 100 volunteers on the CDT through 11 trail maintenance projects, providing over 1,800 hours of volunteer time spent directly on the trail.

Mission | To support the goals of the Las Vegas National Refuge Complex to preserve, protect and restore biological diversity and historical resources of the refuge landscape, while providing opportunities for wildlife-dependent recreation, education, interpretation, and scientific research.

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Proposal | The Friends of Las Vegas National Wildlife

Proposal | The Hermits Peak/Calf Canyon (HPCC)

Refuge’s (FLVNWR) requests funding to support a

Fire and suppression activities in 2022 affected

Las Vegas community created mural inside of the

many communities and large portions of the Santa

newly renovated Visitor Center at the Las Vegas

Fe and Carson National Forests, including areas

National Wildlife Refuge as well as mosaic bird

of ecological significance such as riparian, wet

sculptures at Melton Lake near the Visitor Center.

meadows, and sensitive plant habitat. Support from

FLVNWR will select two New Mexico artists (through

the Santa Fe Community Foundation will directly

a competitive selection process) to work with

aid the long-term post-fire recovery involving an

middle school and high school students on these

ongoing process of restoration, monitoring, and

projects at the Refuge this summer. Sculptor David

assessment of the damage to both the environment

Lobdell from Highlands University will help oversee

and local communities.

these projects.

Noteworthy | The HPCC Fire in 2022 was the

Noteworthy | Studies suggest that outdoor and

largest wildfire in New Mexico’s recorded history,

experiential education, wilderness youth programs,

burning a total of 345,718 acres. The fire resulted

and challenge activities increase participants’ self-

in the destruction and degradation of physical,

esteem, and the belief that they have control over

recreational, and green infrastructure. The

events that affect them. Among youth, many felt

environmental impact was and remains significant,

that spending time in nature positively impacted

affecting vast areas of the Santa Fe and Carson

their mental health, with 51.6% mentioning that “I

National Forests. Post-fire disturbance have lead to

feel calm when I am out in nature;” 22.1% said that it

a loss of biodiversity, reduced habitat quality, and

“reduces my anxiety.” 68 million people visit national

decreased ecosystem services including clean air

wildlife refuges each year.

and water.

National Forest Foundation

National Parks Conservation Association

nationalforests.org

npca.org

Mission | The National Forest Foundation (NFF) works on behalf of the American public to inspire personal and meaningful connections to our National Forests. By directly engaging communities and leveraging private and public funding, the NFF leads forest conservation efforts and promotes responsible recreation. Each year, the NFF restores fish and wildlife habitat; facilitates common ground; plants trees; protects vital watersheds; and improves recreational opportunities.

Mission | Since 1919, the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) has been the independent, nonpartisan voice working to protect and enhance our national parks for present and future generations. Today, we are focused on helping parks thrive for the next 100 years, telling the stories of all Americans, and ensuring everyone is welcome, enriched by, and empowered to protect national parks by building a new generation of advocates.

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Proposal | The current goals of NPCA’s New Mexico

Noteworthy | Native/Indigenous communities in

Programs include 1) elevating tribal voices in

northwestern New Mexico have long suffered the

public lands management; 2) working in coalition

devastating impacts of uranium mining, including

to achieve permanent protections around Chaco

increased risk of heart disease, autoimmune

Culture NHP and Carlsbad Caverns NP related to

dysfunction, cancer, and premature death. The

oil/gas withdrawals; 3) restoring clean air for New

Navajo Birth Cohort Study has found urine uranium

Mexico’s parks and people through community

concentrations in infants exceeding the US 95th

engagement on regional haze plans; 4) advancing

percentile. NMELC’s work promotes health equity by

emerging park protection campaigns at Valles

strengthening environmental laws and regulations

Caldera NP, Caja del Rio, and more; and 5) building

that better protect communities disproportionately

diverse, young adult advocates for parks.

harmed by toxic uranium contamination.

Noteworthy | NPCA’s New Mexico Office protects and enhances 15 diverse national parks in the state.

New Mexico Environmental Law Center nmelc.org

New Mexico Land Conservancy nmlandconservancy.org

Mission | To preserve New Mexico’s land heritage by helping people conserve the places they love.

Mission | To work with frontline, low-income, and

Proposal | New Mexico Land Conservancy (NMLC)

Black, Indigenous/Native, and People of Color

seeks funding to develop the 262-acre Petchesky

communities to protect our air, land, and water

Conservation Center — a natural oasis on Santa

in the fight for environmental justice through the

Fe’s south side — into a community resource for

provision of free legal services, policy development,

environmental education, conservation research,

advocacy and public education. Our shared vision

and equitable access to outdoor recreation. Your

is a state where every person, regardless of race/

support will help NMLC expand opportunities

ethnicity or economic status, has clean air, water,

for educational programming, native species

and land to sustain health and well-being.

reintroduction, and publicly accessible trails.

Proposal | Funding will allow our nonprofit to

Noteworthy | 240: The number of acres under

continue providing free legal representation

conservation easement at NMLC’s Petchesky

to frontline Native/Indigenous clients from

Conservation Center, constituting the largest tract

communities fighting for environmental justice

of permanently protected land on Santa Fe’s south

who otherwise would not be able to secure quality

side — an area that has seen rapid development

legal services. With our clients, NMELC works to

over the past decade. This piece of open space

hold polluting industries and government agencies

serves as critical habitat for species native to the

accountable and to ensure the meaningful

Santa Fe area and provides the foundation for a

involvement of impacted communities in the

community hub for environmental conservation,

development and implementation of strong,

education, and recreation.

equitable environmental policies and regulations.

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New Mexico Volunteers for the Outdoors

New Mexico Wilderness Alliance

nmvfo.org

nmwild.org

Mission | New Mexico Volunteers for the Outdoors

Mission | New Mexico Wilderness Alliance (New

(NMVFO) is an inclusive all-volunteer, action-

Mexico Wild) is a statewide nonprofit dedicated

oriented, non-political nonprofit organization that

to the protection, restoration, and continued

promotes involvement and education of the public

enjoyment of New Mexico’s wildlands and

in the maintenance, improvement, and stewardship

Wilderness areas.

of New Mexico’s public lands. NMVFO specializes

Proposal | New Mexico Wild seeks funding to

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

support our work to protect the Upper Pecos River watershed from toxic impacts of mining.

Through the Stop Tererro Mine Coalition, we will use advocacy, stewardship, and outreach to inform the public and decision-makers about the threat of mineral development to this fragile ecosystem. We

stewardship by direct action. Our volunteers

will also work to stop the National Nuclear Security

improve access to and enjoyment of public lands

Administration from building a powerline across

in northern New Mexico and across the state.

the Caja del Rio plateau while also working towards

This improved access promotes rural community

permanent protection.

economic development by increasing recreational

Noteworthy | Alarmingly, Comexico LLC, a

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

subsidiary of an Australian mining company, has ownership of 236 mining claims throughout the Pecos headwaters covering 4,300 acres. If developed, it would impact the entire Pecos watershed and possibly the Santa Fe municipal watershed. Due to its high ecological stability and

limited. NMVFO augments agency efforts to build

climate resilience, parts of the 107,000 acre Caja del

and maintain trails and recreational facilities and

Rio are among the top 20% of unprotected BLM and

enhance wildlife habitat. Since our founding in 1982,

Forest Service lands with the highest conservation

we have completed over 850 projects to improve

value in the lower 48 U.S. states.

New Mexico public lands. In 2023, we completed 35 stewardship projects and volunteered over 4500 hours (equivalent to $142K savings to land agency budgets). In addition our staff volunteered over 900 hours ($30K) for planning and logistics to sustain the organization.

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Nuclear Watch New Mexico nukewatch.org

Public Lands Interpretive Association publiclands.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

Mission | To inspire and educate the public about the natural and cultural heritage resources of America’s public lands.

weapons programs; greater accountability and

Proposal | The Public Lands Interpretive Association

cleanup in the nation-wide nuclear weapons

(PLIA) and the NM Public Lands Information Center

complex; and consistent U.S. leadership toward a

(NMPLIC) are seeking funds to serve the Santa

world free of nuclear weapons.

Fe community more effectively and create new

Proposal | We aim to educate public, media, civic

programs that will reach underserved communities

leaders, and lawmakers about the true impacts

locally.

to the environment from Los Alamos National

Noteworthy | Since October 2023, the NMPLIC has

Laboratory nuclear weapons operations and help

served 1,700 customers through bookstore sales

to ensure genuine cleanup. Funding will help

and through answering public lands inquiries over

us to speed up cleanup at the Lab, including

the phone, email, and in person. In addition to

the remediation of a large chromium plume

bookstore visitors, NMPLIC has provided outreach

that threatens the regional aquifer, and force a

events for local communities. Through additional

reexamination of decisions to leave radioactive and

funding, NMPLIC would be able to serve 3,000

toxic waste in place in unlined pits.

people and help serve specific underserved

Noteworthy | The Lab’s current budget request for

communities in Santa Fe.

cleanup is only 5.5% ($281 million) of its total budget request ($5.1 billion). At this rate, it will take many more decades to clean up the ~800,000 cubic yards of radioactive and toxic wastes that have buried for

Quivira Coalition quiviracoalition.org

decades in unlined pits and trenches. This remains as a serious threat to our irreplaceable groundwater aquifer that supplies 270,000 people and to the Rio Grande, which already has documented plutonium contamination from the Lab.

Mission | Through education, innovation, and collaboration, Quivira works in coalition with ranchers, farmers, government agencies, Tribal entities, and land stewards to foster resilience on dry working lands. Based in Santa Fe, our operations take place on working lands across the intermountain West. We envision a world where agriculture provides for the health of rural economies and communities, fosters social equity, and regenerates climate, land, water, and ecosystems.

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Proposal | Quivira seeks critical funding to help

Noteworthy | Over the past seven years, Remy’s

build resilient landscapes, food systems, and

Good Day Fund has invested over $864, 000 in

communities in New Mexico. We will increase

64 projects proposed by 31 grassroots nonprofits.

participation in state-wide, multi-sector,

In our first year of operation, we funded only

multicultural land stewardship coalitions; support

two grants, both for solar projects. To date this

historically underserved land stewards and

year, we have funded 11 projects for solarization,

producers to participate in grant programs; and help

Indigenous regenerative agriculture and improving

New Mexico producers build successful and resilient

food security, and climate change. This growth in

food supply chains by employing climate smart land

the scope and volume of our work necessitates a

management practices and shortening their sales

modest increase in our organizational capacity.

channels.

Noteworthy | Ranchers grazing livestock on

all U.S. lands, excluding Alaska. The ranchers and

Rio Grande Community Development Corporation

farmers who tend working lands in the future will

rgcdc.org

rangeland and pastures manage nearly 800 million acres of working lands in the U.S., 42% of

have an enormous impact on the resilience of our environment, economies, communities, and climate.

Quivira aims to support these land stewards and

Mission | To build stronger and healthier

leverage working lands across the Southwest to

communities by serving as a trusted and accessible

achieve that resilience.

hub for co-developing economic and social opportunities that promote self-sufficiency, honor

Remy’s Good Day Fund remysgooddayfund.org

cultural diversity, and foster intergenerational prosperity.

Proposal | In collaboration with over 50 organizations, we are committed to building an

Mission | To collaborate for sustainability and the well-being of future generations.

Proposal | Remy’s Good Day Fund wants to

equitable food system in New Mexico that fosters sustainable communities and promotes social justice. Our funding request focuses on expanding the Delicious New Mexico initiative, which addresses

increase our organizational capacity by hiring a

the fragmented supply chain limiting market access

part-time staffer for clerical and other office tasks.

for small-scale producers by creating an accessible

We are a small grantmaking nonprofit dedicated

transportation infrastructure for underinvested food

to advancing solar energy, agriculture and food

enterprises.

security, and environmental and social justice for communities in New Mexico tribal lands and northern villages. We believe that grassroots nonprofits are in the best position to prioritize community needs and develop the most beneficial solutions.

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 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.

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River Source

Santa Fe Conservation Trust

riversource.net

sfct.org

Mission | To support people advancing watershed

Mission | The Santa Fe Conservation Trust (SFCT)

stewardship to create significant community

partners with our community to keep northern

engagement and long-lasting impacts for

New Mexico’s living lands and people flourishing

intergenerational learning and ecological

together. We protect culturally and environmentally

restoration. We provide science and policy

significant landscapes, ignite people’s passion for

education and the building of watershed and

nature and enable the continual regeneration of our

climate resilience in New Mexico. Our goal is to be

healthy place.

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.

Proposal | River Source turns community

our collective quality of life by preserving land and scenic views, protecting wildlife habitats, safeguarding water resources, and expanding public

watersheds into outdoor classrooms by creating

access to nature in Santa Fe, San Miguel, and Rio

outdoor, experiential learning programs and youth

Arriba counties. We create new trails and maintain

job pathways centered on ecological restoration and

67 miles of city/county dirt trails. Our community

land and water protection. With our partners we

programs provide equitable access to the outdoors

are co-creating watershed studies and stewardship

for people of all ages and abilities. Please support

projects by combining cutting-edge technology

this nonprofit.

with information system design and culturallyappropriate development of community-centered knowledge systems which outlast and thrive beyond our services.

