2022 Recipients

ENLACE COMUNITARIO

Enlace Comunitario transforms the lives of individuals and their families experiencing domestic violence by working to decrease gender inequity and intimate partner violence in the Latinx immigrant
community in Central New Mexico.

Funding will help support the Youth Leaders program which allows teenagers (13-17 years old) to build and bolster their leadership and networking skills while promoting healthy, gender-affirming relationships amongst their peers; doing so mitigates the prevalence of domestic violence-affiliated behaviors, such as teen dating violence. The majority of Youth Leaders for each year's cohort are former child witnesses or survivors of domestic violence who received Enlace Comunitario’s intervention services.

KESHET DANCE COMPANY

Founded in 1996 and rooted in dance, mentorship, and a welcoming space for the arts, Keshet’s mission is to activate community and foster unlimited possibilities through education, engagement, innovation, and the pursuit of justice. Keshet’s goals are to actuate a flourishing environment for empowered individuals, nurtured communities, and sustained equity through responsive and direct impact programming.

Funding will help support Keshet’s IDEAs Internship, Inquiry and Discovery through Education and the Arts, which is a 15-week paid internship, designed and built for systems-impacted youth and young adults, with a specific focus on youth transitioning out of incarceration. The IDEAs program is open to those aged 17-24 within the Counties of Bernalillo, Sandoval, Valencia, and Torrance.