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Causes: Arts & Culture, Community Improvement & Capacity Building, Education, Management & Technical Assistance, Single Organization Support
Mission: Groundworks' mission is to connect, strengthen, and advocate for New Mexico’s social sector while unleashing its full potential.
Results: Groundworks New Mexico has hosted over 100 Technical Assistance Office Hours for nonprofit organizations. Hosted numerous nonprofit capacity building programs, workshops, and other educational events. Incubated the Broadband Collective to support a collaborative effort to compete for state and federal broadband dollars. Convened, coordinated, and managed the New Mexico Funder Census Initiative’s New Mexico Counts 2020 project, raising over $1.4 million to support turnout efforts in historically undercounted communities resulting in the most accurate census count in the nation. Supported the creation of and provided backbone support for the New Mexico Collaborative Zone Grant, providing for organizational collaboration and the leveraging of flexible funding for innovative responses to New Mexico’s challenges.
Programs: Groundworks New Mexico serves New Mexico’s social sector by providing a central voice for the sector, administrative backbone support, educational and networking convenings, opportunities for collaboration, professionalization of the social sector, and pathways for disseminating news and information across the sector. Our strategic priorities are: 1) Building Nonprofit Capacity 2) Improving Member Benefits and Experience 3) Promoting Collaboration And Strategic Partnerships And 2) Improving Systems, Policies, And Investments. Groundworks' core strategies strengthen New Mexico’s social sector ecosystem and improve our collective impact and outcomes.