Deadline: 19-Jul-21
Applications are now open for the One Albuquerque Fund for Black-Owned businesses and organizations that work within the Black community.
Key Initiatives
One Albuquerque Fund supports the community through five key initiatives:
- Homelessness & Housing: The primary need of individuals and families experiencing homelessness is a home. Once housed, individuals and families can move forward with their lives. It will take approximately $13 million to fund enough housing vouchers to make a meaningful, permanent change in the homelessness epidemic. The City is already investing millions to help address these needs, but significant support from the community is needed as well to truly transform the current situation.
- Workforce Support & Training: To support the local small businesses, they need to ensure that they have the tools necessary to grow and expand. They will help establish a job- training fund that local businesses can apply to for assistance in hiring an additional employee – growing by an “increment of one.”
- Youth Opportunity & Programs: While the City has only tangential ability to impact the classroom and school day, there is substantial opportunity to assist with before and after school programs, and summer programs. Efforts on this front will focus on utilizing the hundreds of programs and partnerships the city is already engaged with and providing scaling funds to fill out, and increase, opportunities at existing programs such as swim lessons, library programs, meals and nutrition, and open-space activities to name a few.
- Public Service Support & Recruitment: They are working with the City of Albuquerque to address the issues around public safety and where funds are being allocated to. They are supporting organizations, individuals and departments that provide pubic services to keep the community safe and healthy.
Funding Information
- One Albuquerque Fund was granted one million dollars ($1,000,000).
Eligibility Criteria
- One Albuquerque Fund is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt nonprofit.
For more information, visit https://onealbuquerque.org/