Wildfire Recovery: Our Recent Trips to Mora and San Miguel
Mora
Like many families living along the Hermit's Peak/Calf Canyon burn scar, the Maes family has lost food they had stored for winter to a fire-related power outage and experienced devastating damage to their home and property after recent flash floods.
This past Saturday, our President & CEO Christopher Goett visited the Maes family in Mora county with Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham and Ruthann & Joseph Griego of Mora MainStreet to learn more about their experience and deliver one of dozens of freezers and food set aside for local residents.
San Miguel
On Monday, the Santa Fe Community Foundation hosted a site visit as part of our Learning Together Series for donors in Las Vegas, New Mexico.
We invited Community Resiliency Fund wildfire relief grantees -- Comedor de San Pascual, Hermit’s Peak Watershed Alliance, Las Vegas MainStreet, Luna Community College, and Mora MainStreet -- to share more about the immediate response, current work, and our collective role in long-term recovery following the wildfires and subsequent flooding. After, we invited attendees to see firsthand some of the burn scar and regrowth along the Las Vegas watershed.
Responding to a Growing Housing Crisis
Housing instability continues to grow across northern New Mexico, driven in part by a shortage of available homes. Since 2022, the Community Housing & Homelessness Prevention Fund has invested $903,000 to address urgent shelter needs, expand transitional and permanent supportive housing, and advocate for policy change yielding more affordable housing across New Mexico.
Empower! Black Futures Community Fund: 2026 Grant Webinar
In this webinar, three members of the Empower! Black Futures Community Fund advisory committee reflect on the fund’s open grant opportunity, resourcing Black-led work, and the importance of strengthening Black life, arts, culture, and financial literacy across New Mexico.
Santa Fe Community Foundation announces record-level $1 million+ in Community Grants
The Santa Fe Community Foundation has awarded $1,045,000 in 2025 Community Grants to 67 nonprofits serving Santa Fe, Mora, Rio Arriba, and San Miguel counties. This marks the Foundation’s largest round of grantmaking through its Community Grants program to date.
