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Abrazos Family Support Services
Requested: $10,000 Received: 0.00
Abrazos will expand the Recreational Respite Program for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Three new sessions will be added to the activity roster: an art class, a bowling group and a social group.
Academy of Trades and Technology
Requested: $6,000 Received: 0.00
Seeking funding for expenditures necessary to purchase curriculum materials focused on dropout and violence prevention, field trips, nutritious snacks, etc. to ensure student success in a structured environment.
ACCION New Mexico Arizona Colorado
Requested: $10,000 Received: 10,000
Through lending and one-on-one business training ACCION will provide much needed business capital to small businesses. ACCION will also increase the financial literacy skills of under-served populations and foster an environment that promotes innovative and entrepreneurial growth.
Adaptive Ski Program
Requested: $ 4,500 Received: 1,000.00
The ASP would utilize an award to provide up to 10 full-time scholarships to students in need ($2,000) and to purchase much needed equipment for the Sandia Peal program ($2,500).
Adelante Development Center
Requested: $10,000 Received: 6,200.00
Adelante's Friends in Time program is the only nonprofit program in New Mexico providing hands-on support, counseling, nurse education, assistive technology and medical equipment to people with chronic neuromuscular diseases, such as multiple sclerosis and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Adoption Exchange, New Mexico Chapter
Requested: $10,000 Received: 0.00
The Family Recruitment Program recruits adoptive families for vulnerable children and youth waiting in the NM foster care system and supports families through the adoption process. Waiting children are survivors of abuse and neglect, sibling groups, children of color, children with disabilities, special needs and children with emotional and/or behavioral challenges resulting from past trauma.
Advocacy, Inc.
Requested: $10,000 Received: 0.00
The NM Guardianship Project secures court-ordered guardianship or legal adoption for caregivers; gives information about guardianship, adoption and alternatives; addresses the underlying needs of the families we serve; and gives Powers of Attorney, Caregiver's Affidavits, free notary service to the public.
Albuquerque Oasis, Inc.
Requested: $8,975 Received: 7,300.00
OASIS requests funding to maintain and expand the Intergenerational Tutoring Program. The program pairs trained older adult volunteers with K-3 students who are not reading at grade level.
Albuquerque Philharmonic Orchestra
Requested: $4,950 Received: 0.00
Underwrite partial cost of two concerts to be presented in May 2012, one at the National Hispanic Cultural Center and one at Sue Cleveland High School. Students from Barelas and Rio Rancho will participate in activates related to the concerts.
Albuquerque Speech, Language & Hearing Center
Requested: $10,000 Received: 0.00
This funding will help us continue to serve the community by providing services to those patients who do not have the means to obtain speech and or hearing services on their own. We will provide evaluations, therapy, dispense hearing aids and assisted listening devices to those in need.
Albuquerque Youth Symphony Program
Requested: $10,000 Received: 0.00
We request funding to support the costs of instruction for our students, including conductor salaries, sectional instructor fees and camp instructor fees.
Alzheimer's Association
Requested: $10,000 Received: 9,000.00
The Association is requesting $10,000 to provide respite care assistance to 100 family caregivers residing in and around the Albuquerque service delivery region.
American Red Cross
Requested: $ 9,868 Received: 0.00
The project will strengthen the community through increased Disaster Preparedness in the recruitment, training and management of volunteers and increase pre-disposition supplies and resources. In addition, the project will help support direct response client assistance for community members impacted by disasters and emergencies.
Andele Tutors
Requested: $10,000 Received: 0.00
To develop a curriculum and pilot training program to empower underserved Native American, Asian Americans and homeless persons to serve as better academic champions for their children and thereby increase academic proficiency, reduce aggressive behavior and the need for clinical interventions in schools.
Animal Humane Association of New Mexico
Requested: $ 9,980 Received: 9,980.00
Animal Humane wishes to establish a Senior Pet Owner Veterinary Fund to improve and maintain the health and longevity of beloved pets owned by senior citizens. In turn, these healthy pets will improve the health and well-being of their senior pet owners. Funding to support diagnostic testing and dental exams for pets.
