This year’s funding expansion reflects the Alliance’s commitment to ensuring older adults can safely age in place in their homes. Three new nonprofit partners—Coming Home Connection, Life Circle Adult Day Center, and Villages of Santa Fe—have been added to the roster of grantees, all of which are focused on providing critical support and services to improve community health across northern New Mexico.

“Our mission is to design and implement a unified funding strategy to enhance and strengthen systems of care that address the most challenging health and social needs in Santa Fe and northern New Mexico,” said Lillian Montoya, President and Chief Executive Officer of CHRISTUS St. Vincent. “By collaborating with community foundations and other partners, we’re able to amplify our impact and better serve our communities.”

The Alliance is a collaboration between two key funders—Anchorum Health Foundation (AHF) and CHRISTUS St. Vincent (CSV)—working together to build a more equitable and supportive system of care in northern New Mexico.

“We’ve made significant progress since the Alliance’s launch in 2019,” said Jerry Jones, President and CEO of Anchorum Health Foundation. “Through our joint efforts, we’ve built a stronger system of care, and the inclusion of new grantees demonstrates our ongoing dedication to improving health outcomes across the region.”

With the 2024 expansion, the focus on serving the older adult community in northern New Mexico has been significantly strengthened by the addition of three exceptional organizations: Coming Home Connection, Life Circle Adult Day Center, and Villages of Santa Fe. These organizations are dedicated to enhancing the lives of older adults in the region. Coming Home Connection provides compassionate in-home caregiving, equipment loans and resources to older adults and their families. Life Circle focuses on improving the well-being of elders through socialization and respite

care, especially for those living with dementia. Villages of Santa Fe promotes a healthy, active lifestyle for seniors through a variety of exercise and balance classes, available both in-person and online, aimed at improving physical and mental well-being.

“Coming Home Connection is very grateful for this grant from the Community Health Funder Alliance,” said Ellen London, CEO of Coming Home Connection. “Their generous support will allow us to continue to serve older adults in our community and to extend our services to those in need of care in the city and beyond.”

The Community Health Funder Alliance goes beyond grantmaking by sharing expertise, building strategic partnerships, and streamlining processes to support nonprofits in their essential work. Over the past three years, the Alliance has awarded over $8.6 million to more than 40 community health organizations, ensuring they have the resources needed to care for and heal their communities, even in challenging times.

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The Community Health Funder Alliance represents leading funders in northern New Mexico focused on improving health outcomes and promoting health equity. Through grantmaking and partnership, the Alliance helps further solutions that heal, care for, and sustain healthy people and communities. Current members include Anchorum Health Foundation (AHF) and CHRISTUS St. Vincent (CSV).

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Since its launch in 2019, the Community Health Funder Alliance has invested more than $8.4 million to enhance the health for northern New Mexico residents. Through grantmaking and vital partnerships, the Alliance helps further solutions that heal, care for, and sustain healthy people and communities. Alliance members include Anchorum St. Vincent (ASV) and CHRISTUS St. Vincent (CSV).

“Our grantees are addressing the most challenging health and social needs in our community,” said Lillian Montoya, President and Chief Executive Officer of CHRISTUS St. Vincent. “Through their work, they are immediately serving community members in need, and also improving the larger system of care to make it better for our residents in the long run.”

Together, the Alliance supports nonprofits in health and wellness across the lifespan–from maternal health and early childhood to school-age children, adolescent, adult, and older adult health services. The Alliance also invests in social determinants of health through housing and the unhoused.

The Alliance’s grant making initiatives are multi-year Health Impact Grants that build momentum for long-term, far-reaching solutions.

“By working together, we’ve created a collaborative effort that can benefit all residents in northern New Mexico,” said Jerry Jones, President and CEO of Anchorum St. Vincent. “We now have a more equitable and supportive system of care, and the Alliance has played a crucial role in making that a reality.”

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The Community Health Funder Alliance represents leading funders in northern New Mexico focused on improving health outcomes and promoting health equity. Through grantmaking and partnership, the Alliance helps further solutions that heal, care for, and sustain healthy people and communities. Current members include Anchorum St. Vincent (ASV) and CHRISTUS St. Vincent (CSV).

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Over the last three years, Community Health Funder Alliance community partners and organizations have worked day and night to heal and provide essential care and services. The COVID pandemic significantly intensified needs across our communities, and community organizations stepped up. With skills and with heart, organizations have provided the critical safety net and services needed in communities across northern New Mexico. At the Alliance, we have been honored and grateful to be a part of supporting this important work. 

