Impact Fund

GRANT

We began the Impact Fund as a way to award unrestricted grant dollars to organizations and causes we identify as great community need. Our experts evaluate all aspects of wellbeing in our community in order to identify where and how funds can make the greatest impact. After a thorough search, the committee made the decision to award a 2015 Impact Grant—a value of $50,000—to the Mayor's Prize, highlighted on page 46. A 2014 Impact Grant was made to Running Start for Careers. The following page is a report on the results of that grant.

Other Impact Grants

Catalyst Week Good Shepherd Great Grant Giveaway

Impact Endowment Funds

Aetna Life & Casualty Fund Albuquerque New Car & Truck

Dealers Fund American Home Fund Arthur H. Spiegel Family Fund Frank D. & Marie K. Gorham Fund Gordon Church Fund Hueter Bass Family Fund JoAnn & Steve Ruppert Fund John & Marie Marshall Fund Johnnie Mae Tate Memorial Fund Jorgensen Family Fund Kurt & Edith Kubie Family Impact Lewis O. & Leona R. Kohlhaas Fund Minnie Gooch Hall Charitable Fund Molly R. Huber Fund Mr. & Mrs. H.L. Galles, Jr. Fund Mrs. Clinton P. Anderson Fund Nancy Anderson Roberts Fund Robert W. Kaufmann Fund Theodore R. Brown Fund Wells Fargo Bank Fund

Manzano Day School SHARE New Mexico Young Nonprofit Professionals Network of New Mexico (YNPN)

Gifts to the Albuquerque Community Foundation Impact Fund

Bank of America Ms. Melissa Freeman & Mr. Brad Raisher Steve & Kat Larese Suzanne Strong

In Honor of the Brillman-Wohl Wedding

Mr. Jon Bell Dr. Judith C. Brillman & Mr. Barton Wohl Ms. Diane Friedman Ms. Tova Indritz Ms. Laura Kaplan Ms. Barbara Sandler Ms. Monica Sandler Mr. Robert Schwartz Ms. Cheryl Sharps

Running Start for Careers

Running Start for Careers is an innovative, educationfocused, public/private partnership program that serves 11th and 12th grade students. It is designed to engage young people in career training, to increase graduation rates and to create an integrated workforce that attracts companies to our region while keeping our young talent here in Albuquerque. Through dual-credit classes and realworld career experience, high school students learn about the vast employment opportunities available to them in Albuquerque. The program is administered jointly by the City of Albuquerque and Albuquerque Public Schools.

Running Start for Careers has served over 750 students in 30 public schools in Albuquerque since the program began in 2012, providing them with coursework in fields from construction and surveying to healthcare, finance and hotel management. Students can earn college credit while still in high school, simultaneously gaining valuable job industry experience along with their core curriculum. Placement in real-world learning environments (like internships and job shadowing) helps students see themselves as capable, successful workers, contributing to their long-term career motivation and engagement.

Running Start for Careers was named a Top 25 innovator in government by Harvard University’s Ash Center for Government Innovation in 2015, which garnered national recognition for the program. We’re proud to support Running Start For Careers and to ensure it can continue its extraordinary success to engage Albuquerque’s young people and create a stronger workforce for growing local businesses and new businesses considering an Albuquerque location.