Almost half way through our year end campaign, and a big thanks to everyone!

This week we feature our Education field-of-interest. Field-of-Interest Endowment Funds ensure resources today and tomorrow. What better way to help today and tomorrow than education? Education grants support at-risk populations to ensure they receive educational opportunities to better the course of their lives and careers. Specific focus areas in this field are elementary education literacy programs, at-risk youth, students with special needs and skills-based education for youth and adults.

Our spotlight organization, Horizons Albuquerque, is a summer program for kindergarten through 6^th grade, addressing the achievement gap and summer learning loss of public school students from low-income families. Academics, arts, sports, cultural enrichment and confidence-building activities are supplemented throughout the school year with family engagement workshops and tutoring.

Half of Horizons Albuquerque students come from Spanish speaking households and a large number of parents and guardians of the students are illiterate themselves. But Horizons students consistently make gains of a grade equivalence in reading and math, complete high school at a rate of 99%, and have increased school attendance and improved self-esteem.

Providing kids the education they need to be successful in life and their future careers is a special challenging in Albuquerque, and a vital component in creating a community we all want to live in. That’s why working together, we can make Albuquerque a place where every person can reach their full potential.

Help us continue to support the Education field-of-interest and the organizations it helps make a better place to live. Gifts of all amounts are welcome for any area of need. Because that’s What Matters - a community where all people have the opportunity to thrive. A community lifting itself, one life at a time. When you give, no matter the amount, you join hundreds of others with the common goal of ensuring there will be resources today, and for tomorrow’s needs. Needs we can’t even imagine today.

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