The Healthy Entry for Asylee Lives (HEAL) Fund application process is currently closed.
Since 2021, the HEAL Fund has awarded approximately $1.36 million to nonprofit organizations working with vulnerable children, families and other adults lawfully seeking asylum in the United States.
Adults, families, and children entering the United States fleeing from persecution and violence in their home country need adequate legal representation, language interpretation, medical services, communication, transportation to a safe and secure shelter, and support for a successful transition to a healthy productive life. Local trusted non-profits, when provided adequate support and capacity, are the most effective deliverers of humanitarian assistance to asylees.
This effort began as a public-private partnership that has leveraged local philanthropic dollars, state funding, and federal relief funds to achieve the greatest impact in New Mexico. The HEAL Fund actively seeks additional grants and donations from individual donors, other philanthropic foundations and businesses to continue providing vital support.
If you wish to support safe, healthy entry for Asylee families and children, please donate to the HEAL Fund by clicking on this button:
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To support the Fund’s growth, the HEAL Fund Advisory Committee is seeking a consultant to provide fund development.
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New Mexico Foundation is pleased to announce it recently awarded a total of $265,000 to eight nonprofits through its HEAL Fund. Please refer to our website for more information on the grantees and their projects.
Border Servant Corps – $20,000 (Doña Ana County)
For general operating support to provide services to migrants at the Las Cruces Hospitality Center. From food, clothing, lodging, medical, case management, and travel assistance, Border Servant Corps seeks to welcome guests safely and sustainably; addressing immediate needs and implementing systems and structures that support consistent, long-term regional reception and care.
El Calvario United Methodist Church – $20,000 (Doña Ana County)
El Calvario United Methodist Church provides basic emergency services such as food, clothing, shelter, transportation, financial assistance, social, and medical services from their shelter. Grant funds will help offset personnel costs allowing them to increase operations back up to full capacity.
U.S.-Mexico Border Philanthropy Partnership – $20,000 (statewide)
The Border Philanthropy Partnership supports a network of organizations that build prosperity through leadership, collaboration, and philanthropy in the U.S.-Mexico Border region. This funding supports Border Briefs publications that will advance and advocate work along the US-Mexico Border.
Centro Sávila – $45,000 (Bernalillo County)
Centro Sávila provides urgent case management and clinical services while establishing trust and relationships necessary to provide deeper, long-term, trauma-informed, culturally and linguistically appropriate mental health and/or case management services. This grant assists Spanish-speaking and Muslim newcomers living in Bernalillo County, many of whom are recent Venezuelan and Afghan arrivals, in need of clinical or case management services.
Humanitarian Outreach for Migrant Emotional Health (H.O.M.E.) – $25,000 (statewide)
H.O.M.E. serves high-need clients in a full range of circumstances that qualify for relief, including asylum, Violence Against Women Act cases, victims of human trafficking, victims of criminal activity, humanitarian parole, release from detention, cancellation of removal, and hardship. Working in partnership with local nonprofits, funding to H.O.M.E.provides forensic mental health evaluations for approximately forty New-Mexico based asylum seekers.
Las Cumbres Community Services – $45,000 (Taos, Rio Arriba, Los Alamos and Santa Fe Counties)
For the Santuario del Corazon Program benefiting asylum-seekers and refugees in New Mexico. Funding will fully support family navigation services for 15 children and an anticipated additional 45 family members for one year.
New Mexico Immigrant Law Center (NMILC) – $45,000 (Santa Fe, Albuquerque, Las Cruces, Counties and El Paso, TX)
Funding is for legal programs benefiting asylum-seekers, refugees, and migrant workers in New Mexico. NMILC uses remote asylum workshops to assist non-detained asylum seekers in removal proceedings who do not qualify for other forms of humanitarian relief and who will be filing applications on their own behalf, without representation. The workshops guide asylum seekers through legal procedures and cultural orientation hurdles using volunteers, technology, and community education.
Santa Fe Dreamers Project – $45,000 (Santa Fe, Albuquerque, Los Lunas, and Taos Counties)
Funding is designated for legal programs benefiting asylum-seekers, refugees, and migrant workers in New Mexico, inclusive of the Humanitarian Visa Program. Eligible case types include Violence Against Women Act cases, victims of human trafficking, victims of criminal activity, and Special Immigrant Juvenile Status.
