Funded Programs

The UWSWNM Community Impact Fund is the combined donations of many donors creating a deep resource pool dedicated to improving the lives of southwest New Mexico’s most vulnerable. 

People are complex and so are their problems. No single nonprofit can address the many issues individuals face in our community, so we must lift up a strong, coordinated network of services to get real results.

United Way of Southwest New Mexico’s Community Impact Fund helps those most vulnerable through program grants to qualifying health and human service agencies.

  • Community Impact Fund grants support an array of programs that are vetted for effectiveness and efficiency and collectively achieve results

  • United Way partners with Community Impact Fund grant recipients to ensure accountability, oversight, and progress toward community goals.

  • Community Impact Fund grants go to direct service programs; not to overhead.

 

In addition to Community Impact Fund grants, Community Fund donations support: Get Connected Volunteer Center, 211, Community Impact and program staffing.

In 2018-19 the United Way of Southwest New Mexico will provide about $176,000 in grants to 20 local health and human service agencies improving the lives of the most vulnerable in our community.

Staff and committed UWSWNM volunteers ensure donors' Community Impact Fund gifts are invested wisely, providing the most needed services in our local community.

 

Education Funded Programs 

Big Brothers Big Sisters Mountain Region 
Mentoring Program 
Dona Ana, Grant, and Luna County 
Boys and Girls Club of Las Cruces 
Academic Success 
Dona Ana County 
Children's Reading Alliance 
First Teacher Program 
Dona Ana County 
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Gila Valley Library  
Children's Program/Teen Program 
Grant County 
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Girl Scouts of the Desert Southwest 
Leadership Experience 
Grant, Hidalgo, and Luna County 
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Imagination Library of Grant County, Inc. 
Plant a Seed-Read! 
Grant County 
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Lion's Crane Reading Foundation 
Reading Program 
Grant County 
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Literacy Links-Leamos 
Let’s Read Program 
Grant County 
 

Financial Stability Funded Programs 

Community Action Agency 
Free Tax Preparation Program 
Dona Ana County 
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La Semilla Inc. 
Raices Business Planning and Development  
Dona Ana County 
 

Basic Needs Funded Programs 

Casa de Peregrinos 
Food Security Program 
Dona Ana County 
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El Refugio 
Domestic Violence Support Services 
Grant County 
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Families and Youth Inc. 
El Curcero Housing Program 
Dona Ana County 
Mesilla Valley CASA, Inc. 
Child Court Advocate Support 
Dona Ana County 
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Roadrunner Food Bank  
Childhood Hunger Initiative  
Dona Ana and Grant County 
Mesilla Valley Community of Hope 
Homeless Veterans Housing Program
Dona Ana County 
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Silver Regional Sexual Assault Support Service 
Advocacy & Crisis Program 
Grant County 
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Southern New Mexico Diabetes Outreach 
Access to diabetes detection, prevention, resources 
Dona Ana County 
Supporting People in Need (SPIN) 
Life Skills  
Grant County 
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The National Center for Frontier Communities 
Access to Healthy Food and Capacity Building 
Grant County