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

Noteworthy | Scientists stress that protecting at least 50% of the planet’s land/water is crucial to halting the collapse of ecosystems and preventing the extinction of over one million species. The 30x30 campaign aims to safeguard 30% of our land/

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

water by 2030 as an essential milestone. Currently,

their feelings about climate change negatively

about 12% of U.S. land is protected through National

affected their daily life and over 50% felt sad,

Forests, BLM land, or other designations. To achieve

anxious, angry, powerless, and helpless (Sept 2021).

this goal, land trusts are vital in collaborating

A study (Université de Sherbrooke, 2022) found that

with private landowners to conserve land and

educators observed significant improvements in

ecosystems.

attention, overall well-being, and more in 95% of students after outdoor learning and over 90% of the educators saw improvements in their own wellbeing.

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Proposal | SFCT has a proud history of land conservation and trail stewardship. We enhance

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Santa Fe Watershed Association santafewatershed.org

Proposal | Seed & Bloom needs funding to purchase essential supplies for the indoor and outdoor gardening curriculum including soil, seedlings, compost, plant food, and paper goods for class activities, as well as materials and tools to repair and reopen additional greenhouses on PNM’s grounds.

Mission | To build a thriving, resilient Santa Fe River

Noteworthy | Qualitative and quantitative studies

Watershed through collaboration, stewardship, and

have shown that there are many benefits from

education that inspires us all to care for our land,

horticultural therapy, and long-standing prison

water, and each other.

garden programs have been shown to reduce

Proposal | While we’ve all been told that “water

reconviction rates for those who participate. As

is for fightin’ over,” the Santa Fe Watershed

reported in the New York Times, “[a] 2008 study by

Association approaches all our work with the

Alison Laichter, a graduate student at Columbia

conviction that the Santa Fe River is the common

University, showed that participants in the

ground worth uniting over. Your unrestricted

GreenHouse program [at Rikers Island] had a 40

contributions turn this conviction into action by

percent lower rate of reconviction than inmates in

keeping our programs and partners connected

the general prison population.”

throughout the watershed and help us live our values from the inside out.

Noteworthy | Over 11,000 Santa Fe students have visited the Municipal Watershed as part of the My

Stop Forever WIPP Coalition stopforeverWIPP.org

Water, My Watershed program since 2010; SFWA volunteers have been cleaning the river since 2002; just last year our volunteers collected over 10 tons of trash out of the river and arroyos; our rain gardens infiltrate over 1 million gallons or stormwater per year; we have seven part-time staff.

Seed & Bloom theseedandbloomproject.com

Mission | To stop expansion of WIPP, inform and involve the public in decision making, and ensure health and safety issues are fully addressed. We envision a future of fairness and safety, in which promises made to New Mexicans by federal and state agencies are kept, and we bring attention to and support mitigation of, ongoing nuclear colonialism and the related environmental injustices experienced by the people of New Mexico.

Proposal | SFWC continues educating and Mission | To transform the lives of those who live

activating northern New Mexico on the health

and work at PNM using the healing power of plants

and safety risks of DOE’s plans to expand nuclear

and healthy food to offer professional development

bomb production at Los Alamos National Labs

and recreational education; introduce joy, growth,

(LANL) and related waste disposal, utilizing the

and opportunities for community service in the

Nuclear Materials Transport Caravan along waste

carceral setting; and ultimately help students avoid

transport routes and the Nuclear Injustice Project,

returning to prison. Seed & Bloom is a nonprofit

to educate northern New Mexico youth, mainly low

project that conducts workshops on horticulture

income, youth of color, targeted as the workforce for

and culinary arts for individuals incarcerated in the

expanded nuclear weapons production activities at

Penitentiary of New Mexico.

LANL.

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Noteworthy | SFWC turns out hundreds of New Mexico people to state/federal hearings and meetings, partners with elected officials on town

we.grow.eco wegroweco.org

hall style educational events, makes numerous presentations to community/religious groups, city, county and state commissions and agencies, translates materials into Spanish for LEP readers prevalent in Northern counties. The 1st Nuclear Materials Transport Caravan brought out more than 100 people at five villages and locations in Santa Fe County addressing risks and preparedness.

humans in thinking more critically about our relationship with the environment by facilitating interactive science, art, and community programs built upon the philosophy that small, unified actions lead to habitual, social, and systemic change. New Mexico Foundation is the fiscal sponsor of we.grow. eco.

Trees, Water & People

Proposal | We provide hands-on arts and

twp.org

environmental education programs to K-12 students

Mission | To improve people’s lives by helping

around northern New Mexico. Our lessons are place-based and standards-aligned, center creative reuse and civilian science, and foster collaborative

communities protect, conserve, and manage the

problem solving and collective action – an antidote

natural resources upon which their long-term well-

to post-COVID challenges. Your funding will help

being depends.

us offer these to more schools for less or free. We

Proposal | Trees, Water & People (TWP) invests in

also facilitate community unifying events, such as

helping rural, Indigenous communities in Central

clothing swaps and papermaking and junk journal

America and on U.S. Tribal Lands to preserve and

workshops.

protect their natural resources. TWP is actively

Noteworthy | Last school year, we diverted over

partnering with New-Mexico-based Tribal Nations

48,000 pieces of paper from the waste cycle while

on post-wildfire restoration and collaboration.

working with 787 students from 57 classrooms in

Building Tribal capacity, amplifying voices, and

both public and private schools around both urban

advancing equity, and implementing on-the-

and rural New Mexico. We worked with 17 out of

ground projects are all key objectives to support

the 32 public schools in the Santa Fe Public Schools

communities’ climate resiliency and recovery in the

district. We also estimate having swapped at least

Jemez Mountains.

one cubic ton of used textiles at clothing swaps,

Noteworthy | Regarding lands managed by the

with 100 pounds of the most deteriorated articles

Pueblo of Jemez: “The sequence of more than 500

diverted from the landfill and instead beat into pulp

[years] of perennial small fires and wood collecting

for paper.

followed by frequent ‘free-range’ wildland surface fires made the landscape resistant to extreme fire behavior, even when climate was conducive and surface fires were large” (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, January 18, 2021).

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Mission | We are an organization that engages

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Western Environmental Law Center

Women Together Global Inc womentogetherglobal.com

westernlaw.org

Mission | To provide women-led and indigenous-led Mission | Western Environmental Law Center uses the power of the law to foster thriving, resilient Western U.S. lands, waters, wildlife, and communities in the face of a changing climate.

Proposal | As a result of the U.S. Supreme Court

groups with secure access to land, so they have safe space to convene, engage in income generating activities, implement sustainable and traditional agricultural practices for local food sovereignty, and build networks of social support and solidarity.

Through peer-to-peer learning exchanges, start-up

2023 decision in Sackett v. EPA, the vast majority

resources, and technical support, women’s groups

of New Mexico’s surface waters may have lost

will be empowered to utilize the land for projects

federal water quality protections, exposing them

that uplift their communities and environment.

to severe degradation. Collaborating with partner organizations, WELC will fill in the regulatory gaps created by Sackett with a wide-ranging water resource protection campaign to protect New Mexico’s streams, lakes, and wetlands, particularly those in northern New Mexico where surface water is more abundant.

Noteworthy | In the wake of Sackett v. EPA, GIS

Proposal | We seek funding for the operational and direct project costs that will support womenled and Indigenous-led community groups to design, develop, and build land-based businesses that provide community benefits while preserving valuable ecosystems in Rio Arriba County.

Funding will provide the training, materials, and infrastructure needed for the development and

mapping analysis shows that roughly 95% of New

implementation of these projects, and the resources

Mexico’s rivers, streams, and lakes and 88% of

to nurture and strengthen partnerships between

its wetlands may have lost federal water quality

community groups.

protections otherwise afforded by the Clean Water

Noteworthy | Around the world, women are

Act (CWA). This is because Sackett limits protections to only those wetlands with a continuous surface connection to a federal jurisdictional water, and limits protection of tributaries to relatively permanent streams.

responsible for 60-80% of all food production, yet they rarely own the land they farm on. Secure access to land is essential in order to sustainably and reliably feed families, support communities, and grow businesses and dreams. To date, Women Together has supported over 500 women and girls to create environmentally responsible businesses and climate-smart farms that increased income and food security while reducing pressure on local ecosystems.

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HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES

Health & Human Services R ESULT: ALL PEOPL E A RE HE A LT H Y 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

•

Senior Services

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;

•

Access to health services, including programs providing un- and 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;

•

Building healthy communities, including built environment and infrastructure, environmental quality (toxins and air/water quality), affordable and reliable transportation, parks and recreation;

•

Providing services targeted at senior well-being, including memory care, depression, audiology, dementia, exercise, home care, hospice, and medication guidance; and/or

•

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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HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES

Abrazos Community Healing Center

American Red Cross of New Mexico

abrazoscenter.org

redcross.org/local/az-nm

Mission | To provide accessible therapy for Santa Fe

Mission | To prevent and alleviate human suffering

and Rio Arriba counties’ BIPOC (Black, Indigenous,

in the face of emergencies by mobilizing the power

and People of Color) individuals and families. To

of volunteers and the generosity of donors.

grow and train a staff of clinicians that are culturally

Proposal | We provide relief after disasters;

responsive and experts in working with all northern New Mexico’s BIPOC communities.

Proposal | Barriers to accessing Behavioral health

install free smoke alarms; meet the needs of our communities for life-saving blood; support military families; empower people to help in emergencies

services for BIPOC community members in

with life-saving skills, like CPR/1st Aid. We work

northern New Mexico can include lack of health

alongside our neighbors to build community

insurance, lack of citizenship status, language

resilience.

barriers, intergenerational trauma, or cultural stigmas about therapy. Funds will support our team of therapists, who have experience mitigating these barriers. We provide Spanish-speaking therapists, BIPOC therapists, and therapists that either share our clients cultural background, or will take the time to understand it.

Noteworthy | Northern New Mexico’s BIPOC

Noteworthy | In the immediate past fiscal year, we responded to 361 local disasters across New Mexico (30 in Santa Fe, Rio Arriba, Mora, and San Miguel counties) and assisted a total of 579 families/1,370 individuals across the state (37 families/95 individuals in those four counties). We provided $395,000+ in financial assistance ($26,000+ in those four counties) to meet the immediate emergency

communities have higher rates of poverty, lower

needs of these families and installed 1,244 smoke

rates of health insurance coverage, and fewer

alarms (181 in those four counties), making 524

culturally appropriate therapy offerings than our

homes safer (130 in those four counties).

white communities. Less than a third of the Santa Fe/Rio Arriba therapists on the Psychology Today website indicate that they serve BIPOC clients.

Abrazos is gathering and training a staff that

Assistance Dogs of the West assistancedogsofthewest.org

knows how to work with our BIPOC communities.

Additionally, we are committed to providing therapy to uninsured community members.

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 utilizing the power of the human-animal bond to create greater hope, resiliency, and purposefulness across a far-reaching spectrum of services and geographies.

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Proposal | Funding will support the acquisition,

Proposal | Barrios Unidos is here to support

training, and placement of service dogs to

individuals struggling with addiction, support

assist people with disabilities, such as mobility

families shattered by addiction, and re-engage

impairments, autism, diabetes, seizures, TBI, PTSD

community through the spirit of Querencia (the

(military and civilian), anxiety, and depression.

love of place, land, culture, and community).

Assistance Dogs of the West also places Facility,

Querencia is the love of the place where one’s

Courthouse Facility, Crisis Response, and Peer

strength is drawn from, the place where one feels

Support Dogs who work with survivors of crime

at home, and the place where you are your most

in the investigation and prosecution of crime, and

authentic self. Continuing our Barrios Youth group

helps mitigate trauma in the aftermath of mass

will bring support to our youth by empowering

violence and other traumatic incidents.

their knowledge of their culture, Querencia, and

Noteworthy | For people with disabilities (28%

heritage, thus sparking dialogue with our struggling

of New Mexico’s population), trained assistance dogs provide life-changing physical and emotional

population to create positive context as well as enhancing and nurturing empathy.

support, promote greater daily independence

Noteworthy | Santa Fe and Rio Arriba counties

and self-reliance, and offer unconditional love and

struggle with an alarming high rate of grandparents

companionship. In the Judicial System, the dogs

and great-grandparents raising grandchildren.

assist special victims’ advocates in providing a

Stress causes much distress to the health of not only

safe and supportive environment for depositions,

the grandparent/caretaker but of the family as well,

mediation, and trial preparation and testimony.

crippling community.

Barrios Unidos

Behavioral Health Providers Association of New Mexico

barriosunidoschimayo.org

nmbhpa.org

Mission | To support the hearts, souls, minds and bodies of individuals and families dealing with cultural trauma, addiction, and recovery in our counties. We bring our community, volunteers, and professionals from the sciences, humanities, and healing arts to explore and address the root causes of cultural crises and intergenerational trauma, and envision pathways of transformation. We transform our community by first transforming ourselves and our ideas.

Mission | To strengthen the behavioral healthcare system in New Mexico by providing a platform for providers to gather and share information, access education, and advocate for continuous system improvements and positive change. Behavioral Health Providers Association of New Mexico (NMBHPA) is an association of more than 70 publicly funded New Mexico behavioral healthcare provider individuals and organizations who share a vision of accessible, inclusive, and effective behavioral health service and mental well-being for all.

