Funding Amount

14 scholarships awarded (2016)

Deadline

Rolling / Open

Grant Type

foundation

Overview

Money for Our Movements Conference Scholarships

Funder: NewMexicoWomen.Org and New Mexico Community Foundation

Geographic Scope: New Mexico statewide

Focus Areas:

  • Fundraising training for nonprofits in rural and low-income communities

  • Community of color organizations

  • Movement building

  • Financial resiliency for organizations serving women and girls
  • Conference: Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training (GIFT) Money for our Movements Conference

    Award Information:

  • 2016: 14 scholarships awarded to organizations from across New Mexico

  • Conference dates: August 2016

  • Conference duration: 2.5 days

  • Conference focus: Learning, community building, and strategizing to sustain movements
  • Conference Features:

  • Opening keynote by Allen Kwabena Frimpong (organizer of Black Lives Matter in New York City and philanthropic strategist)

  • Focus on connection between fundraising, social justice, and movement-building

  • Training on community support as central to long-term social change
  • Rationale:

  • Acknowledges challenges fundraising presents for organizations in rural and low-income communities and communities of color

  • Invests in ecosystem of financial resiliency

  • Supports organizations serving women and girls
  • Recipient Organizations (2016):

  • El Morro Valley Cooperative (McKinley County)

  • Enlace Comunitario (Bernalillo, Valencia, Sandoval Counties)

  • Healing House of Luna County (Luna County)

  • Navajo Nation Breastfeeding Coalition (Navajo Nation)

  • New Mexico Acequia Association (statewide)

  • New Mexico Child Advocacy Network (statewide)

  • Ngage NM (Doña Ana County)

  • NM Comunidades en Acción y de Fe (Doña Ana County)

  • Shakti Rising (Doña Ana County)

  • New Mexico Health Equity Partnership (statewide)

  • Somos Un Pueblo Unido (statewide)

  • Southwest Women's Law Center (statewide)

  • The Volunteer Center of Grant County (Grant County)

  • Women's Intercultural Center (Doña Ana County)

  • Young Women United (statewide)
  • Contact:

  • Phone: 505-750-1732

  • Address: PO Box 4954, Santa Fe, NM 87502
  • Focus Areas & Funding Uses

    Fields of Work

    nonprofitscapacity-buildingprofessional-developmentbipoc

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