APS Title I, Homeless Projects
Requested: $10,000 Received: 10,000.00
The After-school Tutoring Program, Links to Literacy, is an effective literacy tutoring model designed to engage skeptical and reluctant readers and bolster academic confidence in children who are homeless.
ARCA, Inc.
Requested: $10,000 Received: 10,000.00
Funding will qualify seven new foster families in our Family Living Services to care for our community's most vulnerable children, those who need highly specialized medical and therapeutic supports because of abuse, neglect and birth events. The funding will supplement existing project revenue to study families and provide licensed social work supports.
Art in the School, Inc.
Requested: $10,000 Received: 10,000.00
After School Art Program for Title 1 Elementary and Middle Schools and Professional Development Workshop for certified teachers to enhance learning with the visual arts.
Audubon New Mexico
Requested: $ 5,856 Received: 5,800.00
Audubon New Mexico respectfully requests funding to bring science-based outdoor education programs to under-served schools in the greater Albuquerque area.
Barrett Foundation
Requested: $10,000 Received: 10,000.00
This project is entitled "Community Career Connection" and is designed, through the establishment of collaborative relationships with local businesses and educational programs, to place women in jobs thereby taking one step in the direction of sustainable living.
Bernalillo County Council of PTAs
Requested: $8,640 Received: 2,500
We would like to add an additional time of year for students to come to the PTA Clothing Bank, since they typically outgrow their clothing before they return or the seasons change and their clothing is not appropriate. We would like to increase the number of students we see by 240.
Bosque School
Requested: $7,500 Received: 7,500.00
BEMP is a joint project of UNM's Biology Department and the Black Institute for Environmental Studies at Bosque School. This collaborative program involves nearly 5,000 K-12 and university students and teachers from nearly 40 New Mexico schools in long-term ecological research effort to monitor key indicators of structural and functional change in the Middle Rio Grande bosque.
Boy Scouts of America
Requested: $10,000 Received: 0.00
ScOutreach Program brings traditional Scouting to youth from areas considered "hard-to-reach" due to high poverty, dropout rates and violence. The program covers costs of uniforms, camping fees, materials, etc. for low income youth.
Cancer Resource Center, Inc.
Requested: $10,000 Received: 1,000.00
This project will improve access to screening and treatment services for cancer patients by providing patient navigation services and transportation assistance. Funding specifically for Gas Cards for people to travel to Albuquerque for treatment.
Career Guidance Institute
Requested: $10,000 Received: 10,000.00
Albuquerque Reads is launching at Lavaland Elementary School, the 4th APS location, in October 2011. Based on the recent expansion to Tome Elementary in Los Lunas, $10,000 has been budgeted to cover books and supplies and the successful recruitment of an additional 150 volunteers.
Catholic Charities
Requested: $ 9,485 Received: 9,480.00
We are requesting funding for an intensive, four day a week adult literacy class aimed at parents who want to increase their literacy skills in order to best serve the educational needs of their young children. Our focus will be on enhancing reading and writing skills.
Children's Grief Center of New Mexico
Requested: $10,000 Received: 5,800.00
Support groups are designed to give grieving children the opportunity to talk, draw, write, play or act out their experiences and to process these experiences with others who are going through the same thing. Group activities may include art projects, puppet shows, reading children's stories about different kinds of death or writing stories.
Cibola Search and Rescue
Requested: $ 2,500 Received: 0.00
There is a current need to recertify 10 of the Cibola SAR team's Volunteer Wilderness First Responders before their certification expires in March 2012. The course if offered once a year in Albuquerque and due to class size it can be difficult to get such a large group as ours recertified. The proposal is to fund recertification.
