Nonprofits across New Mexico trust New Mexico Community Foundation with their agency funds for benefits such as: Professional investment growth Operational efficiency Financial stability, and/or Donor confidence One such nonprofit fundholder at NMCF is Animal Protection of New Mexico (APNM) with the Equine Protection Fund and the Chimpanzee Fund. Care for the livability and natural conditions that allow […]

Boaters launch onto the Rio Chama for familiar reasons: the cool pull of the current, the sweep of canyon walls, and the chance to spend a day immersed in one of New Mexico’s treasured landscapes. This season, however, some participants will carry one more item alongside their paddles and dry bags—a water-sampling kit. At designated […]

This land we call home, with all its beauty and enchantment, is often deprived of thirst-crushing water from its ever-blue skies. No New Mexican is unfamiliar with drought, from those who inhabited this land millennia ago, to those who are attending elementary school today. We have adapted to the conditions; we are desert people. Urban […]

What does it mean to help New Mexico thrive? In a recent conversation with 96.3 KKOB’s Terry Travis on The Weekend, NMCF President & CEO Justin Kii Huenemann reflects on his first year listening and learning from communities across the state, shares the vision behind Thriving New Mexico, and explores how philanthropy can help create […]

  Advancing Community-Led Health Across New Mexico Before NMCF formally announced its Thriving New Mexico funding priorities, the Anchorum Community Health Donor Advised Fund was already putting many of those values into practice. As a donor advised fund, it supports nonprofit partners working in rural, Tribal and Pueblo communities where health is shaped not only by access […]

  Expanding Access to Dental Care on the Navajo Nation For families across the Navajo Nation, a dental appointment can mean more than scheduling time off from work or school. It can mean finding enough money for gas, arranging transportation, and spending hours on the road to reach care that many communities take for granted. […]

Yá’át’ééh, I am Kinyaa’áanii (Towering House clan), born for Naasht’ézhi Dine’é (Zuni clan). My maternal grandparents are Áshįįhí (Salt People clan), and my paternal grandparents are Tł’ááshchí’í (Red Bottom people clan). I collaborate with communities in six counties – San Juan, McKinley, Cibola, Guadalupe, Union, and Harding, as well as the 23 Pueblos, Tribes, and […]