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Literacy Volunteers of
Santa Fe |
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Santa Fe, New
Mexico/$10,000 |
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Literacy Volunteers of Santa
Fe’s mission is dedicated to
providing free tutoring and
encouragement for adults and
their families who want to read,
write, and speak English. The
vision is a literate, thriving
community where words can be
read, written, spoken and
understood. Programs offer free,
quality tutoring in Basic
Literacy and English as a Second
Language. And we are the only
program in Santa Fe County that
provides free tutoring services
for adults. Funding will enable
Literacy Volunteers of Santa Fe
to expand its Workplace Literacy
Tutoring Program by providing
300 students the added learning
opportunity with new computer
and financial literacy
curriculum and workshops over
6-10 months. |
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New Mexico Appleseed |
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Albuquerque, New
Mexico/$15,000 |
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New Mexico Appleseed, founded in
2006, is dedicated to making
innovative and systemic change
on behalf of the poor and
underserved. New Mexico is fifth
worst in the nation for hunger,
so access to food at school
essential. Full Stomachs-Full
Minds: Improving Children’s
Access to Food at School (FSFM)
begins with the premise that
children who are hungry or
malnourished are at risk for
obesity, developmental delays,
emotional problems, and
educational failures. FSFM seeks
to mitigate those risks by
changing policies in order to
ensure access to up to two meals
a day through the school
breakfast, lunch and snack
programs. |
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New Mexico School for
the Arts |
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Santa Fe, New
Mexico/$75,000 over 3
years |
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New Mexico School for the Arts
(NMSA) is a public/private
partnership comprised of a
statewide public charter high
school and a private art
education institute. NMSA was
created to provide any New
Mexico high school student who
demonstrates exceptional
promise, aptitude and passion
for the arts the opportunity to
work toward mastery in their
chosen fields through
professional instruction in the
performing and visual arts in
combination with rigorous
academics leading to New Mexico
diploma. Bringing together
students from 34 parts of the
state, NMS’s addresses poverty,
low educational outcomes, and a
myriad of social issues
impacting our youth. |
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New Mexico Women’s
Foundation |
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Santa Fe, New
Mexico/$10,000 |
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Nearly half of NM families with
a female householder have
incomes below the poverty level.
Under the Women’s Cottage
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banner, the Foundation
helps alleviate
povertyby creating
cooperatives so women
may start a business or
manufacturing activity
generally defined as
“one that takes place on
a small scale with
limited resources.” In
the Women Entrepreneurs
Learn Program, women are
mentored in product
development and business
planning. Product
outlets such as gift
festivals in Farmington,
Las Cruces, Ruidoso and
Santa Fe are created to
help talented women
artisans sell their hand
make work to the public
The money they earn
helps them support their
families and
communities. |
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New Vistas Early
Childhood Program |
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Santa Fe, New
Mexico/$10,000 |
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A child’s development can be
seriously compromised by a
disability or developmental
delay or by environmental
influences such as extreme
poverty, malnutrition, substance
abuse, child abuse and neglect
or family violence. Early
intervention can improve the
odds of positive outcomes for
our youngest and most vulnerable
children. New Vistas utilizes
the “Path: Planning Possible
Positive Futures” for annual
strategic planning. In addition,
New Vistas maintains an
outcome-measurement system to
ensure the efficiency and
effectives of its services to
the community. |
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Nonviolence Works, Inc. |
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Taos, New
Mexico/$5,000 |
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Nonviolence Works, Inc. provides
the only mentoring program for
at-risk youth in Taos County-now
with 230 children in the
program. It began by mentoring
fatherless boys with screened
trained adult male volunteers.
By popular demand, especially
from schools personnel,
mentoring at-risk middle-school
and high-school age girls
program began. This type of
support groups for girls (led by
adult women) was also demanded
from the community due to
escalating female youth
violence, substance abuse,
promiscuity, and gang
affiliation. |
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The Samaritan House,
Inc. |
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Las Vegas, New
Mexico/$15,000 |
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The Samaritan House has been
serving the counties of San
Miguel, Mora and Guadalupe for
over 35 years. The volunteer
base of more than 80 people,
local businesses and
universities has helped to
expand the program. The programs
include food distribution;
transitional housing, homeless
shelter, and thrift
store/recycling operation. All
of these programs are currently
being run in separate locations
by a Board of Directors. Funding
will assist in hiring an
Executive Director and purchase
a facility to house all programs
in one location, allowing the
Samaritan House to better serve
the needs of the community. |
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Santa Fe International
Folk Art Market |
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Santa Fe, New
Mexico/$25,000 |
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Folk artists across the
globe need markets to sustain
their livelihoods, preserve
their culture, and support their
families. At the same time, many
children, youth and families in
New Mexico are isolated and lack
opportunities for interaction
with global cultures. The Market
addresses the challenge of an
interconnected world by
providing an innovative approach
to increasing greater global and
cultural misunderstanding
through its partnerships and
related educational programming.
The Market accomplishes its
goals through business and
entrepreneurship training for
participating folk artists, and
promotes cultural exchange
through education programs for
the general public and outreach
to underserved communities in
northern New Mexico. |
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The Santa Fe Raptor
Center |
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Santa Fe, New
Mexico/$10,000 |
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The Santa Fe Raptor Center
(SFRC) cares for wild, native
bird species that have been
injured or orphaned until they
are able to be released back
into the wild.
Educational programs are focused
on children at schools, the
Children’s Museum, The Audubon
Center, and summer activites.
The Santa Fe Raptor Center
brings live birds to children.
Focus is on what it takes to
keep them in the skies. This
includes teaching about habitat
and other species that are
imperative in the food chain.
Funding will help SFRC to keep
these programs continuing. |
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