Rooted and Rising: Practical Tools for Small Nonprofits
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About the event
Leaders in New Mexico face unique challenges: balancing limited staff capacity, diverse cultural traditions, and rural realities. This session offers a blend of mindfulness and practical tools to support culturally grounded, resilient leadership. This event is free; registration is required.
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Nonprofit leaders in New Mexico often navigate complex and layered challenges — including limited capacity, diverse cultural contexts, and the realities of working in rural communities. This session creates space for BIPOC nonprofit leaders to explore practical approaches to leadership that are both grounded and sustainable.
Blending mindfulness practices with nonprofit leadership tools, this workshop supports participants in strengthening equity, cultural humility, and resilience in their daily work. Through guided reflection and shared learning, participants will consider how to align leadership practices with community values while navigating real-world constraints.
Participants will leave with tangible tools, shared commitments, and renewed energy to support their work and communities.
This session is presented through the Santa Fe Community Foundation’s Learning Hub and is part of the BIPOC Nonprofit Leader Series program. This event is free; registration is required.
About the Learning Hub
The Santa Fe Community Foundation proudly offers our Learning Hub as an educational space for nonprofit board, executive directors, staff members, and donors. Each year, the Hub offers dozens of events, workshops, and learning circles that promote leadership, skill building, and peer-supported growth.
Meet the people leading the conversation
Oriana Lee
Oriana Lee
Oriana Lee is the founder of ESHE Wellness & Art, which helps people both personally and professionally to discover what they want, what's blocking them, and what works to move them forward. For over a decade, Oriana has been using the unique gift as a well-being coach to help clients come up with solutions so that they will be empowered to achieve successful results. As a coach, Oriana largely serves BIPOC and nonprofits, as well as partnering with local and national organizations to create "well work environments'' through mindfulness practices.
Meet the people leading the conversation
Meet the people leading the conversation
Oriana Lee
Oriana Lee
Oriana Lee is the founder of ESHE Wellness & Art, which helps people both personally and professionally to discover what they want, what's blocking them, and what works to move them forward. For over a decade, Oriana has been using the unique gift as a well-being coach to help clients come up with solutions so that they will be empowered to achieve successful results. As a coach, Oriana largely serves BIPOC and nonprofits, as well as partnering with local and national organizations to create "well work environments'' through mindfulness practices.
Funder Panel - Taos
With panelists CJ Grace, Taos Community Foundation; Linda Candelaria-Dodd, Con Alma Health Foundation; Erika Dávila, New Mexico Community Foundation; Mary Nell Wegner, Brindle Foundation; Mona Nozhackum, Taos Ski Valley; moderated by Tanner Martin, Taos Community Foundation
Join representatives from foundations and philanthropic organizations serving northern New Mexico for a conversation about today's funding landscape. Panelists will share their funding priorities, application processes, and perspectives on emerging community needs while offering participants the opportunity to ask questions and build a deeper understanding of how to cultivate strong, lasting funding relationships.
Leading Through Change, Conflict, or Crisis
With Marsie Silvestro & Sarah Silva
Nonprofit executive directors often navigate local politics, shifting organizational cultures, and public scrutiny — sometimes simultaneously. This session offers a supportive space for peer conversation and shared learning around leading through change, conflict, and crisis.
A Community Asset Mapping Workshop: The Wisdom Your Community Holds
With Giovianna Burrell
Nonprofit leaders are often asked to address complex challenges with limited time, funding, and capacity. Yet some of the most powerful resources available to our organizations already exist within our communities. This workshop invites participants to identify and deepen their understanding of these community assets and explore how they can support meaningful partnerships, collaboration, and community-driven solutions.
