The following grants were approved by the board of the FHL Foundation at their special meeting held July 19th, 2011:
- St. Martin’s Hospitality Center—$15,000
- New Mexico Guardianship Project—$25,000
- Vero Beach Museum of Art—$10,000
- Rippowam Cisqua School—$15,000
- The Taft School—$15,000
- Cañones Early Childhood Center—$1,800
Grant Descriptions
St. Martin’s Hospitality Center—Nestled discretely in downtown Albuquerque among small businesses and nearby collaborative homeless service providers sits the city’s only day homeless shelter serving the homeless, transient and near-homeless population of Albuquerque for over 25 years. Our mission at St. Martin’s is to assist homeless and near homeless people by providing resources, opportunities and hope. St. Martin’s vision is to end homelessness one person at a time. We provide much needed care to the homeless population who are largely uninsured and/or underinsured and most importantly alleviate hunger. SMHC serves an average of 400 individuals daily of which 25% are families with children. In a recent approximation USA Today estimated 1.6 million unduplicated persons used transitional housing or emergency shelters. Approximately 33% are members of households with children, a 9% increase since 2007. There are over 3,600 people on the street on any given night in Albuquerque.
New Mexico Guardianship Project—The NM Guardianship Project helps caregivers get guardianship or adoption for children, ensuring a safe and stable home with the person who is providing care, nurturing and protection. Parents are deceased or suffer from substance abuse, incarceration and health issues. Project families are provided a social worker that visits the home—safety is evaluated and services for the family reviewed providing the tools for the child’s healthy development. The Project serves families statewide. Overhead is kept low maximizing externs from UNM Law School, NMSU Social of Work and CNM; electronic file storage; telephone, mail and internet communication with remote clients; and, telephonic appearances in distant judicial districts. Funding will be used for guardianship and adoption and to reach rural New Mexico. The Project strives to ensure that children living without parents have the emotional and financial stability that is necessary for them to become healthy members of the community.
Vero Beach Museum of Art (Distinguished Professor Lecturer Program)—The Distinguished Professor Series is a Museum program that provides colleges and universities a unique opportunity to connect with their local Florida alumni associations and chapters. A school proposes and engages a speaker from their campus with a topic in the arts and humanities to offer to area alumni, supporters, and Museum members. The Museum offers a refined and cultural venue for schools to reconnect with their alumni, and alumni with their alma maters. The Museum partners with a limited number of institutions to offer this series of scholarly presentations each winter.
In 2011, the Distinguished Professor Series presentations served 716 individuals, the fourth highest year of paid attendance for the program. Over the past year, several participating schools and alumni groups have seen this program not only as an opportunity to strengthen their links over time and distance with past generations, but have also invited high school students from the area to sample a dynamic professor, as a representative educational experience for prospective future alumni. Either way, the Distinguished Professor Series is an ideal program to celebrate the distinction each school has, connect that scholarship and learning to our local community, and to build value among alumni both today and tomorrow.
Rippowam Cisqua School—This grant is a part of the FHL Foundation’s Legacy Grant Program. In years past, these funds have been used in support of scholarship programs at Rippowam Cisqua.
The Taft School—This grant is a part of the FHL Foundation’s Legacy Grant Program. In years past, these funds have been used in support of scholarship programs at Taft.
Cañones Early Childhood Center—This grant will be used to send personnel to the following training workshop:
Vallecitos Mountain Ranch presents:
The Anatomy of Possibility: Integrating Brain, Body and Heart Intelligences for Engaged, Enhanced Learning and Development
A Retreat for Teachers, Educators and Social Workers with Tim Burns
When: August 3-7, 2011; Credits: 28 CEUs available
Workshop description: This heartfelt, hands-on workshop pulls together recent findings about the learning brain, while integrating exciting discoveries about the “second (gut) brain” and the intelligence of the heart; an integration that is set within a framework of childhood and adolescent development. The workshop is an informative, engaging reconsideration of the importance of whole child education; an approach that everyone agrees is urgently important, but one which is often sorely neglected in today’s hurry-up, pressure-cooker world.
The above grants conclude the FHL Foundation’s 2010–2011 giving program, which ends on July 31st, 2011. The Foundation made grants totaling just over $260,000 as a part of their 2010–2011 giving program. Here’s a listing of the grants made in 2010–2011:
Cambridge Health Alliance (attachment study) – $25,000
Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep (volunteer training) – $3,000
Northern NM Birth Center (investigating attachment) – $2,000
Albuquerque Academy (Ex. Ed. Program) – $6,125
National Center for Social Entrepreneurs – $1,500
Texas Tech University (attachment study) – $25,000
A Home Within (attachment training program) – $25,000
The Children & Nature Network (training tool kits) – $25,000
Salt Lake Children’s Center (attachment conference) – $2,500
Association of Small Foundations (general operations) – $5,000
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (NM programs) – $10,000
LANL Foundation (First Born Program – Teen Moms) – $20,000
Project Share (emergency meals program) – $15,000
Syracuse University (attachment study) – $10,000
St. Martin’s Hospitality Center (general operations) – $15,000
New Mexico Guardianship Project (adoption services) – $25,000
Vero Beach Museum of Art (lecturer series) – $10,000
Rippowam Cisqua School (scholarships) – $15,000
The Taft School (scholarships) – $15,000
Cañones Early Childhood Center (training) – $1,800
Congratulations to all of the 2010–2011 grant recipient organizations. The Foundation will begin its 2011–2012 giving program in September, 2011.
