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First American Bank Scholarship recipients at the Chaparral High School awards ceremony on May 23, 2017.
Spring 2017 Scholarship Recipients
The First American Bank Scholarship is a four-year award given to graduates of Chaparral High School in Chaparral, N.M. This year's 20 recipients are Carla Acuna, Britney Basinger, David Castro, Felix Escajeda, Paulina Evangelista, Gabriel Gonzalez, Jazzel Gutierrez, Abraham Hernandez, Natalie Lara, Evelyn Loya, Briana Madrid, Jaquelin Martinez, Phillip Martinez, Juan Nieto, Misael Oronia, Blanca Ramirez, Damaris Saenz, Emily Soto, Josue Vazquez, and Alejandra Zapata.
The Aldo Leopold Charter School - Ella, Michael and Ella Memorial Scholarship is given to graduates of the high school, located in Silver City, N.M. It was established in honor of three students who attended the school and lost their lives in an accident in 2014. This year's recipients are Faith Diamanti and Olivia Moritz.
The Jonathan Sherman Spradling Memorial Scholarship is named after a graduate of Artesia High School who died in an accident at the age of 23. It is awarded to graduates of Artesia, Belen, Los Lunas or Valencia high schools. This year's recipients are Jared Gonzales of Los Lunas High School, LeAnn Lovato of Belen High School, and Melissa Richards of Artesia High School.
NMCF congratulates the scholarship recipients and thanks our generous donors who make these scholarships possible!
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NMCF Announces Two Grant Recipients
New Mexico Community Foundation has awarded two grants totaling $16,500 to nonprofit organizations serving the northeastern part of the state, specifically communities in San Miguel, Mora, and Harding Counties.
Grant recipients,
First Born of Northern NM
and
NDI-NM
Pecos Elementary program, were selected to support programs within the focus areas of Health Awareness and Disease Prevention. This funding was made possible through NMCF's Northeastern Regional Community Fund, which seeks to improve health and decrease the prevalence of disease in a seven county region of northeastern NM.
Pecos Elementary School 3rd graders perform their NDI finale for classmates and faculty.
From New Mexico's only statewide community foundation, these funds represent a unique and much needed opportunity to fund organizations in rural parts of the state, especially in historically underserved communities of northeastern New Mexico.
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Fund Spotlight: Anita Salas Memorial Fund
Prior to the Anita Salas Memorial Fund's founding in 1998, women in New Mexico often delayed recommended medical services for breast and/or cervical cancer
diagnosis and treatment due to insufficient personal resources and disqualification from state and federal assistance.
The Anita Salas Memorial Fund helps moderate to low-income, under-insured or uninsured New Mexican women pay for breast and cervical cancer treatment or related bills such as transportation, lodging, and medications for treatment. The funds go directly to the women's bills.
For the third consecutive year, the Albuquerque Women's Golf Championship &
NM/West Texas Women's Amateur have partnered to hold a tournament to benefit the Anita Salas Memorial Fund. The Tournament will be
held at the Santa Ana Golf Club on July 15-17, 2017. Learn how you can sponsor the Tournament by contacting Kathy Morrow at (505) 620-5291.
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Join NMW.O at this Year's Kids Count Conference
Register today to attend the 5th Annual Kids Count Conference in Albuquerque on Monday, June 26, 2017. The conference this year will focus on the opportunities and threats related to the health and happiness of New Mexico children and families in light of current national and state politics and policies.
NewMexicoWomen.Org (NMW.O), a program of NMCF, has partnered with the conference to discuss the linkages between women's economic security and the well-being of women and children. NMW.O will also
present their newly released two-part report,
The Heart of Gender Justice in New Mexico: Intersectionality, Economic Security and Health Equity.
Download NMW.O's full report here.
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Challah Rising in the Desert Community Screenings
There is still time to purchase your tickets to
Challah Rising in the Desert's community screenings this weekend! This fiscally sponsored
documentary film portrays New Mexico's unique Jewish history as a five strand braided challah bread.
Do you live in or near Albuquerque? The New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science will screen the documentary on Saturday, June 24, 2017 at 7pm. Tickets here.
Closer to Santa Fe? Watch Challah Rising in the Desert on Sunday, June 25, 2017 at 2pm at the New Mexico History Museum. Tickets here.
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Grant Moves 25 Chimps to Sanctuary
The
Chimpanzee Sanctuary Fund announced a new grant last week to help twenty-five more chimpanzees from New Mexico get into sanctuary.
To date, NMCF's Chimpanzee Sanctuary Fund has made grants totaling $446,000 to support the movement of chimpanzees into sanctuary. The current round of grant-making also provides continued support to chimps already in sanctuary, including
Rosie,
Cammy, and
Elijah.
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Remembering Lexie Shabel
It is with a heavy heart that we announce the passing in May of an incredible community activist and trailblazer, Lexie Shabel, director of the Breast Wishes Fund, a fiscally sponsored partner project of NMCF.
Lexie was a resilient and fierce fighter for exploring alternative choices for breast cancer treatment, especially to the uninsured. She started Breast Wishes in 2010 to give women immune enhancing and cancer reducing and
eliminating options for breast cancer treatment and prevention.
Lexie herself was battling breast cancer and controlled any new growth for 12 years without utilizing conventional treatments. She started a documentary film as director and producer, called "the ME film," the day she was diagnosed with breast cancer. The film, reflecting Lexie's quest for a new paradigm of breast cancer treatment, was featured in her TEDxABQ Women talk in 2012 entitled "
When Did Our Breasts Become an Accessory?
" We will miss Lexie's fire, compassion, and camaraderie.
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