Citizen Schools
Requested: $10,000 Received: 0.00
Students enroll in Citizen Schools program for the full school year and are provided with caring adult relationships, robust multi-lingual family engagement and about 400 hours of learning time in addition to the traditional school day. Request is for Van Buren Middle School program.
Cloud Dancers Therapeutic Horsemanship Program, Inc.
Requested: $10,000 Received: 0.00
We are asking for $10,000 to pay stipends to two instructors for a 10-month riding schedule plus 26 occupational therapy rider evaluations over the same time period for a total projected cost of $12,261. The grant would defray this cost so we can pass those savings on to clients.
CNM Foundation
Requested: $10,000 Received: 0.00
CNM Foundation is requesting support for the Milestone Fund, a scholarship program recently launched in connection with CNM Connect, a bundled service model that supports students on each CNM campus. Milestone Fund will reward student persistence and accomplishment through concrete financial incentives over the course of three terms to increase retention rates and promote timely graduation.
Community Dental Services
Requested: $10,000 Received: 8,000.00
Because of the huge patient load and the overuse of the dental equipment, we are constantly having equipment breakdowns. We are requesting funds to eithe rreplace or repair the dental equipment as needed.
Cornucopia Adult Day Services, Inc.
Requested: $ 8,410 Received: 0.00
Cornucopia is seeking to improve the comfort and safety of our clients by replacing currently dangerous and non-ADA-compliant tables and chairs. These furnishings are sued throughout much of our programming, for all meals and snack times and are used to host events and community groups.
Cuidando Los Niños
Requested: $10,000 Received: 10,000.00
Our request is for funding to support our Early Childhood Development and Family support programs, specifically, by supporting transportation needs for the children and parents and Community Voice Mail, a technology to help people in transition and in crisis receive messages from potential employers, landlords, healthcare providers, child care providers, case managers an providers of critical human services.
Dar A Luz Birth & Health Center
Requested: $10,000 Received: 0.00
This project increases access to care for underserved women who are currently not receiving routine health care services due to their income level, insurance status, and lack of transportation or other barriers by conducting targeted outreach, grassroots campaigning, education, providing healthcare at deeply discounted fees and offering support services.
Dismas House
Requested: $10,000 Received: 10,000.00
Funding requested is in support of the Re-Entry Program and will support the salaries of staff who provide direct services, including individual and small group counseling, program assessments, client orientations, life-skills trainings and oversight to case management interns.
Dual Language Education of New Mexico
Requested: $ 7,500 Received: 0.00
Student Leadership Institute is designed to engage predominatly Hispanic student leaders in the power of the written word, and to foster a strong sense of pride in their home culture and language. The program focus for 2011 is "Giving Back to Your Community."
Earth Force, Inc.
Requested: $10,000 Received: 0.00
Summer of Service 2011 is the only summer environmental service-learning program available to Valencia County youth. Made possible through the collaboration of Earth Force, UNM-RSLP, Belen Consolidated Schools, Friends of Whitfield, Valencia Community Gardens and the City of Belen, SOS 2011 provides youth the opportunity to utilize methods of civic engagement and leadership in order to address important and local community issues.
East Central Ministries
Requested: $10,000 Received: 0.00
One Hope Centro de Vida Dental Clinic is a low-cost dental clinic and educational program. The dental clinic provides routine dental services to our low income community who have little to no access to dental care. In addition, the dental clinic requires that every patient attends an oral health class presented by one of our three community dental health professionals.
Encuentro Gathering Place
Requested: $10,000 Received: 0.00
This proposal seeks funding to support Encuentro's adult education and leadership development program. Encuentro registers a minimum of 100 students per semester in our ESL, GED and computer training classes and will be adding a Spanish language financial literacy class in summer 2010.
Endorphin Power Company
Requested: $10,000 Received: 0.00
We would like to continue to improve our facility in order to better serve our residents and community with services that we currently offer as well as continue to build our community health clinic. The clinic would offer basic health services to those who are uninsured and underprivileged, with a focus on youth and families.
