VISTA PROGRAM HOST SITES
YouthWorks
YouthWorks serves 100 clients ages 16-25. The goal of YouthWorks is to assist their clients to independent sustainable livelihoods through jobs training and education. One NCNMEDD VISTA is serving with YouthWorks to further develop and build their client navigation program.
City of Santa Fe Community Navigator and Financial Empowerment
The City of Santa Fe VISTA project is building capacity within the Office of Economic Development and Affordable Housing to empower marginalized residents to break the poverty cycle through financial and skill-based pathways.
LVNMCF Hermit's Peak/ Calf Canyon Fire Recovery
The overall goal of the Hermit's Peak/Calf Canyon Fire Recovery VISTA project is to build the capacity of the Las Vegas Community Foundation to promote social and economic development through their granting programs thereby alleviating poverty in the communities they serve. The VISTA project is also focusing on contributing to the recovery of communities and residents in San Miguel and Mora Counties after the Hermit’s Peak/Calf Canyon fires of summer 2022.
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Bridge to Health NM Capacity Building
The VISTA project at Bridge to Health New Mexico is building capacity to help people and communities overcome barriers to exercise and health behavior change that affect the very core of the quality of life of our community members, thereby alleviating poverty in Española, New Mexico.
Santa Fe Farmers' Market Institute
The mission of the Santa Fe Farmers Market Institute is to make healthy locally grown food accessible for communities in northern New Mexico. Santa Fe Farmers Market Institute provides outreach to the local agricultural community by providing farmers with professional development and training programs, microloans, grants, and business consulting. Two NCNMEDD VISTAs serve the Institute. One VISTA is supporting program development for the Healthy Food Finance Initiative which will provide funding for the middle of the food supply chain. The other VISTA is serving to develop the Local Foods For All project which is providing affordable locally grown food in impoverished communities in north-central New Mexico.
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