New Mexico
Chaparral Community Health Council
$15,000/ 1 year
The Chaparral Community Health Council engages in community organizing around environmental issues impacting the Chaparral community, an unincorporated colonia (the Spanish word for neighborhood) near the US-Mexican border. The capacity building grant is for support of the bilingual empowerment project and for training for board members in grassroots organizing.
Chimayo Valley Boys and Girls Club
$25,000/1 year
The Chimayo Valley Boys and Girls Club is an organization which provides youth with an alternative to drug use through after-school and summer programs. The capacity building grant is to purchase a new computer system and hire a bilingual computer trainer to increase the staff’s organizational computer skills; update personnel policies and create an accounting policies manual.
Court Youth Center
$30,000/ 1 year
The Court Youth Center offers after school, weekend and summer programs for children and youth using performing, visual, literary, and culinary arts. The capacity building grant is to diversify its funding by increasing earned income through facility rental, digital arts products and marketing/publicity.
El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe
$23,000/ 1 year
El Museo promotes the cultural heritage of Santa Fe and Northern New Mexico directly by its offering of works by contemporary Latino artists, in its presentation of historically-significant cultural events and exhibitions, and in its very existence as a Hispanic cultural center. The capacity building grant is for continued development of El Museo facility, program and administrative support including: technical equipment such as theater lighting and sound; computers and software to support administrative and fundraising functions.
Enlace Comunitario
$35,000/ 1 year
Enlace Comunitario is a community-based organization dedicated to serving the needs, promoting the rights and building the capacity of Latino-immigrant women in the Albuquerque area. ENLACE offers the only comprehensive program for Spanish-speaking victims of domestic violence in Albuquerque. The capacity building grant is to increase capacity in three areas: 1) staff and board development, 2) technological infrastructure enhancement, 3) strategic planning.
Hoy Recovery Program, Inc.
$23,333/ 1 year
The Hoy Recovery Program serves low-income individuals with alcohol and other substance abuse problems, providing inpatient, outpatient and supportive services with the aim of assisting clients in reentering their communities as productive members. The capacity building grant is to upgrade its financial accounting infrastructure and improve billing, thereby increasing its revenue.
Indio Hispano AAAS
$18,166/1 year
Indio-Hispano provides alternative and novel educational opportunities to “at-risk” school-aged youth in the Pueblo and Indio-Hispano communities of New Mexico. Indio-Hispano uses a curriculum based on Ten Easy Steps Towards a Successful Ranchito to teach youth how to plant, cultivate, harvest and market crops using their community land and resources. The purpose of their grant award will be to conduct an organizational audit, evaluation and planning.
Men’s Resource Center
of Northern New Mexico
$25,000/ 1 year
The Men’s Resource Center of Northern New Mexico works to support men in being healthy partners, fathers, role models, and community members. The capacity building grant would allow MRC to switch to a co-directorship and create a five-year plan for financial sustainability, board and staff development.
Mujeres en Accion
$7,499/ 1 year
Mujeres en Accion is an economic development cooperative made up of immigrant Spanish-speaking women who reside in or near Albuquerque’s South Broadway community. The capacity building grant is to develop a business and organizational plan.
New Mexico Acequia Association
$25,000/1 year
The New Mexico Acequia Association’s mission is to ensure the survival of rural, traditional communities through the protection of historic water rights of acequias through community education, organizing and involvement in policy. (An acequia refers both to the historic irrigation structures formed by Hispano/Mexicano settlements as well as community farmers organized around the acequia for management and distribution of water.) The capacity building grant is for financial training, to conduct strategic planning and for staffing.
New Mexico Community
Development Loan Fund
$30,000/ 1 year
The New Mexico Community Development Loan Fund is a nonprofit, alternative source of loans and technical assistance for small business owners and nonprofit organizations, including affordable housing developers. The capacity building grant is to conduct a feasibility study for increasing the organization’s equity and to strengthen leadership and supervisory skills of management staff through extensive training.
New Mexico Community
Health Workers’ Association
$25,000/ 1 year
The NMCHWA’s mission is to bring community health workers (CHW) together in a cohesive body that promotes outreach, education, and support for the CHW model, each other, and their respective communities. NMCHWA received a planning grant for the development of a strategic plan, including resource development.
People of Color AIDS Foundation
$13,000/ 1 year
People of Color AIDS Foundation provides a wide range of services including: HIV/AIDS prevention and education, risk reduction, needle exchange, outreach, counseling, testing, peer educator training and curriculum development. The capacity building grant is to upgrade the agency’s technology.
Rivers and Birds
$14,000/1 year
Rivers and Birds provide quality conservation, experiential education, and biological research programs that help maintain the cultural sustainable traditions and natural heritage of New Mexico. The capacity building grant is to address priority needs, including: developing accounting capabilities, strategic planning for fundraising, diversification and empowerment; enhancing Executive Director’s management skills, and the hiring of a part-time office manager and a part-time grant writer.
Somos un Pueblo Unido
$20,000/ 1 year
Somos un Pueblo Unido (We Are a United Village) is a community based, immigrant-led organization that advocates for immigrant rights and seeks to train and prepare immigrant leaders to create institutional change. The capacity building grant is to strengthen internal organizational capacity; purchase and obtain necessary training in use of technology tools to communicate with media, government and other allied organizations.
Southwest Creations Collaborative
$30,000/ 1 year
The Southwest Creations Collaborative creates jobs for low-income women from Albuquerque’s Hispanic community. The capacity building grant is for leadership development and training and for market development, allowing the Collaborative to add more activities, thereby retaining and creating opportunities for more women.
Southwest Organizing Project
$25,000/ 1 year
The Southwest Organizing Project is a statewide membership organization that serves to empower disenfranchised communities in the Southwest, primarily Latino communities, to realize racial and gender equality, and social and economic justice. The capacity building grant is to undergo a three-year strategic plan for Southwest Community Resources and its projects.
Tapetes de Lana
$30,000/ 1 year
Tapetes de Lana was established with a focus on providing self-employment opportunities for rural-based, low-income individuals through training in New Mexican traditional textile production. The capacity building grant is to increase its financial management, increase its marketing efforts and develop personnel practices and personnel development training.
Tierra Madre Self Help Housing Project
$30,000/ 1 year
Tierra Madre works with community residents to create energy-efficient housing in a region that is challenged by both lack of water and affordable housing. The capacity building request is to train families in the program to do the trainings and develop their leadership skills, thereby allowing them to own and manage the organization.
For more information on these grantees, please contact:
Kate Seely
Special Projects Manager, President's Office
200 Pine Street, Suite 700
San Francisco, CA 94104
kate@hiponline.org
Phone: 415-837-0427
Fax: 415-837-1074