TOTAL GRANTS AWARDED for 2007: $85,000 impacting the lives of 9,400 children in New Mexico.
A special thank you to our many sponsors!

• Pueblo de Abiquiu Library and Community Cultural Center — Abiquiu — $3,000
  The After School Reading Program will train and pay high school students as mentors and tutors using adult volunteers to help develop the reading program and supervise the student tutors.  This will help the student tutors develop leadership skills and will strengthen the reading skills of the younger students.
• Art in the School - Art Tells the Story — Albuquerque — $3,000
  This program will engage approximately 80 teachers in arts-infused, innovative and creative methods of teaching visual arts in their classrooms.
• Camp Rising Sun — Albuquerque — $4,000
  Camp Rising Sun is a one week camp designed to help children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) recognize and attain the social potential that lies within them.  This grant will help cover the counselor stipends and staff training performed by a licensed psychologist with experience treating children with ASD.
• Life Options Academy — Albuquerque — $4,000
  On Track, Educational and Career Mentoring program will serve at least 25 adolescent teen mothers with a goal of 100% high school graduation or successful completion of a GED.  The teen mothers that are in need of this program are often children that have endured forms of neglect ranging from physical and sexual abuse to drug addicton and educational failure.
• Assistance League of Chaves County — Chaves Co. — $4,000
  Kids Are Pretty Special (in conjunction with CASA) and Operation School Bell are two programs which work to provide for the needs of children who are taken out of meth homes due to abuse, sexual molestation, neglect or the toxic poisoning results of living in a meth house.
• Future Foundation Family Center — Cibola Co. — $4,000
  Kids Cooking Project will offer K-6th grade students in Grants and the surrounding areas a weekly after school program focusing on nutritional education and cooking skills.
• Embudo Valley Library & Community Center — Embudo Valley — $4,000
  Get-A-Clue @ the Embudo Valley Library is a summer reading program for up to 100 children/youth.
• Mesilla Valley CASA — Las Cruces — $3,000
  Children First is a new service to provide additional supervised family visitation services for parents and their biological children currently in foster care as a result of abuse and neglect.  This is necessary so that these families can move to reunification in a timelier manner.
• Camp Corazones — New Mexico — $5,000
  The only volunteer-based AIDS organization which provides a summer camp for children affected/infected with HIV/AIDS.
• Self Help, Inc. — No. NM — $4,000
  Children's Tools for School Project will provide assistance with school supplies to children and teachers in Los Alamos, Pojoaque, Rio Arriba and Taos School Districts.
• Gerard's House — No. NM — $4,000
  Emotional and psychological support to pre-teens and early teens in Northern New Mexico who are experiencing a life crisis because of the death of a loved one.
• NM Suicide Intervention — No. NM — $7,500
  This grant will provide assistance and training for 100 students and counselors in the Natural Helpers program.  This is a peer-based, youth suicide prevention program currently based in the Santa Fe middle schools and expanding to Pojoaque High School in 2007.
• De Colores - Parent Child Center — No. NM — $3,000
  Start-up funding for De Colores Mental Health Day Treatment Program for children 3 - 5 years old and their families.  This will be the only intensive outpatient Day Treatment for three and four year olds in New Mexico.
• Truchas Services Center — No. NM — $3,000
  Truchas Arts Project, in collaboration with the High Road Artisans, is a summer enrichment program of visual arts and music in a 7 week program  The program concludes with a community wide fiesta and parade, in Truchas, on July 28.
• Cañones Early Childhood Center — Rio Arriba Co. — $6,000
  Project Literacy provides funding of an early childhood literacy specialist to work with and train the staff who work with 22 - 44 children.
• ABC! Luciente, Inc. — Rio Arriba Co. — $4,000
  Arts to Boost Curriculum serves predominately Hispanic or Native American children living in low income or poverty line families.  Applied and performing arts programs will enhance overall cognition, curriculum development and engaged student learning.
• Wings Ministry — Roswell — $3,000
  Wings for L.I.F.E. (Life-skills for Inmate Families and Education) is a secular program of the Wings Ministry which will provide social skills training for families of incarcerated individuals in both community settings and at the residential facility, Youth Challenge Academy.
• SF Youth & Family Center Consortium, Zona del Sol — Santa Fe — $3,000
  Diversity Without Division will provide funds for Girl's Inc., YMCA and Warehouse 21 in their outreach efforts.  Funding will support instructor fees for direct services as well as for teen internship support.
• Villa Therese Catholic Clinic — Santa Fe — $3,000
  Clinics for Children is projected to serve 200 uninsured and underserved children and their families in Santa Fe and northern New Mexico.
• Gila Institute for Tots to Teens — SW NM — $3,000
  The Summer Arts Program includes a Fiber Arts Day Camp, Mural Projects and Teen-Directed Arts which all take place at the community-built park in Silver City.
• Youth Heartline — Taos — $7,500
  Family Empowerment Program will provide group therapy and aftercare advocacy on behalf of children and families dealing with issues of child abuse and trauma.