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Embudo Valley Tutoring
Association |
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New Mexico Child
Advocacy Networks |
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Albuquerque, New Mexico/$5,000 |
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For youth exiting foster care
without a permanent family in
place, outcomes in the domains
of housing stability, employment
and achievement of educational
goals are alarmingly bad.
Building Futures and
Foundational (BFF) is a program
that recruits, screens and
trains committed community
volunteers and matches them with
youth exiting the foster care
system in long term mentorship
relationships. BFF mentors
provide guidance, advice, and
support particularly focusing on
the areas of housing, education
and employment to improve
long-term outcomes and promote
lasing connections for
vulnerable young people. |
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New Mexico Coalition to
End Homelessness |
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Santa Fe,
New Mexico/$5,000 |
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NMCEH seeks to end homelessness
by promoting the development of
a system of supportive housing
and services for the homeless in
each New Mexico
community.Homelessness affects
disabled people and non-disabled
people, differently, and so the
New Mexico Coalition to End
Homelessness pursues two
different approaches. Disabled
people tend to be homeless
longer and require longer term
assistance to stay housed. For
people without disabilities
NMCEH is helping agencies
develop programs that quickly
re-house homeless families in
affordable housing, which
minimizes the impact of
homelessness on children. |
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New Mexico Organized
Against Trafficking
Humans |
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Ruidoso, New Mexico/$5,000 |
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Human trafficking is now so
pervasive in the state of New
Mexico that it is the FBI’s #1
priority for investigation in
the state. Human trafficking
recruiters find the youth
population uninformed and
increasingly vulnerable to
recruiting tactics. NM-OATH will
develop ten modules of
age-appropriate human
trafficking |
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lesson plans and
activities for elementary and
secondary classroom application.
Material will emphasize
regarding human rights, hone
critical thinking proficiency,
increase
literacy skills, and lay the
foundation for compassionate
rights-based responses. This
process increases academic
achievement and vigilance
through inventive, original
materials to be made available
on line. |
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Planned Parenthood of
New Mexico |
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Albuquerque, New Mexico/$5,000 |
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New Mexico’s astronomically high
poverty rates and crippled
educational system have left
thousands under or uninsured,
and without access to
reproductive healthcare and
education. The lack of access
has led hundreds to sacrifice
preventative healthcare, a
phenomena that has resulted in a
rash of poor health outcomes
that have significant personal
and fiscal costs. This general
operations grant would support
the day-to day operational
expenses of all of PPNM’s
education, clinical and advocacy
programs. The goal of these
programs is to overcome the
financial and cultural barriers
that New Mexico residents face
in order to maximize access to
low-cost preventative healthcare
and to reduce New Mexico’s teen
pregnancy rate. |
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Presbyterian Medical
Services |
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Santa Fe, New Mexico/$10,000 |
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PMS provides primary care and
reproductive health care at
Santa Fe’s Capital High School
to youth 12-19 years of age. So
that no student is turned away,
PMS seeks other sources of
funding for their care. A
disproportionate number are
young women of color require
emergency contraception or a
pregnancy test. The causes
include little sex education,
poverty, English as a second
language and lack of
contraception. This project will
provide additional operating
costs to ensure 90 young women
in the Capital High School area
are aware and avail themselves
of confidential reproductive
education and services offered
year-round through PMS at the
Teen Health Center, regardless
of ability to pay. |
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Reel Fathers |
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Santa Fe, New Mexico/$5,000 |
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REEL FATHERS (RF) supports low
income fathers, children and
families in Santa Fe, central
and northern New Mexico through
an innovative series of
collaborative programs using
film, reflective dialogue, skill
development and public events.
The goal of REEL FATHERS (RF) is
to use the power of film coupled
with reflective activities to
honor, celebrate and build
community among fathers, to lift
the cultural story around
fathers, and to impart key
skills men need to be positively
engaged with their children. All
of RF’s work is done in
collaboration with other
community-based organizations
and social service agencies. |
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Santa Fe Civic Housing
Authority |
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Santa Fe, New
Mexico/$2,000 |
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Since 1961 the Santa Fe Civic
Housing Authority has served the
low and very low-income
population of Santa Fe. To
supplement education, a new
reading program will strength
reading skills and promote
positive behavior. Santa Fe
Housing Authority is partnering
with the Santa Fe Boys & Girls
Club. All locations have
community centers which will
house the libraries to be
established and are located in
low-income neighborhoods that
are impacted by crime, drug and
delinquency. It is believed a
strong outreach to the
children-at-risk will result in
a positive effect on the
community. |
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Santa Fe Girl’s School |
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Santa Fe, New Mexico/$5,000 |
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Founded in 1998, Santa Fe Girls’
School (SFGS) was conceived in
response to the community’s need
for a small academic setting
where adolescent girls from a
variety of economic and cultural
backgrounds could thrive. The
school’s mission is to cultivate
emotional growth and
intellectual strength in middle
school girls to prepare them for
high school, college, and
beyond. The school’s
seminar-style teaching
encourages learning through
active inquiry and debate, and
the investigation of multiple
perspectives. Students learn how
to think, rather than what to
think. |
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Santa Fe Time Bank |
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Santa Fe, New Mexico/$3,000 |
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the past, family’s neighborhoods
and communities relied on each
other to provide a social safety
net that could pull them through
times of distress.The Santa Fe
Time Bank (SFTB) was formed to
address these emergent needs and
to create positive change. A
reciprocal service exchange that
uses time as currency, the SFTB
rekindles and sustains age-old
patterns of giving and receiving
that ignites interpersonal
connections, individual growth,
and trust across communities. |
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Southwest Creations
Collaborative |
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Albuquerque, New Mexico/$10,000 |
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| New Mexico has an overwhelming
school drop-out rate,
particularly among low-income
and Hispanic/Latino students.
Through the Buena Fe programs,
SCC addresses this issue with an
integrated strategy of parent
engagement, skills development,
and institutional
capacity-building. The goal of
Buena Fe is to improve
employability, academic
achievement, high school
graduation, and college
attendance rates while
developing sustainable healthy
behaviors among Latino/Hispanic
children, youth and adults.
Because of its success, SCC has
been asked to share best
practices with educators in the
APS system, providing training
for guidance counselors and
administrators. |
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