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Proposal | Funding will allow us to promote

Noteworthy | In New Mexico, 321,370 people are

equity within the NMBHPA, ensuring that small

facing hunger and of them 100,420 are children, that

agencies, regardless of financial limitations, have the

is 1 in 7 people and 1 in 5 children facing hunger.

opportunity to engage and advocate with NMBHPA

People facing hunger in New Mexico are estimated

for behavioral health system improvement. By

to report needing $224,401,000 more per year to

subsidizing their membership dues for three years

meet their food needs. The average cost of a meal in

at the nominal rate of $1,000 annually, we hope to

New Mexico is $3.71, with Santa Fe County’s average

eliminate financial barriers and empower these

one of the highest at $4.49. 38% of food insecure

agencies to participate in policy development,

people in Santa Fe are above the threshold to

knowledge-sharing, and collaborative initiatives

receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistant Program

facilitated by the NMBHPA. If funded, NMBHPA will

benefits (Feeding America New Mexico).

give a stronger voice to small and rural behavioral health services, particularly in the northern New Mexico catchment area.

Noteworthy | The organizational dues structure in

Bridge to Health NM bridgetohealthnm.org

the NMBHPA starts at $1,000 annually for agencies with annual revenue less than a million dollars.

Of the 70 member agencies, 10 agencies (14%) currently pay annual dues of $1,000. The NMBHPA membership is heavily weighted toward the larger behavioral health organizations in the state.

Bienvenidos Outreach, Inc. bienvenidofoodpantry.org

Mission | To provide food, clothing, and assistance

Mission | To empower everyone to move, learn, laugh, and grow in order to create a powerful culture of health by providing equitable access to wellness activities in a supportive community of diverse individuals.

Proposal | We have ambitious goals for the health and wellbeing of our community including training fitness instructors across Rio Arriba County to reach rural populations through satellite sites, improving outreach to our Spanish speaking neighbors, and expanding our childcare capabilities. Funding

with everyday needs to those in need in Santa Fe

makes it possible for us to continue offering

and the surrounding area.

accessible and affordable wellness opportunities

Proposal | We request funding to help our clients

for everyone through a wide range of culturally

with food, clothing and other necessities, always

informed and inclusive programs and events.

at no cost or obligation to them. We have worked

Noteworthy | Healthcare access has come a long

over the years to better our services as we learned

way, but access to preventative care is not on par.

more about our clients and the issues that place

Lifestyle affects over 50% of health outcomes, but

extra burdens on them. Our services now include

we only spend 4% of our national healthcare budget

pet food, special diet boxes for those who are ill,

on these factors. Research shows that heart disease

DoorDash service for those who have no transport,

is the leading cause of death in New Mexico. This

more fresh food from local farmers, and indoor

year we are improving client heart health through

garden units enabling clients to grow their own

preventative programming, an extensive array of

food.

classes, and community partnerships, with a focus on reducing the negative impacts of heart disease in our area.

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Cancer Foundation for New Mexico

Proposal | Funding will support our programs and services that target areas with a significant impact on cancer suffering in New Mexico, focusing on

cffnm.org

needs that are not otherwise adequately addressed

Mission | To help save lives by removing barriers

currently living with cancer and 9,000 new cases

and providing needed support to northern New

are diagnosed each year. On average, we serve over

Mexicans with cancer seeking medical treatment

1,200 New Mexicans (many of which are uninsured

in Santa Fe. The Cancer Foundation for New Mexico

or under-insured) through our no-cost programs

(CFFNM) is the only local, independent organization

and services. These programs and services are

offering essential services to ensure access to

developed and led by a cadre of volunteers with

treatment for all low-income northern New

support from four part-time employees. We

Mexicans with cancer who suffer disproportionately

maintain extraordinarily low overhead costs by

in their efforts to start and complete their cancer

having no physical office with over 90% of our funds

treatment in Santa Fe.

going directly into our programs.

Proposal | CFFNM seeks funding for its patient support services, such as travel mileage reimbursement, healthy meals, overnight lodging, emergency funds, and patient and caregiver

within the state.

Noteworthy | Over 100,000 New Mexicans are

Carnelian Center carneliancenter.org

support groups.

Noteworthy | New Mexico consistently ranks among the poorest states in the nation, placing 48th in overall poverty levels. Mora, Rio Arriba, and San Miguel Counties have poverty rates greater than 21%, well above the national average. The rural population also exceeds the national average, with 26 of New Mexico’s 33 counties considered totally or mostly rural. For New Mexicans undergoing cancer treatment in Santa Fe, these statistics represent real barriers to accessing treatment in the region.

Cancer Services of New Mexico cancerservicesnm.org

Mission | To provide services that reduce cancer suffering for New Mexico’s families. Cancer Services of New Mexico (CSNM) believes that a cancer diagnosis affects the entire family and envisions every New Mexican family will have access to the information, support, and resources they need to cope with cancer.

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Mission | To provide the community with affordable holistic healthcare while nurturing the individual through art, education, and cultural integration.

Holistic health at the Carnelian Center is not a luxury but a grassroots availability aiding allopathic care.

Proposal | We hope to support integrative health in rural New Mexico, specifically the Embudo River Valley. Our programs include our weekly food bank, informational newsletter, discount treatments (massage, acupuncture, craniosacral, and neurofeedback), and classes (food prep, dance, yoga, and self-development). We meet community needs for optimal health through connection, providing mutual support and learning from one another.

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Noteworthy | In 2023, we provided 952 therapeutic treatments to community members. Of those, 227 were supplemented by our Discount Treatment

Casa Milagro casamilagrosantafe.org

Program, 67% were seniors, and 290 treatments were provided through the Veterans Care Program.

Our weekly food bank distributes 3,000+ pounds of food to 120+ households, 70% of those attending are seniors. For the past 18 years, we have managed the general operations budget solely relying on community support and self-sustaining programming. The Santa Fe Community Foundation

Mission | To provide a sustainable, safe, and therapeutic home that nurtures the well-being and thriving of each of our formerly homeless residents.

Proposal | Casa Milagro needs general operating funds to provide permanent supportive housing to formerly unhoused adults with a serious mental

funded the food bank in 2020.

health diagnosis. Supporting our mission is saying

CASA First Judicial District

home, a community, support, friendship, safety,

casafirst.org

Mission | To support and promote volunteer advocacy so that children and youth from Santa Fe, Rio Arriba, and Los Alamos Counties who are trauma-impacted or system-involved can be safe, have permanent connections, and the opportunity to thrive.

Proposal | CASA First Judicial District asks for your help so that infants, children, and youth from Santa Fe, Rio Arriba, and Los Alamos Counties, who have experienced trauma, abuse, and neglect, are no

“Yes, Casa Milagro residents have the right to a food, mental health services, dignity, respect, and love.”

Noteworthy | An estimated 20-25% of the homeless population in our country suffers from severe mental illness, compared to 6% of the general public. The combination of mental illness, substance abuse, and poor physical health makes it difficult to maintain employment and residential stability.

Catholic Charities of New Mexico ccasfnm.org

longer in harm’s way, and have the supports needed to thrive. Our CASA Advocates are matched with children in foster care. We envision a community where children and youth who have experienced maltreatment have as much chance for safety, happiness, stability, and wellbeing as all other children.

Noteworthy | Last fiscal year, 127 children in our

Mission | To put faith in action to improve the lives of those in need and honor human dignity. Since our founding in Santa Fe in 1946, Catholic Charities has built a wide range of programs to meet the continually changing needs of the community throughout the Santa Fe, Bernalillo, Sandoval, and Valencia counties. Our programs include

area had a CASA First Advocate, including 94% of

immigration legal assistance, refugee support,

children in foster care in First Judicial District during

housing assistance, senior transportation, childcare,

that time. When asked, in our annual outcomes

adult education, and more.

survey, 95% of our CASA Advocates reported that the child they worked with was safer by virtue of them being involved in the case.

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Proposal | Catholic Charities Center for Immigration

Noteworthy | Comedor has operated 15 years. In

and Citizenship Legal Assistance seeks funding

2023, we provided over 45,000 meals at a financial

to expand its crucial services providing low-cost

expense of $.79 per meal with an additional $7,500

immigration assistance to vulnerable immigrant

annual overhead/administration expense. Operating

communities in Santa Fe. With increased support,

two days a week, we provide on average of 175 hot

we can help more families navigate complex

meals and distribute 85 non-perishable food bags

immigration processes, and foster stability, unity,

a day to several hundred individuals and families

and empowerment.

a year. Our income is traditionally evenly balanced

Noteworthy | The U.S. Census estimates that about

between individual and grant funding. Our

14% of Santa Fe’s population is foreign born, higher than New Mexico’s 9%. Fear of deportation often prevents many undocumented immigrants, or family members of undocumented immigrants, from accessing needed services, including financial

spending budget for 2024 is $49,600.

Coming Home Connection cominghomeconnection.org

assistance and health care. Our services help eliminate this fear and open more education and employment opportunities for those we serve.

Comedor de San Pascual, Inc

community of support for older adults and their families that provides trusted, high-quality, and compassionate in-home caregiving, resources, and

comedorsoupkitchen.wordpress.com

end-of-life care for all in need, no matter their ability

Mission | To offer nutritional support to any

requests funding for its programs that support

person or families in need by providing weekly hot meals and take-home pantry bags of selfstable food items. As needed, Comedor de San Pascual (Comedor) may also provide some items for good hygiene and basic lifestyle support such as bathroom supplies and blankets or socks in the winter. Comedor nurtures its all-volunteer staff and treats them as family.

Proposal | The Las Vegas, New Mexico community has a wide variety of people who do not receive regular, nutritional meals for a variety of reasons including old age limitations, mental disabilities, transients and college students or anyone on a limited budget. Comedor does not refuse service to anyone and does not request background or I.D. information. Rising food prices and limited low cost food sources, along with increased demand, has increased our need for funds.

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Mission | To lead, coalesce, and activate a

to pay.

Proposal | Coming Home Connection (CHC) older adults in the Santa Fe community through no-cost caregiving for low-income adults, resource navigation, volunteer companions, no-cost medical equipment loans, and paid caregiving, all of which increase access to healthcare, combat isolation, and reduce the burden of caregiving on families.

Noteworthy | In 2023, CHC served over 1,000 older adults living in the Santa Fe community; 32 lowincome adults received no-cost in-home care and 157 navigation clients received one-time or on-going assistance from our health navigator. Of those clients receiving support from our health navigator, 61 (39%) created a navigation plan to define goals and actions needed to access Medicaid support, community-based care, and transportation, and 57 (93%) of them were successful in attaining their goals.

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Cooking with Kids, Inc. cookingwithkids.org

Proposal | We seek funding to provide a safe haven (shelter) for persons who have experienced physical, sexual, and/or psychological violence; to address the needs of the community via public education,

Mission | To educate and empower children and families to make healthy food choices through hands-on learning with fresh and affordable foods.

The need that Cooking with Kids (CWK) addresses is the nutritional health and well-being of children, impacting not only overall health but educational success.

Proposal | CWK is requesting funding for handson nutrition education activities, where students explore, prepare, and enjoy fresh and 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 lives in a home without consistent access to adequate food, and one-third of 3rd graders are

awareness, and information relating to domestic abuse, human trafficking, and interpersonal violence and aggression; and to provide counseling services, advocacy, education, and other services.

Noteworthy | Domestic Violence (DV) affects every community in New Mexico. A 2015 report by the Survey of the New Mexico Interpersonal Violence Data Central Repository found there were 17,757 Domestic Violence incidents reported to statewide law enforcement agencies. During the same reporting period, 7,054 children were present at DV incident. The majority of victims of Intimate Partner Domestic Violence are women. Only one out of 10 incidents of domestic violence is ever reported.

Dental Care in Your Home dentalcareinyourhome.org

overweight or obese. Most children need repeated, positive experiences with new foods in order to accept them and many families can’t afford the

Mission | To provide oral health care to homebound and special needs individuals in their home or care

risk of introducing healthy foods that their kids

facility.

may refuse to eat. With this in mind, Cooking with

Proposal | Support for Dental Care in Your Home

Kids exposes students to a variety of positive food choices while honoring the individual choice and preference of each child.

Crisis Center of Northern New Mexico crisis-centers.org

will help our patients to receive much needed dental care in the comfort of their own home and relieve caregivers from the burden of having to transport their loved ones to a traditional dental office. Many people have associated dental visits as a traumatic experience. The ease and peace of mind they have in the comfort of their home helps our patients overcome this barrier to receiving vital oral health care that many have not received prior to COVID 19.

Mission | To educate people to make positive

Noteworthy | Dental Care in Your Home has grown

choices that help build and sustain healthy families

from seeing 1,200 patients in 2021 to 2,500 patients

and create a violence-free environment.

in 2023, with more requests for care coming in daily.

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Dixon Cooperative Market and Deli

End of Life Options New Mexico

dixonmarket.com

endoflifeoptionsnm.org

Mission | To serve the citizens of the greater

Mission | To provide information and support for

Embudo Valley by strengthening food security,

all end-of-life options, including aid in dying. Our

offering quality foods and products at reasonable

vision is for all New Mexicans to have accurate

prices, and emphasizing the sale of healthy food.

information and caring support to choose their

Governed by cooperative principles, we invigorate

end-of-life options in a system that honors those

the local economy by providing a market conduit

choices and their values. End of Life Options New

for locally grown produce and products, improve

Mexico (EOLONM) is the only New Mexico nonprofit

the quality of life and the health of our community

organization committed to advancing these

through education, and foster community

important issues on a statewide basis.

involvement in a welcoming, friendly atmosphere.

