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March of Dimes Foundation
Requested: $ 5,000 Received: 0.00
The March of Dimes works to prevent birth defects, infant mortality and premature birth. If a baby is born too soon or ill, the March of Dimes Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) Family Support Program is there to help. The NICU Family Support Program is located at Lovelace Women’s Hospital, and provides information and comfort to families with a sick baby.
Metropolitan Homelessness Project
Requested: $10,000 Received: 7,500.00
Albuquerque Heading Home aims to house the top 75 most vulnerable persons and families experiencing homelessness using morbidity risk assessment.
Mother Road Productions
Requested: $ 6,893 Received: 0.00
This is a theatre based literacy program titled - Storytelling to Playwriting to Performance. A multi-cultural, multi-generational program in which students create plays from the oral histories of members of the community in collaboration with APS school teachers.
Move the Mountain Leadership Center, Inc.
Requested: $10,000 Received: 0.00
Funding request for the pilot of Circles New Mexico, located at the South Valley Economic Development Center. The pilot will help an initial 18 people out of poverty with the help of up to 50 middle and upper income allies. Pilot will be expanded to 45 families and then transferred to new locations, eventually scaling throughout the state of New Mexico and lifting 10,000 children out of poverty.
Museum of New Mexico Foundation
Requested: $10,000 Received: 5,000.00
This proposal seeks funds to support the preservation and conservation of prehistoric Pueblo Indian murals inside the historic Kuaua Kiva at Coronado State Monument in Bernalillo, NM.
National Dance Institute of New Mexico
Requested: $10,000 Received: 8,800.00
NDI-NM will present the In-School Program, dance and healthy lifestyle programs for children, 80% of whom are from low-income families, in local public schools, and Advanced Training for children seeking a greater knowledge of dance and performance. Both programs will culminate in exciting assemblies and public performances at NDI-NM's newly renovated Hiland Theater facility.
National Farm Workers Service Center, Inc.
Requested: $10,000 Received: 0.00
CCF seeks funding to support its two existing Si Se Puede Learning Centers in the Albuquerque area and to add a third, which together will serve more than 180 at-risk children and youth with afterschool and summer education programs.
National Institute of Flamenco
Requested: $10,000 Received: 0.00
The Youth Scholarship Program was developed by the National Institute of Flamenco to serve the needs of underserved, low-income youth, while providing increased accessibility to the arts. Each year the Youth Scholarship Program awards a minimum of 55 need-based scholarships amounting to $55,000. In 2010 in were able to award 60 need-based scholarships.
National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Requested: $10,000 Received: 0.00
The overall goal of this project is to support a science literacy program for approximately 800 K-8th grade students. The Museum will provide a dedicated experience where students will learn science while incorporating reading, listening, writing and speaking skills.
NewLife Homes, Inc.
Requested: $10,000 Received: 0.00
To create a community garden and complete the landscaping at Luna Lodge, a motel on Central Ave. NE that is being renovated into apartments to accommodate the mentally and physically disabled and those persons who are currently homeless.
New Mexico AIDS Services
Requested: $10,000 Received: 0.00
The NMAS High Risk Women's Peer Education Group serves women ages 19 and over, focusing on women who are at high risk for transmitting or contracting HIV/hepatitis/STDs.
New Mexico Asian Family Center
Requested: $10,000 Received: 0.00
This project will empower at risk, low income, marginalized communities, specifically the API community to become advocate for their own health and well-being. It couples the rich history and practice of martial arts, a culturally relevant method shown to decrease violence and aggression through self discipline with domestic violence and sexual assault education to act as a prevention program against these issues.
New Mexico Center on Law & Poverty, Inc.
Requested: $10,000 Received: 6,200.00
The goal of this project is to improve access to healthcare for low-income children and families by increasing their ability to get and stay enrolled in Medicaid. We will remove barriers to Medicaid enrollment, build a strong network of residents who are working to promote Medicaid access and promote good local implementation of national healthcare reform.
New Mexico Child Advocacy Networks
Requested: $10,000 Received: 6,000.00
Building Futures and Foundations - trains volunteer mentors to help young people exiting the foster care system secure housing, secure employment and attain their educational goals.
New Mexico Community AIDS Partnership
Requested: $ 5,000 Received: 0.00
NMCAP is requesting support for a project designed to increase the health and safety of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning (LGBTQ) youth by training youth educators who will then training adults who work with youth about the needs of LGBTQ youth.
New Mexico Community FaithLinks, Inc.