As we enter our fourth year as a funding collaborative, we continue to dedicate ourselves to learning and responding to our community’s needs. In 2023 the Alliance and its partners are adapting to further solutions that heal, care for, and sustain healthy people and communities. There are important changes on the horizon to respond to 2023 CHRISTUS St. Vincent Community Health Needs Assessment and to evolve and strengthen our partnerships.

Beginning in 2023, Community Grants will be managed by the Santa Fe Community Foundation (SFCF). Grantees can apply through SFCF.  Positioning Community Grants within SFCF will allow for additional fundraising opportunities. While Community Grant funds will be managed by Santa Fe Community Foundation, Anchorum and CHRISTUS St. Vincent will continue as active partners with SFCF. 

The Alliance will continue to support health impact strategies, guided by the new 2023  Community Health Needs Assessment. This includes a goal to strengthen the system of care through continued health impact funding and community partnerships. 

How to apply for SFCF Community Grants in 2023: 

Santa Fe Community Foundation will administer Community Grants. 

Updates for Grantees and Applicants: 

For more information about Santa Fe Community Foundation Community Grants and the upcoming RFP announcement forthcoming in January 2023, please visit https://www.santafecf.org/nonprofits/grantseekers. For questions about Community Grants, please visit https://www.santafecf.org/nonprofits/grantseekers, or contact Diane Hamamoto at 505-988-9715, x7008.  

Important note: The Alliance will continue offering Health Impact Grants. These are invitation-only, multi-year grants awarded to programs that significantly contribute to turning the curve on impact goals and are able to scale services to address critical needs or serve as the sole provider of services. The Alliance’s Health Impact Grant process remains unchanged. If you are a Health Impact grantee and have questions about your grant, please contact us at info@communityhealthfunder.org. 

Additionally, Health Impact grantees can also apply for Community Grants through Santa Fe Community Foundation.

Celebrating Past Success; Looking Towards the Future

Since the Community Health Funder Alliance was founded in 2019, we have awarded over $5.5 million to community organizations working to improve health and wellness in Santa Fe and northern New Mexico. The Alliance was instrumental in supporting organizations and communities through the pandemic. Through grantmaking and partnership, the Alliance helps further solutions that heal, care for, and sustain healthy people and communities. We look forward to continuing this essential and collaborative work in 2023 and beyond.

About the Community Health Funder Alliance

The Community Health Funder Alliance supports nonprofits in health and wellness across the lifespan: from maternal health and early childhood to school-age children, adolescent, adult, and older adult health services. The Alliance also invests in social determinants of health including housing and homelessness, healthy food, and healthy neighborhoods. Alliance Health Impact funding partners include Anchorum St. Vincent and CHRISTUS St. Vincent. Learn more about the Alliance at communityhealthfunder.org.

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“The nonprofits we are supporting are making a significant impact in people’s lives by providing greater access to health services,” said Alliance member Christopher Goett, President and CEO, Santa Fe Community Foundation. “We continue to hear very moving first-hand accounts from New Mexicans about how The Alliance’s grantmaking is advancing the work of nonprofits who, since the beginning of the pandemic, have expanded their services to meet the urgent needs of our community,” said Lillian Montoya, President and CEO, CHRISTUS St. Vincent. 

The Alliance’s grantmaking includes annual Community Grants ($5,000 to $15,000) to sustain efforts and multi-year Health Impact Grants ($20,000 to $175,000) to build momentum for long-term, far-reaching solutions. 

“Having funders like The Alliance allows us to continue our work of serving essential meals to our community members,” said Tony McCarty, Executive Director, Kitchen Angels. “We delivered a meal to a person dealing with a difficult situation recently and he shared that the meal ‘was so fantastic, you could just tell that whoever put this together really cared about what they were doing.’  These grants allow us to continue to serve people just like this individual.”

Since launching in 2019, the Community Health Funder Alliance has become instrumental in advancing organizations and communities during the pandemic. The Alliance helps fund solutions that heal, care, and sustain healthy people and communities through grantmaking and partnership. The Alliance members include Anchorum St. Vincent, CHRISTUS St. Vincent (CSV), and the Santa Fe Community Foundation. 

Jerry Jones, President and CEO Anchorum St. Vincent, said, “It has been a profound shift for our three organizations to collaborate and streamline our grant processes through the CHFA to ensure the talented and hard-working nonprofits in our community can do what they do best, serve our community.”

 Together, the Alliance supports nonprofits in health and wellness across the lifespan: from maternal health and early childhood to school-age children, adolescent, adult, and senior health services, while investing in social determinants of health, including housing and homelessness, healthy food, and healthy neighborhoods.

