Health

Grants in the field of health provide support for access to health care, treatment and education programs, and care for people with chronic conditions.

Adelante Development Center
to enable severely impaired and disabled people with MS or ALS in the Friends in Time program to communicate with their caregivers through access to technology, $5,000

Albuquerque Health Care for the Homeless
to continue development of ArtStreet program initiatives for children living in poverty and experiencing homelessness, $5,000

Albuquerque Speech, Language & Hearing Center
to purchase specialized clinical instrumentation software enabling speech-language pathologists to provide home and/or center-based speech and language therapy, $5,000

Amigos de Las Americas
to initiate a health education project by teen volunteers for children and youth in the Southeast Heights, $4,200

Angel Flight West
support for capacity-building project to maintain a network of volunteer pilots and ground people providing free transportation to individuals in need of medical attention at distant facilities, $5,000

Cloud Dancers of the Southwest, Inc.
to provide partial horse-back rider scholarships for 10 individuals with physical and/or cognitive disabilities and for equipment, $2,200

HOME - New Mexico
to expand and enhance the financial education of its existing counseling program for people with disabilities to improve their personal financial knowledge and skills assisting them in becoming mortgage-ready homebuyers, $5,000

New Mexico Cancer Care Alliance
to support the hiring of an additional clinical trials coordinator for cancer medical research studies, $5,000

New Mexico Center on Law & Poverty, Inc.
to increase access to healthcare services for the indigent population of Bernalillo County, $5,000

New Mexico Survivors of Homicide, Inc.
to support therapeutic art program assisting family members and friends of homicide victims, $1,200

UNM Center for Development & Disability
to expand comprehensive collection of books, videos, DVDs, and periodical subscriptions (in both Spanish and English) as resources for persons with disabilities, their families, health care providers, and educators in the Center's Library on Menaul, $2,500

VSA arts of New Mexico
to support free art classes for adults with mental illness participating in the Arts in the Evening program, including art therapy, general arts, special art-related projects, and development of a theater project, $5,000

up to top

Human Services

Grants in the field of human services provide support for improving the quality of life for those in need by strengthening families, assisting the chronically poor, providing for the basic needs, and aiding people in transition.

Agora Crisis Center
for a suicide awareness campaign for senior citizens through outreach into senior centers, community centers, civic clubs, $5,000

Albuquerque Mental Health Housing Coalition
to support and expand housing assistance and eviction prevention program for families with children, $15,000

Barrett Foundation
to support the new Barrett House Emergency Shelter library enhancing homeless women's abilities to obtain valuable life and employment skills and encourage mothers to read with their children, $7,500

Dismas House
to support client-centered initiative to increase the number of resident adults on probation and parole, who then successfully transition back into the community, $5,000

East Central Ministries
to expand operating hours of the food co-op to an additional day, support additional Member Managers, and purchase operational supplies, equipment, shelves for a new building, $5,000

Jewish Family Service
to support the Senior Transportation Project offering low or no-cost door-to-door transportation to seniors to alleviate isolation and increase accessibility to services and activities, $5,000

Legal Facs
to support community outreach, public awareness, and education for victims of domestic violence in Torrance and Valencia counties, $5,000

Los Reyes de Alburquerque Foundation
to provide 80 musical/narrative presentations of traditional Nuevomexicano music at adult daycare centers and senior mealsites, $3,000

NAMI - New Mexico
to support a public recovery education program for presentations about mental illness, $5,000

New Mexico Voices for Children
to support the Community Health Partnership in the Southeast Heights for the Block Leader Project developing leadership skills to improve health and quality of life for immigrant families, $20,000

Outcomes, Inc.
to support Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Program helping grandparent caregivers cope with challanges, stablize their physical & mental health well-being, and invest in more positive futures for the children, $2,500

Outside In
to cover costs for performing arts presentations at shelters, nursing homes, treatment facilities, correctional institutions, and other human services programs, $2,500

Rio Grande Food Project
to purchase balanced variety of food to meet the nutritional needs of clients, $5,000

The Crossroads
for the consumer-run program component, including a self-support network, individual interest groups, and other peer programs for women in prostitution who are reintegrating into the community from incarceration or life on the streets, $5,000

YouthBuild Albuquerque
to hire a remedial reading specialist and purchase educational supplies allowing students to pursue their GED, $15,000

up to top

Children & Youth

Grants in this field-of-interest support direct services or prevention programs benefiting children, with an emphasis on projects for children who are abused and neglected, homeless or economically disadvantaged, and those programs nurturing families.

