Grantmaking

BELOW ARE DESCRIPTIONS OF OUR PREVIOUS AND CURRENT GRANT PROGRAMS.  PLEASE SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER HERE TO RECEIVE NOTIFICATIONS REGARDING FUTURE FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES. 

Active Grant Portfolios

Past Grant Portfolios

Healing and Self-Care Awards

In our 2017 community-based research, healing was mentioned as a core element of healthy communities and was discussed in relation to the ongoing legacies of colonization, structural racism, and patriarchy. Communities across the state voiced a need for self-care practices and rejuvenation for individuals and organizations working for social change. Participants described how the work can often be exhausting and grueling.  In many cases individuals working to create social change are also from the communities most impacted. As such, there is a need to foster and build momentum for long-term self and collective care. Participants emphasized, “We need the resources to nourish ourselves from within, instead of the nonprofit world just being like a contest of who can go hardest before you fall flat.” This form of professional support and development is also critical to creating longer-term change and sustainable organizations.  Based on what we learned NMW.O provided 10 mini healing awards in 2018 to community partner organizations working on gender justice issues in New Mexico, to be used toward self-care and healing activities of the organizations’ choice. In 2021, we revived our Healing and Self-Care Awards in response to the high levels of staff exhaustion, burnout and vicarious trauma leaders and advocates were experiencing due to COVID-19. The 2021 awards prioritized organizations that run critical programming for self-identified girls and gender expansive youth of color statewide.

Our 2022 and 2023 Healing Awards supports groups doing critical gender and reproductive justice work. Reproductive justice is inherently connected to other social justice and reproductive rights issues. These awards are intended to nourish and sustain the well-being of staff members of organizations working to ensure that New Mexicans have the social, economic, and political resources to make sound decisions about their bodies, their families, their sexuality, and their reproductive health.

This grant program is not accepting applications at this time. To receive updates about funding opportunities, sign up for our newsletter here.

 

 

ADOLESCENT GIRLS OF COLOR MULTI-YEAR GRANT PROGRAM

Data indicates that adolescent girls of color face significant systemic barriers such as poverty, violence, and failed safety nets. Through our 2017 research, we learned how the dynamics of patriarchy, racism, and colonization continue to effect girls of color in New Mexico. When a girl is set up for success during adolescence, she will see life-long effects, and so will her community. While girls of color are at the bottom of most social hierarchies, they are simultaneously deeply powerful, resilient and brilliant.  When their rights are fully realized, adolescent girls of color positively impact both their own lives and entire communities, transforming structures of poverty and inequity in ways that benefit everyone.

To this end, NMW.O initiated our Adolescent Girls of Color Funding Cycle in 2019 with the belief that concerted and intentional investment is needed in programs that center the experiences of, and create spaces for girls of color to connect, build power, and engage in healing. This grant cycle supports organizations specifically working with and for adolescent girls of color, with an emphasis on programs that encompass gender justice and healing, and develop the well-being and leadership of young self-identifying women of color as change agents.

The AGOC grant cycle is not accepting applications at this time. For updates about funding opportunities through this program, sign up for our newsletter here.

 

 

GENDER JUSTICE MULTI-YEAR GRANT PROGRAM

Throughout 2016, NewMexicoWomen.Org (NMW.O) undertook a research and community engagement process aimed at deepening our knowledge around how to most effectively continue our work for gender equity in New Mexico. In dialogues held around the state, communities emphasized that root causes such as historical trauma and colonization, patriarchy, and structural racism have a significant bearing upon the health and well-being of self-identifying women, girls and communities in New Mexico. Based upon these findings, NMW.O decided to prioritize gender justice and healing in all of our programmatic work.  The Gender Justice Grant supports the work of nonprofit organizations that are addressing the root causes of gender and racial inequality or providing culturally rooted and relevant healing. 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.

The objectives of this cycle have been to:

    • Strengthen the gender justice movement and efforts in New Mexico by partnering primarily with organizations led by or serving women and girls of color, as well as low income and rural communities working on behalf of women and girls in New Mexico;
    • Foster community health by supporting culturally rooted and relevant healing programs and efforts, recognizing healing as a necessary process and base upon which other programs and efforts can then be built; and
    • Further increase our understanding of how organizations and communities across the state define and work towards

The Gender Justice and Healing grant cycle is not accepting applications at this time. To receive updates about funding opportunities through this program, sign up for our newsletter here.

2023 Healthy Masculinity Grantmaking

NewMexicoWomen.Org’s (NMW.O) 2023 Healthy Masculinities Open Grant Cycle emerged from the work of the New Mexico Healthy Masculinities Collaborative (HMC) and the past two years of developing the NM Healthy Masculinities Toolkit. It also stemmed from NMW.O’s 2017 research, The Heart of Gender Justice in New Mexico, in which a key recommendation from communities around the state was the need for healthier masculinities and gender roles.

We are in a crisis of masculinities and gender, with profound impacts upon our children, families, and communities. Working toward healthy masculinities and reimagining our gender frameworks are essential to gender justice and healing. Our understanding is that healthy masculinities are nonviolent and find strength in being vulnerable. They center connection, compassion, emotional awareness, humility, and respect. Healthy masculinities result from intentional work to understand one’s privilege and power; to learn how toxic masculinities play out in our families, relationships, communities, society, and world; and to practice behaviors and support efforts that counter domination, inequities, and violence. In this vein, the Healthy Masculinities Grants support self-identified men and male-identified youth to engage in healthy masculinities work in their communities, including focused on exploring healthy masculinities, healthy relationships, consent, patriarchy, the impacts of colonization on gender relations, and more.

 

 

GENDER EQUITY EMERGENCY FUND GRANT PROGRAM

As the world, and our communities here in New Mexico, struggle with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, NMW.O responded to the immediate needs of local communities in 2020 by creating the Gender Equity Emergency Fund (GEEF).  We anticipated that the impacts of the pandemic would be far reaching for communities and grantee partners statewide, who were unable to do their regular work or were called upon to respond even more extensively given the pressing needs of their constituencies. In light of this, the 2020 Gender Equity Emergency Response Fund gave preference to organizations and programs serving self-identifying women and girls, and particularly the needs of women and girls of color, women and girls in low income and rural communities, the LGBTQI community, and the immigrant community. By the end of 2020, NMW.O dispersed $173,000 through this fund.

The 2020 Gender Equity Emergency Fund Spring and Fall grant cycles have been completed.  NMW.O does not anticipate conducting a 2021 cycle, unless there are extenuating circumstances that prompt us to do so. To receive updates about other funding opportunities, sign up for our newsletter here.

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2012 – 2016 WOMEN’S ECONOMIC SECURITY GRANT PROGRAM

Based on the findings from NewMexicoWomen.Org’s (NMW.O) Indicators Report, the 2012 – 2016 grant cycles focused on women’s economic self-sufficiency. NMW.O is aware that the cycle of poverty underpins many other pressing issues faced by self-identified women in New Mexico. To that end, grants were made to organizations and programs in New Mexico that were working effectively to address the root causes of economic insecurity, and were providing the tools and resources to increase women and girls’ self-sufficiency.

This grant program is no longer active. To receive updates about funding opportunities through this program, sign up for our newsletter here.

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