2001 PNM Partnership Grant Recipients
Albuquerque Cancer Coalition (statewide): Casa Esperanza
joined with 16 other cancer-support agencies, hospital treatment
centers and government agencies to create the Albuquerque
Cancer Coalition. This program will inform the New Mexico
community of resources available to meet the needs of cancer
patients and their families. The PNM Foundation supports this
collaboration with a grant of $10,000 to be used to publish
100,000 pamphlets for distribution statewide to benefit newly
diagnosed cancer patients and their families and/or caregivers.
This informational literature will be placed in hospitals,
doctors' offices and with cancer-related organizations.
Albuquerque Family & Child Guidance Center (Albuquerque):
The PNM Foundation awarded $9,000 to the Computers for Kids
program to provide computer training to children and adolescents
whose families receive mental-health and/or substance-abuse
treatment from the center. The children will learn how to
use computers and the Internet in a series of classes. Students
who complete the first 12-week class will receive their own
computers equipped with word-processing and Internet access.
Community Development Corporation (Albuquerque): The
PNM Foundation awarded $5,000 to the New Foods for Newcomers
program. This program will allow the Community Development
Corp. to provide special foods to over 1,000 refugee families
who are recent arrivals in the United States. The goal is
to meet special dietary requirements for those clients of
health services and develop targeted instruction to help refugees
and immigrant families learn how to use their commodity foods
to satisfy traditional diets.
Cuidando Los Ninos Inc. (Albuquerque): The Parent
Resource Library program received $5,000 from the PNM Foundation
to serve homeless parents with preschool children. This library
will enhance the existing Family Support Program by offering
parents more educational opportunities.
DeBaca Resident Council (DeBaca County): The PNM Foundation
awarded $5,000 to the DeBaca Resident Council for a tutorial
center. The center will provide hands on educational programs
that will help both children and adults achieve the education
they desire.
Golden Apple Foundation of New Mexico (statewide):
The PNM Foundation awarded $6,000 to be used for the KNME-TV
telecast of the 2001 Golden Apple Foundation of New Mexico
Awards. The awards go to five outstanding New Mexico teachers
in public, private and federally funded schools who demonstrate
excellence in the classroom. Upon being named Golden Apple
fellows, the five teachers are admitted to the Golden Apple
Academy. They receive professional development of their own
designs, up to a one-semester sabbatical to further their
studies at a New Mexico institution of higher education, partial
reimbursement to their school districts for the cost of substitute
teachers during the sabbaticals, a $1,500 stipend and a computer.
Kitchen Angels (Santa Fe): Kitchen Angels provides
nutritious hot meals to the elderly and homebound people living
with life-threatening conditions. The majority of the clients
are no longer able to prepare their own meals and grocery
shopping is an impossible task. Kitchen Angels will use the
$6,000 grant to purchase 50 thermal containers to deliver
hot meals that remain at safe temperatures.
March of Dimes (statewide): The New Mexico Chapter
of the March of Dimes will use an $8,000 grant from the PNM
Foundation to train 29 maternal/child-health coordinators
and 96 nutritionist/clinicians for women, infants and children
utilizing the March of Dimes Comenzando bien Education Program.
Comenzando bien offers a cognitive component designed to provide
accurate and timely information regarding prenatal care, pregnancy
and a behavior-oriented component designed to encourage behaviors
promoting healthy pregnancies.
Mimbres Region Arts Council (Deming and Grant County):
The PNM Foundation will continue to support the PNM Fine Arts
Fridays with a grant of $15,000. This program helps youth
in Deming and Grant County stay in school, broadens their
horizons and creates opportunities they may not otherwise
experience. The program utilizes accomplished artists who
visit elementary and middle schools on a monthly basis. Every
program is preceded with educational handouts and teachers'
guides aimed at sparking the interest in children to try the
arts as an alternative to less productive activities.
National Dance Institute of New Mexico (Albuquerque):
The PNM Foundation grant of $12,000 will provide weekly in-school
dance classes at seven APS elementary schools over the next
two years. NDINM uses dance as a vehicle to teach children
positive "life lessons," including hard work, tenacity,
joyful concentration, teamwork and the pride of achievement.
Dancers also learn creative thinking, patterning, following
directions and problem-solving.
New Mexico AIDS Services (Albuquerque): The Necessities
of Life Food Bank received a grant of $7,500 from the PNM
Foundation to provide nutritional supplements for individuals
with HIV/AIDS and their families. This program will provide
essential supplies and meets a pressing need in the Albuquerque
community.
New Mexico Lions Eye Bank (statewide): The New Mexico
Lions Eye Bank provides high-quality human eye tissue for
sight-restoring transplant surgery, scientific research and
medical education. The PNM Foundation supports this program
with a grant of $8,760 to develop educational materials for
hospital-based nurses, home-health nurses and community-health
nurses, and to provide technical information regarding eye
donation.
OASIS (Albuquerque): The PNM Foundation granted $7,260
to the OASIS Intergenerational Tutoring Program. These funds
will allow the expansion of the program in Albuquerque schools
by recruiting 30 new senior-aged tutors who will work with
40 additional at-risk children. Volunteers work one-on-one
every week during the school year as tutors, mentors and friends.
