Con Alma Health Foundation giving out $625K in grants

Con Alma Health Foundation announced Monday that it is awarding $625,000 in grants to improve health in New Mexico. The grants include $150,000 to 14 nonprofits that serve people in Los Alamos, Rio Arriba and northern Santa Fe counties through a partnership between Con Alma and the Hospital Auxiliary for the Los Alamos Medical Center, called the Northern New Mexico Health Grants Group.

“Las Clinicas del Norte will be using our Con Alma grant to equip our new mobile unit so we can provide preventive dental services to the children of Northern New Mexico regardless of their ability to pay,” said Kathalyn Aine Malone, DDS and Las Clinicas’ dental director.

Con Alma awarded the Family YMCA in Los Alamos a $14,000 grant to help fund an evidencebased training that teaches adults who regularly interact with school-aged youth to recognize the symptoms of a youth in crisis and how to assist them in getting help.

Con Alma, the state’s largest private foundation dedicated solely to health, is providing four $50,000 grants and more than two dozen small grants to nonprofits dedicated to improving New Mexicans’ health across the state. These grants help provide advocacy, education and care for populations that need extra support, including grandparents raising grandchildren, uninsured patients, caregivers, veterans and at-risk youth.

Nonprofits receiving grants support people statewide and specifically in Bernalillo, Chaves, Cibola, Colfax, Doña Ana, Grant, Los Alamos, Luna, McKinley, Mora, Otero, Quay, Rio Arriba, San Juan, San Miguel, Sandoval, Santa Fe, Taos, Torrance and Valencia counties.