PNM Resources Foundation builds a brighter future for Santa Fe community

By PNM

Forty New Mexico nonprofits now have a total of $750,000 toward their missions, which included five organizations that each received $50,000, ten organizations that received $25,000, and twenty-five organizations that received $10,000 through the PNM Resources Foundation New Century of Service Grant Program. Today, at SITE Santa Fe, $155,000 in grants were awarded to Santa Fe nonprofits and each one shared how these grants are making a positive impact throughout the state’s capital.

 

Designed to promote economic development, education and the environment within the PNM service area, the grants are awarded to organizations that work to innovate new products and services that, in turn, grow and develop businesses in New Mexico; create collaborative community spaces for public use; and provide educational opportunities that support economic development.

 

“It is an honor for the PNM Resources Foundation to invest this money in our Santa Fe community,” said PNM Resources Foundation President Becky Teague. “We are excited to support projects which will promote jobs, services and education in hometowns across the state.”

 

Priority for funding is given to projects that demonstrate a clear path to sustainability, have a well-defined timeline for implementation; show tangible results, fuel a stronger New Mexico through measurable economic impact and more.

 

The 2018 New Century of Service $50,000 grant recipients are:

 

• Cultivating Coders, Inc. (Albuquerque) – to provide rigorous technological education and workforce participation opportunities to high school students in Albuquerque’s South Valley.

 

• Fathers Building Futures (Albuquerque) – to concentrate business efforts on scaling the woodshop and its casket and urn line for the funeral industry.

 

• St. Martin’s Hospitality Center(Albuquerque) – to provide on-the-job training to at least 5 formerly homeless individuals through their Hope Café internship program.

 

• Galloping Grace Youth Ranch (Rio Rancho) – to fund their Food Recovery Program, a program that can conserve energy, educate youth, create jobs, and alleviate hunger; thereby building a healthier community, a more resilient environment, and impacting youth and economy.

 

• Reunity Resources (Santa Fe) – to expand operations to encompass a community farm that grows food for donation to local hunger efforts, trains young farmers and provides paid apprentices to homeless and at-risk youth.

 

 

The 2018 New Century of Service $25,000 grant recipients are:

 

• Adelante Development Center Inc.                                                     Albuquerque

 

• CNM Foundation                                                                                    Albuquerque

 

• DowntownABQ MainStreet Initiative                                                 Albuquerque

 

• Explora Science Center & Children’s Museum of Albuquerque              Albuquerque

 

• Girl Scouts of New Mexico Trails, Inc.                                                 Albuquerque

 

• Rio Grande Community Development Corporation                         Albuquerque

 

• The Grants Collective                                                                             Los Lunas

 

• Asombro Institute for Science Education                                           Deming

 

• St. Felix Pantry                                                                                         Rio Rancho

 

• Innovate-Educate                                                                                   Santa Fe

 

The 2018 New Century of Service $10,000 grant recipients are:

 

• Alamogordo MainStreet                                                                       Alamogordo

 

• New Mexico State University Foundation Inc.                                  Alamogordo

 

• ARCA                                                                                                         Albuquerque

 

• Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central New Mexico, Inc.                       Albuquerque

 

• New Day Youth and Family Services                                                   Albuquerque

 

• New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science Foundation              Albuquerque

 

• TenderLove Community Center, Inc.                                                  Albuquerque

 

• University of New Mexico Foundation, Inc.                                      Albuquerque

 

• Belen Consolidated Schools                                                                  Belen

 

• Student Spaceflight Experiment Program                                          Belen

 

• Capacity Builders, Inc.                                                                           Farmington

 

• The Samaritan House, Inc.                                                                    Las Vegas

 

• AAUW Tech Trek New Mexico                                                             Placitas

 

• Ruidoso Midtown Association                                                             Ruidoso

 

• Community Learning Network                                                             Santa Fe

 

• Cooking With Kids Inc                                                                            Santa Fe

 

• Girls Inc. of Santa Fe                                                                               Santa Fe

 

• MIX Santa Fe                                                                                            Santa Fe

 

• New Mexico Land Conservancy                                                           Santa Fe

 

• Santa Fe Council on International Relations                                      Santa Fe

 

• SITE Santa Fe                                                                                            Santa Fe

 

• The Wildlife Center, Inc.                                                                        Santa Fe

 

• Fort Bayard Historic Preservation Society                                          Santa Clara

 

• Girl Scouts of the Desert Southwest –                                                 Silver City

Southern New Mexico & West Texas, Inc.

 

• The National Center for Frontier Communities                                Silver City