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The Community Health Funder Alliance represents three funders in northern New Mexico focused on improving health outcomes and promoting health equity. Through strategic grantmaking and partnership, the Alliance helps further solutions that heal, care for, and sustain healthy people and communities. Current members include Anchorum St. Vincent, CHRISTUS St. Vincent (CSV), and the Santa Fe Community Foundation. For more information, please visit communityhealthfunder.org. 

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Santa Fe, NM – The Community Health Funder Alliance is accepting applications to its third cycle of Community Grants. This year’s cycle is open from April 1st to April 30th. Community Grants are annual, open, competitive grants between $5,000 and $15,000. These grants, totaling $425,000 this year, will be awarded to new and existing community health programs that enhance and strengthen the system of care in northern New Mexico. 

An additional $1,390,000 will be awarded to Health Impact Grantees for the third year of their three- year grant awards. To date, the Alliance has awarded grants to 54 nonprofits through its Community Health and Health Impact programs – a current total investment in health outcomes in northern New Mexico at $3.6 million.

Since 2019, The Community Health Funder Alliance has been instrumental in supporting organizations and New Mexico communities. The Alliance helps further solutions and outcomes through grantmaking and partnerships while promoting health equity. Members currently include Anchorum St. Vincent, CHRISTUS St. Vincent, and the Santa Fe Community Foundation. 

“One of our key goals is to strengthen the system of care that supports our most vulnerable residents, especially as our northern New Mexico communities recover from the effects of the pandemic,” said Lillian Montoya, President & CEO of CHRISTUS St. Vincent. 

The Alliance is committed to our northern New Mexico communities’ and the organizations serving our community members. “In the last two years, this dynamic collaboration between funders and nonprofits has helped reduce barriers in the systems of care, increased sustainability for service providers, and improved outcomes for individuals and families, particularly amidst the pandemic,” said Jerry Jones, Interim President & CEO of Anchorum St. Vincent.  

The funder partners, along with the funded organizations achieve more when we work and learn together. “We’re excited about learning with and from our nonprofit partners and funder colleagues. Our collaboration will allow for greater impact for all the communities we serve,” said Christopher Goett, President & CEO of the Santa Fe Community Foundation. 

Community grant applications will be accepted from April 1, 2022, through April 30, 2022. An information sharing session is available to those interested in applying and learning more about the process. For more information about the Alliance and information about applying, please visit the How to Apply page.

Information Sharing Session for NEW Applicants

Thursday, April 7, 2022
1:00-3:00pm
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The Community Health Funder Alliance represents leading funders in northern New Mexico focused on improving health outcomes and promoting health equity. Through grantmaking and partnership, the Alliance helps further solutions that heal, care for, and sustain healthy people and communities. Current members include Anchorum St. Vincent, CHRISTUS St. Vincent, and the Santa Fe Community Foundation.

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Since its launch in 2019, The Community Health Funder Alliance has become instrumental to supporting organizations and communities during the pandemic. Through grantmaking and partnership, the Alliance helps further solutions that heal, care for, and sustain healthy people and communities. The Alliance members currently include Anchorum St. Vincent, CHRISTUS St. Vincent (CSV), and the Santa Fe Community Foundation. 

“Across northern New Mexico, hundreds of nonprofits are working day and night to heal and provide essential care and services in communities,” said Lillian Montoya, President and Chief Executive Officer of CHRISTUS St. Vincent. “These leaders show up for their communities. And we, as an Alliance, show up for them.”

Together, the Alliance supports nonprofits in health and wellness across the lifespan: from maternal health and early childhood to school-age children, adolescent, adult and senior health services. The Alliance also invests in social determinants of health including housing and homelessness, healthy food, and healthy neighborhoods.

The Alliance’s grant making includes annual Community Grants ($5,000 to $15,000) to sustain efforts, and multi-year Health Impact Grants ($20,000 to $175,000 per year) to build momentum for long-term, far-reaching solutions. 

The Alliance’s structure and method of collaboration provides a unique vantage point. CHRISTUS St. Vincent can feel the pulse of communities in its hospital rooms, the Santa Fe Community Foundation offers 40 years of experience as a local funder with deep connections to nonprofits, and Anchorum’s resources and expertise as a health impact organization inform strategic investments. 

“COVID-19 and its effects have underscored the importance of the critical services provided by our nonprofit partners and the need for stronger capacity, deeper partnerships, and responsive funding,” said Peter Bastone, President and CEO of Anchorum St. Vincent.

“By combining our efforts as funders, and leveraging our unique strengths, we are in a much better position to help our most vulnerable friends and neighbors,” said Sue Coliton, Interim CEO of the Santa Fe Community Foundation.

