2017-2024 GENDER JUSTICE GRANTEE PARTNERS

In our 2017 community-based research, communities emphasized that root causes such as historical trauma and colonization, patriarchy, and structural racism have a significant bearing on the health and well-being of self-identifying women, girls, and communities in New Mexico. Based on these findings, NMW.O adopted a strategy of gender justice and healing in all our programmatic work. The Gender Justice grant program is guided by this strategy and supports the work of nonprofit organizations that are working to address the root causes of gender and racial inequities or provide culturally rooted and relevant healing. This includes supporting organizations engaging in advocacy, community organizing, and community health and healing work for structural-level change. This multi-year grant prioritizes organizations led by or serving self-identifying women and girls of color, transgender and gender non-conforming folks, and immigrant, low-income, and rural communities.

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Black Health New Mexico

Communities Served: Central and Northern NM. Black Health New Mexico (BHNM) focuses on elevating the voices and thought leadership of Black women in the reproductive justice and maternal health policy space through intergenerational community building for Black and BIPOC women. They stand as the lead Black women-led organization in New Mexico focused on health equity and maternal health outcomes. Their programs address several areas of reproductive justice over the life course including food justice, mental health, racial justice, addressing anti-black racism, maternal health, and BIPOC thought leadership development and elevation in policy design and implementation. BHNM engages in coalition building across New Mexico’s most impacted BIPOC communities, including their co-leadership of New Mexico’s Black and Indigenous Maternal Health Policy Coalition.

Breath of My Heart Birthplace

Communities Served: Rio Arriba and Northern Santa Fe Counties. Breath of My Heart Birthplace (BMH) is a community midwifery clinic located in Española that works to improve access to quality prenatal care and improve maternal and infant health outcomes in the rural communities of northern New Mexico, by serving families through a high-quality, culturally appropriate midwifery model of care. BMH offers a no-cost walk-in prenatal clinic designed to make midwifery accessible for pregnant people and families in the Valley. Their programming focuses on serving those most impacted by health disparities and barriers to healthcare access, with special attention on the needs of young parents, Native Americans, immigrants, LGBTQ, and low-income families.

Encuentro

Communities Served: Bernalillo, Sandoval and Valencia Counties. Encuentro’s mission is to transform New Mexico into a thriving community for all residents by engaging with Latino immigrant families in educational opportunities that build skills for economic and social justice. The Trabajadoras del Hogar (Home Health Workers) program seeks to address the challenges of high job turnover, low wages, few to no benefits, and extremely limited training faced by workers, while also building capacity and strengthening NM’s workforce in one of its leading growth industries. Home health workers are the second fastest growing occupation in NM, yet training is extremely limited, especially for lower-income Spanish-speaking women who represent many in the home healthcare field. By improving quality of care through increased access to training and employment opportunities and collaborative advocacy both locally and nationally, workers and homebound clients are positively impacted.

Flowering Tree Permaculture Institute

Communities Served: Santa Clara Pueblo. Flowering Tree Permaculture Institute’s mission is to nurture healthy communities through practices based on Indigenous ways of knowing and moving with purposeful care for a sustainable future. Flowering Tree, based in Santa Clara Pueblo, works to weave together the people, place, and spiritual life of the community by re-introducing and teaching old sustainable lifeways that are self-empowering.

New Mexico Doula Association

Communities Served: Statewide. The New Mexico Doula Association (NMDA) works to continue the legacy of community-based doula services while advocating for systemic change in healthcare to ensure equitable access and outcomes for all. Their existing initiatives center on education, advocacy, and collaborations that foster community resilience and respect cultural heritage. By engaging doulas, lactation care providers, and independent community midwives, they strive to transform existing systems into a more compassionate and just framework that emphasizes traditional birth wisdom and inclusivity in the birthing community.

OLE Education Fund

Communities Served: Statewide. OLÉ is a non-profit, grassroots member organization of working families. Since 2009, their members and staff have worked together to strengthen our communities using issue-based campaigns and electoral engagement to ensure that working families are playing a critical role in shaping New Mexico’s future with a united voice. By centering the experiences of people of color, early educators, parents, workers and Immigrants, OLÉ creates a space for people to grow their leadership and create lasting change in New Mexico.

