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The Santa Fe Community Foundation is delighted to announce the winners of its 2024 Piñon Awards: The Memory Care Alliance, New Mexico Legal Aid, Lightning Boy Foundation Inc, and Bienvenidos Outreach, Inc. The awards, presented annually by the Foundation since 1987, are a prestigious recognition of excellence within northern New Mexico’s nonprofit sector.

Mesa Prieta Petroglyph Project is a nonprofit organization focused on education and protection of the cultural landscape of the northern Rio Grande Valley. Working with youth is a core initiative of the project.

This month on Community Matters, we speak with Colin Hovde, a producer, artistic director, and current Executive Director of the Santa Fe Playhouse. As one of the longest-running arts organizations in our region, the Santa Fe Playhouse has created community on stage and off by holding space for unexpected conversations through intriguing and vital programming since 1919.

Anchorum Health Foundation has announced a $25 million investment over the next five years in five community foundations across northern New Mexico, including the Santa Fe Community Foundation.

Historically, young women have faced barriers in conservation. Women hold a mere 38% of positions in environmental sciences. The inception of the "Fems & Thems'' Crew within the LGBTQ+ framework at Rocky Mountain Youth Corps empowers cisgender women and LGBTQ+ individuals to actively embrace conservation careers.

In 2013, Alex Hanna and his husband Yon Hudson sued the Santa Fe County Clerk to be legally married. Soon after, he was introduced to the Santa Fe Community Foundation’s Envision Fund, New Mexico's first and largest fund dedicated to LGBTQ+ causes.