NewMexicoWomen.Org recently made $100,000 in grants to organizations and initiatives serving adolescent girls of color through our 2019-2020 Adolescent Girls of Color Grant Cycle!
Data indicates that adolescent girls of color face significant systemic barriers to thriving such as poverty, violence, and failed safety nets. In 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.
Due to a lack of support, both in New Mexico and nationwide, 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.
Based on this, the Adolescent Girls of Color grants were directed to organizations specifically working with and for adolescent girls of color, with an emphasis on programs that encompass gender justice and healing. Also prioritized, were organizations that support and develop the well-being and leadership of young women of color as change agents, particularly in low-income and rural communities across New Mexico.
Follow this link to learn more about the great work of our 2019-2020 Adolescent Girls of Color Grantee Partners listed below:
- La Semilla Food Center
- Empowerment Congress of Dona Ana County
- Mother Tongue Project
- The Counseling Center
- NM Office of African American Affairs
- Casa de Salud
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