Proposal | EOLONM provides education and

Proposal | Pandemic restrictions brought increased

information to all New Mexicans, informing them

community reliance on the Dixon Cooperative

about advance healthcare planning and end-of-

Market & Deli (DCM). As restrictions have eased

life options, including palliative care, hospice, and

the DCM has been struggling with rising costs

aid in dying. EOLONM seeks support to strengthen

outpacing profits. We have actualized a plan to

and expand public education outreach and client

increase storage space which will allow us to reduce

support services in Santa Fe and northern New

the cost of products, support and incentivize local

Mexico’s communities with historically limited

businesses to supply fresh goods and services, and

access to healthcare and services.

help retain the quality jobs that were created during the pandemic. We seek funds to help to stabilize our efforts while we complete our expansion.

Noteworthy | Total sales in 2021 increased 60%

Noteworthy | Research indicates that fewer than one third of Americans have advance healthcare directives or detailed medical instructions in the event they cannot communicate their own end of

over pre-pandemic numbers, however recent

life wishes — leaving many individuals and families

drastic fluctuations in cost of goods and increases

without clearly stated end-of-life plans. EOLONM

for wages have outpaced profits. While our sales

addresses this gap by focusing on advance

increased by 25% from one period to the other, costs

healthcare planning and end-of-life options to

increased by 41%. The DCM improved pay - raising

ensure that all New Mexicans have quality of life at

wages to a minimum of $15.00 (from $9.00 in 2019

the end of life.

and over the State minimum of $11.50) - a rapid improvement of over 67% in only four years. We are proud of this shift toward more equitable pay.

Española Pathways Shelter espanolapathwaysshelter.org

Mission | To prevent homelessness and to provide our homeless community with access to viable pathways, shelter, and essential services aimed toward meeting their personal goals.

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Proposal | Española Pathways Shelter (EPS) requests funding to offset the onboarding of a parttime Client Liaison. The Client Liaison is needed

Forest Stewards Guild foreststewardsguild.org

to routinely go from tent to tent and begin the process of facilitation of each person’s immediate needs as well as work to navigate people through the consideration of services more suited to case management (such as goal setting that can lead to rehabilitation). The Client Liaison serves as an advocate and a bridge between EPS and persons living in tents.

Noteworthy | In the last year, the proliferation of substance abuse as well as the nature of the actual substance upon the human body, has created a “tent city” within the boundaries of EPS’s property.

There are approximately 36 tents with at least two occupants per tent. The nearly 70 occupants receive daily showers, meals, and emergency services.

February saw a spike in meals with nearly 3,000 meals were served. The city of Española closed an adjacent tent city, causing an increase in occupancy at EPS.

The Food Depot thefooddepot.org

Mission | To practice and promote sound forestry practices as a means of sustaining the integrity of forest ecosystems and the human communities dependent upon them. The Forest Stewards Guild envisions ecologically, economically, and socially responsible forestry as the standard for professional forest management in the United States. The Fire Adapted Communities New Mexico Learning Network connects people with the resources they need to prepare for, respond to, and recover from increasingly frequent wildfires.

Proposal | As exposure to wildfire continues to increase with climate change, many communities need support to mitigate their smoke exposure.

Working through existing partnerships, the Guild will address this need by expanding our smoke exposure mitigation program to donate HEPA home air filters to high-risk individuals. We will improve neighborhood living conditions, especially in historically disadvantaged communities, by supplying filters and building connections between community leaders and residents.

Noteworthy | Current estimated annual global

Mission | To foster healthy communities by

premature mortality attributed to wildfire smoke

engaging a network of partners and developing

is 339,000. In 2023, the average number of days

solutions for a hunger-free New Mexico.

residents were exposed to high levels of fine particle

Proposal | As the food bank of northern New

pollution (>PM2.5) increased to 18.3 days from 16.5

Mexico, The Food Depot leads bold and dignified

days in 2022. Although people of color are 41% of

solutions to food insecurity in its nine counties,

the overall U.S. population, they make up 54% of

26,000 square mile service area. By leveraging its

the nearly 120 million people living with at least one

scale, The Food Depot can maximize the impact of

failing grade for unhealthy air. Western U.S. has 23 of

an array of innovative direct service programs while

the 25 worst cities for short-term particle pollution.

also supplying fresh, healthy food to its 76 partner organizations that each meet the region’s unique local challenges.

Noteworthy | In the fiscal year of 2022-2023, The Food Depot supplied 9,519,094 pounds of food to 45,369 individuals. Of this food, 62% was fruits and vegetables, 47% was fresh produce, and 19% was protein items.

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Free Flow NM, Inc.

The Friendship Club

freeflownm.com

friendshipclubsantafe.org

Mission | To help end period poverty in our

Mission | To provide and maintain a multi-use

community. We believe period products should

community center that promotes activities and

be as easy to access as toilet paper. No individual

events focusing on mental, spiritual, and physical

should miss school, work, or daily activities because

recovery. To provide an inviting, safe, and supportive

they do not have access to menstrual products.

environment where people in recovery can heal and

We strive to serve any population in need of these

help one another, which helps link our members

services, including students of all ages, people

to health-related services. Established in 1979, the

experiencing homelessness, and working and non-

Friendship Club serves as a meeting hub for the

working individuals who cannot afford menstrual

recovery community, hosting groups in new and

products.

long-term recovery. We save lives!

Proposal | We seek general operating funds to

Proposal | Our goal is to continue to offer and

support our five programs. We distribute 300,000+

increase our services to the recovery community.

period products yearly with 50+ community

Noteworthy | The CHRISTUS St. Vincent 2023–2025

partners and our 24/7 accessible Period Pods.

Each period kit includes an offer for reusable products, and our Special Education Program offers five pairs of period underwear to students with neurodivergent conditions. Our Period Education and Bagging Program raises awareness about menstruation and period poverty, empowering participants to tackle this issue locally.

Noteworthy | Period poverty means that millions of individuals with periods are subjected to injustice and inequity due to menstruation. There is no federal program that assists with the costs of period products. EBT, WIC, and SNAP do not cover

Community Health Needs Assessment includes adult behavioral health (substance use and mental illness) as one of Santa Fe County’s top priorities and challenges to residents’ well-being. The Friendship Club hosts various groups to support mental health and recovery from substance use disorder and serves as a critical component of the continuum of care, improving the overall health and well-being of our communities in Santa Fe and surrounding areas.

Gerard’s House gerardshouse.org

menstrual products; they are considered luxury items. Consequently, one in three low-income menstruators report missing work, school, or similar events due to inadequate access to period supplies.

We aim to bridge this gap, enabling individuals to remain engaged in their lives.

Mission | To create safe spaces where healing happens through acceptance and peer support for grieving children, teenagers, families, and adults after the death of — or separation from — a loved one. We provide 24 free weekly peer grief support groups, crisis response services, summer camps, suicide/safety interventions, and services to help meet emergency needs and more, with seven of those programs tailored to the unique strengths and needs of individuals and families experiencing life-changing loss.

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Proposal | With funding support, we are seeking

Noteworthy | According to the 2022 Survey of

to expand our work in the following four areas: 1)

Consumer Finances, the typical Hispanic family had

English-language adult grief support, with three

only 20% of the wealth of the typical white family

newly-added groups that filled up quickly; 2)

and the typical Black family held only 15% of the

Successful collaborative groups for grieving youth

wealth of the typical white family. Homeownership

and adults underway at Ohkay Owingeh and

is one of the most important ways that Americans

Kewa pueblos, and Española Valley; 3) Spanish-

create financial security for their families and

language grief support for youth with immigrant

build wealth. Improving the homeownership rate

roots, serving 200+ public school students in 2023

of Hispanics and Blacks is the primary means of

and continuing to grow; 4) Creating a more grief

narrowing this persistent wealth gap.

sensitive community through public workshops at schools and businesses.

Noteworthy | Though many grieving children and teenagers feel unsupported in their grief, 80%

Inside Out recoveryinsideout.org

of K-12 students in our Nuestra Jornada groups feel more supported by others after 10 weekly grief support groups. Gerard’s House’s role is particularly relevant in New Mexico, the state with the second 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.

Homewise Inc. homewise.org

Mission | To help create successful homeowners

Mission | To offer peer support through our own experiences to individuals and families reaching toward recovery. We believe that all lives have meaning and that as a community we can create change. Inside Out is a peer-driven, communitybased center, focusing on the needs of the indigent population.

Proposal | With further support we will be able to expand our services, which include the distribution of food (both food boxes and hot nutritious breakfast and lunches served), hygiene kits, clothing, extreme weather sleeping bags for homeless, NARCAN training and kits, mail service for the homeless, computer lab access, educational

and strengthen neighborhoods so that individuals

groups (life skills I & II, conflict resolution, seeking

and families can improve their long-term financial

safety trauma curriculum), and assistance with

well-being and quality of life.

entrance into detox, rehab, and medically assisted

Proposal | Homewise seeks to significantly reduce

treatment.

the racial wealth gap in New Mexico by assisting

Noteworthy | In January and February 2024, we

traditionally disadvantaged groups, including low-

provided services to 592 individuals. Of those, 230

and moderate-income individuals and families

identified as female, 362 male, 473 Hispanic, 49

in becoming homeowners through free bilingual

Native American, 3 Black/AA, 58 Caucasian, 2 Asian,

financial literacy and homebuyer education classes

and seven Mixed Race. 1,170 individual peer support;

offered at in-person workshops in Santa Fe as well

184 group attendance; 418 opiate use disorder;

as online.

109 mail services; 479 breakfast services; 661 lunch services; five detox/rehab entries; and 140 specific homeless population of people served.

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Interfaith Community Shelter Group, Inc.

Kids Counseling Inc. kidscounselingnm.com

interfaithsheltersf.org

Mission | To provide a comprehensive and effective Mission | To provide short-term survival services as well as active service experiences for volunteers, and additional long-term services in collaboration with the City of Santa Fe and other local service provider partners. Our vision is to offer hope and a safe place for those who are homeless or vulnerable and in the greatest need as they overcome adversity.

Proposal | The explosion of mental health and substance use disorders resulting from both the pandemic and the fentanyl crisis, and the shortage of affordable housing in Santa Fe, have all contributed to an increase in homelessness in our community. Interfaith Community Shelter (ICS) is working feverishly with other community service providers to minimize service gaps and to move homeless individuals from the trauma of the streets to a comfortable bed, a hot meal, and a myriad of services that will eventually lead to permanent housing.

Noteworthy | In the first half of fiscal year 20232024 (July-December), the Interfaith Community Shelter provided a warm bed to 767 homeless individuals. With the help of a committed group of volunteers every evening, the Shelter provided

continuum of care that will provide culturally competent, holistic, high-quality, communitybased mental health services that promote positive social-emotional development to children and their families in San Miguel and Mora counties.

Proposal | The objective of this proposal is to allow Kids Counseling Inc. to continue to build capacity by operating a Multi-Disciplinary Team in Mora County with the intent of improving the investigation, prosecution, and handling of child abuse and sexual abuse cases.

Noteworthy | According to the NM Kids Count Data Book, in fiscal year 2022-2023 (from July 1, 2022, to June 30, 2023), for every 1,000 children under the age of 18 in Mora County, approximately 20 were abused or neglected, and of all substantiated allegations of child abuse, 8% were for physical abuse, 2% were for sexual abuse, and 92% were for physical neglect.

Kiwanis Club of Sangre de Cristo Sunrise kiwanis.org

24,801 meals, including 1,039 dinners to people who are hungry and come to the Shelter for a meal only.

Trained ICS navigators enrolled 276 people in the Santa Fe CONNECT system that provides referrals to life-stabilizing services with the goal of finding a permanent housing solution.

Mission | To mentor youth leadership skills through Kiwanis Key Club in high school and Kiwanis K-Kids in lower grades, and to feed otherwise hungry kids on weekends through our Food for Thought program. Kiwanis Club of Sangre de Cristo Sunrise in Las Vegas, New Mexico is part of a global organization of volunteers dedicated to improving the world one child and one community at a time.

Proposal | Funding will allow us to continue to provide and expand our services. Kids do not learn well when they are hungry. At a cost of approximately $1,000 per month for purchases of food, Sunrise Kiwanis Food for Thought volunteers

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to the homes of families, serving 64 children. These

are uninsured. La Familia seeks financial support,

children have free lunches at school during the

so everyone in our community has access to high

week but might otherwise be inadequately fed on

quality healthcare.

weekends. Sunrise Kiwanis volunteers order, pack, and deliver food, while donations provide the funds to purchase food.

Noteworthy | A 2021 report from the Brookings

Life Circle lifecirclenm.org

Institution analyzed the impact of a program that offered schoolwide free meals and found an improvement in math performance (particularly among elementary and Hispanic students). While Las Vegas schools provide free lunches during weekdays, Sunrise Kiwanis sees a need to do the same on weekends for children with otherwise inadequate nutrition. A hungry child is not ready to excel in learning.

La Familia Medical Center dba La Familia Health lafamiliasf.org

Mission | To be a place to turn to for elders and their families to balance the many needs associated with aging, focusing on the well-being of our clients as we provide socialization, daily joy, and respite for family caregivers. We provide programming for elders living with dementia and elders who require support services to enhance their daily lives. Trained and loving staff provide engagement with activities that meet their physical, cognitive, emotional, and spiritual needs.

Proposal | Life Circle is requesting support for programming activities, supplies, and staff hours.

Noteworthy | Our Santa Fe community has an aging population with 23.8% over the age of 65

Mission | To foster community well-being in partnership with our patients by providing excellent, accessible, family-centered medical, dental, and behavioral healthcare.

