Sandia Foundation

GRANTS SANDIA FOUNDATION

2017 GRANTS

In 2006, the Sandia Foundation engaged the services of the Albuquerque Community Foundation to administer its annual grant award program. While the Sandia Foundation’s Trustees reviews and recommends grant recipients, the Foundation organizes and performs required due diligence for the grant program.

Through this partnership, the Sandia Foundation, with the support of Albuquerque Community Foundation staff, has awarded nearly 500 grants in education, health and human services, totaling a philanthropic investment of more than $3.3 million in the local nonprofit community.

2017 Grants

Accion

To increase Accion’s delivery of vital business credit and financial education training to underserved and economically vulnerable women entrepreneurs in the Greater Albuquerque Area.

($5,000)

Albuquerque Health Care for the Homeless

Funding will provide access to oral health careFunding (comprehensive care appointments, urgent care visits and dentures) for the most vulnerable people in our community. ($10,000)

Albuquerque Oasis

Funding to support the OASIS Intergenerational Tutoring Program, which pairs public school students K-4, who are reading just below grade level, with adult volunteers. ($7,500)

APS Title I Homeless Project

Funding to support after-school and summer programs to serve at risk homeless student population. The program will incorporate concepts of career awareness and career exploration as students make decisions about themselves and their place in the world. ($10,000)

ARCA

Funding for the Health Matters Program, an evidence-based health promotion program specifically designed for adults with disabilities. ($7,000)

Assistance League of Albuquerque

Funding for Operation School Bell, which assists elementary and middle school APS students in need at 35 Title I schools requiring uniforms. Their goal for the 2016-2017 school year is to provide clothing for at least 4,200 students and establish clothes closets in at least 20 Title I schools. ($5,000)

Barrett Foundation

Funding for the Barrett House Food Service Program. For 31 years, Barrett House has been the only overnight emergency shelter in Albuquerque that serves women and children who are experiencing homelessness and are not escaping domestic violence. ($10,000)

Boys & Girls Club of Central New Mexico

Funding to support CareerLaunch, a program designed to help teens assess career interests and strengths, become familiar with career options, understand educational requirements and set education and career goals, and gain employment skills.

($5,000)

CLN Kids

Funding to provide a Job Developer/Job Coach for unemployed homeless parents whose children are enrolled in CLNkids early childhood educational program. Parents in this program will learn resume writing, job seeking skills, interviewing techniques, and assistance in securing suitable employment. ($3,000)

2017 Grants

Casa Esperanza

Casa Esperanza is New Mexico’s “home away from home” for families requiring treatment for cancer and other serious medical illnesses. ($5,000)

Catholic Charities

Funding for Catholic Charities’ Children’s Learning Center, a five-star, accredited preschool program in Albuquerque’s South Valley. The children attending the Children’s Learning Center come mainly from immigrant, low income, Spanish speaking families in the South Valley. ($7,500)

Children’s Grief Center

To provide services to young people ages 5-25, and their families, who have experienced the death of a loved one. Most chil-dren attend bereavement support group after the death of a parent – usually their father. Because finances are often uncertain when a family member passes away, services are provided free to all families regardless of socioeconomic status.

($10,000)

CNM Foundation

Funding to continue building the Rust Opportunity Scholarship Fund through awarding emergency scholarships to students, which provides essential fi nancial assistance to students who are facing unforeseen emergencies that could impact their educational progress. ($10,000)

Crossroads for Women

Funding will help support Resident Managers and Community Support seven nights a week at Crossroads’ residential program, Hope House. This house serves homeless women who have been cycled in and out of incarceration. ($6,000)

Enlace Comunitario

Enlace Comunitario’s JOVENES (Justice and Opportunities for Victims through Education, Nurturing, Encouragement and Support) is designed to reduce long-term negative behavioral and physical health outcomes associated with ACEs (Adverse Child-hood Events), reduce future ACEs in the Latino immigrant pop-ulation currently experiencing them, and prevent ACEs through comprehensive community education. ($6,300)

Manzano Day School

Funding for the Wings Program, which provides full scholarships and related support to academically promising students from families with severely limited financial resources. ($5,000)

Menaul School

Funds to provide financial aid to qualified, economically disad-vantaged students living in Albuquerque. ($5,000)

National Dance Institute of New Mexico

Funding will help NDI-NM’s programs reach 2,505 Albuquerque children, 86% low-income, with dance programs developed to instill critical skills and attitudes for vibrant health, and educational and life success. ($10,000)

New Day Youth and Family Services

Funding to support New Day’s Life Skills Academy, which is designed to support youth in gaining the skills and experiences to ensure they have the capability to become contributing, selfsufficient community members. ($10,000)

New Mexico Appleseed

Funding for key poverty and hunger ending initiatives for children and families in Albuquerque: One Meal a Day and Keeping Families Together. ($5,000)

