1998 PNM Fund Grant Recipients
Adelante Development Center Inc. (Albuquerque): This
program, Supporting Elderly Individuals with Developmental
Disabilities, allows seniors with developmental disabilities
to have better access to the wide range of services offered
at senior centers run by the City of Albuquerque. Volunteer
instructors and staff receive training in how to work with
persons with developmental disabilities, and how to address
the social interaction issues which occur with this population.
Albuquerque Business Education Compact (Albuquerque):
Two teachers from Albuquerque's West Mesa High School will
attend a qualification course and become certified in temperament
and type theories and methods for conducting workshops. Over
the next three years, these teachers will work with a PNM-certified
trainer to develop and hold Temperament and Type Identification
Workshops for the teaching staff at West Mesa. The teachers
will then develop a strategy for curriculum delivery, tracking
student attendance, classroom and homework participation and
overall grades by focusing on the many different types of
students.
Albuquerque Little Theatre (Albuquerque): In the 1999
season, the Albuquerque Little Theatre will produce John Steinbeck’s
"Mice and Men." This grant will fund the production
costs and costs associated with student matinees for more
than 4,600 students.
Child-Rite Inc. (Albuquerque): Child-Rite is an adoption
agency serving children with special needs. Prior to adoption,
families are required to take a wide variety of training classes.
After the adoption, this grant will provide families in central
New Mexico with continued training sessions.
The College of Santa Fe Department of Education (Santa
Fe): New Mexico has the largest ratio of limited English-proficient
students in the United States and is currently facing a critical
shortage of teachers with Teaching English as a Second Language)
and bilingual education endorsements. There is also a limited
availability of state-certified TESOL and bilingual education
courses in which New Mexico teachers can enroll. The College
of Santa Fe will use this grant to establish the first Internet-based,
online certification program for K-12 teachers who need TESOL
or bilingual education endorsements from the New Mexico Department
of Education.
Eastern New Mexico Educational Resource Center (Portales):
Fourteen rural school districts in five eastern New Mexico
counties will benefit from this project, which provides kits
to teach children about health, math and science, and to promote
healthy lifestyles.
Española Schools TV Production Class (Española):
The Cultural Heritage Video Program, administered by Española
Schools TV Production Class, will document young people who
are actively involved in preserving the culture of northern
New Mexico. The project encourages youth to gain specific
skills, greatly reduces the dropout rate in an area where
normally it is 70 percent, and encourages preservation of
the rich Native American and Hispanic cultures in northern
New Mexico.
The Family Development Training Institute (Albuquerque):
The Toddler Love book provides training and technical assistance
to school- and community-based programs that work with families
throughout New Mexico. It also provides a fun way to strengthen
parents' relationships with their toddlers.
Farmington Boys & Girls Club (Farmington): The
Farmington Boys and Girls Club will construct a three-bay
garage with an attached classroom and miscellaneous equipment.
This building will house the existing mechanical, woodworking,
lapidary and silversmith programs, which currently are housed
in cramped spaces in the facility.
Friends of South Broadway Cultural Center (Albuquerque):
The Whole World Festival is an international children’s
arts festival that introduces young people to their global
neighbors so that they might learn more about the different
kinds of people and cultures in the world. Artists from different
countries visit, holding performances and mini-workshops.
The PNM Foundation grant will be used to provide teaching
guides, materials and activities.
Golden Spread Rural Frontier Coalition Inc. (Clayton):
Phase I of the Clayton Building Trades program enabled 12
at-risk students to assist with building an addition to the
shop building located on the Clayton High School campus. Phase
II of the program provides program expansion for students
to go out with local contractors and build single-family homes.
It also funds purchasing tools that are used on the building
projects. The last phase of this project is to expand to the
secondary vocational level.
Intercare (Albuquerque): Intercare is a private, nonprofit
organization that provides quality community-based residential
and vocational services to people with developmental disabilities.
This grant will enable Intercare to purchase and construct
a third greenhouse at its property in Corrales. The greenhouse,
built by Intercare’s clients and staff, provides an employment
and training opportunity in addition to generating revenue
for the organization.
