NM Community Foundation awards record $5.8 million
The New Mexico Community Foundation made a record $5.8 million in grants for 2007. Its previous record was $4.01 million.
The Santa Fe nonprofit made more than 700 grants for the year in four areas: providing opportunity, promoting culture, protecting environment and pursuing equity.
Grants in the providing opportunity category included organizations promoting student organic gardens and food distribution to needy households.
Under promoting culture, the foundation made grants supporting indigenous culture and the arts.
In the protecting environment category, grants went to organizations working on maintaining habitats and offering environmental education programs pay day loans.
And among the recipients under the pursuing equity section were voter education groups and civil rights organizations.
The New Mexico Community Foundation emphasizes "growing our future together," said Nelsy Dominguez, the foundation's program director. That involves seeking out what the foundation says are the most innovative and effective community-based organizations in the state.