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New Mexico Cancer Center
Foundation |
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Albuquerque, New
Mexico/$2,000 |
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The New Mexico Cancer Center
Foundation is dedicated to
supporting our patients’ needs
during their battle against
cancer. This innovative program
assist cancer patients who, as a
result of their diagnosis, are
financially burdened and unable
to meet daily living expenses
such as mortgage and car
payments, grocery bills, etc.
Monthly educational seminars
where expert speakers cover an
array of cancer-related topics
are also offered to its
patients. Funding will assist
effective application processes,
additional patient financial
assistance and support
evaluation standardization. |
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Planned Parenthood of
New Mexico |
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Albuquerque, New
Mexico/$20,000 |
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Planned Parenthood of New
Mexico’s (PPNM) mission is to
provide quality reproductive and
complementary health care
services that are affordable and
accessible; to offer appropriate
and reality-based sexuality
education; to advocate for the
fundamental right of each
individual to manage his or her
own fertility; and continuously
strive to serve the diverse and
under-served communities in New
Mexico in the best possible way.
PPNM provides medical services
information in the area of
reproductive health in both
English and Spanish. |
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Site Santa Fe |
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Santa Fe, New
Mexico/$5,000 |
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SITE Santa Fe’s mission
is to make art
accessible to a broad
audience in the
community. SITE employs
an educational
methodology called
Visual Thinking
Strategies (VTS).
Specifically, the
program offers arts
education and enrichment
to under-served and
at-risk elementary
students in Santa Fe
Public Schools.
The VIS program provides
students with an
introduction to the
world of art and enables
them to exercise their
critical thinking and
communication skills. |
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Susan's Legacy |
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Albuquerque, New
Mexico/$15,000 |
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Susan Rose was a talented,
beautiful woman who suffered
from a co-occurring mental and
addictive disorder, she died in
1997. Women with these disorders
need help completing their
education, holding down jobs or
caring for their children. They
are vulnerable to being
chronically homeless. This
project targets women involved
in jail diversion. The main goal
is to help women with this
disability to learn to advance
and to assist them - moving
beyond surviving to flourishing
and succeeding. |
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Villa Therese Catholic
Clinic |
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Santa Fe, New
Mexico/$15,000 |
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The Villa Therese Catholic
Clinic (VTCC), a free,
non-profit health care
safety-net organization, opened
its doors to serve indigent,
uninsured children and their
families over 70 years ago.
Designated a ‘free clinic’ by
the Federal Health Resources
Services Administration, the
VTCC does not collect third
party payments and relies only
on donations from patients and
community donors, fundraising
and grant awards to meet
operation costs. The major goal
for the funding request is to
maintain this immunization rate
while continuing to provide
basic health care services. |
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The Wildlife Center |
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Espanola, New
Mexico/$20,000 |
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The Wildlife Center has
developed an intensive,
integrated education program
that will directly address the
math, science and reading
standards for elementary schools
in Northern New Mexico. It gets
students into local riparian
habitats to create maps,
complete water quality analysis
and habitat inventories and the
collection of other data for the
purposes of developing a
baseline for habitat health.
Funding will allow access to
state of the art technology to
process the data, develop charts
and graphs and other
representational products. |
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Women’s Health Services |
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Santa Fe, New
Mexico/$40,000 |
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Adolescents in Santa Fe and
northern NM face numerous
challenges. The WHS’ Voices for
Girls/Adolescent Health program
develops specific skills, bodies
of information and knowledge on
how to access resources that
allows adolescents to make
choices that directly impact
their health. Integral to this
process, is the inclusion of
parents and /or mentors to build
strong, communicative,
productive relationships between
adolescents and adults and
continuing to develop community
partnerships. |
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