Mimbres Region Arts Council (Silver City): Mimbres
Region Arts Council provides cultural programs to Silver City
and its surrounding communities. Fine Arts Fridays was developed
to directly benefit elementary school students. Artists will
visit the nine schools participating in the project twice
a month in the 1998-99 school year. They will demonstrate
some aspect of the fine arts - music, instruments, art, dance
and poetry - giving students firsthand exposure at an early
age.
New Mexico Advocates for Children & Families/Words
Unspoken Listening Initiative (Albuquerque): The Words
Unspoken Listening Initiative reemphasizes listening as the
most important element for learning. Assembly-style presentations
will use music, commentary and discussion to help improve
the academic performance of high school students in PNM’s
service territories statewide.
New Mexico Agriculture in the Classroom (Albuquerque):
In this summer institute — "Bringing Classrooms
to Life!" — teachers in public and private schools
throughout the state learn the importance of agriculture in
New Mexico, and use hands-on demonstrations and experiences
to enhance the teaching of required subjects.
New Mexico Jazz Workshop (Albuquerque): The Roots
of Jazz Outreach Program is a project that will touch children
as well as many community members in rural areas of the state.
A jazz quartet will travel to four rural areas in New Mexico,
teaching elementary students about jazz and holding hands-on
clinics for secondary-school music students. The artists will
also hold evening concerts at each area.
Rio Grande Corridor Collaborative Academy for Educational
Leadership (Albuquerque): The Rio Grande Corridor AEL
brings speakers into the greater Albuquerque metro area rather
than sending school principals and administrators to conferences
out of state. The speakers cover topics pertaining to professional
development. Through this program, speakers will be funded
for the Summer Leadership Academy and the Speakers Series
during the academic school year.
Santa Fe Children's Museum (Santa Fe and Albuquerque):
Museum-on-Wheels consists of a mobile cart and an activity
center. The mobile cart is filled with museum-quality materials
such as magnifying glasses, prisms, puzzles, shells, magnets,
art and sculpture supplies, musical instruments, etc. Museum
staff members take the cart to children who cannot leave their
hospital rooms due to various medical problems. The activity
center serves outpatients waiting to see doctors in the hospital's
pediatric ambulatory care unit or those undergoing outpatient
medical treatments.
Sawmill Advisory Council (Albuquerque): The Old Albuquerque
Acequia After School Exploration Program is an innovative,
community-based, after-school and summer program. It provides
services to economically disadvantaged minority children and
young adults with a focus on self-discovery, family traditions
and cultural diversity. It is located in the Sawmill neighborhood
and uses that community as a "classroom."
SET for Health New Mexico (Albuquerque): Get SET for
Better Health conducts health education workshops for medically
uninsured or underinsured families in Bernalillo and Valencia
counties. These workshops help clients develop responsible
and appropriate use of health-care systems, develop an increased
awareness regarding patient rights and responsibilities, encourage
clients to take active and informed roles in decision-making
concerning their health care and that of their families, reduce
inappropriate use of emergency health facilities and increase
the practice of preventative health-care measures.
Tree New Mexico Inc. (Albuquerque): Tree New Mexico's
TreePath program brings environmental education and tree planting
projects to fifth-grade classes in schools throughout New
Mexico. TreePath facilitators present three interactive classroom
sessions to each class, showing students the value of our
natural forests and demonstrating basic planting techniques.
The entire grade then participates in an on-campus planting
of indigenous trees, shrubs and flowers.
Western Health Foundation (Gallup): Western Health
Foundation has received funding for two years to purchase
new books for its "Reach Out and Read" program.
During well-child visits at Rehoboth McKinley Christian Hospital
Clinic and at Gallup Indian Medical Center, doctors and nurses
spend five to 10 minutes discussing the importance of reading
with the parent and also read to the child. That book is then
given to the child to take home. Program volunteers working
in the clinic waiting rooms also read to children in groups
or individually.
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