The Indian Pueblo Cultural Center (IPCC) is dedicated to preserving and perpetuating Pueblo culture, history, and art while fostering economic opportunities for Native entrepreneurs. With support from Lowe’s Hometowns Grant, IPCC will enhance its North Campus by upgrading the Resilience Garden, and improving stormwater drainage with a landscaped retention pond, to create a welcoming and functional outdoor space.
Northwest New Mexico Arts Council and The Leanor provides entrepreneurship opportunities for the teens after school and during the summer. Through Lowe's Hometowns, a renovation of the outdoor space including fencing, benches, tables, chairs and a raised garden bed with irrigation will help create a safe and enjoyable space for community connection.
The Barrett House provides shelter and supportive services to women and children experiencing homelessness. The outdoor area that provides a peaceful sanctuary and is vital to healing from the trauma of homelessness will get more privacy with fencing and a repair of their meditation fountain. Old, outdated windows and a washer and dryer will all be replaced.
Since 1957, ARCA has provided opportunities for individuals with intellectual, developmental and cognitive disabilities to enjoy great lives. ARCA's project would provide accessible bathrooms, improved and shaded outdoor areas as well as needed kitchen upgrades. ARCA is the only provider in New Mexico offering community based, post acute services for adults with an acquired brain injury.
An organization that provides women with holistic trauma-informed and gender-specific care has purchased a new space that will allow it to expand its existing programming aimed to address and decrease the high rate of reincarceration for women after release from prison. The organization seeks assistance in completing expansion of its space to strengthen its offerings to women in need, especially women with mental health and substance abuse illness.
A private nonprofit dedicated to archaeological research, historic preservation and public education seeks assistance in preserving and restoring its 1938 schoolhouse headquarters which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The building is the last of the historic Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Camp Schoolhouses still standing in New Mexico., and the renovation will provide community residents and visitors with reminders of the building’s rich past and be a model for historic preservation.