News Release

Aug. 28, 2002

PNM Foundation Announces $57,500 in Grants
to Nonprofit Programs Throughout New Mexico

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Albuquerque: The nonprofit, shareholder-funded PNM Foundation has announced awards to seven New Mexico organizations for the second grant period of 2002. The grants total $57,500.

The following organizations received funding:

• Sweet Bird Classics: A grant of $6,000 will help provide music education to as many as 60,000 children in grades K through six. The project, called Boombox Classroom, will make music education available via radio and the Internet. It integrates music and literacy and encompasses other disciplines, including history, math, geography, science and anthropology.
• Albuquerque Women’s Resource Center: The Albuquerque Women’s Resource Center will use a $5,000 grant to develop a classroom presentation aimed at reducing teen dating violence. The program teaches students skills they need to develop healthy, non-violent relationships. It provides the tools they need to prevent violence, before it becomes a lifelong pattern
• Jewish Family Services: The goal of this Albuquerque-based program — called Senior Transportation Project — is to allow senior citizens to remain independent by providing basic transportation services, such as trips to the doctor and the grocery store. The $6,000 grant will let the project move closer toward its goal of operating full time.
• Working Classroom Inc.: Preventing school dropouts is the goal of Working Classroom. A grant of $10,000 from the PNM Foundation will help the group refine strategies and develop programs to reach at-risk students with arts-based activities.
• The Adoption Exchange: This agency received $5,000 to use in recruiting adoptive families. The activities will include television exposure, adoption parties, newspaper columns, a photo book of children waiting to be adopted, a database, orientation classes and a support network for adoptive parents.
• Junior Achievement of New Mexico: A three-year grant totaling $18,000 will allow Junior Achievement to be offered throughout the state. Junior Achievement provides an important link between businesses and schools, offering students role models and examples of how their education will help determine their careers.
• Narconon Rio Grande Inc.: Prevention of drug and alcohol abuse is the goal of this program operating in Bernalillo and Sandoval counties. A grant of $7,500 will help the life-saving message reach children in grades two through 12.