Requested: $ 9,720 Received: 5,000.00
Project AIM will provide academic and emotional support to 40 elementary school students facing challenges in their personal life that interference with learning. Each student will be provided with four hours of one-on-one support over a six-month period. During this period, special emphasis will be placed on increasing academic achievement, providing education on bullying and violence prevention and instruction on developing vital social skills.
New Mexico Health Care Takes on Diabetes
Requested: $ 9,537 Received: 0.00
Funding is requested for the Querencia Green's collaboration, Healthy Families Healthy Homes, to support the health and wellness of working and vulnerable families in two areas of Albuquerque through the development and delivery of three trainings programs: Buying Club, Weatherization Life and Healthy Clean Homes.
New Mexico Jazz Workshop
Requested: $10,000 Received: 1,600.00
Empowerment through Music is a dual component (prevention and intervention) program that provides out-of-school time music classes for at-risk middle school students in the South Valley.
New Mexico Museum of Natural History Foundation
Requested: $10,000 Received: 0.00
Dinosaur Stompers - Museum presents dinosaur programs in early childhood classrooms at selected schools then engages families at bilingual museum family night for those selected schools. Translate curriculum into Spanish.
New Mexico Women's Justice Project
Requested: $ 6,500 Received: 0.00
This project will reduce the fear experienced by women who are both pregnant and using illicit drugs, alcohol and tobacco so that they will seek timely and effective prenatal care. We will do this by creating and disseminating legally accurate and culturally sensitive training materials designed to educate a wide range of health care professionals working in the metro area with at-risk pregnant women.
Nob Hill Main Street, Inc.
Requested: $10,000 Received: 0.00
This project involves the installation of Tile Walls which depict the historical context of buildings within the Nob Hill district and are part of a larger pedestrian friendly artistic walking tour through the neighborhood.
OFFCenter Community Arts Project
Requested: $ 7,025 Received: 0.00
Our project provides a weekly after-school arts program for at-risk, low-income students at Reginald Chavez and Dolores Gonzales Elementary Schools that allows the students to create art, discuss the art-making process, learn from OffCenter artists about art creation and culture, and exhibit their work.
Opera Unlimited
Requested: $ 5,000 Received: 0.00
Opera Unlimited has a 20 year history of bringing 45 minute live opera productions to community centers and elementary schools in Albuquerque and around the state. Funds would contribute to travel, sets, performer salaries and costuming.
Parents Reaching Out
Requested: $10,000 Received: 10,000.00
This project brings families with a child with a disability together with educators to provide insight into the struggles and successes of living in a family with a child with a disability. By creating a video option to this project, Families as Faculty expands the reach to additional students and existing professionals seeking continuing education.
Pegasus Legal Services for Children
Requested: $10,000 Received: 9,000.00
PrProvides legal representation and advice to caregivers of children to establish safe and stable homes for children when the child’s parents are unable to provide a safe and stable home.
People Works - NM
Requested: $8,725 Received: 0.00
We want to implement a community project that supports home caregivers with dementias by providing an intervention that combines psychoeducation, supportive psychotherapy and technological approaches.
Planned Parenthood of New Mexico
Requested: $10,000 Received: 0.00
The Albuquerque Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Project engages hundreds of teens in peer education and classroom-based programming with the goal of lowering teen pregnancy rates in the South Valley. Using evidence-based comprehensive sexuality education, these two interventions focus on creating youth development opportunities to empower students with the knowledge and skills they need to take an active role in protecting their health and the health of their community.
Playworks Albuquerque
Requested: $10,000 Received: 7,750.00
Playworks is seeking funds to provide full-time coaches in nine Albuquerque elementary schools that will implement coached recess, class game time, junior coach leadership development program, before- and after-school programs and interscholastic sports leagues. Funds will be used to help schools provide the cost match required for participation.
Polyphony: Voices of New Mexico
Requested: $ 8,791 Received: 0.00
We propose to follow up on a benefit concert for Barrett House (June, 2011), in which we present the New Mexico premiere of Mollicone's The Beatitudes: A Mass for the Homeless, with a recording. We are requesting partial support for this.
Presbyterian Ear Institute
Requested: $ 1,822 Received: 0.00
The goal is to provide an innovative teaching program through an auditory/oral approach for children with hearing loss to learn to use spoken language without the use of manual signs.
Project Share, Inc.
Requested: $10,000 Received: 0.00
Funding would provide a steady source of hot, nutritional meals to the working poor and homeless, and help them achieve a higher standard of living en enhancing their feelings of self-worth in a caring and safe environment thereby allowing them to pursue other opportunities that may lead t economic prosperity.