Enlace Comunitario
Requested: $10,000 Received: 10,000.00
With funding from ACF, Enlace will continue to offer a weekly therapeutic domestic violence support group in Spanish for teen boys and one for girls. The participants are all adolescent youth who have witnessed domestic violence at home, and whose non-abused parent receives services at Enlace.
Environmental Education Association of New Mexico
Requested: $10,000 Received: 0.00
We will provide the first annual Summer Institute for Environmental Education, a five-day training for 20 teachers to learn new ways to teach NM Educational Standards using award winning, multi-disciplinary curricula, taught by experienced professionals and specialists in their fields. This year's theme will be "Climate Change."
Equality New Mexico Foundation
Requested: $ 8,000 Received: 0.00
Towards an LGBT inclusive approach to health care reform: educating the Albuquerque LGBT community about new opportunities for securing health care coverage through Federal Health Care Reform.
Escuela del Sol Montessori School
Requested: $10,000 Received: 0.00
Harwood Art Center's Creative Roots brings art to at-risk youth in neighborhoods designed as pockets of poverty, as well as to patients at UNM Hospital, filling an ever increasing void of creative expression.
Excel Educational Enterprise
Requested: $10,000 Received: 0.00
Capacity building: convert the organization from a largely government funded nonprofit to one that is mostly community, volunteer and privately funded which we feel can be even more responsive to the needs of low to moderate income residents. To provide evidenced-based health and human services through more effective community outreach.
Explora Science Center
Requested: $10,000 Received: 10,000.00
Explora's Youth Intern Project prepares high-achieving, low-income, culturally diverse high school students to educate elementary school children through programs in science, technology and art.
Family Promise of Albuquerque
Requested: $ 5,484 Received: 0.00
FPA will provide families with case management, financial literacy education, job-readiness workshops, client's basic needs and documentation (birth certificates, IDs, etc.) and tools of the trade such as work clothes, resumes and work supplies for specific trade needs. We will also recruit three new congregations to expand community and volunteer involvement in the program.
Festival Ballet Albuquerque
Requested: $10,000 Received: 10,000.00
History of Dance and Discovery Workshop: an on-site educational outreach program for elementary and middle school students designed to create a greater awareness of dance while fostering a strong sense of community.
Fractal Foundation
Requested: $10,000 Received: 10,000.00
We are developing educational kits of hands-on fractal-based materials to support early math education. We intend to test, refine and deliver them in classroom presentations and professional development workshops.
Friends of Puppet and Object Theatre
Requested: $10,000 Received: 0.00
Cultural Nourishment for Young Children - a series of 45 performances for young children in Albuquerque Head Starts, UNM Children's Hospital and smaller organizations serving homeless, at-risk and underserved youth.
Golden Apple Foundation of New Mexico
Requested: $10,000 Received: 0.00
Golden Apple requests funding for our Scholars program, specifically the 2011 summer institute, a collaboration with National Dance Institute. NDI will recruit about 120 children for their 3-week summer dance program and Golden Apple will provide Scholars (and a mentor) to enhance NDI's dance program with hands-on engaging lessons that incorporate math, science, reading and writing into each day's activities.
Gordon Bernell Charter School
Requested: $ 7,500 Received: 7,500.00
Complete Frances Tinnin Pocket Park with the installation of solar power to teach about the viability of alternative resources from theory to actuality. We will use the solar power to run the lights and the donated Wi-Fi that has already been installed.
Gynecological Cancer Awareness Project
Requested: $10,000 Received: 0.00
The objectives are to aid women in treatment, increase awareness of reproductive cancers, and to help prevent cancer in the metro area through: cooking classes, a cookbook of cancer fighting recipes and other educational materials and a farmers market.
