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Crossroad for Women |
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Albuquerque, New
Mexico/$15,000 |
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Crossroads for Women is the only
program in New Mexico that
specifically focuses on
providing housing and intensive
support services for homeless
and formerly incarcerated women
with co-occurring mental health
and addictive disorders. The
mission is to provide
comprehensive, integrated
services to support women
working to break the cycle of
homelessness and incarceration
and achieve healthy, stable, and
sub-sufficient lives in the
community for themselves and
their children. “Day Program” is
an integral component of the
wrap around model. The primary
goal is for the women to develop
the skills necessary to achieve
independence and maintain
permanent housing. |
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Embudo Valley Tutoring
Association |
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Dixon, New
Mexico/$6,000 |
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Last year, EVTA provided over
1,000 hours of tutoring to 35
students, and also worked with
the Embudo Valley Library in
hosting the after school
program, which served 37
children. The mission is to
support local youth by providing
free tutoring/mentoring services
to students of all ages from the
Embudo Valley and surrounding
villages. EVTA is still the only
provider of free tutoring
services in the Embudo Valley,
and is the only organization
with a reading therapist trained
to offer appropriate instruction
to students with dyslexia and
other reading disabilities. |
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Esperanza Shelter for
Battered Families, Inc. |
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Santa Fe, New
Mexico/$20,000 |
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Esperanza provides
24-hour crisis
intervention, domestic
violence prevention and
treatment services
including child therapy
and survivor support,
and emergency shelter.
Esperanza also offers
educational
presentations addressing
the dynamics and effects
of domestic violence and
teen dating violence to
schools, healthcare
providers, service
agencies, community
organizations, law
enforcement and the
general public. The goal
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engage in a collective and
comprehensive commitment to
eradicate violence through
protecting, prevention,
education, organizational
development, leadership and
public awareness. |
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Food Bank of Eastern New
Mexico |
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Clovis, New
Mexico/$10,000 |
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The Food Bank of Eastern New
Mexico was founded in 1983 and
has continuously served Eastern
New Mexico for 29 years. The
Backpack Program is meeting the
fastest growing demand amongst
the in-house programs. The
Backpack Program is the Food
Bank’s response to help meet the
needs of at-risk children in the
serving area who may lack
adequate meals when not in
school. The Food Bank of Eastern
New Mexico distributes food
through the Back Pack Program to
24 schools in Curry, Roosevelt,
Guadalupe and De Baca Counties
in Eastern New Mexico. |
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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 and
meeting the nutritional needs of
individuals and families in the
low to very low income levels in
the Santa Fe area. Funding will
assist the continuation of the
Family Bag Program which
distributes 900-1,200 sacks of
food each Thursday morning along
with healthy snacks for children
accompanying adults; and
continuing provision of aid to
Meals on Wheels and other
groups. |
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Friends Forever
Foundation |
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Santa Fe, New
Mexico/$20,000 |
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Friends Forever Foundation’s
mission is to enhance the
quality of life for critically
ill, abused and homeless
children of New Mexico by
hosting them to expense paid
recreational trips that are
otherwise unavailable. Their
recreational trips offer the
children and their family
members a much-needed reprieve
from the stress and strain of
the oncology clinic or hospital
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children the Foundation
has hosted, through a
partnership with the State of NM
Children, Youth & Families
Department and the
not-for-profit Hearts Sanctuary.
The trips offer a constructive,
positive view of life where the
children are embellished with
kindness and the special
treatment many have never known. |
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Golden Acorns Summer
Camp, Inc. |
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Santa Fe, New
Mexico/$5,000 |
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Since 2009, Golden Acorns Summer
Camp, Inc. has provided
elementary school students with
a choice of six, one-week
culturally-themed camps. The
mission Golden Acorns Summer
Camp, Inc. is to foster a
peaceful, sustainable and
compassionate future for the
next generation of Northern New
Mexico.
Golden Acorns Day Camp Program
provides over 100 Santa Fe young
campers, ages 5-11, exposure to
a multi-cultural curriculum that
focuses on ecological
stewardship, character building
through storytelling, cultural
arts, and conflict resolution
through an appreciation of
ethnic differences. |
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The Imagination Library
of Grant County, Inc. |
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Silver City, New Mexico/$15,000 |
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Books are deemed by many to be a
luxury, not a necessity. Our
program provides a unique and
educationally sound way to
engage young children and their
parents in the roots of
literacy. As one of 1,600
affiliates of Dolly Parton’s
Imagination Library, our
objectives and obligations are
to register Grant County’s
preschool children who will then
receive a free, age-appropriate
book mailed monthly to their
home until their fifth birthday,
up to 60 books in all, and to
raise the funds to pay for the
books and postage. The goal is
to reach 1,300 children by the
end of 2013. Over 11,200 books
have been distributed in the
last two years. |
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