Training & Education
Healthy Masculinities Community of practice
A key recommendation that emerged from The Heart of Gender Justice research in 2017 was the need to engage men and boys in gender justice work. In response, in 2018 NMW.O co-organized a Healthy Masculinities Collaborative (HMC) with Tewa Women United, Together for Brothers, the Transgender Resource Center, and the NM Health Equity Partnership. In 2022, the HMC published the New Mexico Healthy Masculinities Toolkit, a free resource that has been downloaded over 500 times across 30 states and 15 countries. In 2023, NMW.O completed our inaugural Healthy Masculinities Grant Cycle, issuing grants to organizations leading healthy masculinities work throughout the state.
As of 2024, the HMC has expanded into a statewide Healthy Masculinities Community of Practice, bringing together 14 organizations, as well as officials from the NM Departments of Health and Early Childhood Education and Care to engage in dialogues around healthy masculinities, update and deepen the work of the toolkit, engage in community trainings, and explore ideas for expanding this work across our state. In the summer of 2024, NMW.O also convened a Healthy Masculinities & Parenting lunchtime learning series comprised of four sessions. Videos of the series can be viewed on the Healthy Masculinities website.
To learn more about this work, watch related videos, and download a free copy of the NM Healthy Masculinities Toolkit please visit masculinitiesnm.org. To contribute to this project, make a gift here.
COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE FOR FOSTERING RACIAL AND GENDER JUSTICE AND HEALING
In 2023, NewMexicoWomen.Org, in partnership with the McCune Foundation and Community Connects Consulting, launched Fostering Racial and Gender Justice and Healing, a community of practice for grantmakers. Inspired by community partners and leaders throughout New Mexico, the community of practice engages in transformative conversations around race and gender and explores how to integrate a collective justice and healing agenda into the fabric of philanthropic practices in New Mexico. Issues of privilege, power, and identity are at the center of these conversations, accompanied by an exploration of healing justice. The impetus for this initiative was based on findings from two reports, Racial Justice in New Mexico Report: A Call to Action for Foundations and Philanthropy and The Heart of Gender Justice in New Mexico: Intersectionality, Economic Security, and Health Equity. This unique donor education space encourages the exploration of funder-organizing possibilities, healing activities, and movement practices. To contribute to this effort, make a gift here.
“Leaders and staff of foundations and philanthropic circles/organizations need to commit to long-term racial equity trainings themselves. Long-term internal racial equity work should be a requirement for all foundations and philanthropists and embedded throughout their own practices and organizations.”
-Dr. Virginia Necochea
Past Trainings
Gender Equity and Anti-Racism Education
A key part of our mission and theory of change is to educate and learn with funders, as well as other key decision-makers about the root causes of the inequities and injustices facing our communities, including patriarchy, colonization, extractive economic models, and structural racism. From 2017 to 2021, we partnered with skilled facilitators to provide and convene anti-racism, implicit bias, and gender justice trainings for funders, boards, and other community organizations. A deeper strategy of this education was to ensure that more funds are directed towards gender and racial justice issues with an intersectional feminist lens. Our work in this area also ensures that gender and social justice values remain central to long-term work for social change in New Mexico.
Fundraising Training with a Gender and Social Justice Lens
Many of our community partners do critical work in rural, low-income communities, and communities of color with smaller organizational budgets. As a funder, we are committed to investing in and supporting the ecosystem of financial resiliency so that organizations can remain stable and sustainable beyond our funding. In October 2018, NewMexicoWomen.Org, NM Health Equity Partnership, and Chainbreaker Collective collaborated with the Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training (GIFT) to offer subsidized fundraising training to 150 community partners across New Mexico. The GIFT training at Northern New Mexico College in Española provided an in-depth fundraising training curriculum, materials, facilitated discussions, and embodied activities.
