The 2006-2008 UWSFC-funded partners demonstrate financial viability and are
required to be accountable by measuring and reporting
their program outcomes.
Owning Our Own Homes – Homewise – By helping people achieve home ownership, Homewise helps build family wealth, fosters community stability and creates strong safe neighborhoods. www.homewise.org
Opening the Lines of Communication – Literacy Volunteers – With their family literacy building and English as a second language programs, Literacy Volunteers is fostering success in school, work and community life. www.sfccnm.edu/sfcc/pages/525.html
Hunger is no Longer a Barrier to Success – The Food Depot – The Food 4 Kids program and providing food to 100 other agencies, helps keep hunger out of the lives of Santa Feans of all ages. www.thefooddepot.org
Investing in Our Future - Open Hands – Individual Development Accounts will help community members save for the purchase of their first home, start a small business of for a child’s education. www.openhands.org
Children Reach Their Full Potential - New Vistas – New Vistas’ family-centered early childhood programs help children who have or are at risk for a developmental delay reach their full potential. www.newvistas.org
Living Without Violence - Esperanza Shelter for Battered Families – Esperanza’s Outreach and Community Education programs work toward reducing violence in our homes, work places and neighborhoods. www.esperanzashelter.org
Improving Childhood Nutrition - Cooking with Kids – Elementary school children and their families learn that good nutrition and good taste can go hand-in hand and create a healthier future. www.cookingwithkids.net
Our Daughters Grow Up Strong - Girls Inc. – Serving girls across the community, Girls Inc. is builds girls' capacity for confidence & responsible adulthood, economic independence, & personal fulfillment. www.girlsincofsantafe.org
Building a Healthier Santa Fe - La Familia Medical Center - By providing a wide range of preventive and treatment service that are building a community where quality health care is available to all.
Diversity without Division – Zona del Sol – A consortium of not-for-profit organizations including Warehouse 21, Girls Inc. and YMCA in partnership with Tierra Contenta, will create opportunities for Santa Fe youth who live in Santa Fe's south side to develop a dialogue between native Hispanic community members and more recent Mexican immigrants.
Celebrating individuality and understanding of others – Girl Scouts – Sangre de Cristo Council – will reach out to elementary school girls from low-income families, builds character and skills for success in today's world.
Teaching sustainability to our youth – Santa Fe Mountain Center – in collaboration with ENLACE and Earth Care launched an innovative youth development initiative promoting personal discovery and social change among youth through the use of creative learning experiences in wilderness, community and cultural environments.
Small Grant Recipients: 2006-2008
Heart Gallery of New Mexico - in support of a December 2006 event to introduce Santa Fe stakeholders in youth services, including organizations, grantmakers, donors and VIPs to the Heart Gallery of New Mexico Foundation. The Heart Gallery of New Mexico Foundation's mission is to promote the adoption of foster children in New Mexico by expanding Heart Gallery Exhibitions in New Mexico and to supplement services and opportunities offered by the state to Heart Gallery foster children and foster-care youth aging out of the system.
Institute of American Indian Arts - in support of the Native Elder Program that will bring elders from New Mexico's Pueblos, Jicarilla and Mescalero Apache Tribes, and the Navajo Nation together with small groups of preschool children from the more than forty Head Start Programs and preschools.
NM Suicide Intervention Project is the only comprehensive youth suicide prevention program in Northern New Mexico. The grant will help support a crucial continuum of school-based and community efforts to reduce the risks of youth suicide in Santa Fe county.
Breakthrough Santa Fe at Santa Fe Preparatory School - in support of the purchase of books for Breakthrough Santa Fe's afterschool program at the College of Santa Fe.
Earth Care International - in support of "We Got issues! New Mexico Residency." This is an arts and civic engagement project designed to create a transformative young women's movement that encourages a new brand of leadership and social-political activism in America.
Think New Mexico - in support of its New Mexico Lottery Scholarship reform program. Think New Mexico, founded in 1999, is an independent, results-oriented think tank serving the citizens of New Mexico.
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