Community Funding
Our Impact
The Thornburg Foundation’s Community Funding program seeks to contribute to organizations that exhibit strong leadership, good financial management, a spirit of entrepreneurship, a commitment to excellence, and a history of making a difference in their field or community.
Our Focus Areas
The Community Funding Program of the Foundation supports public charities operating in the following fields of interest: environmental conservation, national and international public policy issues, human services and opportunities for children and youth.
Featured Grantees
Reading Quest
Reading Quest provides free structured literacy tutoring and social-emotional support for hundreds of striving readers. They tutor 380 students a week, all of whom are referred by their teachers and in collaboration with Santa Fe and West Las Vegas Public Schools, Native American Student Services, Communities in Schools, and the Adelante program for homeless youth.
Our funding supports: General Operations
Santa Fe Public Schools Adelante Program
The Santa Fe Public Schools (SFPS) Adelante Program provides advocacy, direct support services, and basic needs services for children, teens, and their families experiencing homelessness in Santa Fe. SFPS Adelante plays a crucial role in educating the community about child homelessness, and advocates for our families’ needs with schools, human service agencies, and the community at large.
Our funding supports: General Operations
Communities in Schools of New Mexico
Communities in Schools leverages evidence, relationships and local resources to help students stay in school and graduate. Through their school-based site coordinators, they bring community resources into schools to remove barriers for vulnerable students who are at risk of dropping out to keep them in school and on the path to graduation.
Our funding supports: General Operations
St. Elizabeth Shelters & Supportive Housing
St. Elizabeth Shelter assists homeless individuals and families by providing emergency shelter, food, case management, counseling, supportive housing, and referrals to partnering human-service agencies. Their ultimate goal is to end the cycle of homelessness.
Our funding supports: General Operations
Highlighted Grantees
The Food Depot is ending hunger in Northern New Mexico by providing food to a network of over 145 partner nonprofit agencies throughout nine counties. Partner agencies such as food pantries, meal programs, homeless shelters, youth programs, and senior centers distribute food received from The Food Depot to people who are experiencing hunger. The Food Depot, northern New Mexico’s only food bank, has provided hunger relief for 26 years. Due to the sharp increase in food insecurity, The Food Depot distributed over 11.5 million pounds of food in 2020—9.6 million meals. Current data shows an 84% increase in food distribution over the same time period in the previous year.
Children. Working families. Seniors. Someone you know is experiencing hunger right now.
Gerard’s House is your Santa Fe center for grieving kids, teenagers and families, providing free grief support services since 1997. Our staff, board and volunteers share a common passion and goal: to offer meaningful help, comfort and relief to children, teenagers and families whose lives have been changed by the death of a loved one or by other significant losses. To meet this goal, Gerard’s House offers more than 25 grief support groups each week, serving 600 youth, ages 3-21, along with hundreds of adults. Because of the generous support of our partners, 100% of Gerard’s House services are free of charge to families.
La Familia Medical Center is dedicated to providing excellent, affordable, comprehensive medical, dental and health promotion services to everyone in our community. La Familia Medical Center provides services to all individuals and families, regardless of income or ability to pay. Services are offered on a sliding fee scale, according to family size and income. We accept Medicare, Medicaid, all insurances, HMOs & workers’ compensation.
The Interfaith Community Shelter (ICS) is a largely volunteer agency consisting of 40+ faith and community groups and nearly 2,000 volunteers. ICS’s mission is to provide safe, hospitable shelter, food and clothing to men, women and children experiencing homelessness, and to promote self-reliance by providing a point of entry to the other services necessary to make the transition from homelessness to stable housing. ICS is the only “come-as-you-are” or “minimal barrier” shelter in Northern New Mexico, which means the Interfaith Community Shelter, including the Women’s Summer Safe Haven (WSSH), accepts everyone, regardless of condition or circumstance, including their pets. Last year, with the help of our amazing corps of volunteers, ICS served 56,726 meals, provided 20,319 total nights of overnight shelter to 1,315 individuals, and distributed 41,220 articles of clothing.
Our Mission
To reduce the risk of youth suicide in Santa Fe County and Northern New Mexico
“Our commitment to youth who are at-risk for suicide must be an invitation to hope and to life. This will take the concerted effort of us all.” (Eggert, et al, 1995:xv)
Our History
The New Mexico Suicide Intervention Project (NMSIP), a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, was established in 1994 in response to growing concern about the increasing number of youth suicides in Santa Fe County and Northern New Mexico.
Our Commitment to Community
Since its inception, NMSIP has implemented cutting edge prevention and intervention services to decrease risk behaviors related to suicide and increase resiliency and family support. NMSIP offers a model of collaboration that promotes the health of youth, families, and communities. NMSIP’s services are recognized “best practices” by the Centers for Disease Control and the New Mexico Department of Health.
Leslie Garcia
Community Funding Officer, Administrative Director