New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty

Funding for the Protecting the Public Benefits Safety Net project, which protects and improves access to food, healthcare, child care, and cash assistance through the public benefi ts programs for residents of Bernalillo County. ($7,500)

New Mexico Child Advocacy Networks

Funding to continue NM CAN’s youth engagement projects to help youth aging out of the foster system achieve goals related to education, employment, health, housing, and personal finance as well as strengthen their sense of belonging. ($7,000)

New Mexico Foundation for Dental Health

To provide donated dental services to Albuquerque residents who are either permanently disabled or age 60 or older and afford them the opportunity to eat healthy and nutritious diets to improve their overall health. ($10,000)

New Mexico Heart Institute Foundation

To support Project Heart Start, a training program that teaches individuals life-saving skills, including CPR, how to use an AED machine, how to save a choking victim and how to recognize the signs of a heart attack. ($5,000)

New Mexico Legal Aid

Funding to help NM Legal Aid provide no-cost legal representation to low-income Albuquerque families facing wrongful eviction and consequent loss of governmental subsidies. ($10,000)

New Mexico Philharmonic

Funding for the Young Musician Initiative (YMI), which supports academic performance and encourages successful early learning habits, including focus in class, timely/accurate completion of homework, self-control, empathy, cooperation and self-confidence. ($7,000)

New Mexico Soccer Foundation

Funding to keep low-income youth healthy by providing scholarships for them to participate in club soccer. The clubs provide practices and games 4-5 days per week, offering a safe and healthy after school environment. ($5,000)

Pegasus Legal Services for Children

Funding for the Kinship Guardianship Program, which focuses on the basic needs for safety, stability, and access to healthcare and education of children being raised by grandparents or other caregivers when the child(ren)’s parent is unable to provide proper care and refuses to allow the caregiver to obtain the legal authority necessary to ensure that these needs are met.

($9,000)

Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains

To support Planned Parenthood’s sex education programming, which works to reduce teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted infection rates in Albuquerque, by ensuring youth have the education they need to make responsible decisions and delay parenting. ($5,000)

Presbyterian Ear Institute

To support the Institute’s outreach project, an initiative to ensure Albuquerque families of deaf children are aware of and have access to all early intervention options for their child. ($5,000)

Prosperity Works

Funding to support Prosperity Works’ Assets for All program to expand asset opportunities to help working families, especially those not yet in mainstream systems, build a prosperous future for themselves and their children. ($5,000)

Rio Grande Food Project

Operational funding to help Rio Grande Food Project provide 1.3 million meals of supplemental food to over 48,000 hungry children, youth, adults and seniors who live and work in Albuquerque. ($7,000)

Ronald McDonald House

Funds to support the Ronald McDonald House Family Rooms, which offer a place to rest and regroup for families of inpatient infants and children within the hospital’s walls. ($5,000)

St. Martin’s HopeWorks

Funding to support St. Martin’s Day Shelter. The shelter provides basic services to Albuquerque’s homeless and ensures that those most in need have a safe space for respite and the resources necessary to rebuild their lives. ($7,500)

Supportive Housing Coalition

Funding for the Service Coordination Program, which provides homeless individuals access to the resources they need to live successfully in their own apartment home, improve their physical and mental health, economic stability, and prevent a return to homelessness. ($10,000)

The Storehouse

Funding for “The Storehouse Goes Mobile,” a mobile food pantry that delivers food to churches, senior centers and/or community centers. Clients can choose food at these locations and take it home to prepare; funding will provide 50,000 healthy meals to low-income households. ($10,000)

WESST

To provide start-up and existing entrepreneurs in Albuquerque with high quality training and one-on-one consultations, as well as incubation services for companies housed at the WESST Enterprise Center. Additional funds will support WESST’s work with small businesses, with an emphasis on business finance, marketing and management. ($10,000)

Working Classroom

To provide a full range of academic, artistic and financial support and mentoring for talented, low-income students. Funding will allow students to receive free, year-round, bilingual artistic training, academic tutoring, paid internships, college prep programming and opportunities to collaborate with prominent national artists to create art and theatre that addresses social change. ($10,000)

Rock at NoonDay

Operating grant to provide basic necessities each day to ease the suffering of homelessness, hunger and lack of personal resources. This begins with showers, laundry service, telephone access, mail services and items of clothing and personal hygiene. It continues with breakfast, lunch and food boxes. ($5,000)

GRANTS SANDIA FOUNDATION BOARD OF TRUSTEES

2017 Sandia Foundation Board of Trustees Grants

Albuquerque Community Foundation - Social Giving Club Bosque School Children’s Cancer Fund of New Mexico Manzano Day School Menaul School National Dance Institute of New Mexico $500 $500 $500 $500 $500 $500

New Mexico Appleseed Opera Southwest Paws & Stripes $500 $250 $500

Right to Life Educational Trust Rio Grande Food Project

$500 $500 Roadrunner Food Bank $500 United Way of Central New Mexico - Middle School Education Initiative Fund $500 UNM Alumni Association $250

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