2016 Good News Basket Applications for Review

 

 

The Good News Basket Award would be utilized by Cornerstones to help pay the salaries of youth working with us during the summer on a number of sites including: San Miguel Chapel (Santa Fe) and Georgia O’Keeffe Museum (Santa Fe) educational programs.

The Good News basket award will be used to purchase educational materials and office supplies for the “Goals to Graduate” program.  A portion of the proceeds will also pay additional educators as the program is expanded.

We will use the award as scholarship money.  The program is $7000 per participant, while this is cheaper than the industry standard it can still be a heavy burden for those interested in participating.  This money will be used to ease that burden for some.

Youth Leadership Santa Fe connects teens from diverse local high schools.  In the Class of 2015, 18 of the 26 students qualified for free or reduced lunch at their schools.  We provided them a full scholarship, and only charged them a $50 materials fee.  We need assistance in allowing these students access to the program in the Class of 2016.

NMPAS will primarily use a Good News Basket Award to cover artist fees.  A small percentage of contributions also go toward marketing expenses.  At present NMPAS have no salaried employees: two of the founders have donated professional expertise and services in the amount of nearly $100,000 annually for three seasons.  Our policy is to raise funds to cover program and marketing expenses before incurring them, such that we have finished each season in the black.

Since 1996, SDCC has sung with over 650 young choral students to help augment music programs in the public schools.  In 2015-2016, SDCC will host an intensive workshop with a selected public school’s choral program, host up to four high-school apprentice singers as full SDCC members, and offer two college scholarships.  In addition, all students under 18 may attend SDCC concerts at no charge.  This grant would support these SDCC youth programs.

 

With our Thursdays Are Yoursdays campaign, the Santa Fe Children’s Museum currently offers free admission to children under the age of 16 every Thursday afternoon from 4pm – 6:30pm.  In 2014 we exceeded 1200 children during our free hours.  Although this has been a great first step at reaching lower-income families in Santa Fe, adults accompanying children are still required to pay the $7.50 admission fee.  For families living below the poverty line this can be a considerable expense and in many cases a deterrent.  In an attempt to reach a more diverse population of Santa Fe children and families, SFCM would like to pilot programming which would grant free admission to whole families during our Thursdays Are Yoursdays hours (4pm – 6:30pm) with proof of an EBT card (an electronic payment card that has taken the place of food stamps).  A pilot program such as this would help assess the need and generate the data necessary to seek and obtain longer term funding enabling SFCM to offer such services indefinitely.

All expenses for equipment and training are borne by members.  No funds are received from any government entity.  Some of our equipment needs to be replaced.  Specifically, safety rated and certified ropes used in rescues need to be replaced at a cost of approximately $1000.  There is also a need to acquire additional radios for several new members at an approximate cost of $1000.  There are other items of equipment that also need to be replaced.

The award will be used to help fund our Mentoring Program.  The Symphony’s Music Education Committee provides Mentors in strings, guitar, voice, brass, woodwinds, and percussion in all SFPS middle and high schools at no charge.  These Mentors assist the music teachers by providing individual and small group lessons to the students.  The students, though, are the main beneficiaries.

Our Native Initiative works to invite and support students from our neighboring Pueblos.  Those students are specifically provided time to work with a Tewa tutor so that the native language instruction is integrated into the weekly rhythm of academics at Santa Fe Waldorf School.  Support from the Good News Basket Awards would help pay for the tutor’s fees and help provide Tewa language instruction.

General Operation s of the mission  to provide all individuals who have experienced trauma with evidenced based treatment, advocacy services for navigating community resources, and education in orer to restore strength and find inner resiliency.

 

 

We will use the Good News Basket award money towards renting video and audio equipment to start filming our production, now that we have finished the ‘trailer’.

 

This award will help CFFNM continue to provide focused financial support to cancer patients in need.  Services include travel reimbursement, lodging, and grocery vouchers to eliminate non-medical obstacles for a patient to start and complete their treatment.  These funds will benefit all patients during treatment with one-on-one volunteer support, free, professionally-led support groups, community services and resource referrals and trained Spanish-speaking interpreters to ensure Spanish speaking patients are fully informed about their diagnosis and care.

To provide home care for bed-bound people who are chronically sick, disabled or at the end of life and respite care for their family.

ICS is requesting $1000 to help defray the cost of food and meal supplies necessary to feed those individuals who are homeless and participate in Resource Days.  ICS serves free lunch to 100-145 individuals each Resource Day.  Based on the last eleven months of operation, ICS will serve approximately 15,344 lunches this year.  Free lunch is the reason most guests participate in Resource Day.  However, once a guest enters the program, it is an opportunity for ICS staff and/or volunteers to help her/him access the full array of services provided by ICS and its partner providers.  This allows the individual who is chronically homeless the best possible opportunity to seek the assistance they might not otherwise have pursued.

The precious time just after a baby is born is critical for creating a bond between a mother and baby.  For babies separated from their mothers at birth due to the need for medical intervention for either mother or baby, audio visual monitors can encourage bonding.  This grant would purchase two iPads so that, in the event of separation, a mother can view and talk to her baby, thus promoting a better beginning for the baby.

 

This award will support The Food Depot’s Infant Supply Initiative by providing supplies needed by our community’s children.  Families with infants often seek items other than food – they need formula, hygiene products, baby food, and diapers.  Some of these items cannot be purchased with WIC funds.  This award enables The Food Depot to purchase these items.  The supplies are distributed through emergency food pantries, shelters for battered families, youth programs and shelters for the homeless.

The funds will be used to purchase interactive, educational playthings for the children’s waiting room at the Alto Street Clinic.  Waiting room toys offer children the opportunity to be inspired, and use their imagination while they wait for their appointment to see the doctor.  The children’s waiting area will be equipped with fun distraction, create a feeling of welcome and help reduce their stress and anxiety levels.

This award will be used to help sustain a new and promising intervention program, Inner/Outer Life Skills for Youth.  The program’s goal is to produce positive health outcomes for children and adolescents who are high risk for drug involvement, suicidal behaviors, and early onset trauma.  This program, based in Santa Fe schools, will engage an estimated 75 school children during the project year in activities that foster resilience and connections to family and community.