The New Mexico Community Foundation is a statewide endowment building and grant-making organization that serves and invests in New Mexico's communities and their greatest asset - people.
We believe that our New Mexico communities inextricably bind us together. So we work hard on issues important to communities - water, kids, health, families, elders, education, hardship, livelihoods.
Building community resources and relationships, with special emphasis on rural communities, is at the heart of our work.
We believe that in building stronger communities we are each made stronger.
As a steward of community resources we support a quality of life that reflects and honors the diverse values, traditions, beauty and dreams of New Mexico. We believe New Mexico matters.
Through your contributions, we invite you to join us in investing in the many communities and organizations that the New Mexico Community Foundation supports in Growing Our Future, Together.
These front license plates are produced by the New Mexico Community Foundation (NMCF) to support community arts programs for New Mexico’s children. Proceeds from the sale of these Legacy Art Plates will directly support NMCF’s local partners involved in art programming for youth throughout the state.
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May 6th, 2008
Albuquerque, NM
Ms. Chris Hollis
Communication Director
New Mexico Community Foundation
505.821.6735 x215
chollis@nmcf.org
New Mexico Community Foundation’s Board of Directors approved $5,179,605 for 116 grants in the first quarter of 2008. “This amount is almost equivalent to the $5.8 million in grants awarded to organizations during the entire year of 2007,” said Michael Chamberlain, Chief Operating Officer, New Mexico Community Foundation, “The commitment and generosity of our donors and philanthropic partners made this possible.”
Of these grants, 21, totaling over $4.3 million together, were awarded to organizations supporting New Mexico Integrated Services in School Initiative (NMISSI), an initiative of New Mexico Community Foundation. NMISSI is an innovative demonstration effort giving middle school youth a high-quality program that integrates three components: extended-day learning, comprehensive school-based health, and direct support and services to families Read the rest of this story
May 6th, 2008
Artesia, New Mexico
Foundation Launches One of State’s Largest Scholarship Programs Artesia’s Chase Family Foundation offers $1.5 Million in scholarships for second year in a row
Media Contacts: Richard Price (575) 746-4610
In an age where rising college costs are causing lightheadedness nationally, the Artesia-based Chase Foundation and the Santa Fe-based New Mexico Community Foundation are collaborating to help hundreds of New Mexico students and their families breathe a little easier. For the second year in a row a $1.5 million scholarship investment will be awarded to 2008 graduates of Artesia High School over a 4 year period.
In 2007 the Chase Family began their scholarship investment of Artesia High School seniors with an initial scholarship investment of $1.4 million for 135 graduating seniors attending college and renewable over a 4 year period. The money to invest in such a large group of young men and women comes from the Chase family of Artesia.
One of the rare renewable private scholarship programs in the state, the Chase scholarship program makes funds available for up to the total cost of attendance in achieving a bachelor’s degree. Read the rest of this story
March 17th, 2008
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After nearly 10-years, “Art with Heart!” is returning to Santa Fe at the Lloyd Kiva New Gallery, IAIA Museum, 108 Cathedral Place, the evening of Friday, May 2, 2008. This silent & live auction of fine arts and business contributions coincides with the 15th anniversary of community giving by the New Mexico Community AIDS Partnership, a program of the New Mexico Community Foundation and the National AIDS Fund.
“This is one of those rare opportunities to support a worthy cause as well as come out and have a good time,” said Jeremy Landau, coordinator of the program. “We anticipate having some incredibly high quality art for auction as well as a congenial celebration with food & wine.”
Contributing artists-to-date include; Jan Adelman, Doug Atwood, Diana Beach, Carl Brenders, Doug Brown, Nocona Burgess, Christina Costa, Guy Cross, Edward Sheriff Curtis, Larry Fodor, Joshua Gannon, Joe Garcia, Jane Gearhart, Mary Gray, Dennis Hagerty, Delmas Howe, Ma Jaya, David Michael Kennedy, Scott Kennedy, Jeremy G. Landau, T. C. Lilick, Daryl Melton, Ouray Meyers, David J. Monson, Roger Montoya, Forrest Moses, Jody Naranjo, Robert Wilder Nightengale, Joseph Sanchez, Mark Spencer, Rusty Spicer, Michael Ome Untiedt, Michael Vaughn, H. Joe Waldron, Olin West, and Francis J. Yellowlake. Additional artists are welcome.
New Mexico Community AIDS Partnership has provided community grants for AIDS Prevention and Care and Emergency Assistance for People Living with AIDS since 1993. Recent grant awards, include; AIDS Emergency Project, Albuquerque Area Indian Health Board, HealthCare for the Homeless, Impact New Mexico, International AIDS Empowerment, Health Action NM, Santa Fe Mountain Center, and Southwest CARE Center.
For further information please contact:
Jeremy Landau
505.758.8282
aidstrustnm@earthlink.net
February 12th, 2008
Santa Fe, NM
New Mexico Community Foundation’s (NMCF) Board of Directors approved a December grantmaking docket of $825,075—contributing to a total of $5.8 million in grants during 2007 and breaking the Foundation’s own record for grants made during a single year. Prior to December, the record for NMCF annual grants stood at $4,011,343.
“It is together, through the generosity of our donors and philanthropic partners, that we were able to make more than 700 grants in support of the great work of many organizations doing good work around the state,” said Nelsy Dominguez, Program Director, New Mexico Community Foundation.
NMCF emphasizes “growing our future, together,” said Dominguez—and this involves seeking out and supporting the most innovative, effective community-based organizations at work across the state. NMCF is the only organization of its type serving all of New Mexico.
“Support from the Foundation’s wide range of partners—foundations, individual donors, community organizations, businesses and state government—makes our work possible,” said Robert Stark, NMCF’s Executive Director. “It is with their insights, relationships and resources that we address short-term challenges and design long-term strategies to overcome inequity, strengthen communities and improve life for all.”
For the future of the state, New Mexico Community Foundation is committed to building resources and making grants that advance four key priorities: providing opportunity, promoting culture, protecting environment and pursuing equity.
Highlights from NMCF’s December 2007 grants are provided on the following pages.
New Mexico Community Foundation is a statewide organization dedicated to building permanent community assets, serving generous people and investing in New Mexico’s future through strategic grants and leadership.
Providing Opportunity
A $6,000 grant to the Santa Fe Science Initiative (SFSI) will help fund “Insects of the World,” a unique educational Read the rest of this story
January 30th, 2008
Albuquerque Tribune Op-Ed by Emily Darnell-Nuñez
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Leaving early childhood education out of New Mexico’s funding formula is like building a house without pouring the foundation. It may hold up for a while, but eventually, the roof is going to fall in.
This is something the state legislators should keep in mind during the current legislative session.
One of their tasks will be to consider a proposed funding formula for childhood education. The money provided by the state is badly needed, and lawmakers are to be congratulated for once again stepping in to fill the ever-widening education shortfalls in the federal budget.
But the state funding formula, while well-intentioned, doesn’t quite add up.
The budget emphasis on children in grades K-12 leaves out children from birth to age 5, whose early experiences, research tells us, are the most reliable indicators of future success — or failure.
Studies by the Institute of Medicine and National Research Council Research tell us that at least half of the educational achievement gaps between poor and non-poor children already exist at kindergarten entry. Children are born learning, and if we wait until third grade or first grade or even kindergarten to pay attention to what they’ve missed, it’s already way too late. The larger the achievement gap at school entry, the harder it is to close. Read the rest of this story