Albuquerque Speech Language and Hearing Center
Approximately 5-8% of preschool children experience a delay in their language development that continues into adulthood, highlighting the fact that many children don't "grow out of it" as is commonly thought. These Language delays can affect academic performance and social relationships. ASLHC will provide a minimum of 2,200 therapy sessions for children who have a Medicaid, or Medicaid MCO coverage. Each child will have a detailed speech/language evaluation conducted yearly by one of our licensed speech language pathologists. A treatment plan will be developed to meet the individual needs/goals of each child. $10,000
APS Title I Homeless Project
Funding will support continuing afterschool programs for secondary students. The goal is to assist homeless students in sharpening their literacy skills and identifying possible career interest. The program will incorporate concepts of career awareness, career exploration and planning. Additionally, improved literacy skills will be provided through the Links to Literacy program. 175 students will be engaged. $10,000
Assistance League of Albuquerque
Operation School Bell is Assistance League of Albuquerque‘s signature program. The program’s primary goal is to provide clothing and shoe vouchers for at least 4,000 children in 35 APS Title I elementary and middle schools during the 2018-2019 school year. All the children qualify for the Federal Free and Reduced Meals Program. Operation School Bell also conducts school-wide shoe distributions in 10 additional Title I schools, purchases new books to support literacy programs and provides hygiene items for refugees and at-risk students. $10,000
Barrett Foundation
Funding to serve 300 women and children in the Barrett House shelter and transition 75% of these residents into stable housing. School age children are required to be registered and attend school while residing in the shelter. Women with young children are encouraged to take advantage of Early Head Start, Head Start, and other developmental early childhood programs. $10,000
Big Brothers Big Sisters
Funding to support Mentor 2.0, a technology-enriched program embedded in high schools as a college curriculum course provided to students in a weekly class that continues over four years of high school. Additional funding will support Mentor 3.0, which provides post-high school mentor2.0 graduates with a strong start in college or career and assist them with navigating challenges as they make the transition from high school. BBBS-CNM implements mentor2.0/mentor3.0 in two Albuquerque high schools—South Valley Academy and Amy Biehl High School. $10,000
Catholic Charities
Funding for the Children's Learning Center, which helps children prepare for Kindergarten. If children are not prepared for Kindergarten, they can fall behind for the rest of their academic careers. Main reasons for the educational delay are socioeconomic status, parents' education levels and language barriers. The Children's Learning Center offers bilingual preschool for children ages 6 weeks - five years old and holds a five-star rating, the highest attainable in NM. $10,000
Children's Grief Center of New Mexico
Funding will provide 13 children in Albuquerque with a year of Peer Support Groups at no cost. Children who attend groups come from all circumstances; including children who survive car accidents that kill a parent, children whose sibling died of an incurable illness, and children who experience tragedy that resulted in a death such as suicide, murder, home invasion, etc. Group activities are age-appropriate and designed to equip children with practical and personalized coping techniques that will stay with them throughout their lives, to lessen the chance that a tragic loss will result in lifelong struggles. Children develop a personalized “grief toolkit” to rely on throughout their lives, rather than turning to unhealthy coping mechanisms to mask painful emotions. $10,000
CLNkids
Funding for CLN Kids' Weekend Food Backpack Project, which provides two meals and two snacks per person for each weekend day for families participating in CLN's early childhood education programs. Funds from the Sandia Foundation for this project would increase the capacity of the program through the purchasing of additional shelving for storage, and ensuring that they are able purchase quality, nutritious food items for families. The Week Food Backpack Project will serve a minimum of 50 households during the grant year. $10,000
Crossroads for Women
Funding for the Family Program, which provides a range of services including therapeutic groups covering topics including parenting skills, home visits to reinforce parenting skills and individualized support. The funding requested is designed to support improved educational outcomes in two ways. First, this funding will provide mothers and children with activities that encourage family bonding. Second, participation in extracurricular and afterschool activities is associated with better educational outcomes. $6,000
Enlace Comunitario