Proposal | La Familia Health (LFH) provides medical, dental, behavioral health care, and wrap around services to anyone in our community, regardless of ability to pay. LFH seeks unrestricted funding to address critical health needs of low-income children, women, and seniors. LFH’s Health Care for the Homeless program provides comprehensive care and intensive case management to unhoused individuals in shelters, transitional housing, and

years old. With cases of dementia on the rise, there is an insufficient number of caregivers available to meet the need. While our local community has an elite population of the very wealthy, it also has 13% of its population on the poverty level. This creates a disparity in who can afford professional care and who can’t. In 2024, 43,000 people over the age of 65 are living with Alzheimer’s in New Mexico.

The Life Link thelifelink.org

through street outreach.

Mission | To help hungry, homeless, and displaced

Noteworthy | For 52 years, generations of Santa

individuals and families achieve self-sufficiency

Feans have called La Familia their medical home. Last year, LFH served 15,215 patients in more than 55,000 visits. Approximately one out of 10 individuals in Santa Fe is a patient of the

through emergency assistance, housing, employment services, and other supportive programs including advanced addiction and mental health treatment services.

organization. Overwhelmingly, 75% of Hispanic/ Latinx patients live at or near poverty, 50% require services in a language other than English, and 40%

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Proposal | At The Life Link, we are always trying to

year or 22/day and rising (Data from American

assist our clients to thrive and become successful in

Addiction Centers). Participation in the Veteran’s

their individualized goals. Any financial assistance

Meditation Retreat will reduce this rate and save

would greatly improve our ability to provide the

lives.

support our clients are seeking.

Noteworthy | The Life Link’s Comprehensive Community Support Services have supported 528 unique clients in 2023. Our outreach team served

Luciente, Inc. lucienteinc.org

281 clients experiencing homelessness in 2023. We were able to connect 35% of our homeless clients to supportive services.

Life Transition Meditation Center lifetransition.com

Mission | To support the children in our communities by working to eradicate hunger and to reduce the social determinants that negatively impact a child’s ability to connect, learn, and thrive.

Proposal | Luciente, Inc. is seeking funding for the continued operation of our school food pantries. Our pantries provide healthy snacks for school children in under-served communities in northern Rio Arriba

Mission | To use somatic meditation to harmonize our physical and subtle energy bodies, enhancing our relationship with “Source,” and healing our physical, mental, and emotional experience. To make the principles and techniques of somatic meditation accessible using various teaching formats, to all individuals who are guided to

County.

Noteworthy | 100% of the children in our schools qualify for free lunch, but for some, that lunch is the only nutritious meal of their day. The extra food that our pantries provide ensures that no child goes hungry.

patterns that limit living a full life, our experience,

Luna Community College Foundation

appreciation of life, and each other.

lunafoundationnm.org

learn the practice. We commit to work together in community and individually in releasing the

Proposal | The freely offered Veteran’s Meditation Retreat requires $80,000 to execute. The 2nd Annual Veteran’s Meditation Retreat is a resource to help veterans suffering from chronic stress, anxiety, depression, and other mental/emotional trauma. The funding will be used to pay for lodging, administration, and transport of veterans to and from the retreat, which is being held at the Clyde Hotel in Albuquerque, in September 2024.

Noteworthy | New Mexico has 144,977 veterans, of which 13,580 are females raising families in their communities. Veterans have higher levels of trauma and suicide rates than the general population (2021 Profile, NM Dept. of Workforce Solutions). Veteran suicide rates are at the highest level in recorded history with annual deaths by suicide at over 6,000/

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Mission | To raise and manage private resources that support the educational mission and priorities of the Luna Community College (LCC). The mission of Luna Strong program is to increase student success, engagement, retention, and completion by promoting the 8 Dimensions of Wellness (emotional, physical, occupational, social, spiritual, intellectual, environmental, and financial).

Proposal | These funds will support the continuance of our successful Luna Strong Food Security Program, which provides meals and non-perishable food for students, faculty, and staff via food pantries across campus.

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Noteworthy | The 2023 Statewide Basic Needs survey revealed students, faculty, and staff basic needs are not being met at LCC, 67% of students

The Memory Care Alliance thememorycarealliance.org

and 49% of staff are food insecure (221 respondents).

43% of students and 38% of faculty and staff are experiencing very low food insecurity with disrupted eating patterns and reduced food intake (e.g. skipped meals and weight loss). The survey also indicated that 61% of the community were housing insecure and 28% experienced homelessness in the prior 12 months.

Magio Organization

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 believe that creating communities of caregivers who help each other is the key to living well with dementia. Help us provide compassionate and practical support to families caring through support and grief groups, dementia friendly social

Mission | To promote peace and well-being where people live through research, piloting, and implementation of innovative housing solutions, thereby increasing residential stability and reducing racial, gender, social, cultural, religious, and political polarization and inequity.

Proposal | Please help us research and continue to make inroads in this unique approach to pairing the interests of local New Mexico businesses with the needs of its loyal workforce. The timing of your gift/ grant could literally make the difference this year,

opportunities, and heart-centered training and education.

Noteworthy | In 2020, there were 43,000 New Mexicans with dementia, expected to increase to 53,000 by 2025. There are an estimated: 85,000 caregivers providing 157,000,000 hours of unpaid care. Of these, 56.3% reported at least one chronic health condition, and 34.2% reported having depression (New Mexico State Plan for Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Dementia 2022).

as a $5,000 grant is a third of our average operating

Mesa to Mesa

budget. The program manager is 90% volunteer and

mesatomesa.org

the program itself has few, but real, administrative costs.

Noteworthy | During the pandemic years of 2020 and 2021, our organization was able to work in collaboration with another Santa Fe nonprofit to provide temporary stays to over 500 people and stable work-trade housing and food to 12 individuals with a gross operating cost of $72,000/year, which is equivalent to one middle class salary.

Mission | To bring people together to improve the health, safety, and security of low-income homeowners in northern New Mexico by performing minor repairs to their homes, facilitating larger repairs by means of referrals and collaborations, and providing home maintenance education. To improve the health, safety, and security of low-income homeowners and keep them in their homes if at all possible. All of our services are free of charge to our clients. We are located in Española, New Mexico and provide free of charge home repairs to low-income homeowners; projects are completed either by licensed contractors or by volunteers. The majority of our clients are elderly, disabled, and live alone on a very limited budget.

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Proposal | Funding will allow us to continue

Noteworthy | Mora County has a “frontier county”

and expand our service to those in need in our

designation, which means there’s a population

community.

density of less than six people per square mile.

Noteworthy | The Centers for Disease Control and

Many residents are homebound and/or lack

Prevention estimate that people spend more than 50% of each day inside their homes, demonstrating an urgent need to ensure that all people have access to safe, healthy housing. Our clients spend more than 50% of each day inside their homes and are among the most impoverished in our service area. The percentage of people living in poverty in Rio Arriba County is 18.1% according to U.S. Census Data 2023, this is well above the national level of 11.5%.

Mora Valley Community Health Services, Inc. mvchs.org

transportation. All 400+ students at the school district qualify for and/or receive a free or reduced lunch. Mora has an aging population, with 30.7% of the population being 65 years of age or older. 57% of MVCHS’ patients qualify for the Sliding Fee Discount Schedule. Income thresholds are based on Federal Poverty Guidelines.

Naprapathic Research Foundation naprapathicresearchfoundation.org

Mission | To promote evidence-based science to support natural healing and anti-inflammatory, non-pharmaceutical solutions to pain, considering

Mission | To provide excellent primary care (medical, dental, and behavioral health) and other services to Mora residents, while ensuring exceptional customer service.

Proposal | Mora Valley Community Health Services, Inc. (MVCHS) is the “go-to” organization for many individuals in Mora. MVCHS provides primary medical, dental, and behavioral health services to patients regardless of their ability to pay. MVCHS has an Indigent Medication Fund that assists patients who cannot afford medication(s). MVCHS operates both Personal Care and Adult Day Services programs. MVCHS operates a community pantry, which provides a variety of supplies to students at

them the standard health paradigm. Naprapathic Research Foundation (NRF) collaborates closely with manual therapy soft-tissue naprapathic clinics to demonstrate the efficacy of soft tissue manipulation and healthy nutritional choices.

Proposal | NRF aims to establish an assistance program that offers soft tissue manual treatments to veterans affected by physical pain, PTSD, and to those who are at risk of substance abuse, such as opioids. While treatments will be offered to veterans in New Mexico, the impact of this project will extend further, as its outcomes will be published as part of a research project. Funds would support the initial costs of launching the program.

the School Based Health Center and adults at the

Noteworthy | 80% of opioid consumption occurs

Main Clinic.

in the U.S. Nearly 50% of all veterans experience pain, with many also exhibiting PTSD. Addressing multimorbidity of pain and PTSD with effective nonpharmacologic interventions is urgent. Research into alternative treatments is limited, but there is growing recognition of integrated approaches and natural options. Soft-tissue manipulation is emerging as a valid integrative health option, yet, its efficacy is still in its early stages of investigation.

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New Mexico Appleseed nmappleseed.org

New Mexico CASA Association newmexicocasa.org

Mission | To correct 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 like serving meals, educating children, and assisting 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 | We are seeking funding to conduct comprehensive research into the Women and Infant Care program (WIC), focusing on understanding client needs and effective interventions and practices, including interviewing clients to understand essential strategies and areas for improvement. We also hope to expand our program

Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) programs that provide advocacy for abused and neglected children in foster care throughout the state of New Mexico, and to advocate for effective public policy and processes for children and families involved with the state’s child welfare system. Our organization provides capacity-building services and support that help the CASA programs throughout the state of New Mexico provide effective volunteer advocacy services for foster youth.

Proposal | We are requesting support for our collaborative efforts to expand advocacy services for foster youth in New Mexico in order to improve safety, health, and well-being outcomes for this vulnerable population.

to reach vulnerable populations through early

Noteworthy | Studies have shown formal

education centers and home visits, prioritizing

volunteering dropped dramatically, both nationally

accessibility and tailored support for those in need.

and in New Mexico, from 2019 to 2021. This trend

Noteworthy | According to the USDA, research

of declining volunteerism has not been corrected

has shown that WIC reduces fetal deaths and infant mortality, improves growth rates, decreases iron deficiency anemia, improves dietary intake of pregnant and postpartum women, and reduces intellectual development. However, only 51.2% of eligible individuals participated in WIC, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

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Mission | To develop and support the Court

post-pandemic and CASA programs in New Mexico are experiencing record low numbers of volunteers.

To address this trend, the New Mexico CASA Association will collaborate with CASA programs in the state to implement recruitment, outreach, and training strategies to increase the number of CASA volunteers available statewide.

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New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty

New Mexico Coalition to End Homelessness

nmpovertylaw.org

nmceh.org

Mission | To advance economic and social justice

Mission | To assist communities to create solutions

through education, advocacy, and litigation. New

to homelessness, from prevention through

Mexico Center on Law and Poverty (NMCLP) works

permanent housing by using action, advocacy, and

with our communities to improve living conditions,

awareness. We believe everyone deserves a home.

increase opportunities, and protect the rights of

Proposal | At the New Mexico Coalition to End

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 | Funding for NMCLP will support

Homelessness, we work with over 80 agencies and partner providers around the State to offer comprehensive services, housing options, resources, funding, and advocacy to support individuals and families experiencing homelessness. Our funding request is to continue supporting our Coordinated Entry System services in Mora, Rio Arriba, San

collaborative advocacy with families and community

Miguel, and Santa Fe counties, to streamline

leaders to: 1) Transform New Mexico’s public

housing for individuals/families experiencing

education system to be sufficient and equitable for

homelessness.

all students; 2) Expand access to quality, affordable

Noteworthy | In the calendar year of 2023, our

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, healthy, and affordable housing in New Mexico.

Noteworthy | Our state has strong families

Homeless Management Information System data team logged 1,306 people in Santa Fe County, and 53 individuals in San Miguel and Rio Arriba counties, who experienced homelessness and were served by a government-funded agency. Additionally, in 2021 the Santa Fe Journal found that New Mexico

and communities, but long-standing structural

is 32,000 affordable housing units short and the

inequities have created significant barriers and

2021 Santa Fe Housing Report noted “an estimated

hardships. Nearly 24% of our children are growing

shortage of 7,343 rental units in the Santa Fe

up below the poverty line, and our families face

Metropolitan Statistical Area.”

widespread food and housing insecurity. In the landmark Yazzie-Martinez ruling, our public education system was found insufficient for more than 230,000 students. NMCLP’s work builds access to resources and opportunities for hundreds of thousands of individuals statewide.

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New Mexico Doula Association nmdoula.org

Proposal | We go beyond basic needs to invest in a safe, stable future for foster children by honoring their individuality and providing them with childhood experiences. Funding provides

Mission | To continue the legacy of communitybased doula services while advocating for systemic change in healthcare to ensure equitable access and outcomes for all. We do this through direct services, advocacy, and education. The New Mexico Doula Association is a birth and reproductive-justice focused organization led by community activists, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) who represent our diverse statewide communities.

Proposal | Your investment supports our mission to continue the legacy of community-based doula services while advocating for systemic change in reproductive healthcare to support equitable access and outcomes for all.