All Faiths Receiving Home
to support the Children's Safehouse by upgrading audiovisual equipment for recording initial interviews about sexual or physical abuse in a non-intrusive manner, $5,000

Animal Humane Association
to support Project Second Chance pairing incarcerated juveniles at New Mexico Children, Youth, & Families Department facilities with hard-to-adopt shelter dogs for the benefit of both, $4,000

Bernalillo County Council of PTAs
to provide school uniforms for needy children in 34 APS schools requiring uniforms with the objective of improving attendance, academic performance, and student behavior, $6,200

Children's Grief Center of New Mexico
to support recruiting, training, and supervision of volunteers to expand services to children and families grieving a death, $5,000

Cuidando Los Niños
to support the Story Quest Project, incorporating a multi-tiered approach to literacy in both the Children's Program and the Family Support Program, $5,000

Healing the Children
support for children with medical needs not covered by insurance or available by other public avenues, $5,000

New Mexico Police Athletic League
to implement mentorship program for girls at the Albuquerque Recreational Site combining sports with educational intervention focused on reducing and preventing health-risk behaviors, $2,800

PB&J Family Services, Inc.
support for the KidPACT program for school-aged children with incarcerated parents to decrease the isolation of these children, improve school performance, and break the intergenerational cycle of crime, $4,700

Roadrunner Food Bank
to support the Food for Kids Program in 25 very low-income schools, covering costs of food, backpacks, and transportation, $5,000

Sandoval County CASA, Inc.
to educate local individuals, organizations and companies about CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) services and the foster care system, $3,200

TVI Foundation
to provide quality one-on-one tutoring to homeless children in the APS Title I summer program while instilling ideals of philanthropy and community service in TVI students, $4,500

Women's Community Association
to provide equipment, furniture, and supplies for the day care program at the women's domestic violence shelter, $5,000

Education

In the field of education, grants support a wide range of activities from early childhood through adult programs including special needs, enrichment and literacy projects, parent and volunteer involvement, and vocational and career training.

APS Title I, Homeless Projects
to support the educational needs of homeless children by providing volunteers for after-school and summer tutoring programs and employing a coordinator to establish community contacts, train volunteers, and develop a training manual, $6,700

Camp Fire USA New Mexico Council
to broaden the Rocket Reader program to include K-2 grades by providing volunteers trained to be literacy-building mentors, $5,000

Common Cause
for the New Mexico Chapter to support the New Mexico Model City Council, a four-week curriculum for three APS high school government classes, $5,000

Direct Action for Youth Foundation
for an elementary school tutorial program compensating classroom teachers for providing after-school tutoring, $5,000

Elizabeth Parris, Albuquerque High School
Nancy Thompson Harris Award for Excellence in Teaching Literature, $2,000

Fast Break, Inc.
to enable children from economically disadvantaged families to participate in an extended-day enrichment program at Horizon Academy South, $5,000

New Mexico Holocaust & Intolerance Museum
for educational materials for the museum and students, and APS school bus transportation allowing 25 middle and high school classes to visit the museum, $5,000

New Mexico Mesa, Inc.
to support math and science curriculums through the Medical Career & Health Issues Educational Leadership Project for middle school students, $5,000

Oasis, Inc.
for tutoring coordinator to organize training for 30 new older adult tutors, design and provide a program for volunteer school site coordinators in elementary schools, $5,000

Rio Grande Educational Collaborative
to support a before and after school program serving 17 elementary and five middle schools in the South Valley, $5,000

Southwest Creations Collaborative
to support a school-based initiative for immigrant families, engaging Spanish-speaking parents in dialogue with teachers and staff at their child's school, $4,500

TVI Foundation
to support the Tax Help New Mexico Program for over 100 TVI students to provide free tax preparation assistance to elderly and low-income residents, $4,936

up to top

Environmental and Historic Preservation

Grants in this field help to preserve historic resources, conserve the natural land, protect wildlife, and provide environmental education programs.

