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Las Cumbres Community
Services |
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Santa Fe, New
Mexico/$10,000 |
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The
first five years of a child’s
life comprise the most rapid
period of brain growth outside
the womb and form the foundation
for a child’s ability to develop
healthy relationships with
parents, caregivers, peers, and
others in their sphere. The
Conjunct Preschool program is
the only therapeutic preschool
for three and four year olds in
Northern New Mexico. This
program aims to resolve and /or
ameliorate significant delays in
any developmental domain, ensure
children are school ready and
able to develop and sustain
healthy peer relationships, and
to support families to address
the ACEs that their child was
exposed to in their early years
of life. |
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NM Appleseed |
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Albuquerque, New Mexico/$15,000 |
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Full Stomachs-Full Minds: Full
Stomachs-Full Minds is a policy
initiative narrowly tailored to
ensure that low-income children
in the state are able to access
the meals they need to thrive.
The Appleseed Fellowship has the
visionary goal of feeding hungry
children and teaching them about
health and nutrition while
providing low-income high school
students with job and leadership
opportunities, 4 college and
high school dual credits and
mentorship. NM Appleseed is
working with Navajo Nation to
increase USDA meals for
low-income Navajo children and
to expand the meal service to
year-round for afterschool
meals. |
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New Mexico Coalition to
End Homelessness |
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Santa Fe, New Mexico/$10,000 |
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At least 4,000 people experience
homelessness each night in New
Mexico. Homeless people with
disabilities and those without
disabilities have different
needs to exit homelessness, and
so NMCEH is pursuing two
different approaches. NMCEH
seeks to send homelessness by
promoting the development of a
system of supportive housing and
services for the homeless in
each New Mexico community. Our
key goals for the coming year
are to develop a coordinated
assessment system that will help
make most efficient use of the
housing available for homeless
people and to develop a series
of workshops on basic best
practices that can be repeated
regularly. |
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New Mexico Environmental
Law Center |
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Santa Fe, New Mexico/$10,000 |
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The New Mexico Environment
Department (NMED) has proposed
industry-influenced regulations
that would allow for wide-scale
groundwater pollution at copper
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the first time in its
history that the agency has
proposed a regulation that would
authorize an industry to pollute
groundwater at will.
The goals in this case are to
protect New Mexico’s scarce
groundwater and to help ensure
that our state’s communities
have access to potable water now
and in the future. |
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St. Elizabeth Shelter |
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Santa Fe, New
Mexico/$20,000 |
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Casa Familia provides a
dedicated emergency shelter with
16 beds for homeless single
women and five rooms for
families with children along
with a full range of supportive
services including case
management, counseling, school
tutoring, clothing, supplies,
life-skills, jobs-skills,
assistance in finding permanent
housing and return to
independent living. St.
Elizabeth has been meeting the
needs of homeless individuals
for 27 years and has operated
Casa Familia since November
2009, enhancing and improving
the building and program while
increasing visibility and
community support. |
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Think New Mexico |
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Santa Fe, New Mexico/$20,000 |
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The smaller schools initiative
addresses the problem of New
Mexico’s shamefully low
graduation rate. Think New
Mexico is working to enact three
legislative reforms to address
these problems: 1) a bill to
incentivize school districts to
build smaller schools; 2) a bill
to ban campaign contributions
from lobbyists and major state
contractors; and 3) three
constitutional amendments to
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Think New Mexico |
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Santa Fe, New Mexico/$20,000 |
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PRC’s
jurisdiction and increase
qualifications for
commissioners. To implement
these initiatives, Think New
Mexico will follow the strategy
that worked so well in efforts
for full-day kindergarten; the
food tax repeal; the Strategic
Water Reserve; Individual
Development Accounts and lottery
scholarship reform. Funding will
help achieving these goals. |
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Villa Therese Catholic
Clinic |
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Santa Fe, New Mexico/$10,000 |
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Children who are uninsured and
live in poverty are at greater
risk of missing medical
appointments, not receiving
timely immunizations, and
developing poor nutritional
habits. VTCC serves immigrant
families who tend to live in
older housing units that may
have lead pipes, old vinyl mini
blinds, paint and contaminated
soil, potentially adding to lead
exposure. For these reasons, it
is critical that lead screening
services be offered to infants,
children and the adults in their
families. Funding will support
continued lead screening clinic
on and off-site through the
VTCC, to include outreach
activities in the community. |
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