Current Field of Interest Funds
Field of Interest Funds and Non-Profit Organization Agency Endowments
Ages 0-24
Court Youth Center, Las Cruces
To nurture an environment where the voices of youth are heard, valued, and celebrated in an atmosphere where the youth create their own destinies and are partners in shaping the world of tomorrow in activities and programs in the arts.
El Centro de Los Niños, Chama
To provide children of the Chama Valley Region with affordable, high quality early childhood educational and childcare experiences.
El Ranchito de los Niños, Los Lunas
As an alternative to foster care, El Ranchito de los Niños, is a non-profit children’s home that providing a nurturing and long-term environment, in a rural setting, for children who need a place to grow, love and learn.
Laguna Education Foundation, Laguna Pueblo
To benefit and support educational programs, services and facilities at the Pueblo of Laguna in their life-long learning process.
Rocky Mountain Youth Corps, Taos
To inspire youth and communities to value each other. Cultivates leadership, employability, and citizenship skills among young people.
WINGS of America, Statewide
Wings of America was established in 1988 to enhance the health, educational aspirations and cultural pride of Native American and Alaska Native youth. It’s a program of Santa Fe’s Earth Circle Foundation. Using running as a catalyst to engage the children, Wings reconnects native children with a sacred experience used by their forebearers for centuries.
For many participants the program has been lifechanging, giving them a belief in their own abilities and encouragement to stay away from drugs and alcohol while remaining fit and healthy. Through Wings programs young people begin to believe in their own abilities, develop leadership skills and become committed to their own well being.
Arts & Comunity
Institute of American Indian Arts-IAIA Life Long Learning Center, Santa Fe
IAIA’s new lifelong learning center Achein (meaning “a sacred place where knowledge is shared”) provides for a diverse platform of programs for creating and sustaining Native ways of knowing and learning.
Basic Human Needs
Alta Mira Family Services, Albuquerque
Offering opportunities for individuals and their families with developmental disabilities or delays or who are at risk for a developmental delay.
ARCA, Albuquerque
ARCA was founded by parents to promote access to community-based services for their family members with mental retardation and other developmental disabilities. ARCA operates more than 100 residences in the community and serves more than 400 individuals each year.
Community Action Agency of Southern NM, Las Cruces
CAA-SNM believes that by encouraging its neighbors in southern New Mexico, it can strengthen the whole community. The agency’s goal is to move people out of poverty through innovative, creative and high energy services and relationships. CAA-SNM has established an agency endowment at NMCF where matching funds provide a significant incentive for raising long-term support.
The agency works closely with NMCF on the Rural Livelihoods Border Project, which provides a wide range of services including the innovative Tres Manos program. CAA-SNM directly impacts and improves the lives of people in New Mexico’s impoverished border communities.
Housing for All, Albuquerque
To abolish homelessness in New Mexico, facilitates housing and services for those who are homeless while preventing homelessness for those who are vulnerable.
Northeastern Regional Community Foundation, Las Vegas
Building assets and making grants in Mora, Guadalupe, and San Miguel counties primarily around community health issues. Storehouse, Inc., Albuquerque Largest food pantry in New Mexico. Among top 10 in US.
Civic Engagement
New Mexico First, Albuquerque
Convenes Town Halls – both statewide and specialized – on key issues. Recommendations from a broad range of participants provide policy direction to officials.
THINK New Mexico, Santa Fe
A results-oriented think tank serving the citizens of New Mexico, THINK NM educates the public, the media and policy makers about some of the most serious problems facing New Mexico and develops effective, comprehensive, longterm solutions to those problems.
Elders
Laguna Rainbow, Laguna Pueblo
To provide shelter, recreational, nutritional, nursing and service facilities for elderly Native Americans.
Sustainability and Alternative Resources/Environment
Amigos Bravos, Taos
Uniquely dedicated to preserving both the ecological and cultural richness of the vital Río Grande watershed.
Forest Guardians, Santa Fe
To protect and restore watersheds of the American Southwest and Northern New Mexico; educate and enlist citizens to support protection of our natural environment; advocate for conservation; enforce and strengthen environmental laws and promote sustainable use of natural resources.
New Mexico Wildlife Federation, Albuquerque
NMWF is dedicated to the conservation of wildlife and its habitat across the nation.
New Mexico Environmental Law Center, Santa Fe
Works to protect New Mexico’s communities and their environments through public education, legislative initiatives, administrative negotiations and litigation. The Law Center has been providing free or low cost legal services to citizens who otherwise would not have a voice.
Southwest Research & Information Center (SRIC), Albuquerque
Works to promote the health of people and communities, protect natural resources, ensure citizen participation, and secure environmental and social justice.