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Fine Arts for Children &
Teens |
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Santa Fe, New
Mexico/$5,000 |
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Arts programs are critically
important to underserved youth
because they are uniquely
effective at reaching high-risk
children, building their
self-esteem, teaching skills
such as critical, creative
thinking, and increasing
positive behavioral health and
well-being. FACT will serve 800
primarily high-risk children
ages 4-16 in 2011 through its
ARTclub afterschool program.
FACT teaches students
to see themselves as capable,
intelligent, and creative
people. These programs consist
of age-appropriate visual art
lessons presented in a
long-term, sequential format. |
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Food for Santa Fe |
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Santa Fe, New
Mexico/$10,000 |
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Food for Santa Fe, Inc. is a
non-profit and tax exempt
all-volunteer organization whose
mission is to provide
supplemental food on a regular
basis to those in need.
Objectives include operation of
the Family Bag Progam which
distributes 900-1,200 large bags
of food at the Coll-Green Angel
Depot and Healthy Snacks for
Children which provides fresh
milk and nutritious small snack
for youngsters who accompany
parents. FFST also provides
select foods to Meals on Wheels
and other smaller like agencies. |
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Friends Forever
Foundation |
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Santa Fe, New
Mexico/$20,000 |
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The Foundation, this year, is
partnering with two local
non-profits whose youth
constituencies can benefit by
participating in our five 2011
recreational trips for crucially
ill, abused and homeless youth.
Fifty teenagers from Santa Fe
Youth Works and Santa Youth
Shelters will be selected to
serve as chaperones for this
year’s Friends Forever trip
participants. The goal of this
project to ‘build self-esteem
and confidence in oneself by
compassionately assisting
others, while, simultaneously,
facilitating successful
recreational trips for Friends’
Forever Foundation. |
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Interfaith-LEAP |
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Fairview, New
Mexico/$5,000 |
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Established in 2002,
I-LEAP (Leadership for
the Empowerment of All
People) is an
organization of faith
communities in northern
New Mexico that seeks to
address the problem of
drug use and the
underlying social and
economic challenges that
accompany widespread addiction. I-LEAP serves
the needs of all residents.
I-LEAP provides direct services
to support families struggling
with drug use. Because families
impacted by drug abuse often
have minimal financial support,
I-LEAP runs a clothing bank and
a monthly food distribution
program partnering with the Food
Depot in Santa Fe for many
commodities. |
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Kindred Spirits Animal
Sanctuary |
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Santa Fe, New
Mexico/$5,000 |
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Kindred Spirits Animal Sanctuary
has been providing eldercare and
hospice for dogs, horses and
poultry for seven years. Many
aged dogs, horses and other
animals are abandoned in New
Mexico each year. Elderly dogs
are a large component of dogs
surrendered to shelters, and the
first to be euthanized. The
Sanctuary provides a model for
animal eldercare and offers
educational programs that
increase the pet guardian’s
knowledge of the aging process.
A part-time Administrator
Assistant position was created
in 2007. The grant provides
two-thirds of the funding needed
for this critical position to
continue. |
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Legal FACS |
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Albuquerque, New
Mexico/$20,000 |
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As Saint Augustine aptly state,
“Peace in society depends upon
peace in the family”. Yet
thousands of low-income New
Mexicans have no meaningful
access to the court system to
resolve their family law
disputes such as domestic
violence, child custody/support,
and division of income. The goal
of this program is to provide
meaningful access to the
judicial system for at least
1,800 low income New Mexicans
each year where affordable full
legal representation is not
available from other civil legal
service providers. |
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New Mexico Voices for
Children |
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Albuquerque, New
Mexico/$10,000 |
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Founded in 1987 by a group of
pediatricians, New Mexico Voices
for Children was established to
address child well-being in our
state. New Mexico ranks poorly
in education achievement
indicators and faces many
challenges in providing a
quality education to it
children. NM Voices is currently
developing a collaborative
policy agenda that advocates for
a birth through 4th grade
education and that will address
health and family support
issues. Frost Foundation support
will aid in coalition building,
and research and policy work to
that end. |
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New Mexico Alliance for
School-Based Health Care |
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Albuquerque, New
Mexico/$15,000 |
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NM students perform more
optimally when they come to
class healthy and ready to
learn. For the next several
years, NM predicts significant
budget challenges, which are
expected to result in cuts to
SBHC’s; in turn, these cuts
threaten the health of over
46,000 NM students, many of whom
are desperately in need of
health services. NMASBHC is
uniquely positioned to assist
SBHCs to enhance their
sustainability. As the sole NM
advocate, NMASBHC supports
SBHCs. |
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New Mexico Campaign to
End Child Homelessness |
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Albuquerque, New
Mexico/$10,000 |
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More than 14,500 children
experience homelessness each
year in New Mexico. Based on the
belief that it is unacceptable
for any child to be homeless for
even one night, the New Mexico
Campaign to End Child
Homelessness is a call to action
to end this crisis. The New
Mexico Campaign will provide the
leadership and coordination
necessary for the Plan to
achieve important outcomes and
prevent and end homelessness for
children and families throughout
2011 and beyond. |
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New Mexico Environmental
Law Center |
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Santa Fe, New
Mexico/$8,000 |
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Water speculation is currently
illegal in New Mexico, but a
speculative application by the
Augustin Plains Ranch to
appropriate over 17 billion
gallons annually is challenging
this tenet of New Mexico water
law. It would foster water
privatization in New Mexico, and
allow corporations to profit at
the expense of our state’s rural
communities. The immediate goal
is to prevent the approval of
the speculative portions of the
Augustin Plains Ranch’s
application. Our ultimate goal
is to shut down the growing
trend by business and
municipalities to chip away at
New Mexico’s anti-speculation
laws. |
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