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Albuquerque SANE
Collaborative |
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Albuquerque, New
Mexico/$10,000 |
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Domestic violence (DV) victims
tend not to seek medical
services for their injuries. At
SANE, specially trained forensic
nurses provide medical
assessment, forensic,
photography and a full array of
referrals to DV victims in a
private setting. These services
however, are under-utilized
because of lack of awareness of
this new program in the
community by patients and DV
service providers. This grant
would be used to hire an
Outreach/Media Coordinator who
would plan outreach and
marketing events to increase
community awareness of this
program. |
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American Cancer Society,
Great West Division,
Inc. |
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Albuquerque, New
Mexico/$5,000 |
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About 11,000 new cases of cancer
are diagnosed in children each
year in the U.S. Youth dealing
with cancer want to participate
in all the traditional
experiences of growing up, but
instead they face a fight with a
debilitating disease. Many
programs address the medical
needs of these kids, but few
address their emotional, social,
recreational and physical needs
or their siblings. In 1986 ACS
started the Camp Enchantment
childhood and family support
program, which features a
seven-day resident Camp
Enchantment session for
pediatric cancer patients and
survivors, and a three-day Camp
Super Stars Sibling Retreat for
brothers and sisters. |
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Assistance Dogs of the
West |
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Santa Fe, New
Mexico/$10,000 |
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Assistance Dogs of the
West was founded in 1995
with the core value of
respect for the unique
abilities found in
humans and in dogs. The
union of the two working
together to improve the
equality of learning, to
build inimitable
resources, to find
creative solutions to
problems and to improve
the equality of
challenged lives has
been successful for
nearly 17 years. Using a
unique model in which
diverse student
populations support
professional
instructor/trainers with
the dog training
process, ADW has
attained a record of
stellar client placement
success. |
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Bernal Community Center |
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Serafina, New
Mexico/$10,000 |
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The Food Pantry program
distributes supplemental food
twice monthly. 31% of our
recipients are children and 41%
are seniors living on fixed
incomes, many which face
difficult decisions of paying
utilities, purchasing medication
or buying food. In addition to
the Food Pantry, the BCC
provides our youth with positive
activities year-round including
the children’s leading library
and computer lab. The BCC
measures its success by the
demonstrated number of
participants in the programs
offered and participation of
volunteers that make the
programs possible. |
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Compassion & Choices |
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Denver, Colorado/$15,000 |
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Compassion in Dying was founded
in 1993. For many New Mexico
residents life’s end consist of
untreated physical pain,
excessive clinical intervention
and loss of dignity. A faction
of dying patients, even with
excellent pain and symptom
management, confront a prolonged
dying process so marked by such
extreme suffering they choose to
hasten death. Compassion &
Choices’ “Peace at Life’s End”
public education campaign in New
Mexico will educate residents
about the wide range of
end-of-life options available to
them. The campaign provides
information about how, even in
states like New Mexico, that
lack an explicit legal
framework, one does not have to
suffer needlessly at life’s end. |
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Cooking with Kids |
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Santa Fe, New
Mexico/$5,000 |
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Cooking with Kids (CWK) goal is
to motivate and empower
elementary school students to
make healthy food choices.
Through hands-on nutrition
education activities, students
explore, prepare, and enjoy
fresh, affordable foods from
diverse cultural traditions.
Programming includes fruit and
vegetable tasting, cooking
classes based on foods of the
world, and CWK-inspired school
lunches. During the 2011-12 school year,
CWK will provide over 2,100 food
and nutrition educational
classes for 4,950
pre-kindergarten through 6th
grade students in 13 Santa Fe
Public Schools. |
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Cooking with Kids |
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Deming Animal Guardians |
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Deming, New
Mexico/$5,000 |
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DAG is the largest spay/neuter
program in Luna County and the
only program dealing with all
dogs and cats plus feral cats.
It is estimated that 90% of pets
belonging to persons living
below the poverty level are not
sterilized. The number of
animals that are euthanized
annually at the local shelter
continues to increase. The
shelter is often overflowing
with healthy, unwanted cats and
dogs to the point that animals
are turned away. DAG’s
all-volunteer charity hopes to
measurably impact the pet
overpopulation problem by
increasing the number of
spay/neuter surgeries that we
can support with discount
coupons. |
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Embudo Valley Tutoring
Association |
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Dixon, New Mexico/$5,000 |
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EVTA’s mission is to support
local youth by providing free
tutoring/mentoring services to
students all ages from the
Embudo Valley and surrounding
villages. This program
strengthens the quality of
education of Dixon Elementary by
providing supplementary staff to
an underfunded school, and
reduces the dropout rate of
local students by providing
needed one-on-one support. |
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