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Community Builders

This program has been suspended for Summer 2021 as local nonprofits will need to be focused on their core missions. We expect to resume in 2022.

Community Builders is a tuition-free program for rising 10th-12th grade students from Albuquerque Academy and other area schools. The program gives students  an opportunity to learn the nuts and bolts of community philanthropy and nonprofit organizations, and includes a mix of site visits and meetings with community leaders. At the end of the program, students come together as a mock foundation to make decisions about how to support some of the nonprofits they studied, both financially and through volunteer work.

Through generous gifts from the Bonafair Fund for Community Leadership and Drs. Nancy Croker and Joseph Gorvetzian, participants are given $10,000 to allocate among the studied nonprofits.

Topics covered in this five-week program include:

  • Types of nonprofits
  • Legal and ethical issues in the nonprofit sector
  • Grant writing and the role of umbrella nonprofit organizations (e.g., United Way)
  • Community leadership
  • The workings of governing boards
  • Collaboration/collective impact
  • Advocacy at both the individual and policy levels

Since its inception in 2003, more than 100 nonprofit organizations and community leaders have participated in the program, including Alta Mira, PB&J Family Services, Roadrunner Food Bank, Very Special Arts of New Mexico, ACCION, St. Martin’s Hospitality Center, Ronald McDonald House, Special Olympics, WESST, and MADD. So far, more than 200 student participants have allocated $120,000 to local nonprofits.

For more information about the Community Builders program, please contact Dara Johnson (828-3277).

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Past Recipients of Community Builders
Student Foundation Grants

2019

  • Enlace Comunitario
  • Healing Addiction in our Communities/Serenity Mesa
  • Horizons Albuquerque

2018

  • CLN Kids/Saranam (joint proposal)
  • Crossroads for Women
  • Fathers Building Futures
  • Heading Home
  • Healing Addiction in Our Community/Serenity Mesa Recovery Center

2017

  • CLN Kids/Saranam (joint proposal)
  • IRRVA (Immigrant and Refugee Resource Village of Albuquerque)
  • St. Martins Hospitality Center

2016

  • Children’s Grief Center
  • Crossroads for Women
  • Mandy’s Farm
  • North Fourth Art Center/VSA
  • St. Martin’s Hospitality Center

2015

  • APS Title I Homeless Project
  • Enlace Comunitario
  • North Fourth Art Center/VSA
  • Paws and Stripes
  • Ronald McDonald House Charities of NM

2014

  • Alta Mira
  • Children’s Grief Center
  • Cuidando Los Niños
  • Enlace Comunitario
  • PB&J Family Services, Inc.
  • North Fourth Art Center/VSA
  • St. Martin’s Hospitality Center

2013

  • ACCION, PB&J Family Services, Inc., and Saranam, LLC (joint proposal)
  • Alta Mira
  • Casa Esperanza, Inc.
  • NM Women’s Global Pathways
  • North Fourth Art Center/VSA

2012

  • Cuidando Los Niños
  • North Fourth Art Center/VSA
  • Ronald McDonald House Charities of NM
  • Saranam, LLC
  • St. Martin’s Hospitality Center

2011

  • ACCION-New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado
  • Alta Mira
  • PB&J Family Services
  • St. Martin’s Hospitality Center

2010

  • All Faiths Receiving Home
  • St. Martin’s Hospitality Center
  • VAWA Immigration Project through Catholic Charities

2009

  • Casa Esperanza, Inc.
  • PB&J Family Services, Inc.
  • Saranam, LLC
  • Special Olympics New Mexico
  • St. Martin’s Hospitality Center

2008

  • ACCION
  • APS Title I Homeless Project
  • Roadrunner Food Bank
  • Saranam, LLC

2007

  • ACCION
  • Animal Humane Association of New Mexico
  • APS Title I Homeless Project
  • Special Olympics New Mexico
  • VSA Arts of New Mexico

2006

  • ACCION
  • Albuquerque Healthcare for the Homeless–Harms Reduction Program
  • APS Title I Homeless Project-Bandelier
  • North Fourth Art Center/VSA

2005

  • Albuquerque Healthcare for the Homeless–Art Street
  • Albuquerque Opportunity Center
  • Comanche Elementary School Social Action Kids
  • PB&J Family Services, Inc.
  • St. Anthony’s Pharmacy
  • UNM CASA Runaway & Homeless Youth Program

2004

  • APS Title I Homeless Project-Bandelier
  • PB&J Family Services, Inc.
  • St. Anthony’s Pharmacy

2003

  • All Faiths Receiving Home
  • APS Title I Homeless Project
  • Cuidando Los Niños
  • PB&J Family Services, Inc.

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