Funding for the JOVENES (Justice and Opportunities for Victims through Education, Nurturing, Encouragement and Support) program. JOVENES aims to support individuals and families to be in safe living environments by providing holistic, wrap-around services to survivors of ACEs (Adverse Childhood Events) and their non-abusive parents. JOVENES is designed to reduce long-term negative behavioral, physical health and educational outcomes associated with ACEs, reduce future ACEs in the Latino immigrant population currently experiencing them, and prevent ACEs through comprehensive community education. $10,000
Escuela Del Sol Montessori (Harwood Art Center)
Funding for Harwood Art Center's Creative Roots Program. Creative Roots serves youth in grades K-12 year-round through 4 free outreach programs: (1) Workshops with elementary students weekly at Wells Park Community Center; (2) Youth Mural Project twice weekly at Hayes and Garfield Middle Schools; (3) Community Art Day workshops in partnership with PB&J Family Services and Heading Home; (4) Summer Art and Social Justice Apprenticeship, hiring teens to create public artwork that furthers social progress. $10,000
Habitat for Humanity
Greater Albuquerque Habitat for Humanity’s Mesa del Rio Phase II housing program for low-income families is located in the Los Volcanes neighborhood in northwest Albuquerque, which has the largest percentage of children under age 17 in poverty throughout Albuquerque. Six families, including 12 children, will become owners of a new single-family home at the Mesa del Rio project by March 2019. $10,000
Heading Home
Funding for the Welcome Home Fund to help families experiencing homelessness. The Keeping Families Together program, which provides case management, moving assistance and direct financial assistance for families experiencing homelessness. Specifically, the Welcome Home Fund can fill the gaps for rent, deposits, utilities and furnishing for the family to secure the stability of a safe and healthy home. Fifteen families in the Keeping Families Together program will be housed during the 2018-19 fiscal year, with Heading Home anticipating a 20% reduction in reported child abuse and neglect by families housed. $10,000
Horizons Student Opportunities and Results for New Mexico
Funding will provide scholarships for Horizon Albuquerque students to attend the program. For six weeks each summer, Horizons Albuquerque students spend 6 hours a day on-site. Four of those hours focus on reading, math and STEM related lessons. Other activities include swimming lessons, tennis instruction, yoga, and guitar lessons once a week. In addition to these activities, we are adding chess, robotics, coding, and programming to our cocurricular courses. Further, families attend six workshops over the summer aimed at engaging parents/guardians in their student's education. During the school year, students and families meet once a month for additional educational programming and students receive free tutoring in partnership with Explora. Students are provided breakfast, lunch and two snacks per day. $5,000
Keshet Dance Company
Keshet’s M3 Program (Movement + Mentorship = Metamorphosis) addresses the well-being and educational advancement of children within the Albuquerque community by using the vehicle of dance to actuate educational achievement and personal growth for incarcerated and paroling youth. The M3 Program has generated transformative results with participating students tracking: 28% improvement rates on math, science, and literacy skills based on pre/post-tests; 20% reduction in conflicts with other inmates and staff compared to non-participating inmates; and 0% recidivism rate for students who complete all levels of the program as compared to the 50%-70% juvenile recidivism rate within NM. $8,300
Manzano Day School
Funding to support the Wings program, which provides full scholarships and related support to academically promising students from families with severely limited financial resources. $5,000
National Dance Institute New Mexico Inc
Funding to help support our Albuquerque programs, which will provide 2,395 at-risk ABQ children with a progressive pathway of educational and arts enrichment through the 12th grade. NDI-NM will also offer a full schedule of community after-school performing arts classes, serving children ages 3-18 at The Hiland Theater. The programs offer children and teens high quality instruction with no cost barriers. $12,000
New Mexico Appleseed
Funding to increase the identification of homeless and housing unstable children in Albuquerque and expand access to meals for food insecure children. Goals include: increasing the number of children identified as housing unstable and improving access to services; providing greater access to USDA food assistance for Albuquerque’s children through existing One Meal a Day cross-sector collaborative taskforce; improving the quality of both housing services and food access by providing leadership and technical assistance to service providers and homelessness coordinators on procedures and the long-term sustainability of its programs. $10,000
New Mexico Kids Matter, Inc.
