Great Grant Giveaway

The Great Grant Giveaway brought together 700 enthusiastic guests to support the work of five outstanding nonprofit organizations.

Barelas Community Coalition (BCC) BCC focuses on enhancing the quality of life in Barelas through building community alliances. BCC is focusing on renovating the B. Ruppe Drugstore as the B. Ruppe Center for Traditional Healing. This Coalition is also working to revitalize the south 4th Street corridor through the Calle Cuarta business incubator, the Coronado garden, mural projects, food, art and culture-related start-up businesses. $20,570

Encuentro Encuentro’s Home Health Aide program aligns a workforce of primarily Latina immigrants with a fast-growing industry—senior in-home health services. Participants in the program enroll in a 15-week course, developed in partnership with CNM. The course aligns educational attainment, employment matching and culturally-responsive partnerships with industry and higher education institutions for Latina immigrants. $27,445

Junior Achievement Junior Achievement works in partnership with schools to prepare young people for the real world with financial literacy and entrepreneurial thinking. Junior Achievement worked specifically with Bernalillo High School, APS Indian Education Department and Native American Community Academy to extend financial literacy and work readiness curricula to Native American high schoolers. $34,050

New Space New Mexico With science, technology, national research laboratories and universities all connecting to lend resources and vision to the swiftly developing space industry, public-private collaborators formed to analyze the impact of the commercial space industry could have on Albuquerque and identify strategies to promote, attract, support and sustain a stronger aerospace industry. $23,465

Working Classroom Working Classroom is a multi-ethnic, inter-generational community of student and professional artists, writers, actors and directors with a commitment to supporting new and diverse voices and visions in the arts. $28,945

The Harrington Family

Love hard, work hard, play hard. That’s the Harrington family motto, and the idea behind the Harrington Family Fund, established in 2018. Jason and Rebecca Harrington and their daughters Sienna and Addison, created the fund as a way to involve the entire family in giving back to the community they call home.

“We’re proud to raise our daughters here in New Mexico and want them to feel that giving back is what we do as a family. And the kids are at the age now where they get it. They know they’ve been blessed and want to give back,” Rebecca Harrington says.

The family has a long history with Albuquerque Community Foundation. Rebecca, a long-time community volunteer, has been a Foundation Trustee for four years. She also serves as chair of the Grants Committee. Jason is CEO of HB Construction, and a proud member of Cinco Amigos, the community group behind the annual Concours du Soleil fundraising event. He’s also the outgoing Chair of the United Way of Central New Mexico.

“The Foundation is a wonderful way to get connected to great causes in Albuquerque, and to coordinate our individual giving under one umbrella. To be more strategic about it,” Rebecca continues. “The Foundation makes it easy, offers so much help and is always welcoming to the kids when we bring them to see the Foundation’s work.