2025 Collective Care Fund Awards
NewMexicoWomen.Org is thrilled to announce the Collective Care Fund, an investment that is part of NMW.O’s four point strategy for meeting this current political moment. Federal policies are targeting immigrant and LGBTQ+ communities and actively undoing many of the hard-won gains toward equity and safety that social movements have been working on for over a century. It is easy to become demoralized and lose hope in this moment of profound division and political chaos. Practices and skills that center community and self care are essential for leaders and organizers to effectively navigate these extreme times.
In response to this division and political upheaval, NMW.O deepened our commitment to a politics of love and solidarity alongside an ethic of care for our communities by creating the 2025 Collective Care Fund. Through this fund, we are responding to the attacks on immigrant and LGBTQ+ serving communities through strategically and lovingly investing in healing and care for the staff of frontline organizations to alleviate stress, minimize burnout, and support their ability to continue their critical work over the long term. Aimed at alleviating stress, minimizing burnout, and sustaining the ability of frontline organizations serving immigrant and LGBTQ+ communities, these funds are for organizations’ staff to engage in healing, self care, and collective care activities.
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Immigrant Focused Fund Awards
Contigo Immigrant Justice (formerly Santa Fe Dreamers Project)
Communities served: Statewide
Contigo Immigrant Justice upholds the dignity and rights of immigrants to pursue their goals and dreams by offering high-quality legal services and representation. We partner with the immigrant community and supporters to transform the immigration system through advocacy and education.
Enlace Comunitario
Communities served: Bernalillo, Sandoval, Torrance, Valencia Counties
Enlace Comunitario transforms the lives of domestic violence survivors in Central New Mexico’s Latine and immigrant communities through culturally and linguistically specific intervention services and prevention-focused community outreach and education.
NM Dream Team
Communities served: Statewide
The New Mexico Dream Team is a statewide network committed to create power for multigenerational, undocumented, LGBTQ+, and mixed status families towards liberation. Through trainings and leadership development, they work to engage their community and allies, in becoming leaders using an intersectional, gender, and racial justice lens to develop and implement an organizing and advocacy infrastructure for policy change fighting to dismantle systematic oppression.
New Mexico Women’s Global Pathways
Communities served: Bernalillo County
NM Women’s Global Pathways’ mission is empowering the most marginalized populations of New Mexico including refugees, other immigrant local low-income women, girls and their families.
Umoja Albuquerque
Communities served: Statewide
Umoja empowers refugee women through education and resources toward self-sufficiency, while sustaining cultural values.
La Plaza de Encuentro Gathering Place
Communities served: Bernalillo and Valencia Counties
Encuentro’s mission is to provide educational programs, services, resources and information, and leadership development to low-income Latinos in New Mexico.
Las Cumbres Community Services – Immigrant and Refugee Services Division
Communities served: Statewide
Las Cumbres Immigrant and Refugee Services Division is dedicated to providing holistic support to newcomers from diverse backgrounds. They recognize the unique challenges immigrants and refugees face, and strive to empower individuals, children, and families to build stable and thriving lives in their new communities. Their comprehensive programs focus on trauma-informed care, cultural attunement, and community integration, ensuring that every client receives the personalized assistance they need.
New Mexico Immigrant Law Center
Communities served: Statewide
NMILC’s mission is to advance justice and equity by empowering low-income immigrants through collaborative legal services, advocacy, and education.
Somos Un Pueblo Unido
Communities served: Chaves, Eddy, Lea, McKinley, Rio Arriba, San Juan, Santa Fe Counties
Somos Un Pueblo Unido’s mission is to build power for immigrant families and low-wage workers across New Mexico to defend our rights, improve economic conditions, and advance racial and economic justice.
LGBTQ+ Focused Fund Awards
CASA Q
Communities served: Statewide, including all 23 Pueblos and Tribes
Casa Q provides safe living through housing, services and advocacy for LGBTQ+ Youth who are at risk of or experiencing homelessness.
HEAL Plus NM
Communities served: Statewide
HEAL+ NM’s mission is to address risk across social determinants of health for lesbian, gay, bisexual, two-spirit, transgender, gender nonconforming, questioning, queer, intersex, asexual, and pansexual (LGBTQ+) people and their intersectional lives. HEAL Plus NM works to advance education, research, and support for the health and wellbeing of LGBTQ+ people.
Sasha’s Rainbow of Hope
Communities served: San Juan County
Sasha’s Rainbow of Hope’s mission is to provide a safe and affirming space for individuals to explore their identities and find support.
Families and Youth, Inc.-House of Kahlo
Communities served: Doña Ana County
FYI+’s vision is to implement responsive, meaningful, and sustainable community-based solutions that improve the health, safety, security, and well-being of members in our community. The House of Kahlo provides safe, affirming support and resources for LGBTQ+ youth and young adults, including, but not limited to, connections, support groups, social activities, advocacy, education, and success coaching.
The Mountain Center’s NM Gender and Sexualities Alliance Network
Communities served: Statewide, including Santo Domingo and Tesuque Pueblos
The NMGSAN at the Mountain Center is a youth-driven program that increases resiliency, self-efficacy, positive self-identity, and effective self-regulation skills among LGBTQIA2S+ youth ages 13-24 and adults.
Transgender Resource Center of NM
Communities served: Statewide, including all 23 Pueblos and Tribes
TGRCNM is dedicated to serving the transgender and gender non-conforming communities in NM and strives to exist as a clearinghouse for resources that can support, assist, educate, and advocate for these communities and their families and loved ones.