Funding to support the CASA (court appointed special advocate) program. Research has demonstrated the benefits and effectiveness of CASA advocacy for children in foster care. Children with CASA volunteers do better in school (are more likely to pass all courses, less likely to have poor conduct in school, and less likely to be expelled) and score better on multiple protective factors that address and mitigate the impact of the abuse they have suffered. Children with CASAs also get more help and services while in the system, spend less time in foster care, are more likely to find safe, permanent homes and are half as likely to reenter the foster care system. $10,000
New Mexico Legal Aid
Funding to help under-represented individuals and families gain access to the Earned Income Tax Credit and the Child Tax Credit. When under-resourced families are audited, they must prove — with birth certificates, leases and school records—that a host of statutory requirements are satisfied for the tax credits. Through the grant, Albuquerque parents will receive educational information about how to access tax credits that will increase their family incomes - presentations will be made to Albuquerque schools’ parent groups. NMLA anticipates 10 presentations will reach at least 100 parents and 8-10 families will be served with a minimum of $20,000 EITC received and/or EITC or CTC related debt relieved. $10,000
NM Philharmonic
Funding for the Young Musicians Initiative, 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. $10,000
Oasis Albuquerque Enrichment Program
Funding for the Intergenerational Tutoring Program, a community volunteer opportunity that focuses on increasing childhood literacy by providing individual attention to K-4 public school students. Reading sessions are prepared by the Oasis volunteer reading mentors utilizing the Oasis 6-step, research based, literacy approach that supports classroom curriculum and includes talking together; writing together; reading the student’s writing; working with words, books or writing; reviewing and rereading; and reading to the student. 52 schools are engaged with 500 students participating and 200 volunteers. $10,000
Pegasus Legal Services for Children
Funding for the Preschool Behavioral Support Project, which benefits the children of New Mexico by increasing their educational outcomes and success rates. The project will promote best practices among educators, increase funding for behavioral support programs thereby improving outcomes for young learners. Sandia funds would specifically support the second phase of this project, which will determine policy goals for the 2019 legislative session, gather more data through Inspection of Public Records Act requests, and study the current support structure for New Mexico classrooms in need of disciplinary help. The Project will also
create a coalition of collaborating stakeholders who can help advance the policy goals, such as the New Mexico Association for the Education of Young Children, Early Learning NM, and the APS Early Childhood Program. $10,000
Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains
Funding for the Responsible Sex Education Institute, which focuses on youth who experience the highest rates of health disparities, including unplanned pregnancy and sexually transmitted infection (STI) transmission. Populations PPRM works to support include, Native Americans, Latinos, and people living with cognitive disabilities. PPNM’s In Case You’re Curious (ICYC) text line and Sexual Health Educator Program (SHEP) are curricula specifically designed to assist in increasing PPNM’s reach and long-term impact. Important to note: the National Council of State Legislators reports that only 40 percent of teen mothers finish high school, and fewer than 2 percent finish college by age 30. $5,000
Presbyterian Ear Institute
Funding to provide Tuition Assistance to Albuquerque youth enrolled in PEI’s School for Oral Deaf Education. Tuition Assistance helps close the gap between what a family can pay and the stated $15,000 tuition. In 2018/2019 more than half of PEI’s School for Oral Deaf Education families will live at or below the moderately-low income level and nearly 89% of the families served will be Bernalillo County residents. $12,000
Rio Grande Community Development Corporation (Coopertiva Korimi)
Coopertiva Korimi educates Spanish-speaking parents, through workshops, to empower families to overcome barriers they face in the community, such as their children's readiness to enter preschool, school drop-out, college entrance, ability to successfully enter the job market, and overall mental health. They also hold workshops to educate about the importance of their children’s development beginning at birth, this includes nutrition, literacy, and future education opportunities. $10,000
Roadrunner Food Bank
Funding for the Childhood Hunger Initiative (CHI), which supports the wellbeing and educational advancement of Albuquerque children in a variety of ways. The CHI program addresses the high rate of childhood food insecurity by feeding entire families through partnerships with low-income schools. Roadrunner is currently partnering with 40 schools conducting 34 food distributions in Albuquerque. By alleviating hunger for the entire family through CHI, children in those homes have access to healthier foods, are in better health, and money previously spent on food can be used for rent, utilities, transportation, and medical needs. $10,000
Saranam
Funding for Saranam’s two-generational program that offers families experiencing homelessness a path toward long-term self-sufficiency through housing, education and supportive community. Saranam’s programming encompasses all five components of a two-generational approach: 1) postsecondary education and employment pathways, 2) early childhood education and development, 3) economic assets, 4) health and well-being, and 5) social capital. Their children’s Support, Tutoring and Resources (STAR) Center provides afterschool and weekend activities and a developmentally appropriate way to meet the needs of the children they serve. $10,000
South Valley Academy
Funding will support literacy development for the 280 middle school students at the South Valley Academy. A recent Developmental Reading Assessment determined that 71% of the students were reading below grade level with 53% of them reading up to four years below grade level. Over the course of the grant period, SVA students with the highest literacy needs will have guided reading lessons and small group instruction. Specifically, these funds will address reading needs of 36 students, including those who are more than a year behind. $10,000
Southwest Creations Collaborative
Funding for the Hacia, Towards the University program, which improves employability, academic achievement, high school graduation, and college attendance rates while developing sustainable healthy behaviors among Latino/Hispanic families. The program’s objectives include expanding to the South Valley and collaborating with pre-k though high school families; working with an additional 200 adults of young children engaging them in our employability adult education programs. $10,000
The New Mexico Soccer Foundation
Funding to help families afford existing robust and well-run club soccer programs throughout the city of Albuquerque. Funding helps cover children's fees, which program promotes a healthy lifestyle and reduces the likelihood of school drop-out and use of alcohol or drugs. $5,000
YMCA of Central New Mexico
Funding to improve student outcomes at Jefferson Middle School through an academic and Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) afterschool program. The Y has created an afterschool program for Jefferson with a specific focus on high-yield and evidence-informed learning, that is accessible to and engaging for early teens as they make their transition from elementary to secondary school. 75 students at Jefferson will attend the afterschool extended learning program, with at least 80% attending regularly, averaging three