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And we’re also striving for the city to be a place where mothers and birthing people receive culturally relevant care in their communities.
Our partners are:
Our first investments in New Orleans support scholarships in medicine and dentistry.
Our grants help increase the representation of people of color in the business and economics sectors. We continued grantmaking with a racial equity lens for decades.
Investments in community-based organizations provided neighborhood-based health care, child care and family support. Our grants also supported the teacher preparation program at Xavier University.
After Hurricane Katrina created epic devastation for families and children and highlighted the deep intersection between race and poverty, we named New Orleans a priority place, committing our investments for at least a generation.
New Orleans embodies her Native name Bulbancha — the place of many tongues — in her culture, cuisine and architecture. Alive with her Indigenous, African, French and Spanish history, you can feel the spirit and legacy on the land and in the air. Incorporated before the establishment of the U.S. (1718), diversity flows through her very DNA. She is deceptively cozy, romantic and perplexingly – yet wonderfully – complicated
It has been our humble honor to walk alongside and support New Orleans in the vision that New Orleanians have for themselves, a more equitable city with:
Good food bolsters children’s health, well-being, learning abilities and school readiness. Yet there are some significant barriers in New Mexico:
In New Mexico, farm to early care and education is an incredibly promising community-based solution – letting both children and local, sustainable food systems thrive.
This movement brings together diverse groups of community and government partners in education, health and agriculture to address systemic inequities, especially related to race and income. Together, our partners are building resilient, effective ways to get healthy food to children and families while strengthening economic opportunities, supporting health and improving the environment. Increasingly, state coalitions are embracing this win-win-win strategy to improve childhood nutrition, enrich early learning environments and help local agriculture flourish.
Read how our support is seeding the next generation of cultural farmers.
We envision a New Mexico where every mother, birthing person and baby can access quality, affordable and culturally relevant health care. Our long track record shows our steadfast commitment to birth justice for all New Mexicans.
We invest in community-based organizations that are improving health care through home visiting, baby-friendly hospitals, doula services and breastfeeding support. Our partners’ work is improving health outcomes and reducing the health gap for people of color across the state.
We invest in the holistic health of children, with a focus on:
Our investments center on the factors that affect employment equity, the choices available to families and the resources needed to reduce employment disparities. We support:
New Mexico’s resilient families and communities are overcoming incredible challenges to change lives and lead the nation in early childhood education.
We are honored to work along the leaders of New Mexico’s child-centered movement — groups that tirelessly work for:
Their work inspires our vision of an educational system that affirms the identity of every child. We support educational sovereignty, quality early childhood education and strong K-12 schools.
Most important, our child-centered investments include the development and scaling of culturally and linguistically responsive education. Learning that’s reflective of children’s unique identity, heritage and diversity is crucial to the academic success of New Mexico’s children.