Teaching weaving at the Espanola Valley Fiber Arts Center.

2009 Community

Grant Awards

Española Valley Fiber Arts:  $10,000 to provide education and training in fiber arts for people in Rio Arriba, Santa Fe, Taos, Mora, San Miguel and Los Alamos counties.

Santa Fe Performing Arts:  $15,000 for training in performing arts and outreach to youth, particularly children who might not otherwise have access to performing arts in Santa Fe County.  

Civic Affairs Community Grants – Total $20,000

Santa Fe Independent Business Alliance:  $10,000 for a project to create more commercial use of locally grown food, including a day-long event to bring together farmers and commercial food buyers/restaurant owners.

Somos un Pueblo Unido:  $10,000 for an Immigrant Workers’ Rights Project to provide civil rights education through labor rights workshops, media campaigns and written materials; and to improve community/police relations.  

Environment Community Grants – Total $25,000

New Mexico Acequia Association:  $10,000 to support the Sembrando Semillas Youth Program, which builds youth skills in land and water stewardship, and provides adult opportunities for farm business planning in Taos and San Miguel counties.

Santa Fe Conservation Trust:  $10,000 to expand tax credit programs for small farm parcels, educate state staff and tax credit committee members on the importance of conserving small food-producing parcels; and educate small farmers about conservation options.

WildEarth Guardians:  $5,000 for its Doable Renewable Project, which will develop a local renewable energy plan through partnerships with Santa Fe businesses, the National Labs, local government and the community.

Education Community Grants – Total $81,500

Boys & Girls Club del Norte:  $12,000 to diversify and increase funding sources to further its mission to empower and inspire the youth of lower Rio Arriba and upper Santa Fe counties to reach their full potential.  

Citizen Schools:  $20,000 to change the life trajectories of middle school students at De Vargas Middle School by offering academic, behavioral and leadership skills, making students more likely to succeed and serve as future community leaders.

Healthcare Careers Pathway, Capital High School:  $20,000 to prepare high school students, through hands-on studies and work with a range of medical professionals, to choose one of several pathways to a professional healthcare career in Northern New Mexico.

Literacy Volunteers of Santa Fe:  $19,500 to provide free, quality tutoring for all who want to learn to read and speak English.

Think New Mexico:  $10,000 to support the organization’s advocacy of smaller public schools; and for a new initiative designed to effectively address “pay to play” in state government.

Health Human Services Community Grants – Total:  $159,000

Bienvenidos Outreach:  $12,000 to provide food and clothing through a weekly family “food box program,” a “Milk Program,” a “Seniors Day”, and a daily lunch program for those in need in Santa Fe, San Miguel and Rio Arriba counties.

Community Against Violence:  $10,000 to train and support a cadre of youth leaders to teach violence-prevention strategies and youth-organizing activities, and to initiate conflict-resolution groups in Taos County.

Crisis Center of Northern New Mexico:  $10,000 to implement an anti-bullying curriculum in Española elementary and middle schools.

El Centro Family Health:  $15,000 to expand its program for treatment of opiate addiction in Rio Arriba County.

Esperanza Shelter for Battered Families:  $20,000 for emergency shelter, case management and recovery services for victims of domestic violence; and for re-education services for offenders in Santa Fe, Los Alamos, Mora, Rio Arriba and San Miguel counties.

Food for Santa Fe:  $15,000 to provide bags of groceries for weekly distribution to those in need in Santa Fe County.

New Mexico Suicide Intervention Project:  $10,000 for intensive suicide-prevention training for public school counselors, families and for a student/peer skills and support group n Santa Fe elementary, middle and high schools.

Santa Fe Mountain Center:  $10,000 for the Adventures in Caring Community anti-bullying program to create a more positive, caring and safe learning environment for students in Agua Fria and Turquoise Trail elementary schools.  

Santa Fe Rape Crisis & Trauma Treatment Center:  $10,000 to provide free, evidence-based clinical assessment and treatment to individuals who have experienced trauma.
 
St. Elizabeth Shelter:  $20,000 for services for the homeless: emergency shelter, food, case management, counseling and referrals to healthcare, employment, housing and human services agencies in Santa Fe and Northern New Mexico.

St. Vincent Hospital Foundation:  $7,000 for its program to educate and counsel families and children at risk for diabetes from Santa Fe and Rio Arriba Counties; and to provide follow-up group classes and individual consultations.  

Youth Shelters and Family Services:  $20,000 to provide services to homeless, runaway and in-crisis youth and their families in eight Northern New Mexico counties and eight pueblos.