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The New Mexico Foundation (NMF) staff and board of directors created the Sustaining New Mexico Fund in 2022 to support sustainability of nonprofits throughout the state. This fund will award grants to organizations that align with NMF’s priority fields of interest: community resilience, educational opportunities, environmental adaptability, healthy communities, and rural infrastructure. The mission of the fund is to strengthen New Mexico communities by promoting social equity and supporting self-sufficiency to improve the quality of life for all New Mexicans.
In 2024, New Mexico Foundation awarded
$100,000 in funds to the following 13 organizations:
End of Life Options New Mexico – $10,000. The grant will support recruiting, training, and mobilizing new community volunteers regarding their options for the end of their life. Volunteers will educate in and outreach to Santa Fe, Rio Arriba, and Taos Counties.
Free Flow NM, Inc. – $10,000. Serving the Eight Northern Pueblos and the Jicarilla Apache Nation with over 1,100 period kits per month through a combination of Period Pods and community partner distributions.
Rising Stars Navajo Corporation – $3,000. Funding will be used to pay workshop trainers for coaches clinics in San Juan and McKinley Counties that will train 75 volunteer youth coaches.
Abrazos Community Healing Center – $5,500. The funds will support startup costs to provide culturally responsive mental health care in Northern New Mexico, with a focus on Rio Arriba and Santa Fe counties.
Global Give-A-Book – $7,500. This funding will go towards purchasing children’s books designed to foster literacy development that will be distributed directly to children through community food pantries and Title 1 McKinney-Vento after school literacy programs in Bernalillo, McKinley, Grant, Santa Fe, and Sandoval Counties.
Scott’s House Community Hospice and Respite Home – $5,000. This grant is for general operating support to expand their respite and hospice program for low-income residents in Northern and Central New Mexico, enhance outreach to rural communities, and further develop their innovative social model hospice home.
Food Bank of Eastern New Mexico – $10,000. This funding is for general operating support to maintain their produce pop-up markets, unhoused food and laundry assistance, Weekend Backpack Program, onsite food pantries, mobile markets, and senior food boxes in Curry, Roosevelt, Quay, De Baca, and Guadalupe Counties.
Nourishing Nation – $7,000. The funds will support their thrift store and community garden general operations for this new community center that assists Lincoln, Torrance, Chaves, and Otero Counties.
Ojo Sarco Community Center – $10,000. This grant will be used for general operating costs and food pantry items for the center that serves Rio Arriba and Taos Counties.
Talpa Community Center – $10,000. Located in Taos County, funds would be used for general operating support, to purchase materials for art, reading, sewing, staffing, supplies, cleaning and building maintenance.
Las Vegas Community Soup Kitchen – $6,000. The funds will be used to purchase food to prepare healthy well-balanced meals and groceries for food bags.
Clovis Economic Development Corporation – $10,000. Funds will support marketing and programing for their business incubator in Curry County.
REFORMA de Nuevo Mexico – $6,000. This grant is for purchasing books and STEM products for rural libraries in Dona Ana, Santa Fe, Lincoln, San Juan, McKinley, and Bernalillo Counties.