About NMW.O
OUR MISSION
NewMexicoWomen.Org (NMW.O) is the only fund of its kind in New Mexico that works to advance opportunities for women and girls statewide so they can lead self-sufficient, healthy, and empowered lives.
NMW.O pursues its mission via a 3-pronged strategy to:
EDUCATE Through research and communications, NMW.O brings public attention to the issues affecting women and girls with an eye towards influencing policy and philanthropy.
LEAD NMW.O facilitates alliances among nonprofits, funders, and other sectors in order to concentrate resources and foster collaboration.
INVEST NMW.O leverages philanthropic investments in programs serving women and girls of color and those in rural, low income communities statewide through our donor education and strategic grant-making efforts.
Gender Justice & Healing
NewMexicoWomen.Org’s current focus is Gender Justice & Healing. Gender Justice is a commitment to end patriarchy and create a world free from misogyny. We believe real gender justice cannot be achieved without reproductive, social, economic, and environmental justice. A gender justice framework is intersectional. It encompasses various social, economic, and environmental justice issues, with a specific and explicit gender and reproductive lens. It allows our feminism to be more inclusive of lived experiences of race, class, immigration, and gender. Further, a gender justice analysis also acknowledges that men and gender non-conforming individuals are constrained by patriarchal gender roles and norms. Healing is the process of restoring health from an unbalanced or unhealthy state. Real gender justice cannot be achieved without deeper healing, and healing cannot occur without real and lasting justice.
Theory of Change and Strategic Goals
STRENGTHEN the gender justice movement in NM by partnering with organizations primarily led by, or serving, women and girls of color in low-income, immigrant, or rural communities.
SERVE as a hub and resource to amplify the work of
those organizations advancing gender justice and
healing at the grassroots level throughout the state.
INCREASE philanthropic investment in organizations
working on gender justice and healing for self-identified
women and girls in NM.
SHIFT the narrative on gender justice, healing,
and intersectional feminism in NM so that selfidentified
women, transgender people and gender
nonconforming folks are centered.
HERSTORY
NMW.O evolved out of Women Building Community, a program New Mexico Community Foundation initiated in 2007 in partnership with the national foundation Groundswell. The program aimed to support reproductive justice efforts statewide with a mandate to increase collaboration and shared resources among statewide, grassroots, majority women-of- color-led nonprofits.
In 2012, as Women Building Community wound down, it gave rise to a new fund for women and girls: NewMexicoWomen.Org. The decision to establish NMW.O came after research showed there was no single significant statewide fund focused on identifying, highlighting, and advocating for the needs of women and girls throughout the state of New Mexico.
In 2017, after five years as a program of New Mexico Community Foundation, NewMexicoWomen.Org became an independent organization!
