2000 PNM Parternship Grant Recipients
Albuquerque Meals on Wheels Inc. (Bernalillo County):
The foundation awarded $5,000 to Meals on Wheels for special
diet meals for the homebound.
All Faiths Receiving Home (Albuquerque): All Faiths
Receiving Home will use a $5,500 grant from PNM Foundation
for a Residential Program Education Lab Initiative. The grant
will be used to help meet the broad educational needs of children
in the shelter and group home. All Faiths Receiving Home provides
essential human services to children and families experiencing
the effects of childhood abuse, neglect or other family trauma.
ARCA (Albuquerque): ARCA received $8,000 to expand
its program to improve literacy skills among people with development
disabilities. Specifically, the grant will provide for additional
software for this program that evaluates individuals and provides
customized training.
Assistance League of Albuquerque (Bernalillo County):
This organization sponsors a program called "Operation
School Bell" that provides school uniforms and health-hygiene
kits to Albuquerque Public School students who would be unable
to attend school due to the school uniform requirement. The
PNM Foundation gave the Assistance League $5,000 in support
of this program.
Challenge New Mexico (Albuquerque): The PNM Foundation
granted $5,000 to Challenge New Mexico's after-school program,
which provides quality care for children at four elementary
school sites. The program reaches about 200 low-income children
and children with special needs.
Golden Apple Foundation of New Mexico (Albuquerque):
The Golden Apple Foundation of New Mexico honors five outstanding
teachers in New Mexico every year. The PNM Foundation supported
this effort with a $17,500 grant to televise the awards program
statewide.
Keshet Dance Company (Albuquerque): This Albuquerque-based
dance company will use a $14,000 grant from the PNM Foundation
to expand its youth outreach programs to about 3,500 local
children. The company offers youth dance programming that
seeks to build esteem, encourage relationships with peers
and mentors, teach collaborative skills and further creative
thinking. Offered in area schools as well as other venues,
Keshet youth programs bridge differences and seek to bring
together persons of every race, economic class and ability
or disability.
Let’s Read Inc. (Rio Arriba County): Let’s
Read received $5,000 for an existing family literacy program
that gives books to the parents of newborns at clinics and
hospitals. It also provides tutors for children in public
schools who are in first through third grades. The program
helps provide the tools necessary to make reading fun and
helps parents understand their role as a child's first teacher.
Mimbres Region Arts Council (Grant County): PNM Foundation
funding of $10,775 will continue to support the council's
PNM Fine Arts Fridays Program, which reaches 2,200 children
in and around Grant County. The program sends accomplished
artists to perform at eight elementary schools every month.
Performances include Renaissance instruments by musicians
in period costumes, historical drama, Kabuki dancers, dance,
jazz, folk, fiddle, string ensembles, piano, bagpipes, guitar
and brass instruments, as well as storytellers and poets.
New Mexico Jazz Workshop (Albuquerque): A PNM Foundation
grant of $10,000 will support the workshop’s Roots of
Jazz outreach program. This program began as a pilot project
in 1997 to find new ways to bring jazz music education to
children in rural areas of New Mexico. As part of the program,
a jazz quintet spends three days in an area of the state providing
lecture presentations to elementary schools, hands-on clinics
for secondary school music students, and a free evening concert
for the entire community. About 4,500 New Mexicans will participate
in this program in 2000.
People Living Through Cancer Inc. (Albuquerque):
The PNM Foundation granted $5,000 to this organization for
a new project aimed at seniors who are surviving cancer. The
project is an educational and direct support services effort
for senior cancer survivors and their loved ones – and
is expected to reach 2,300 New Mexico cancer survivors and
their families.
Presbyterian Ear Institute (Albuquerque): The PNM
Foundation awarded $7,500 to the institute's Toddler Class,
which provides intensive therapy to help young children with
hearing impairments develop speech and language abilities.
The class relies on both advanced technologies and sound teaching
strategies to reach its goal of helping these children realize
their auditory potential in order to understand and use spoken
language.
Santa Fe Children's Museum (Santa Fe): The museum’s
Museum-on-Wheels program received $5,000 from the PNM Foundation.
This effort brings museum-quality activities into health-care
settings and gives children a chance to participate in activities
designed to encourage feelings of accomplishment, self-growth
and learning. The program reaches 40,000 children who are
hospitalized or undergoing outpatient treatment at several
facilities throughout the state.
UNM-PNM Statewide Mathematics Contest (Albuquerque):
The PNM Foundation awarded $11,000 to continue support of
this contest, which is open to students in grades 7 through
12 throughout the state. The goal is to promote mathematics
education in New Mexico by rewarding students, teachers and
their schools for mathematics excellence. Approximately 1,600
New Mexico students benefit from this program.
United Blood Services (statewide): United Blood Services
was awarded a grant for its "Be a Hero" educational
program. This program, aimed at children in kindergarten through
grade 6, teaches about the physical function of blood. It
focuses on how blood is used for the sick and injured, and
suggests that children urge the grown-ups in their lives to
become blood donors. The PNM Foundation grant totals $5,000.
Western Health Foundation (Gallup): The PNM Foundation
granted $10,000 for the Western Health Foundation's "Reach
Out and Read" effort in Gallup. This is an early pediatric
literacy program that encourages parents to read aloud to
their children. Children periodically visit a participating
clinic for well-child care visits and are then given a book.
They can collect several books by the time they start school.
This program reaches about 9,000 children aged 6 months to
6 years in the Gallup area.
YWCA of the Middle Rio Grande (statewide): The YWCA's
Camp Quest 2001 received a $10,000 grant from the PNM Foundation.
The camp caters to girls in grades 5 and 6 and encourages
interest in math, science and technology.
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