2003 PNM Partnership Grants Recipients
First Choice Community Health Care: An award of $5,000
will buy books to help prepare children to enter school ready
to read. Reach Out and Read is an early childhood literacy
program that reaches out to entire families. Doctors counsel
parents during well-child medical visits on the importance
of reading at home. "Prescriptions to read" are
given to the parents along with appropriate books for the
children to keep.
Puppet Theatre Los Titiriteros: This mobile theater
made from a 1955 milk truck brings performances to small rural
communities in Rio Arriba and Mora counties, where there are
no facilities for theater. The $5,250 grant funds "Out
of Order," an educational puppet show about conservation
of resources. The puppets, which are built from recycled materials,
examine the importance of resources that are often taken for
granted.
New Mexico MESA: The 2003 Summer Enrichment program
is a statewide high school summer session designed to strengthen
students' academic performance and build interest in science
and engineering. The $5,000 grant will help girls from minority
backgrounds to study math, science and engineering.
Santa Fe Children's Museum: The $5,000 grant
will support Museum-on-Wheels, which brings museum-quality
activities into Children's Hospital of New Mexico and La Familia
Medical Center to encourage feelings of accomplishment, self-growth
and learning.
Southwestern College: Caring Can Be Shared
Community Outreach Program is a community education program
that helps overburdened family caregivers of terminally ill
persons. With the $7,500 grant, more than 1,000 volunteers
will be trained using graduate interns from Southwestern College's
Grief Counseling Program.
New Mexico Coalition for Literacy: This
$12,000 grant will support 600 tutors statewide who will be
trained to provide one-on-one instruction for about 2,400
adult learners during this two-year project.
Self Help: The $5,000 grant will help economically
disadvantaged students in Rio Arriba County be better prepared
for school. These students will be provided new school supplies
to help them assimilate into the school environment and have
a positive school experience.
Camp Fire USA: The Rocket Reader Program,
an innovative approach to children's literacy, will use the
$10,000 grant to support trained volunteer tutors who are
matched with children for an hour each week to help with reading.
Keshet Dance Company: The $10,000 grant
will support outreach programming, which brings instructors
into Albuquerque schools, detention centers and other venues
for students who might not otherwise have the opportunity
to participate in these dance programs that enhance self-esteem,
self-confidence and a sense of community.
Adelante Development Center: The Desert
Harvest program was awarded a $5,000 grant. It is a food rescue
operation created to help alleviate hunger, reduce food waste
and provide volunteer opportunities to people with disabilities
in the Albuquerque area.
Southeast New Mexico Community Action Corporation:
The $18,000 grant will sponsor as many as 500 volunteers to
rebuild homes and lives in the Artesia area. High school students
and their sponsors will come to southeast New Mexico to assist
in repairing, roofing and painting homes of low-income elderly
and families.
New Mexico Network for Women in Science and Engineering:
The $5,000 grant nurture girls' interest in science and math
courses. This grant will help encourage career paths in engineering,
computer science and biometrics through hands-on experience
in robotics, astronomy, chemistry, law, veterinary medicine
and pharmacology.
NM EPSCoR: This $6,500 grant will fund kits
that illustrate the fundamentals of nanomaterials and material
science. Kindergarten through 12th-grade students will participate
in annual workshops that introduce them to tools and skills
they can use in their classrooms and labs.
Project Second Chance: A second grant from
the PNM Foundation will continue to support this award-winning
collaborative between the Animal Humane Association of New
Mexico and the Youth Diagnostic and Development Center. The
program pairs incarcerated youth with shelter dogs to teach
responsibility, pride and patience while training and grooming
dogs for adoption. The PNM Foundation awarded $7,000.
Write Read Succeed Literacy Inc.: This $5,000
grant helps fund an 11-month writing and reading program for
middle and high school students. The curriculum empowers and
facilitates academic, public performance and citizenry skills.
Presbyterian Ear Institute Oral School:
This $5,000 grant will be used to purchase educational materials
to be used in the oral school for assessment, diagnosis and
evaluation of deaf and hard-of-hearing children.
University of New Mexico Department of Mathematics
and Statistics: This $16,000 grant will be awarded
for the next three years to fund the annual statewide UNM/PNM
Mathematics Contest. The funds also will be used to bring
prominent mathematicians to speak to students during the examinations.
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