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Teaching weaving at the Espanola Valley Fiber Arts Center.

The Santa Fe Community Foundation accepted grant applications for the Native American Advised Endowment, the Lesbian and Gay Funding Partnership, and the Community Grants Program in 2007.  One hundred and fifty eight applications were received and the three committees are recommending funding forty six of the proposals.  Grant requests total $1,890,008 and the funding recommendations cover 23% of those requests or $433,700.  The Future Santa Fe Fund is contributing $12,000 of the total amount granted.

2007 Community Grant Awards
Thirty-three nonprofits in Santa Fe and Northern New Mexico are being recommended to receive $393,500 in grants through the Foundation’s Community Grants Program; the Future Santa Fe Fund is contributing $12,000 toward these grants.

ARTS  

Santa Fe Performing Arts.  $10,000. To provide opportunities for young and emerging youth artists to develop skills in a safe environment through after-school performing arts classes and outreach in the public schools.

Santa Fe Teen Arts Center. $10,000. To support a center for youth entertainment, arts education, entrepreneurial studies and artistic production that inspires youth to empower themselves through artistic expression and productivity.

Santa Fe Youth Symphony Association.  $10,000. To support music education programs through the schools with a focus on violin education and the Mozart and Mariachi program.

CIVIC AFFAIRS

CASA, First Judicial District.  $10,000. To train mentors who help youth in foster homes ages 14 to 18 in Santa Fe, Rio Arriba, and Los Alamos counties transition to healthy, productive lives.

Homewise, Inc.  $13,500.  To help Spanish-speaking New Mexicans become successful homeowners in order to strengthen families and increase the economic and social vitality of our communities.  

Santa Fe Farmers' Market Institute.   $10,000.  To create programs to support Northern New Mexico agriculture; and to educate people about locally grown food.

Santa Fe Habitat For Humanity, Inc.   $10,000.  To partner with low-income Santa Fe families and provide them with simple, decent homes; and to support families post-purchase through money management, home and yard maintenance programs.

Santa Fe Mountain Center.  $10,000. To support the Emergence Program's Youth Allies for Sustainability project, which brings diverse young people together to address pressing community needs and become community leaders

Think New Mexico.   $10,000. To increase access to homeownership among low and middle income families by reducing the high closing costs faced by New Mexicans.
 
EDUCATION  

Big Brothers Big Sisters Of Northern New Mexico.  $17,500. To help children reach their potential through professionally supported one-to-one mentorship relationships with measurable impact; to expand programs to Mora, San Miguel, Rio Arriba and Taos counties.

Chimayo Valley Boys And Girls Club.  $16,000. To prevent crime and drug abuse by offering after-school and summer programs for youth so they reach their full potential as responsible, productive, caring citizens.

Cooking With Kids, Inc.  $5,000. To improve children's nutrition and healthy food choices through hands-on learning with healthful, fresh and affordable foods from diverse cultures.

Fine Arts For Children & Teens.    $12,000. To transform lives by teaching artmaking, literacy and life skills in an innovative learning environment to at-risk youth who would not otherwise have access to high quality arts education, making them more confident and better learners.    

Girls Incorporated Of Santa Fe.   $13,000. To support expansion of services providing vital, innovative educational programs to girls ages 5 to 18, particularly those who are underserved or at risk.

Literacy Volunteers Of Santa Fe.  $15,000. To provide free, quality tutoring in basic literacy, English-as-a-Second Language, family literacy, financial literacy and numeric skills to adults and their families.

*Santa Fe Public Schools ADELANTE Program.   $21,500. To strengthen educational opportunities for homeless students so they may find success in life; and to provide school supplies, clothing, tutoring, transportation, after school programs, emergency funds, groceries, and parenting classes.

ENVIRONMENT

Earth Care International.  $12,000. To educate and empower teenagers to create a thriving, just and sustainable world through conferences; teaching sustainability courses at local high schools, and training youth in leadership skills.

Earth Works Institute.  $6,000. To create a watershed-wise community among the stakeholders and users of the Arroyo de los Chamisos park located between Santa Fe High and Rodeo Road.

Santa Fe Conservation Trust.   $12,000. To preserve and protect natural open lands, rivers and streams, working farms, trails, and the traditional landscapes of our diverse cultures.

HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES  

Bienvenidos Outreach.  $5,000. To provide homeless families with boxes of food and sack lunches.

El Centro Family Health.  $12,000. To create a plan for integration of services at the Rio Arriba Commons (medical clinics, Public Health, and Health and Human Services) for the benefit of patients, clients and the community.

Esperanza Shelter For Battered Families.  $17,500. To provide services for families experiencing domestic violence including a 24-hour crisis hotline; emergency shelter and transitional housing; counseling; court advocacy; and education programs.

Faith At Work.  $9,000. To offer direct support to the working poor and others facing short-term crises combined with case management designed to achieve lasting benefits and to avoid recurrence of the problem.