Noteworthy | The Maternal Mortality Rate in New Mexico is 28 per 100,000 live births, exceeding the national average. Black women, comprising only 2% of population, are four times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes. Over 60% of maternal deaths, often due to preventable conditions like cardiomyopathy and mental health/substance issues, occur postpartum. Native American mothers, comprising 11% of the population, represent 20%

the resources to fulfill the children’s and youth’s requests for new clothes/shoes, birthday presents, bikes, musical instruments, adventures like summer camp and dance class, and things that help with a stable transition to adulthood like scholarships and bank accounts. Together, we can help foster children thrive and find future success.

Noteworthy | The 2,000 children in New Mexico state or tribal foster care have experienced trauma, often measured by Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). “51 percent of the children in the child welfare system who have taken this questionnaire have had four or more ACEs, while outside of foster care, only 13 percent of children had the same” (News from our Heart). These “stressful, traumatic events are linked with health problems… such as alcohol and drug abuse, depression, and heart disease” (Kennedy, 2021).

New Mexico Immigrant Law Center nmilc.org

of maternal deaths, underlining urgent needs for support.

New Mexico Friends of Foster Children nmffc.org

Mission | To advance justice and equity by empowering low-income immigrant communities through collaborative legal services, advocacy, education, and community resources.

Proposal | We seek funds to ensure health access and safety for immigrant victims of violence, including those experiencing domestic violence

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.

Children and youth in foster care deserve more than having their basic needs met; they deserve the opportunity to recover from their trauma and to grow educationally, emotionally, and socially.

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or child abuse, victims of human trafficking, and low-wage immigrant workers who have experienced workplace exploitation. Funds will be used to provide free immigration legal services and advocacy for these vulnerable immigrants in partnership with community organizations to improve their safety and eligibility for health insurance.

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Noteworthy | According to recent census data, there are 21,250 immigrants in the City of Santa Fe. An estimated 30% of this population are

New Mexico Legal Aid, Inc. newmexicolegalaid.org

undocumented, and therefore at heightened risk of violence and exploitation due to victims’ fear of deportation, lack of knowledge of their rights, power imbalances between abuser and victim, and language and cultural barriers to reporting crimes.

New Mexico Kids Matter nmkidsmatter.org

Mission | To advocate for children who have been

Mission | To be the voice, defender, and advocate for poor people who are seeking justice in all forums, particularly in the communities in which they live. New Mexico Legal Aid (NMLA) is committed to helping poor people in their struggle to access food, shelter, security, and to preserve their unique cultural heritages.

Proposal | NMLA provides free civil legal services to help overcome obstacles faced by many lowincome New Mexicans. Legal assistance is critical

abused or neglected by empowering community

for preventing unlawful eviction, ensuring access to

volunteers (CASAs) to speak up for them in the

benefits, preventing consumer fraud, and resolving

foster care system with the goal of ensuring that

family law issues, including domestic violence. We

every child grows up in a safe, nurturing, and

seek funding to provide legal services to vulnerable

permanent home.

populations in Mora, Rio Arriba, San Miguel, and

Proposal | New Mexico Kids Matter addresses the

Santa Fe counties, including Senior Citizens,

critical need for advocacy and support for children

Veterans, the homeless, LGBTQ+, and other at-risk

in foster care due to abuse or neglect. Through

communities.

our Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA)

Noteworthy | In New Mexico, approximately half of

program, we aim to ensure that each child in

residents in poverty face at least one legal problem,

Bernalillo County has a dedicated CASA volunteer to

with 14,000 low-income individuals per one NMLA

advocate for their best interests in court, providing

attorney. While the need has skyrocketed, funding

a consistent, caring adult presence during a

has sharply declined. Research shows that receiving

tumultuous time in their lives. We are requesting

legal services significantly improves individual

funding for general operating expenses to support

and community well-being, resulting in increased

the CASA program.

incomes, reduced rates of depression and PTSD,

Noteworthy | In Bernalillo County, there are

decreased healthcare dependency, and lower risks

approximately 1,000 children in foster care, yet only about 200 of these children currently have a CASA volunteer to advocate for their best interests.

Studies show that children with a CASA volunteer are more likely to find a safe, permanent home,

of domestic violence, child abuse, and neglect.

Ojo Sarco Community Center facebook.com/OjoSarcoCommunityCenter

receive necessary services, and perform better in school. By increasing funding for our CASA program, we can bridge this gap and ensure that every child in the Bernalillo County foster care system has the advocacy they deserve.

Mission | To provide a public space that fosters community pride and enriches the lives of the people of Ojo Sarco through programs and activities. Ojo Sarco Community Center follows the Community that Cares model, focused on providing essential programming for child development, fostering self-esteem and confidence. Our programs integrate coping skills and strengthen connections

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with families and the wider community. As the only

Roots referrals. Though medical care accounts for

public space accessible to community members for

10-20% of modifiable contributors impacting an

gatherings, our community center plays an essential

individual’s health, the other 80% relate to social and

role in nurturing collective well-being and social

environmental factors. Childhood food insecurity is

connection.

extremely high in Rio Arriba (26%), Santa Fe (23%),

Proposal | Funding will allow us to continue to

San Miguel (32%), and Taos (28%).

strengthen and expand our services to the Ojo Sarco community.

Noteworthy | In terms of overall child well-being, New Mexico ranks among the lowest of the states.

R & R For Vets Inc. rrforvets.org

Rio Arriba County continues to have indicators that are among the worst in the state. Based on the 2023 Kids Count Data Profile, New Mexico children rank 49th for economic well-being, with 24% of children living in poverty and 35% of children whose parents lack secure employment. New Mexico children rank 44th in health. 44% of children live in singleparent homes. 13.5 % of persons in our state are food insecure, 19.2% are children.

Mission | To improve the lives of our local veterans or their surviving spouses in need of A SAFE HOME – A DRY HOME by creating, promoting community education, exhibiting their creative abilities, and preserving the legacies of those living or interred in the cemeteries of New Mexico.

Proposal | R&R for Vets Inc. provides roof repairs, disability ramps, interior repairs, disability

Presbyterian Healthcare Foundation

remodeling, and emergency home services to

phs.org/community/presbyterian-healthcare-foundation

demand for assistance is growing. We urgently

local veterans and their surviving spouses in need.

Applications from veterans and their surviving spouses in need continued to pour in, and the require donations to meet these needs. Your

Mission | To raise and steward funds necessary to improve the health and lives in Presbyterian Healthcare Services communities. This means a commitment to improving access to health care, behavioral health, health insurance coverage, community supports, healthy food, and opportunities for exercise, and supporting everyone to have the opportunity for good health and wellbeing in the Land of Enchantment.

Proposal | We are seeking funds to continue

mission of assisting those who have sacrificed for our country.

Noteworthy | According to the DVS, 10,000+ veterans live in Santa Fe County, a large percentage being elderly or disabled, highlighting the critical need for home repairs and accessibility modifications. Over 7,000 veterans own homes in Santa Fe County. Many are Vietnam-era veterans, often requiring disability ramps and other modifications. These statistics emphasize the vital

delivering the “Northern Roots: Where Families Eat,

need for R&R for Vets, Inc.’s services to address

Learn, and Grow” produce prescription program

the growing challenges local veterans and their

to 250 families per year in Santa Fe and Española,

surviving spouses face.

where Presbyterian Healthcare Services (PHS) has healthcare facilities providing care.

Noteworthy | PHS has healthcare facilities in Santa Fe and Española providing care to babies and their families. Patients also come from Taos and San Miguel counties, including ~5% of Northern

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support is crucial to ensuring we can continue our

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Resolve resolvenm.org

Proposal | Funding will help us continue to provide and expand the services we offer to our community in need.

Noteworthy | Out of all the physical and psychiatric Mission | To grow the number of New Mexicans who act to prevent violence in our communities. By reducing the fear and impact of violence, we help to create safer communities that experience greater connection and joy with every generation.

conditions, substance dependence has the highest rate of social disapproval and discrimination (Drug Policy Alliance). San Miguel County is ranked in the top five out of 33 counties for alcohol/drug overdose death (NM DOH Substance Abuse Epidemiology

Proposal | Resolve’s skill-based programs

Profile, 2022).

teach youth & adults to prevent violence in

Roadrunner Food Bank

their communities and defend themselves and others against violence through collaborations with schools, nonprofits, and workplaces. Our

rrfb.org

participants learn to challenge beliefs and behaviors that create violence; they also learn concrete bystander and self-advocacy strategies to prevent

Mission | To provide nourishing food to New Mexicans through vibrant community partnerships

violence. By reducing the impact of violence, we

and passionate public and private support.

make our communities stronger and healthier.

Proposal | Funds would be used to purchase

Noteworthy | Violence is a public health crisis in

equipment, supplies, and food for monthly food

New Mexico, our state has the third highest per

distributions at eight Navajo Nation Chapter Houses.

capita incidence of domestic violence in the country

Approximately $7,700 would be used to purchase

and ranks second for violent crimes. Resolve’s

wagons, tables, canopies, and reusable grocery totes

prevention and early intervention efforts are key

that would be given to each chapter house to use

to ensuring a brighter future. Resolve reaches

for their distributions, and another $12,300 would be

more than 3,000 individuals each year, and over

used to support purchases of culturally appropriate

85% of our participants report feeling confident

food that Roadrunner would deliver to each chapter

in advocating for themselves or as a bystander for

house.

others in their communities.

Noteworthy | A 2014 study found that food

Rio Grande ATP, Inc. riograndeatp.org

insecurity on the Navajo Nation was 76.7%. Although more recent data specific to the Navajo Nation are not available, an analysis by Feeding America of 2019 American Community Survey data found that the food insecurity rate among Native American

Mission | To provide substance use disorder treatment, behavioral health services, and access to supportive services in order to enable men and women to live productive, drug-free lives —Una

respondents was 27%, compared with 9% among White, non-Hispanic respondents. In addition, 2019 data from the USDA indicate that most of the Navajo Nation is classified as a food desert.

Vida Buena y Sana (A Good and Healthful Life). Rio Grande ATP (RGATP), is a nonprofit organization providing services in northern New Mexico since 1978. We are based in Taos, New Mexico with additional offices in Raton and Las Vegas, New Mexico, and serve San Miguel and Mora counties.

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Saint Elizabeth Shelter Corporation

The Salvation Army, a CA Corporation

steshelter.org

santafe.salvationarmy.org

Mission | To assist homeless individuals and

Mission | To preach the gospel of Jesus Christ

families by providing emergency shelter, food, case

and to meet human needs in His name without

management, counseling, supportive housing, and

discrimination. The Salvation Army, an international

referrals to partnering human services agencies. St.

movement, is an evangelical part of the universal

Elizabeth Shelter’s ultimate goal is to end the cycle

Christian church. Its message is based on the Bible.

of homelessness.

Its ministry is motivated by the love of God.

Proposal | St. Elizabeth operates two emergency

Proposal | We are seeking funding to help mitigate

shelters — Men’s and Casa Familia for women

the 12% poverty rate in the Santa Fe community

and families — and three longer-term supportive

by supplementing net household income with

housing programs for adults with disabilities,

measures that tackle food insecurity. At the Santa Fe

families, and those recently homeless. Residents

Corps, we provide a breakfast and shower/hygiene

are immediately stabilized in a safe and secure

program, Monday through Friday, for Santa Fe’s

environment and work together with staff to create

unhoused. For the marginalized and underserved,

an Individual Service Plan outlining objectives and

we give food boxes, pantry visits, and rent and utility

goals, including addressing the issues leading to

assistance.

their becoming homeless, establish an income

Noteworthy | Throughout 2023, The Santa Fe Corps

stream, and move into housing.

Noteworthy | Homelessness has risen 48% nationally from 2022-2023, according to Associated Press statistics, fueled by increasing drug use (fentanyl in particular) and rising housing costs.

In Santa Fe, a January 2023 point-in-time survey identified 374 homeless individuals receiving services that day but did not count those sleeping in cars, arroyos, or couch surfing. St. Elizabeth alone

gave approximately $143,198 worth of goods and services to the Santa Fe Community; just about 23% of the Corps annual operating budget.

San Martin de Porres Soup Kitchen smdpsoupkitchen.com

provided shelter and/or housing to 537 individuals during the year, along with outreach services to an estimated 1,000 more still living on the streets.

Mission | To help feed the poor and hungry. The San Martin de Porres Soup Kitchen has been active in serving the needs of the poor and hungry in the Española Valley and surrounding communities since July of 1992 and it operates with the cooperation of the City Fathers and the Director of the Department of Housing and Urban Development Program. We operate at the Apple Valley Senior Center five times a week, Monday through Friday; serving a hot lunch and also providing a food box to anyone referred to us by a Church or State Agency.

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Proposal | We are requesting funding from the

Noteworthy | This food pantry is a lifeline for

Santa Fe Community Foundation to help continue

students, their families, and even some of our staff.

our outreach program.

Since 2021, the Campus Cupboard has seen a 637%

Noteworthy | The San Martin de Porres Soup

increase in use. The Cupboard is a vital resource

Kitchen is located at the center of the low-income housing community of Apple Valley. We serve approximately 650+ meals a week to clients ranging in age from one to over 60, many of whom are small children and young mothers. Our client’s average income is $0 to $1,200 per month. We serve prominently Hispanics (55%); Anglo (25%); Native American (10%); Black American (5%); and Asian

and something we prioritize funding to the fullest because, unfortunately, every year more and more people need it as costs for necessities continue to rise.

Santa Fe New Mexican santafenewmexican.com

/ Other (5%). San Martin de Porres Soup Kitchen provided 56,330 meals in 2023.

