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Jardin de los
Ninos, Inc. |
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Las Cruces, New Mexico/$12,000 |
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The economic crisis has created
a greater number of homeless and
near-homeless children in the
area. The high unemployment
rate, the lack of affordable
housing and cutbacks in social
service programs has greatly
increased the need for Jardin’s
services creating a waiting list
of approximately twenty-five
percent in the last several
years. Jardin works with each
child with the goal to keep
homeless children safe in a
strong learning environment
focusing on academic success. |
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Kindred Spirits Animal
Sanctuary |
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Santa Fe, New
Mexico/$5,000 |
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Many aged dogs, horses and other
animals are abandoned in New
Mexico each year. Elderly dogs
are a large component of dogs
surrendered to shelters, and the
first to be euthanized because
the public considers them
unadoptable. KSAS seeks to
change cultural attitudes toward
aging companion animals by
providing a model for eldercare
for shelters. They also offer
educational programs that
increase the pet guardian’s
knowledge of the aging process
and prepare for the final
decisions regarding the
companion animal’s death,
including hospice, euthanasia
and grief support. |
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The Leukemia & Lymphoma
Society |
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Albuquerque, New
Mexico/$5,000 |
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The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
is the world’s largest voluntary
health organization dedicated to
funding blood cancer research
and providing education and
patient services. Staying
Connected is designed to
emphasize the importance of
ongoing communication between
parents and school personnel to
address learning challenges that
may present following a cancer
diagnosis. The goal of this
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to provide information and
tools to help facilitate the
education experienced for the
student with cancer. |
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Life Circle |
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Santa Fe, New
Mexico/$15,000 |
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New Mexico’s system of
health care and
long-term care services
and supports is
inadequate and
fragmented, and will be
incapable of serving the
growing population of
elderly. Of over 70 New
Mexico based licensed
skilled nursing homes
none of them are
designed to serve as a
small-house nursing home
like the Green House
Project. The Green House
Project is a radically
new, national model for
skilled nursing care
that returns control,
dignity and a sense of
well-being to elders,
their families and
direct care staff. In
the green House model,
residents receive care
in small, self-contained
homes organized to
deliver individualized
care, meaningful
relationships, and
better direct care jobs. |
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New Mexico Cancer Center
Foundation |
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Albuquerque, New
Mexico/$6,000 |
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The foundation was established
to decrease the financial stress
of the disease of the patient
and their family. NMCCF is
dedicated to supporting our
patient’s non-medical needs
during their battle with cancer.
The goals are to provide
improved quality of life,
reduction in stress and hope for
the patient and their family.
This is an innovative program
that provides 3rd party payment
of necessities such as
utilities, care payments, rent,
gas and groceries for patients
who are in the active treatment
for their disease. The goal of
the Patient Assistance Program
is to provide support for cancer
patients who are financially
burdened because of their
diagnosis and treatment. |
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New Mexico Horse Rescue
at Walkin N Circles
Ranch, Inc. |
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Edgewood, New
Mexico/$10,000 |
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New Mexico Horse Rescue at
Walkin’ N Circles Ranch, Inc.’s
mission is to rescue,
rehabilitate, train or retrain
equines; and through an
exhaustive qualification and
approval process, find new
productive lives in loving
adoptive homes for each of the
horses in our care. The goal is
to rehabilitate rescued equines
by providing the highest quality
hay available, which will
ultimately contribute to their
potential adoption or foster
care in loving homes. |
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New Mexico Suicide
Prevention Project, Inc. |
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Santa Fe, New
Mexico/$10,000 |
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SKY Counseling Center, located
in Santa Fe, regularly sees
children and teenagers suffering
from a number of vulnerable
conditions associated with
suicide risk: accuse stress,
intense family conflict, cyber
bullying, and clinical
depression. This initiative
addresses the significant gap
and continued need that exists
for timely crisis intervention,
follow up, and preventative care
in order to reduce costly
hospitalizations and increase
healthy outcomes for suicide
vulnerable youth.
Goals are to increase access to
science-based and culturally
appropriate preventative and
crisis intervention strategies
and to decrease youth suicide
risk behaviors. |
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Outside In |
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Santa Fe, New
Mexico/$10,000 |
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Outside In has been responding
to the growing requests for
performances and presentations
to people confined to shelters,
residential treatment
facilities, nursing homes,
correctional facilities, and
other institutions where people
would not have access to the
arts. The development of our
Youth with Promise (YMP) program
in 1998 marked a new dimension
of weekly arts educational
workshops for high-risk youth in
Northern New Mexico. Outside In
continues to deliver a yearly
average of more than 500 quality
artistic presentations,
performances and workshops to
confined populations. A major
objective of the YWP program is
to tap into the creativity of
these youth through an immersion
into the arts. |
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