Family Strengths Network.   $10,000. To improve the quality of family life for generations through parenting programs and a family resource center; and to empower youth by teaching them decision-making and communication skills.

Gerard's House.   $10,000. To support grieving children and teens in Santa Fe so that each child and teen can go through grief in a positive way that promotes growth and resilience.  

IMPACT Personal Safety.  $9,000. To provide innovative hands-on violence-prevention training for children and adults.

La Familia Medical Center.  $10,000. To provide high quality and timely psychiatric services to low-income and uninsured residents.

Las Cumbres Community Services.  $12,000. To provide comprehensive therapeutic services through the Community Infant Program that focus on the mental well-being and healthy development of infants ages 0-3--- the stage during which almost 90% of brain development occurs.

Saint Elizabeth Shelter.   $17,500. To help the homeless lead more productive, stable and satisfying lives by providing emergency and transitional housing, onsite case management, and counseling.

Santa Fe Rape Crisis And Trauma Treatment Center.   $15,000. To end sexual violence and other forms of trauma in the community through education, therapeutic intervention, and empowerment of victims and vulnerable populations.

*The Food Depot.   $8,000. To support Food-4-Kids, which addresses childhood hunger and its impact by providing healthy foods to elementary school children in Santa Fe's poorest schools; the program ensures children's access to nutritious food outside of school hours.

Women's Health Services.  $17,500. To provide quality, accessible, women-centered health care through education, health services, community education, and women-centered training programs for health professionals.

Youth Shelters And Family Services.  $17,500.  To help young people and families  increase safety, stability and self-sufficiency through a transitional living program, emergency shelter; street outreach, and counseling.

2007 Native American Advised Grant Awards
Six organizations in Santa Fe and Northern New Mexico are being recommended to receive $13,700 in grants through the Foundation’s Native American Advised Fund.

Cornerstones Community Partnerships.   $2,000. To assist the Nambe Pueblo in its effort to teach native young people about age-old practices of adobe making and plastering through construction of a new ceremonial kiva.

Eight Northern Indian Pueblo Council PeaceKeepers.  $1,000. To support Domestic Violence and Elder Abuse Awareness events and provide services to address it to all individuals residing within the Eight Northern Pueblos.

IMPACT Personal Safety.   $2,000.  To offer an age and culturally appropriate 6-hour Children's PREPARE violence prevention workshop at the Santa Clara Pueblo Day school.

New Mexico Suicide Intervention Project.  $2,500. To conduct outreach and program assistance to build capacity among Northern New Mexico pueblo communities to deliver promising and culturally relevant youth suicide prevention strategies in their communities and schools.

Pueblo Of Tesuque, Agricultural Initiative.   $3,200.  To create a healthy, sustainable food supply for Native and non-Native people whose exposure to inexpensive, quick retail food has resulted in serious health problems; conduct workshops and a seed saving program to increase access to healthy, organically grown local food and medicine.

Tewa Women United.  $3,000.   To provide safe spaces for Indigenous women to uncover the power, strength and skills they possess to become positive forces for social change in their families and communities; programs include: Environmental Health and Justice, Women's Leadership and Economic Literacy, Indigenous Women's Health and Reproductive Justice, and V.O.I.C.E.S. sexual violence program.

2007 Lesbian & Gay Funding Partnership Grant Awards
Seven organizations in Santa Fe and Northern New Mexico are being recommended to receive $26,500 in grants through the Foundation’s Lesbian & Gay Funding Partnership.

Girls, Inc.  $3,500.  To educate girls and encourage them to effectively communicate, stand up for themselves, and increase their own and others' understanding and appreciation of LGBT concerns.

IMPACT Personal Safety.  $3,000.  To increase how safe elders feel; teach verbal and physical self-defense skills to elders (age 55+) of the LGBTQ community.

PFLAG  (Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays). $2,500.  To provide education, advocacy and support to the Santa Fe immigrant and Spanish speaking LGBTQ community.

Santa Fe Mountain Center.  $3,500. To create safe environments in schools; educate the school community about homophobia, gender identity, and sexual orientation issues and stop discrimination, harassment, and violence in schools through strong Gay Straight Alliances.

Santa Fe Rape Crisis and Trauma Treatment Center.  $6,000.  To teach anti-oppression, prejudice-reduction, and diversity honoring experiential workshops to middle and high school students, and providing training for faculty through YODA (Youth Organizing Diversity for All).

The Dream Tree Project.   $5,000.  To provide a safe place for the Gay Straight Alliance to meet and participate in suicide prevention activities in alignment with the Taos High School program.

Wise Fool New Mexico.  $3,000.  To support outreach and accessibility for young queer women to attend Women's Circus Workshop Intensive, BUST, a powerful and often life changing theatre arts experience  created and staffed by queer women artists.

* Funded in whole or in part by the Future Santa Fe Fund