Mission | To serve the news and information needs

Santa Fe Community College Foundation

of Santa Fe and northern New Mexico through

foundation.sfcc.edu

and providing possible solutions, bringing together

our reporting and publication in both print and online. Through our reporting we hope to better the communities in which we live by exposing problems the relevant stakeholders.

Mission | Santa Fe Community College Foundation (SFCCF) is committed to providing financial aid for students, funds for new program development and support, and other resources to Santa Fe Community College for needs not met through state and federal assistance. SFCCF supports the college and its students by working closely with campus leadership, staff, and student organizations to identify impactful ways for donors to provide students with opportunities to achieve their academic and career goals.

Proposal | The SFCC Foundation, through its Campus Cupboard food pantry, serves all students, staff, faculty, and their families. In 2023, the pantry had 347 registered customers and 6,700 household members were served. Hungry students are less likely to complete their education. With the added burden of feeding their families, many students must choose between an education and getting a job to buy food.

Proposal | The Santa Fe New Mexican has been awarded a Report for America (RFA) reporter covering children’s health and welfare issues as well as the New Mexico Children, Youth, and Families Department. The program is a three-year commitment with RFA providing 55% of salary costs in year 1, 33% in year 2, and 20% in year 3. We are required to raise the remaining funds locally. This is an additional position that starts in July 2024. The total local funding calculation totals $158k over 3 yrs. We would use Santa Fe Community Foundation funds as a catalyst to jump start year 1 fundraising.

Noteworthy | New Mexico has one of the highest child poverty rates in the country and also has a high rate of youth violent crime. The NM Children, Youth, and Family Department, which oversees the state’s foster care and juvenile corrections systems and investigates child abuse, has been beset by scandal and poor management, including cases of children dying or being placed in dangerous situations. The state’s juvenile detention system has also had its share of problems, and conditions at many facilities are poor.

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Santa Fe Recovery Center sfrecovery.org

Proposal | We seek funding to continue developing our volunteer-driven social model hospice home that can be implemented throughout New Mexico in order to address the growing need for these

Mission | To provide culturally proficient, evidencebased treatment and education in partnership with other community organizations, working with individuals to sustain lasting recovery from substance use disorders and related mental health disorders.

Proposal | The Santa Fe Recovery Center requests funding for our dedicated Therapeutic Child Care (TCC) program staff and operations. We currently serve an average of 40 children annually who are residing with their mothers at our residential treatment center. This service is essential to supporting mothers with children 0-6 while in treatment on their journey to sobriety and lasting recovery.

Noteworthy | Residential Substance Use Disorder treatment for mothers and their young children has historically been unavailable, yet female clients

services in a cost-effective and compassionate manner. As the only free hospice home serving northern New Mexico, Scott’s House is committed to ensuring equitable access to quality healthcare, especially at the end of life, regardless of religion, ethnicity, gender, sexual preference, or economic status.

Noteworthy | By 2030, New Mexico’s population of over 65 is projected to become the fourth largest in the U.S. (NM Aging and Long-Term Services Department). New Mexico has the highest poverty rate for residents over 65 of any state in the U.S., and our seniors are one of the populations at highest risk for homelessness in the state (U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development). The average cost of 24/7 end-of-life care, exceeding $20,000 monthly, is impossible for many in our community.

currently constitute about 1/3 of the treatment

Self Help Inc.

population. Reports show that females experience

selfhelpla.org

myriad barriers to treatment, including stigma, childcare needs, cost, and limited options in pregnancy. A total of 278 babies were born with

Mission | To provide support and services as a

Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) in New

bridge to self-reliance for people in northern New

Mexico in 2021 – this number has tripled since 2010.

Mexico.

SFRC is one of few in NM able to meet this need.

Proposal | Self Help, Inc. (Self Help) requests

Scott’s House scottshouse.org

funds to expand its SEED Grant Money program.

This program provides micro-grants (typically $1,000-1,500) to enable low-income individuals to pursue educational or business opportunities that strengthen their financial well-being and create

Mission | To provide a free social model hospice residence for end of life and respite, serving Santa Fe, northern New Mexico, and beyond.

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paths to self-sufficiency. Residents of Los Alamos, northern Santa Fe, Rio Arriba, and Taos counties are eligible for this program.

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Noteworthy | Approximately one in three New Mexicans live in rural areas, where employment and economic growth opportunities are scarce.

Sunrise Clinics sunrisenm.org

Compared to urban areas of the state, rural residents have limited access to jobs, livable wages, and services. Our SEED grants give individuals a timely cash infusion to purchase equipment or start-up materials for their home-based business.

These grants can also be used to buy supplies such as uniforms or tools for those starting a new career.

Stand Up For Kindness standupforkindness.com

Mission | To improve the health and well-being of our community by providing accessible, highquality healthcare services to everyone, regardless of their ability to pay. We are committed to excellence, equity, and compassion by ensuring access to comprehensive healthcare services, including medical and mental health. We serve the underserved and vulnerable populations to improve the health and well-being of the entire community.

We provide care based on the principles of equity, justice, and inclusivity.

Mission | To foster school communities where

Proposal | Funding will allow us to enhance health

everyone feels safe, respected, and treated equally.

access and mental health access in San Miguel

Our core values of kindness, caring, and empathy

County.

create school communities where everyone feels

Noteworthy | Total Sunrise Clinics patient visits in

welcomed and they know they belong.

Proposal | Stand Up for Kindness Bullying

San Miguel County in 2023 was 13,182, compared to 2,381 in 2022. We split our medical clinic from our

Prevention Initiative requests funding for its

mental health clinic to accommodate our rapid

operating costs to provide direct services, peer

growth and now both clinics are operating at full

education, and materials for an effective skill-

capacity. In addition, in 2023, we opened four school

building initiative in Santa Fe Public Schools

clinics in West Las Vegas High School, Valley High

classrooms and after school programs. Students’

School, and Las Vegas Middle Schools.

creative projects, including puppet-making, role playing, storytelling, and songs, empowers them to practice social emotional learning skills, which help them shift from being bystanders to being

Think New Mexico thinknewmexico.org

upstanders in bullying and unkind situations.

Noteworthy | Nationally, one out of every five students reports being bullied, which increases their risk for depression, anxiety, sleep difficulties, low academic achievement, and dropping out of school (National Center for Educational Statistics & CDC, 2019). 41% of students who experienced bullying at school feel they will be bullied again (NCES, 2019).

About 50% of children, ages nine through 12, stated

Mission | 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.

they experienced being bullied at school. Stand Up for Kindness works with ages five through 14.

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Proposal | Funding supports our work to enact

Noteworthy | The TSC foodbank program serves

policy reforms that address serious challenges

60 clients twice per month, many of which fall

facing New Mexico. Past successes include ending

into the leading causes of food insecurity such as

predatory lending, repealing the food tax, repealing

unemployment, poverty, substance abuse, and

the double tax on Social Security for middle

reduced access to public benefits. It is reported

and lower-income seniors, and making full-day

that nearly 14% of the Rio Arriba population is

kindergarten accessible to every child. We are now

experiencing food insecurity, which is higher than

focused on ambitious legislative agendas designed

the state average. This percentage is even higher for

to improve student outcomes in New Mexico’s

the children of the state (The Food Depot, 2022).

public schools and to address the state’s shortage of health care providers.

Noteworthy | New Mexico has the second-lowest number of physicians per capita of any state

Villages of Santa Fe, Inc. villagesofsantafe.org

in the U.S. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has designated part or all of 32 of New Mexico’s 33 counties as health professional shortage areas. A recent report from UNM found that, between 2018 and 2022, the state lost 30% of its doctors. New Mexico has the oldest physician workforce in the nation, with 37% of doctors age 60 or over and projected to retire by 2030.

Truchas Services Center truchasservicescenter.org

Mission | To provide leadership, administration,

for older adults through online classes focusing on balance, flexibility, strength, and mental awareness.

Ensuring the health of our older generation is of utmost importance. Exercise plays a crucial role in preventing falls, a strategy that can significantly enhance their health and well-being.

Proposal | For older adults, maintaining a healthy lifestyle and independence is all about movement. Our online classes focus on balance, flexibility, strength, and mental awareness. Led by experienced instructors who are also older adults, these free online classes are tailored to the specific

and organization for community action programs

needs of our older participants. The results speak

serving children, youth, families, adults, and senior

for themselves, our participants report improved

citizens, developing community as a means of

balance, fitness, and attitude. In other words, they

unifying the diverse cultures of the region in

are healthy, resilient, and engaged adults. We seek

the common goal of community improvement

funding to continue to provide our services and

and education. This includes the maintenance

expand our outreach.

of facilities that serve the entire community and surrounding areas.

Proposal | Truchas Services Center (TSC) provides

Noteworthy | Since beginning online exercise classes in April 2020, our participants have logged over 50,000 attendances. 66.2% of those attending

the only food distribution between Chimayo and

our classes are over 65, and 59% live in Santa Fe

Ojo Sarco, covering Truchas, Cordova, and Rio

or Santa Fe County. Our strength is our delivery

Chiquito. We are requesting funding in order to

method, which is a simple, convenient online

maintain this program and expand it as this area is

platform accessible from home.

a food desert with no stores, farmer’s markets, nor other routine services that can provide healthy food and staples to families.

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Mission | To offer exercise and lifestyle programs

HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES

Women with Wings Foundation

Youth Heartline

womenwwings.org

youthheartline.org

Mission | To bridge the gap between the clinical

Mission | To improve positive long-term outcomes

side of medicine, health, and wellness, and whole

and access to services by reducing risk factors and

person care. Our inspirational Create to Heal (CTH)

barriers for underserved children and families in

program, products, and services use all forms of

Colfax, Taos, and Union Counties in northeast New

art, including meditation and visualization, music,

Mexico.

hypnotherapy, the color and motion of art, and creative writing to help people heal emotionally, spiritually, and physically. We are a nonprofit teaching organization and content provider.

Proposal | The Women with Wings Foundation

Proposal | Founded as the CASA program for the 8th Judicial District, we now offer seven other programs in our service area that directly impact underserved children and their families. We seek support for our Summer of Play program that

is seeking funding to continue and expand their

brings STEAM activities to income-based housing

Create to Heal program which utilizes the arts and

complexes in the Taos area. The model allows

patients’ unlocked creativity to aid in their healing

community members to develop trust allowing

process. We are piloting CTH locally with the

them to be more open about their challenges and

Christus St. Vincent Regional Cancer Center and are

needs.

seeking additional funding to bring the program to

Noteworthy | This program serves 50 underserved

the diverse communities of northern New Mexico.

The arts are a universal language that can transcend

youth each summer across four different complexes.

cultural, linguistic, and economic barriers!

Noteworthy | Create to Heal benefits patients living with chronic pain and trauma. The CDC estimates that 51 million Americans, more than 20% of all adults, live with chronic pain and 17 million have “high impact chronic pain.” In addition, about 5% of American adults, 13 million, had PTSD in 2020 (National Center for PTSD in the US Department of Veterans Affairs).

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Symbols 516 ARTS

Arts & Culture

49

A ABQ Chihuahua Rescue Animal Welfare Abrazos Community Healing Center Health & Human Services The Academy for Technology and the Classics Education A Chance of A Lifetime Animal Welfare Alas De Agua Art Collective Arts & Culture All Aboard Earth / Tessa Foundation Environment Alliance for Local Economic Prosperity Civic & Economic Opportunities American Red Cross of New Mexico Health & Human Services Animal Protection NM Animal Welfare Animal Welfare Coalition of Northeastern New Mexico Animal Welfare ARCC — Awarness, Resiliency, Clarity & Compassion Education The Archaeological Conservancy Arts & Culture Art Through The Loom Weavers Guild Arts & Culture ArtWalk Santa Fe Arts & Culture ArtWorks Arts & Culture Assistance Dogs of the West Health & Human Services Athena Fund Animal Welfare Atrisco Heritage Foundation Arts & Culture Audubon Southwest & the Randall Davey Audubon Center Environment

39 123 93 39 49 109 79 123 39 40 93 49 50 50 51 123 40 51 109

B Barrios Unidos Behavioral Health Providers Association of New Mexico Best Buddies International in New Mexico Bienvenidos Outreach, Inc. Bike Santa Fe Biomimicry for Social Innovation Books on the Bosque Breakthrough Santa Fe Bridges Project for Education Bridge to Health NM

Health & Human Services Health & Human Services Civic & Economic Opportunities Health & Human Services Civic & Economic Opportunities Environment Education Education Education Health & Human Services

124 124 79 125 80 109 94 94 94 125

Health & Human Services Health & Human Services Arts & Culture Santa Fe Baby Fund Health & Human Services Health & Human Services Health & Human Services Envision Fund Health & Human Services Arts & Culture Civic & Economic Opportunities Native American Advised Fund Arts & Culture Native American Advised Fund

126 126 52 33 126 127 127 23 127 52 80 15 53 15

C

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Cancer Foundation for New Mexico Cancer Services of New Mexico Canyon Road Summer Walk CareNet of Las Vegas, NM Carnelian Center CASA First Judicial District Casa Milagro Casa Q Catholic Charities of New Mexico Center for Contemporary Arts Santa Fe Chainbreaker Collective Changing Woman Initiative Chimayó Cultural Preservation Association Church of the Flowering Sun