Southern New Mexico Wellness Alliance

Communities Served: Otero and Lincoln Counties. The Otero and Lincoln Counties’ Sexual Assault and Nurse Examiner (SANE) goal is to provide outreach and improved services to the rural communities served by their program. The geographical area covered by Southern New Mexico Wellness Alliance’s SANE program is substantially large, encompassing nearly 12,000 square miles. As a part of this goal, the Alliance provides services to underrepresented communities with low-income populations such as Capitan and Carrizozo, and conducts outreach to communities with extreme gender inequities, such as in Chaparral, and communities populated by mostly minorities such as Hondo and Tularosa. Within these communities, the Alliance presents at schools and other public forums and provides information about sexual assault, gender difference, sexual safety, body issues, safe dating practices, and gender roles. The Alliance also initiates support groups for sexual assault survivors within the counties and communities served.

Southwest Women’s Law Center

Communities Served: Statewide. Southwest Women’s Law Center (SWLC) creates opportunities for women in New Mexico to realize their full economic and personal potential. They work to eliminate gender bias, discrimination, and harassment, to lift women and their families out of poverty, and to ensure all women have full control over their reproductive lives through access to comprehensive reproductive health services and information. SWLC focuses on key areas related to workplace rights and security for women, the health and safety of women, and abortion, along with reproductive rights and access to those rights. Their goals are to advance the lives of women through advocacy, education, policy changes, and legal work.

Transgender Resource Center of New Mexico

Communities Served: Statewide. Transgender Resource Center of New Mexico is the only agency in the state that exists to provide services and advocacy for, and education for and about the transgender people of New Mexico, along with their families and loved ones. TRCNM has been engaged in education work since 2008 and has provided more than 750 Transgender 101 trainings all over NM to a wide array of audiences, including QSA/GSA clubs, hospital staff, churches, synagogues, therapists, teachers, classrooms, attorneys, and police officers. TGRCNM also delivers direct services from their drop-in center in Albuquerque, and provides opportunities, both volunteer and paid, for their community members to work at the drop-in center and out in the broader community as trainers.

Bold Futures New Mexico

Communities Served: Statewide. Bold Futures New Mexico engages in healing justice work through a gendered lens with LGBTQ+, Black, Indigenous, Latine, and people of color community leaders from across the state. They work through place-based organizing and public education, policy change, culture shift, leadership development, and research. Bold Futures NM builds their work at the intersection of people’s identities while centering the expertise of those most impacted by an issue. Their change-making strategies come from deeply rooted reproductive justice values that recognize the intersections of people’s lives. They carry nuanced understandings of gender and sexuality as they center the leadership of self-identified women and people of color and move all their work through an LGBTQ+ lens.

Changing Woman Initiative

Communities Served: Santa Fe, Los Alamos, Sandoval, Rio Arriba, Taos and San Miguel Counties and Nambé, Ohkay Owingeh, Picuris, Pojoaque, San Ildefonso, Santa Clara, Taos, and Tesuque Pueblos. Changing Woman Initiative (CWI) is a Native American-centered women’s health collective, with a mission to renew indigenous birth knowledge and healing through the development of a culturally centered reproductive wellness and Native American birth center, the first in the U.S. Their vision is to renew cultural birth knowledge to empower and reclaim indigenous sovereignty of women’s medicine and life way teachings to promote reproductive wellness and healing through holistic approaches and to strengthen women’s spiritual, physical, and emotional wellness. By creating a physical space for education and healing for Native American women, CWI seeks to reclaim the cultural identities shaped through one’s culture, from birth, through motherhood, and through all life cycles.

Equality New Mexico

Communities Served: Statewide. Equality New Mexico’s (EQNM) mission is to be a trusted partner and to uplift the voices and leadership of our community in creating a reality of equity, full access, and sustainable wellness for LGBTQ New Mexicans. EQNM works toward Queer and Trans liberation through policy, systems, and culture shift by focusing on identifying, organizing, training, and activating local LGBTQ leaders in their efforts to create or change policies at all levels of government.