Albuquerque Tree Initiative
to purchase and plant trees in Albuquerque to help sustain the city's green infrastructure, in collaboration with the City of Albuquerque Parks Department, $5,000

Bosque School
Program for private, public & pueblo school students to monitor the bosque ecosystem in collaboration with UNM and US Corps of Engineers, $5,000

El Rancho de las Golondrinas
to support educational outreach program in Albuquerque schools, specifically for K-6 students to attend Spanish Colonial Days, $5,000

Hawks Aloft
for classroom presentations of the Cavity Nesting Birds Conservation Education Program featuring live, non-releasable birds of prey, introducing students to the birds and their habitats, $5,000

HawkWatch International New Mexico
to support the multi-faceted classroom and community environmental education programs in the Albuquerque area and at migration sites in the Manzano and Sandia Mountains, $5,000

New Mexico Museum of Natural History Foundation
to support Sandia Mountain Natural History Center in the updating of the Ecosystem Explorations curriculum to meet current science standards for all fifth grade students, $3,829

New Mexico Wildlife Federation
support for the New Mexico Senior Conservationists Video Interview Project to record and preserve the oral histories of 25 of New Mexico's conservation pioneers, $2,200

Quivira Coalition
to support riparian restoration project in Tijeras allowing students in grades 7-12 to work along side of riparian specialists to construct in-stream structures, plant willows, and conduct monitoring, $5,000

Sustain Ability Trust
to teach community courses on Grey Water Recycling and Water Catchment for underserved and low income people, $4,730

Tree New Mexico
to partner with United South Broadway Corporation and Bosque Youth Conservation Corps to develop and implement tree planting and revitalization project in the South Broadway neighborhood, $4,400

up to top

Arts and Culture

Grants in this area are given to support arts education, facilitate the stability of arts organizations, and to encourage the preservation of the community’s cultural heritage.

Albuquerque Youth Symphony Program
support for Bach to Basics a weeklong summer music camp for APS middle school students to improve performing ability, advance technically, and improve musicianship, $5,000

Art in the School, Inc.
to conduct professional development workshops in integrated art education for teachers in the UNM/APS Resident Teacher program, $5,000

Downtown Action Team
to support the Go! Arts Festival, a curated, Downtown contemporary arts festival for collectors, dealers, and art lovers, $3,000

Loren Kahn Puppet Object Theatre
to support an outreach tour to 4th-5th grade classrooms by presenting a puppet and object theatre play that builds a bridge between two cultures and two expressions, puppetry and theatre, using stories as common material, $3,000

National Dance Institute of New Mexico
to provide a 15-week dance program to an APS elementary school to help children develop into well-adjusted, resilient, and physically fit youth, $5,000

New Mexico Symphony Orchestra
to support the Fifth Grade Initiative program, enriching students’ academic experience and fostering creativity, communication, and critical assessment, $5,000

New Mexico Wildlife Association
to help East Mountain youth produce "Make It A Mural" - an 8’x16' mural with a wildlife theme to display for one year at Wildlife West Nature Park, $1,200

Once Upon A Theatre
to underwrite performance fees for original versions of classic fairy tale presentations in 12 low-income elementary schools, $5,000

Opera Southwest
to create, print, and disseminate to every elementary school teacher an Opera/Sciences Study Guide for Teachers for a new music-theatre opera on the scientific subject of water, $2,500

Opera Unlimited
to support production costs of "A Teenage Salute to Gilbert & Sullivan," summer music theater activity for older children and youth, $2,800

Panjea Foundation for Cultural Education
to continue African dance and drumming classes at the Thomas Bell Community Center by funding instructors and costumes, $4,500

Senior Arts, Inc.
to support a series of four intergenerational workshops led by professional artists at the South Broadway Cultural Center with children from Eugene Field and East San Jose Elementary Schools, $2,200

Working Classroom, Inc.
for a multicultural arts and education afterschool program at Washington Middle School to design and paint a series of murals honoring school alumni, $4,800

QUESTIONS? Call the Foundation Office at (505) 883-6240 or e-mail us at foundation@albuquerquefoundation.org