Reading Works, Inc.
Requested: $10,000 Received: 0.00
Reading Works is seeking funding to partner with a creative design advertising agency to create new marketing materials that will refer adults in Albuquerque to Reading Works to receive free tutoring to increase their literacy levels.
ReadWest, Inc.
Requested: $10,000 Received: 0.00
The Adult Literacy Program of ReadWest trains volunteer tutors and matches them with students who need help learning to read or improve their literacy skills in order to achieve their personal goals, including family, education and employment.
Resources, Inc.
Requested: $7,500 Received: 0.00
We are seeking support for our case management, the critical function of guiding the client through the many services offered by the DVRC and our partner agencies. The case manager is crucial to helping the client move from victim to victory.
RFK Charter High School
Requested: $10,000 Received: 0.00
Artist-in-residence ceramics program will teach students hand building, wheel throwing, glazing and firing techniques.
Rio Grande Community Farm
Requested: $10,000 Received: 10,000.00
RGCF seeks funds to support our newly acquired status as an AmeriCorps Program Service Agency.
Rio Grande Food Project
Requested: $10,000 Received: 2,500
The Project will feed 26,000 hungry New Mexicans with 370,000 meals by providing each household a week's worth of emergency food every two months.
Friends of the Rio Grande Nature Center
Requested: $ 2,500 Received: 2,500.00
This project will enable 20 highly at risk, low income children ages 3-5 from La Solana del Valle day school which serves All Faiths Receiving Home. The project will provide the children with quality outdoor, educational experiences focused on the flora and fauna of the Nature Center State Park taught by Masters Educated contract teachers.
Roadrunner Food Bank
Requested: $10,000 Received: 0.00
To provide proteins for a balance and healthy diet to low-income/at risk residents living in the greater Albuquerque area as part of Roadrunner Food Bank's Healthy Food Initiative.
Samaritan Counseling Center
Requested: $ 9,940 Received: 10,000.00
Request is to provide reduced-cost services to meet the unique needs of adults and children experiencing the pain and distress of divorce and separation, major family transitions or post-divorce conflict. Through Changing Families' Wise Parent Counseling and Cooperative Parenting Classes clinicians work with parents to lessen the devastating effects of high-conflict and separation on their children.
Sandia High School Band Boosters
Requested: $10,000 Received: 0.00
Sandia High School Band Program is creating a digital Music Tech Lab and Studio (Tech Lab). The Tech Lab - there is no comparable facility in the APS system - will support general enrichment for instrumental music students and provide directly relevant hands-on opportunities to explore important new technologies and processes.
Saranam, LLC
Requested: $10,000 Received: 7,750.00
Saranam is requesting $10,000 to aid with housing and living expenses for homeless families in Albuquerque.
Sawmill Community Advisory Council
Requested: $ 2,500 Received: 0.00
The Easter Egg Hunt & BBQ, Halloween Carnival and Las Posadas are community events that build social capital and the culture of involvement in the Sawmill community. Bringing people together helps us to garner the support of others in empowering and improving living conditions for the community as a whole.
Special Olympics New Mexico
Requested: $ 6,000 Received: 4,900.00
Special Olympics is requesting funding in order to support our Area 5 competition and training of athletes in the Albuquerque area. Area five serves nearly 1,500 athletes and their families, and grant support would help to ensure that they receive a quality experience while participating in Special Olympics activities.
St. John's United Methodist Church
Requested: $10,000 Received: 0.00
Our proposal is to expand the Music at St. John's programs by arranging for visiting artists to work in seven area middle and high schools to teach choral workshops in September, 2012. After three days of intense instruction the students will collaborate to perform a concert showcasing newly acquired vocal and choral techniques.
St. Martin's Hospitality Center
Requested: $10,000 Received: 0.00
Our Job Development Program will provide the needed resources for clients to be given the opportunity for employment each month. The program will provide employment outreach, skills training as well as measurement of success in obtaining employment leads for the client.
The Storehouse
Requested: $10,000 Received: 9,000.00
To continue development of a food sourcing and rescue system that will take advantage of the food supplies already resident within the greater Albuquerque area.
Southwest Creations Collaborative
Requested: $ 7,500 Received: 0.00
Buena Fe Business-Schools Partnership develops skills and knowledge among low-income, Hispanic/Latino parents in their workplace while supporting the educational achievement of their children in school. This program builds intergenerational wealth by improving high school graduation and college attendance rates.
