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Encuentro |
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Albuquerque, New Mexico/$10,000 |
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Many immigrants in New Mexico
lack access to affordable health
care, safe and stable housing,
and in the absence of
comprehensive immigration
reform, many families face
separation and therefore
increased financial and
emotional stress. Funding for
Encuentro wil support the
continued implementation and
growth of its collaborative
educational programs for adult
Spanish speaking immigrants.
Encuentro uses
education-centered programs for
adults, family strengthening
programs and leadership
development to attain its goals. |
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Enlace Communitario |
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Albuquerque, New
Mexico/$10,000 |
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| Until recently, many Latina
American countries did not have
laws to protect domestic
violence victims. Lack of
culture sensitivity, inability
to understand Spanish, and class
biases often prevents judges
from understanding the cultural
and economic factors that
influence a Latina victim’s
choices. Further more, there is
a lack of free legal services in
Spanish for victims in central
NM who wish to obtain an order
of protection, divorce, custody
of their children, and /or child
support. The goal of this
project is to provide legal
assistance to a minimum of 250
Spanish speaking victims of
domestic violence in Central New
Mexico. |
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The First Tee of Santa
Fe |
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Santa Fe, New
Mexico/$10,000 |
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Youth in Santa Fe County are a
great risk, with over 1,000
homeless. More than 40% of youth
are on free/reduced lunch
programs. The First Tee of Santa
Fe (TFTSF) continues to recruit
and teach least advantaged
children with special focus on
families living below poverty
level. The First Tee Certified
Coaches, assistant coaches and
volunteers assist participants
in learning to apply valuable
life skills while transferring
positive “The First Tee Nine
Core Values” of honesty,
integrity, sportsmanship,
respect, confidence,
responsibility, perseverance,
courtesy, and judgment to every
life. Goals include: improve
students’ attitude, school
attendance; accept
responsibility for one’ actions
and become an integral part of
the community. |
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Food for Santa Fe, Inc. |
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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. Goals are to
meet the nutritional
needs of people in the
low to very low income
levels in the Santa Fe
area. Funding will
assist continuing the
Family Bag Program which
distributes sacks of
food each Thursday
morning; the Healthy
Snacks for Children
accompanying adults; and
provision of aid to
Meals on Wheels and
other groups. |
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Gerard’s House |
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Santa Fe, New
Mexico/$15,000 |
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Gerard’s House is a safe place
for grieving children and youth,
where healing happens through
acceptance and peer support.
Since 1997 Gerard’s House has
served more than 4,000 young
people, and its the only
organization in northern New
Mexico providing long-term grief
support to children and trained
volunteers.
The overarching goal is to help
end the self-destructive
behaviors that stem from
unresolved grief in childhood
and cycle from generation to
generation. They develop ways to
extend services to all bereaved
children and youth in Santa Fe
through the creation of liaison
projects for the immigrant
community, local pueblos,
homeless youth, and children in
detention. |
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Haven House, Inc. |
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Rio Rancho, New
Mexico/$10,000 |
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Requesting services (emergency
shelter, community support
group, counseling, legal
advocacy) from a domestic
violence (DV) agency is just the
first step of an often lengthy
process for a DV victim/survivor
to achieve her goal of a
productive, healthy,
violence-free life style for
herself and her family. The
primary project goal is to
provide on-going support and
services to out-of-shelter DV
victims/survivors as they
transition to their new
violence-free lives. This
includes many facits including
meeting with clients on a
regular or as-needed bases;
providing weekly community
support groups for the adult
victims and a concurrent skills
based group for their children. |
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Kindred Spirits Animal
Sanctuary |
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Santa Fe, New
Mexico/$5,000 |
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The demand for KSAS’ programs
and services has grown faster
than the organizations’
administrative infrastructure.
In order to maintain the high
quality of care to KSAS senior
residents, educational
workshops, outreach and on-site
programs, a part-time
Administrative Assistant
position was created in 2007.
The person in this permanent
position provides essential
support by handling the
overwhelming and ever-increasing
number of cases. As a result,
Kindred Spirits has been able to
introduce new educational
programs and benefit from new
community partnerships. |
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KUNM-FM Public Radio |
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Albuquerque, New
Mexico/$5,000 |
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New Mexico Impact Reporting
Project (NMIRP) is a statewide
news reporting collaboration to
better inform and engage New
Mexicans about the actions
local, regional and state
governments take on critical l
issues affecting people’s lives.
Funding will expand KUNM news
reporting by hiring two fulltime
Journalists to report on public
health and poverty in New
Mexico. KUNM’s NMIRP project is
expanding to help “shine a light
on” and analyze critical
problems facing New Mexicans. |
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La Familia Medical
Center |
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Santa Fe, New
Mexico/$10,000 |
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The Family Health and Fitness
Program will approach the
obesity problem as a family
issue. LFMC providers believe
that this approach has the
greatest chance for success by
altering the dietary and fitness
habits of an entire family
rather than focusing on one
individual in the family. This
goal will be provide support for
families willing to make changes
in these habits thereby
improving the health and
wellness of the entire family.
Plans for the program include
utilizing the services of a
health educator/case manager who
would make home visits to assist
each family in designing a plan
to improve their eating habits
and exercise routines. |
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