Haven House
Requested: $10,000 Received: 0.00
For adult DV victims and children witnesses/victims, we provide a range of services to help them be safe for the short and long terms. Our shelter program is supplemented by full case management including referrals to partner agencies as appropriate, legal advocacy, therapy, education/support groups in shelter and the community. Services are aimed at not only immediate safety but a t building knowledge, skills and resources that will help clients recognize and avoid abuse in the future and, for the children to avoid becoming victims or abusers as adults.
Hawks Aloft
Requested: $7,025 Received: 7,000.00
Living with the Landscape is a multi-visit expansion program designed to serve Title 1 schools and underserved populations. This program employs hands-on activities, field trips, student-led projects and the opportunity to view live, non-releasable raptors to illustrate conservation related topics and encourage environmental stewardship.
Healing the Children
Requested: $5,000 Received: 5,000.00
Funds to continue assisting area children through the Hardship Relief Project, a program to meet health emergency or burden-of-care needs including medical treatment and vision, medically related support such as prosthetics, specialized equipment, dental treatment and prevention as requested by parents through their health care providers.
Hearing Loss Association of Albuquerque
Requested: $6,000 Received: 0.00
Install a hearing loop and supplemental equipment in the landmark KiMo Theater to make it more easily accessible to the hard of hearing by utilizing electromagnetic induction to transmit "hearing aid corrected" sounds via telecoil receivers in hearing aids, negating the need of hearing aid removal and use of borrowed headsets.
Heart Gallery of New Mexico Foundation
Requested: $7,000 Received: 0.00
A one day Heart Gallery "Rock the Pit" adoption event held in partnership with UNM and the two Lobos teams where waiting and adoption-eligible foster children meet, eat and play with prospective adoptive families. Over the last eight years, the events have yielded dozens of successful "forever family" matches.
Heroin Awareness Committee
Requested: $10,000 Received: 0.00
Grant funds will be used to allow the HAC to expand its capacity to deliver four seminars and a series of workshops focused on creating awareness about the opiate/heroin epidemic. Workshops are also focused on parents and families.
Hogares, Inc.
Requested: $10,000 Received: 0.00
The goal of the Respite Project is to keep children with social, cognitive and developmental delays diagnosed with an emotional disturbance in the least restrictive setting - at home and in the community - by providing their parents with a safe and nurturing environment with rained staff who understand the needs of their children and youth.
IMPACT Personal Safety
Requested: $5,406 Received: 5,400.00
Project Prepare will work with 500 teens in Albuquerque to teach them violence prevention for themselves and their communities.This will be achieved through collaborations with APS, charter schools and Alterative to Detention, a project of Bernalillo County.
Jewish Family Service of New Mexico
Requested: $7,000 Received: 7,000.00
The overall goal of JFS' Food Pantry is to address the growing problem of hunger in New Mexico by working with Road Runner Food Bank and members of the local food pantry network to provide nutritious, wholesome and non-perishable food to needy individuals and families in our service area.
Joy Junction, Inc.
Requested: $10,000 Received: 0.00
Joy Junction provides transportation for its homeless guests. This service includes emergency transportation to the shelter, any time of day or night. JJ also provides transportation from the shelter to key locations in Albuquerque where guests can access services or work.
Junior Achievement of New Mexico, Inc.
Requested: $10,000 Received: 5,000.00
Provide financial literacy programs to more than 420 Hispanic students, grades K-12. Volunteer role models from the business community and teachers are trained to present practical, hands-on lessons in seven major content areas: business, citizenship, economics, entrepreneurship, ethics/character, financial literacy and work-related life issues.
Keshet Dance Company
Requested: $10,000 Received: 0.00
Keshet operates an extensive Mentorship through Dance program for incarcerated teens and young adults at the YDDC - Youth Diagnostic and Development Center, the statewide juvenile detention facility.
La Familia Placement Services
Requested: $10,000 Received: 0.00
The goal of this program is to incorporate Occupational Therapy/Sensory Integration interventions with Attachment Interventions, using the Alert Program as a foundation, info groups, therapy, the home environmental and the school to optimize a child's ability to do many new concepts.