Southwest Horse Power
Requested: $ 6,400 Received: 0.00
This project will give female offenders the life- and decision-making skills they need to successfully reenter the community and avoid reoffending.
Tree New Mexico
Requested: $10,000 Received: 0.00
The purpose of the Woodward Nursery is to provide plant materials for bosque restoration efforts which will provide a net cost-savings and an availability advantage to the city. These middle and understory trees and shrubs species are a crucial element in providing the plant biological, food, and habitat needs for wildlife, for a healthy Bosque ecosystem.
Tricklock Theatre Company
Requested: $10,000 Received: 10,000.00
The Manoa Project is a free, six week theatre apprenticeship for teens learning the skills of writing, performance, physical theatre, ensemble building and touring.
UNM College of Education
Requested: $ 9,630 Received: 0.00
Implement Family Reading Circles, a monthly meeting at two APS elementary schools for parents and family members with children ages 2-5 years old. Goal is to help build a strong foundation for early learning by supporting early literacy skills, by integrating seven essential skills every child needs for successful lifelong learning and supporting relationships between schools and families with young children.
UNM School of Architecture
Requested: $ 9,988 Received: 0.00
The project will entail the development of a youth entrepreneurship and community engagement curriculum for communities with high rates of poverty and youth unemployment, as well as the implementation of a pilot program for 12-20 youth from the South Valley and Southwest Mesa of Metropolitan Albuquerque.
Unser Children's Discovery Center
Requested: $ 9,787 Received: 5,000
This project provides the Discovery Mission experience for children (K-1) from across Albuquerque who may not otherwise have the opportunity to participate. Leaders attend a professional development workshop prior to the mission experience. Parents and guardians are invited to participate in a Family Science EdVenture after the mission experience in which the children act as mentors for the adults.
US Green Building Council, NM Chapter
Requested: $ 2,500 Received: 2,500.00
A collaboration with CNM Library Services to develop a resource collection for green building for use by professionals, students and people interested in making their homes more sustainable.
VSA arts of New Mexico
Requested: $10,000 Received: 10,000.00
Arts Adventures Program is an arts-based Respite Program for families/youth with autism living in the Alb. metro area. Arts Adventures is beginning its 5th year of service and is poised to become an internship site for UNM Special Educational undergraduate and graduate students in this academic year.
Watermelon Mountain Ranch, Inc.
Requested: $ 7,000 Received: 0.00
WMR provides day services for the developmentally disabled through job/skill training coupled with the therapeutic benefits of working, playing and interacting with companion animals including cats, dogs, rabbits and pot-bellied pigs.
WESST Corp
Requested: $10,000 Received: 10,000
WESST's Youth IDA program for students at the Creative Education Prep Institute (charter school) provides intensive financial literacy training and opportunity to save $3,000 which can be used for higher education, small business or a first-time home.
WildEarth Guardians
Requested: $10,000 Received: 0.00
To harmonize the potentially competing interests of flood risk reduction with ecological restoration of the middle Rio Grande, while minimizing the financial burden of flood insurance for residents with homes in the floodplain.
Wings Ministry
Requested: $10,000 Received: 10,000.00
Continue WINGS for LIFE programming four times a month in two locations to help families of prisoners avoid incarceration & help returning citizens avoid recidivism.
Working Classroom, Inc.
Requested: $10,000 Received: 10,000.00
We will use the grant to provide 50-60 underachieving middle school students with access to high quality, year-round theater training and the support services they need to complete the program and succeed in school.
Youth Development, Inc.
Requested: $10,000 Received: 0.00
This project will enroll 20 parents, who have not completed high school, from the Pedro Baca Head Start center in a GED preparation program. In addition to attaining their GED, the parents will also be engaged in the center's parent workshops, Career Ready 101 program and encouraged and supported in volunteering in their children's classroom and participating in Head Start's center committee and policy council.
Yes We Can New Mexico, Inc.
Requested: $ 8,894 Received: 0.00
Project Upgrade is designed to work in partnership with Real Time Sites to improve the technology of our existing organization's website and to upgrade member sites. Through this project we hope to increase our membership and improve networking and sales for our members to assist them in becoming contributing members of the community.
YWCA Middle Rio Grande
Requested: $10,000 Received: 10,000.00
The YWCA provides under-served girls, ages 9-14, free lessons in science, technology, engineering and math in the highest need Title 1 schools in Albuquerque and is also offered as a residential summer camp. This program is designed to offer young women early training in the highest paid professions, aimed to break the cycle of poverty as they choose their careers.
