Children’s Center Fund
to increase scholarship awards by 50%. Increasing the award amount would positively impact the students by allowing them to focus more on succeeding in their studies, not on finding a job to pay for student loans, $10,000
Cuidando Los Niños
Gap funding support for general operations during fiscal 07-08. CLN provides child care and support services for Homeless Children and their families, $10,000
Direct Action for Youth Foundation
Continued support for 36 hours (18 weeks) of after-school tutoring in reading and math at two APS elementary schools and expansion into a third school during the 2007-2008 school year, $10,000
Dismas House
to support the second year of our "Life by Design" OT Initiative. In collaboration with the Graduate Occupational Therapy Program at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Dismas House is installing a state-of-the-art, evidence based occupational therapy program model ("occupational" being defined as how one occupies his or her time) - "Life by Design", $15,000
Good Shepherd Center, Inc.
to provide benches and a table for our patio and gazebo allowing other limited present resources to be applied specifically to direct service programs (meals, shelter, etc.), $10,000
Greater Albuquerque Habitat for Humanity
to complete a home sponsorship for one new Habitat home. Construction of each Habitat home is a partnership between GAHH, the homeowner, and a Home Sponsor, $10,000
HOME - New Mexico
to pay for program costs of providing counseling services for people with disabilities including extensive one-on-one and classroom homebuyer counseling, assistance with the mortgage approval process, and assistance in locating affordable and accessible housing, $ 5,000
Jewish Family Service of New Mexico
The project will provide an array of services to elderly New Mexicans that will forestall premature institutionalizing and seek to improve the quality of life as seniors maintain their dignity and independence through continued residence in the family home. Seniors will receive such services as: intake and assessment; friendly visiting; transportation; advocacy; home-visits; follow-up; mental health; nutrition; housekeeping; and health and wellness education, $10,000
New Mexico Center on Law & Poverty, Inc.
to support program to improve the access of low-income uninsured people to healthcare at the largest healthcare provider in New Mexico, $10,000
Noon Day Ministry
to fund the rent and utility assistance program for a 12-month period beginning when funds are received. Everyday in Albuquerque and the surrounding area men, women, and children are having their utilities shut off and are being evicted from their residence, $15,000
PB&J Family Services, Inc.
PB&J's Time Limited Reunification program provides support and parenting training to families in which a child has been removed because of abuse or maltreatment. A grant award from the Sandia Foundation will provide matching funds to a grant from the Children, Youth and Families Department, $20,000
Presbyterian Ear Institute
to provide scholarship funding to help children who are deaf and hard-of-hearing attending the oral school, continue on a path toward age-appropriate language, enhanced academics, and increased self-sufficiency in the classroom and later in life, $10,000
Roadrunner Food Bank
to match funds for the Challenge Grant awarded from the M.S. Doss Foundation, $25,000
Ronald McDonald House Charities of New Mexico
to help fund a $3 million capital expansion and renovation project. The expansion will create 12 new bedrooms in the House (from 18 to 30 rooms), and will allow us to serve up to 400 additional New Mexico families each year, $ 5,000
S.A.F.E. House
this funding will meet basic resident needs by improving resident laundry facilities and help underwrite the cost of laundry and personal hygiene supplies, $12,000
Samaritan Counseling Center
to expand capacity to serve by adding three counseling rooms and a conference room at our Alamo office including 5 telephone handsets, replacing carpet and 3 work stations, $10,000
Senior Citizens' Law Office
to supplement existing sources of funding for the Project to improve education and outreach through purchase of a computer projector for presentations, translation of SCLO's website, brochures, and documents (including Powers of Attorney and health care directives) into Spanish, and 12 workshops (in English and Spanish) on Health Care Rights for seniors, $ 5,000
The Storehouse
to support of "Outreach: Food Drives to Serve the Homebound", a program to create community food drives; using the food to serve one of Albuquerque's most underserved populations - the poverty-level homebound, $10,000
WESST Corp
to support the costs to design and implement an Individual Development Account Program for youth which will be piloted with high school juniors and seniors at an Albuquerque public school, $ 6,000
Women's Housing Coalition
to purchase new appliances for our units. WHC has been an organization for over 10 years and our units are in need of major repairs, $ 8,000
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