Outpost Productions Inc. (Albuquerque): PNM Foundation
awarded $10,000 to be used to complete the purchase and begin
the recondition of a vintage 1927 Steinway piano. This piano
will be used three afternoons a week by students in Outpost's
after-school youth Jazz Improvisation Workshop Ensembles,
as well as Summer Youth Music Programs. In addition, the piano
will be used in performances by hundreds of local and nationally
recognized performing artists presented by Outpost each year.
The Planetarium at Santa Fe Community College (school districts
outside of Santa Fe County): The PNM Foundation awarded
$5,000 to the Bridges to the Stars program allowing school
districts outside of Santa Fe County the opportunity to utilize
the solar system, stellar evolution and cosmology programs
offered by the Planetarium at SFCC.
Puppet Theatre Los Titiriteros (Taos, Las Vegas and Roswell):
The Suitcase Project is designed to help mentally and physically
disabled people express themselves through puppetry and interactions
with their communities at large. The program consists of creating
self-portrait puppets and environments contained in suitcases.
The PNM Foundation supports this effort with a $7,000 grant.
Rainbow Bridge New Mexico (Santa Fe): Rainbow Bridge
New Mexico received $7,600 from the PNM Foundation to support
the Youth and Elders Program which will establish relationships
between youth and elders in nursing homes, assisted living
facilities and adult daycare centers.
Santa Fe Children's Museum (Santa Fe): Museum-on-Wheels
brings museum-quality activities into health-care settings
in both Albuquerque and Santa Fe. The PNM Foundation supports
this program with $5,000 for materials and handouts. This
project helps children gain a sense of control in a medical
setting in which they have little or no control. It gives
youngsters a chance to participate in activities designed
to encourage feelings of accomplishment, self-growth and learning.
St. Mark's in the Valley Day School and Christina Kent
Day Nursery (Albuquerque): Christina Kent Day Nursery
and St. Mark's in the Valley Day School serve children from
low-income working families and will work together to offer
a music education program to train the teachers from both
schools to teach children ages 3-5. The PNM Foundation supports
the collaboration of these agencies with an award of $8,400
for the purchase of instruments, music instruction for teachers
and children and mentors for teachers.
The Space Center (statewide): Project ASTRO-NM is a
science education program that links professional and amateur
astronomers with innovative teachers. The program's goal is
to change and improve the way astronomy and space science
are taught by using hands-on and "minds-on" activities
to keep students interested in science as a lifelong learning
experience and to help students consider science as a career.
This statewide educational program will use the PNM Foundation
grant of $6,750 to support this innovative educational opportunity.
Tree New Mexico Inc. (Albuquerque): The PNM Foundation
awarded $5,000 for planting materials and education kits for
the TreePath Program. TreePath provides comprehensive environmental
education, much-needed landscaping and enhancement planting
projects on school grounds. TreePath facilitators present
three to four classroom sessions to each class. The students
then participate in an on-campus planting of predominately
native and indigenous trees, shrubs and flowers. In addition,
each school receives an Education Kit with books, videos and
posters.
SET for Health New Mexico: An award of $9,500 will
go toward a program called Get SET for Better Health, which
will train at least 500 families about treating minor health
problems at home and how to best access the health-care system
when needed. The program is aimed at residents of Bernalillo,
Sandoval, Valencia and Torrance counties.
UNM-PNM Statewide Mathematics Contest: A grant of
$16,000 a year for three years will help ensure that students
around the state are encouraged to develop their potential
for math. The grant will fund the statewide contest, a winners'
banquet and prizes and awards for winners.
Music in the Mountains and Northwest New Mexico Arts Council:
This program will bring members of symphony orchestras to
San Juan County schools for teacher training, student instruction
and in-school performances. The grant is $7,800.
Roadrunner Food Bank: A grant of $13,050 will go toward
providing food for children who might otherwise go hungry.
This program, called Food for Kids, will help meet children's
nutritional needs so that they are more receptive to learning
opportunities.
Jewish Community Center: The Youth on Board program
targets both Jewish and Native American teenagers. It emphasizes
the similarities and differences between the two cultures
through a variety of activities, including sports and community
service. The grant is $6,000.
Boombox Classroom: A grant of $6,400 will help bring
music education to schoolchildren in Albuquerque and northern
New Mexico. By tuning into special programming on public radio,
children and teachers will learn to appreciate music and will
also experience how music can impact other academic areas.
The Food Depot: With an $8,000 grant, the Food Depot
will provide backpacks and child-friendly food to some 200
schoolchildren. The program is intended to help children reach
their learning potential by alleviating hunger in the classroom.
The program will serve Santa Fe and other northern New Mexico
communities.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central New Mexico: A
grant of $5,000 will help Big Brothers screen and train 400
to 500 adult mentors. The program serves children in Bernalillo,
Sandoval, Valencia and Torrance counties.
Haven House: This program operates in Rio Rancho,
Bernalillo, 82 rural communities and seven pueblos. It is
designed to help children from domestic-violence situations
find confidence and a sense of safety. The $5,200 grant will
be used to purchase school supplies and program materials.
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