New Mexico Asian Family Center

Communities Served: Bernalillo and Sandoval Counties. New Mexico Asian Family Center (NMAFC) was founded in 2006 and remains the only agency in the state providing culturally tailored services and programs to support a Pan-Asian community that advocates for and supports itself. NMAFC began primarily as a direct service agency led by Asian immigrant women to support local Pan-Asian women and families experiencing domestic violence, sexual assault, and other crimes. Since 2010, the agency has expanded to include multigenerational family programming, including Tea Talks, a men’s led initiative addressing male entitlement, patriarchy, and gender equity in an effort to build a network of strong male allies in the movement to end violence against women. NMAFC also provides case management, counseling, and legal support for the Pan-Asian community.

Healing Circle Wellness Center

Communities Served: San Juan and McKinley Counties. Located in Shiprock, the mission of the Healing Circle is to meet in “Circle” as Sisters/Women to support one another and celebrate unique gifts, talents, and experiences. To mentor Sisters means to walk the path of self-sufficiency, self-awareness, and self-leadership for a positive community and a better future. The Center offers support groups and workshops, such as AA, Natives in Sobriety, Sisters In Circle support groups, skill building workshops, and traditional teachings from the Navajo Wellness Model. The Sisters In Circle are an intricate part of programs and host events for the community Sisters, such as an Annual Celebration of Women, the Sisters Retreat, as well as planning and strategizing sessions and support groups.

Sexual Assault Services of Northwest New Mexico

Communities Served: McKinley, Rio Arriba and San Juan Counties, along with Navajo Nation, Jicarilla Apache and the Four Corners Area. Sexual Assault Services of Northwest NM (SASNWNM) is a 19-year-old organization with offices in Farmington and Gallup, that works to empower victims, provide crisis services and create a community focused on prevention. Their services include a 24-hour Crisis Hotline; SANE services; rape crisis advocacy; therapy; primary prevention programs, and community education and outreach. Additionally, SASNWNM assists with the wide variety of needs survivors and their families may have including housing, utilities, food, clothing, transportation and childcare.

SouthWest Organizing Project – NM Con Mujeres

Communities Served: Bernalillo County and Statewide. SouthWest Organizing Project’s (SWOP) – SWOP NM Con Mujeres is an intergenerational, multi-issue, and multi-constituency gender justice platform that uses education and organizing to involve communities of color in collective healing. Their platform channels a traditional vision of interconnectedness, and sees issues of economics, safety, health, education, and environmental life as integrated and of equal importance. NM Con Mujeres has an advanced network of allied individuals and groups and promotes leadership and campaign development through their membership committee. They continue to anchor SWOP’s work in a gender justice foundation based in the lived experiences of New Mexico’s women, and they are connecting that foundation to the work of allies in social movements.

Tewa Women United

Communities Served: Six Tewa Speaking Pueblos in Rio Arriba and Northern Santa Fe Counties. Tewa Women United (TWU) is an inter-tribal, multi-cultural, multi-racial, intergenerational collective of women who reside in the Tewa Pueblo homelands of northern New Mexico. Every day Native women and girls are centered in TWU’s work to challenge domination and oppression, addressing the root causes of violence, health, and social justice disparities. Their shared work is to end all forms of domination and exploitation, which is rooted to violence against women and girls and our Mother Earth.

Tri-County Family Justice Center (TCFJC)

Communities Served: San Miguel, Mora and Guadalupe Counties. Since 2006, Tri-County Family Justice Center (TCFJC) has served domestic violence survivors of San Miguel, Mora, and Guadalupe counties, utilizing resources available to advocate and provide direct service for those affected. TCFJC has worked diligently within the community to help in the fight against injustices towards women and girls of color affected by domestic violence and aims to provide support for women by utilizing collaboration and a coordinated community response towards ending violence. Their vision is to empower victims and survivors in the rural communities served and provide accessible resources to women to begin the healing process.