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Classical 95.5 KHFM Arts & Culture Closet Cinema Envision Fund Coalition For Quality Childrens Media Civic & Economic Opportunities Coalition of Sustainable Communities New Mexico Environment Collins Lake Autism Center Education Comedor de San Pascual, Inc Health & Human Services Coming Home Connection Health & Human Services Communities In Schools of New Mexico Education Community Leadership Fund SFCF Initiatives & Funds Community Resiliency Fund SFCF Initiatives & Funds The Community Resource Fund Envision Fund Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety Environment Conservation Lands Foundation Environment Conservation Voters New Mexico Education Fund Environment Continental Divide Trail Coalition Environment Cooking with Kids, Inc. Health & Human Services Coro de Cámara Arts & Culture Creative Santa Fe Arts & Culture Crisis Center of Northern New Mexico Health & Human Services

53 23 80 110 94 128 128 95 9 10 23 110 111 111 112 129 53 54 129

D Dancing Earth Creations Arts & Culture Dar a Luz Birth and Health Center Envision Fund Davis New Mexico Scholarship Civic & Economic Opportunities Del Norte LOV Foundation Education Dental Care in Your Home Health & Human Services Dixon Cooperative Market and Deli Health & Human Services Dollars4Schools SFCF Initiatives & Funds Dual Language Education of New Mexico Education

54 24 81 95 129 130 10 95

E El Rancho de las Golondrinas El Rito Public Library Embudo Valley Library & Community Center Embudo Valley Tutoring Association Empower! Black Futures Community Fund End of Life Options New Mexico Ensemble Music New Mexico Envision Fund Equality New Mexico Española Pathways Shelter The Exodus Ensemble Explora

Arts & Culture Education Civic & Economic Opportunities Education SFCF Initiatives & Funds Health & Human Services Arts & Culture SFCF Initiatives & Funds Envision Fund Health & Human Services Arts & Culture Education

54 96 81 96 9 130 55 9 24 130 55 98

Santa Fe Baby Fund Education Santa Fe Baby Fund Animal Welfare Education Health & Human Services

33 98 33 40 98 131

F Family Learning Center The Family YMCA Fathers New Mexico Felines & Friends New Mexico First Serve New Mexico The Food Depot

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Food is Free Albuquerque Forest Stewards Guild Forward Together (Strong Families New Mexico) Free Flow NM, Inc. The Friendship Club Friends of Architecture Santa Fe Friends of Estancia Valley Animals Friends of the Las Vegas National Wildlife Refuge Fund for Refugees & Asylum Seekers Future Focused Education

Environment Health & Human Services Envision Fund Health & Human Services Health & Human Services Civic & Economic Opportunities Animal Welfare Environment SFCF Initiatives & Funds Civic & Economic Opportunities

112 131 25 132 132 82 41 112 12 82

Arts & Culture Health & Human Services Envision Fund Santa Fe Baby Fund

55 132 25 34

Envision Fund Arts & Culture Arts & Culture Health & Human Services Animal Welfare Animal Welfare

26 57 57 133 41 41

Arts & Culture Health & Human Services Arts & Culture Health & Human Services Arts & Culture

58 133 58 134 58

Native American Advised Fund Education Arts & Culture Envision Fund

15 99 59 26

Education Native American Advised Fund Native American Advised Fund Health & Human Services Health & Human Services Santa Fe Baby Fund Arts & Culture

99 16 16 134 134 34 59

G Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Gerard’s House GLSEN New Mexico Growing Up New Mexico H Health Equity Alliance for LGBTQ+ New Mexicans High Country Supported Living Historic Santa Fe Foundation Homewise Inc. The Horse Shelter Horseshoe Canyon Rescue Ranch I IndigenousWays Inside Out Institute of Contemporary Art, Santa Fe Interfaith Community Shelter Group, Inc. The International Folk Art Market J Jemez Enterprises Jobs for America’s Graduates - New Mexico Juneteenth New Mexico Justice, Access, Support, and Solutions for Health K Kearny Elementary School Keres Children’s Learning Center Kha’p’o Community School Kids Counseling Inc. Kiwanis Club of Sangre de Cristo Sunrise Kiwanis First Born of Northern New Mexico KMRD Inc L

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La Casa, Inc. Envision Fund La Familia Health Health & Human Services Lap Dog Rescue of New Mexico Animal Welfare

27 135 42

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League of Women Voters of Santa Fe County Learning Hub Life Circle The Life Link Life Transition Meditation Center Light In the Desert Sanctuary Literacy Volunteers of Santa Fe Little Globe Luciente, Inc. Luna Community College Foundation

Civic & Economic Opportunities SFCF Initiatives & Funds Health & Human Services Health & Human Services Health & Human Services Animal Welfare Civic & Economic Opportunities Native American Advised Fund Health & Human Services Health & Human Services

82 10 135 135 136 42 83 16 136 136

M Magio Organization Health & Human Services Main Street de Las Vegas Civic & Economic Opportunities MANA del Norte Civic & Economic Opportunities Many Mothers Santa Fe Baby Fund MathAmigos Santa Fe Baby Fund Max & Tucker Canine Welfare Fund Animal Welfare May Center for Learning Education Media Arts Center San Diego Arts & Culture The Memory Care Alliance Health & Human Services Mesa Prieta Petroglyph Project Education Mesa to Mesa Health & Human Services Mora Creative Council/Mora MainStreet Civic & Economic Opportunities Mora Valley Community Health Services, Inc. Health & Human Services The Mountain Center Envision Fund

138 83 84 34 35 43 99 60 138 100 138 84 139 27

N Naprapathic Research Foundation Nat Gold Players National Dance Institute National Forest Foundation National Indian Youth Leadership Development Project National Institute of Flamenco National Parks Conservation Association Native American Advised Fund Native Health Initiative New Mexico Acequia Association The New Mexico Actors Lab New Mexico Appleseed New Mexico Art Education Association New Mexico CASA Association New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty New Mexico Coalition to End Homelessness New Mexico Community AIDS Partnership New Mexico Doula Association New Mexico Dream Team New Mexico Environmental Law Center New Mexico Friends of Foster Children New Mexico Gay Men’s Chorus New Mexico Highlands University

Health & Human Services Arts & Culture Education Environment Native American Advised Fund Arts & Culture Environment SFCF Initiatives & Funds Native American Advised Fund Civic & Economic Opportunities Arts & Culture Health & Human Services Education Health & Human Services Health & Human Services Health & Human Services Envision Fund Health & Human Services Envision Fund Environment Health & Human Services Arts & Culture Civic & Economic Opportunities

139 60 100 113 18 60 113 9 18 84 61 140 100 140 141 141 27 142 28 114 142 62 86

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New Mexico Horse Rescue at Walkin N Circles Ranch Animal Welfare New Mexico Immigrant Law Center Health & Human Services NewMexicoKidsCAN Education New Mexico Kids Matter Health & Human Services New Mexico Land Conservancy Environment New Mexico Legal Aid, Inc. Health & Human Services New Mexico Local News Fund Civic & Economic Opportunities New Mexico Performing Arts Society Arts & Culture New Mexico Rural Library Initiative Arts & Culture New Mexico School for the Arts Arts & Culture New Mexico Trade Alliance Native American Advised Fund New Mexico Volunteers for the Outdoors Environment New Mexico Wilderness Alliance Environment New Mexico Wildlife Center Animal Welfare NMCAN Civic & Economic Opportunities NM Health Equity Partnership Civic & Economic Opportunities Nonprofit Merger Fund SFCF Initiatives & Funds Northern New Mexico College Foundation Education Northern New Mexico Recreation and Outdoor Conservation... Education Northern New Mexico Street Homeless Animal Project Animal Welfare Northwest New Mexico First Born Native American Advised Fund Notah Begay III (NB3) Foundation Native American Advised Fund Nuclear Watch New Mexico Environment Nuestra Senora del Rosario Foundation Arts & Culture

43 142 101 143 114 143 86 61 62 62 19 115 115 43 87 87 12 101 101 44 19 19 116 63

O Ojo Sarco Community Center Health & Human Services Old Santa Fe Association Arts & Culture Operation Warm Education

143 63 103

P Performance Santa Fe Pomegranate Studios Presbyterian Ear Institute Presbyterian Healthcare Foundation Presbyterian Medical Services Prosperity Works Public Lands Interpretive Association Pueblo de Abiquiú Library & Cultural Center Pueblo of San Felipe Department of Natural Resources

Arts & Culture Arts & Culture Santa Fe Baby Fund Health & Human Services Santa Fe Baby Fund Santa Fe Baby Fund Environment Arts & Culture Animal Welfare

64 64 35 144 36 36 116 64 44

Arts & Culture Environment

64 116

Health & Human Services Arts & Culture Education Environment Health & Human Services

144 65 103 117 145

Q Queen Bee Music Association Quivira Coalition R R & R For Vets Inc. Radius Books Reading Quest Remy’s Good Day Fund Resolve

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Rio Grande ATP, Inc. Health & Human Services Rio Grande Community Development Corporatio Environment River Source Environment Roadrunner Food Bank Health & Human Services Rocky Mountain Youth Corps Civic & Economic Opportunities

145 117 118 145 88

S Safe, Stable, and Supportive Housing Fund SFCF Initiatives & Funds Saint Elizabeth Shelter Corporation Health & Human Services The Salvation Army, a CA Corporation Health & Human Services San Gabriel Historical Society Arts & Culture Sangre de Cristo Chorale Arts & Culture San Martin de Porres Soup Kitchen Health & Human Services Santa Fe Art Institute Arts & Culture Santa Fe Artists’ Medical Fund Arts & Culture Santa Fe Baby Fund SFCF Initiatives & Funds Santa Fe Birth Center Santa Fe Baby Fund Santa Fe Business Incubator Civic & Economic Opportunities Santa Fe Children’s Museum Santa Fe Baby Fund Santa Fe Christian Education Santa Fe Classic Theater, Inc. Arts & Culture Santa Fe Community College Foundation Health & Human Services Santa Fe Conservation Trust Environment Santa Fe Desert Chorale Arts & Culture Santa Fe Dreamers Project Envision Fund Santa Fe Film Institute Arts & Culture Santa Fe Improv Arts & Culture Santa Fe Indigenous Center Native American Advised Fund Santa Fe International Literary Festival Arts & Culture Santa Fe New Mexican Health & Human Services Santa Fe Pro Musica Arts & Culture Santa Fe Public Schools, Office of Student Wellness Envision Fund The Santa Fe Raptor Center Animal Welfare Santa Fe Recovery Center Health & Human Services The Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra & Chorus Education Santa Fe Watershed Association Environment Santa Fe Women’s Ensemble Arts & Culture School for Advanced Research Arts & Culture SciArt Santa Fe Arts & Culture Scott’s House Health & Human Services Searchlight New Mexico Civic & Economic Opportunities Seed & Bloom Environment Self Help Inc. Health & Human Services Silver Bullet Productions Native American Advised Fund SITE SANTA FE Envision Fund The Sky Center / New Mexico Suicide Intervention Project Envision Fund Sky Mountain Wild Horse Sanctuary Animal Welfare Society of the Muse of the Southwest Arts & Culture Solace Sexual Assault Services Envision Fund 30 Somos Un Pueblo Unido Civic & Economic Opportunities Southwest Women’s Law Center Civic & Economic Opportunities Spanish Colonial Arts Society, Inc. Arts & Culture

13 146 146 65 66 146 66 66 12 37 88 37 104 67 147 118 67 28 68 70 20 68 147 70 29 46 148 104 119 71 72 72 148 89 119 148 20 29 30 46 73 90 90 73

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Special and Urgent Needs (SUN) Grants Stagecoach Foundation Inc Stand Up For Kindness STEM Santa Fe Stop Forever WIPP Coalition Sunrise Clinics Supercomputing Challenge

SFCF Initiatives & Funds Education Health & Human Services Education Environment Health & Human Services Education

13 104 149 105 119 149 105

Arts & Culture Arts & Culture Health & Human Services Native American Advised Fund Arts & Culture Education Envision Fund Environment Arts & Culture Health & Human Services Arts & Culture Education

74 74 149 21 74 106 31 120 75 150 75 106

T Tarjama Ensemble LLC Teatro Paraguas Think New Mexico Three Sisters Collective Tomorrow’s Women TOTAL NM Transgender Resources Center of New Mexic Trees, Water & People Tri-M Millennial Music Makers Productions Truchas Services Center Tumbleweed Productions Twirl U Únashay Sanctuary Envision Fund Underdog Animal Rescue and Rehab Native American Advised Fund Unhoused Art Arts & Culture United World College - USA Arts & Culture The University of New Mexico Foundation Envision Fund Upstart Crows of Santa Fe Education

31 21 76 76 31 107

V Villages of Santa Fe, Inc. Visiones Collaborativas-Collaborative Visions

Health & Human Services Civic & Economic Opportunities

150 91

W Warehouse 21 Arts & Culture we.grow.eco Environment WESST Civic & Economic Opportunities Western Environmental Law Center Environment Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian Arts & Culture WildEarth Guardian Animal Welfare Wildlife for All Animal Welfare Wise Fool New Mexico Arts & Culture Women Together Global Inc Environment Women with Wings Foundation Health & Human Services

71 120 91 121 77 47 47 77 121 151

Y Youth Heartline YouthWorks

158

Health & Human Services Education

151 107

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E M AIL & P HONE N U M B E R

PH YS ICAL AD D R ES S

MAILING AD D R ES S

foundation@santafecf.org

501 Halona Street

P.O. Box 1827

505.988.9715

Santa Fe, NM 87505

Santa Fe, NM 87504

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