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The Community Health Funder Alliance represents leading funders in northern New Mexico focused on improving health outcomes and promoting health equity. Through grantmaking and partnership, the Alliance helps further solutions that heal, care for, and sustain healthy people and communities. Current members include Anchorum St. Vincent, CHRISTUS St. Vincent (CSV), and the Santa Fe Community Foundation.

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The Alliance is in Year 1 of an initial three-year collaborative funding program commitment (July 2020 – June 2023).  In 2020, approximately $1.8 million was awarded to 44 grantees including $1.5 million to 16 Health Impact Grantees and $350,000 to 28 Community Grantees.  Over the three-year funding period, the Alliance expects to award at least $4.8 million in grants.  The Alliance is seeking an evaluation contractor to develop and execute a purposeful evaluation and learning plan – to assess our approach, funding strategies, processes, and partnerships and the impact of our intervention and investment in the communities we serve.  

Please see the RFP for additional details.  The RFP submission due date is Tuesday, April 27, 2021, 5 p.m. MDT.

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The Community Health Funder Alliance is a collaborative of funders dedicated to improving health and wellness in Santa Fe and northern New Mexico.  Launched in early 2020 by founding members, Anchorum St Vincent (ASV), CHRISTUS St. Vincent (CSV), and the Santa Fe Community Foundation (SFCF), the Alliance is committed to enhancing and strengthening the systems of care that address the community’s most challenging health and social needs with a unified funding strategy.

If you have questions or would like to discuss this Request for Proposal further, please contact Loe Marcoline, Alliance Member and Program Manager for Community Impact at Anchorum St. Vincent at lmarcoline@anchorum.org or (505) 310-9559. 

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Las Cumbres Community Services, an integrated, trauma-informed Child and Family Services organization operating throughout northern New Mexico, is one of this year’s 44 grantees. “Pregnant women and their families are especially vulnerable during the pandemic and need services now more than ever,” said Stacey Frymier Interim Executive Director of Las Cumbres. “The Community Health Funder Alliance grant frees resources to focus on the essential work of providing care to families.”

The Community Health Funder Alliance includes Anchorum St. Vincent, CHRISTUS St. Vincent, and the Santa Fe Community Foundation. The Alliance was founded prior to the pandemic, but its relevance to supporting organizations and communities through challenging times is underscored by the impacts of COVID-19.

The $1.8 million dollars in grant funds for the 2020-2021 grant cycle were distributed through annual Community Grants of $5,000 to $15,000 for general operating support, and through larger scale Health Impact Grants ranging from $20,000 to $175,000. Larger scale grants support multi-year programs and strategic partnerships.

“It is essential that nonprofit providers have the capacity to deliver the services needed to address critical health and social needs, especially now,” Said Lillian Montoya, President and Chief Executive Officer of CHRISTUS St. Vincent. “As an Alliance we are working together to strengthen the system of care and achieve greater impact on health outcomes across northern New Mexico from multiple angles.”

Together, the Alliance supports nonprofits in health and wellness across the lifespan: from maternal health and early childhood to school-age children, adolescent, adult and senior health services. The Alliance also invests in social determinants of health including housing and homelessness, healthy food, and healthy neighborhoods.

“Our health and social support systems are complex and interconnected,” said Peter Bastone, President and CEO of Anchorum St. Vincent. “Alongside providing funds, our Alliance has streamlined the application process to save nonprofits valuable time, and we will promote stronger partnerships and better results for the programs that are improving health outcomes in our communities.”

Now, instead of completing three separate grant applications, contracts, and reports, organizations complete just one. “For us, this means our staff and volunteers have more time each year to serve grieving families and for that we are deeply grateful!” said Katrina Koehler and Nicole Maes-Gonzales, co-executive directors of Gerard’s House, a center for grieving children in Santa Fe among the 44 grantees this year.

“By combining our efforts as funders, and leveraging our unique strengths, we are in a much better position to help our most vulnerable friends and neighbors,” said Christa Coggins, Acting President of the Santa Fe Community Foundation.

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The Community Health Funder Alliance is a funder collaborative to improve health & wellness in Santa Fe and Northern New Mexico. The Alliance members currently include Anchorum St. Vincent, Christus St. Vincent (CSV) and the Santa Fe Community Foundation. Their mission is to enhance and strengthen the systems of care that address the most challenging health and social needs in Santa Fe and northern New Mexico with a unified funding strategy.

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“There are many challenges we face in today’s world,” said Lillian Montoya, President and Chief Executive Officer of CHRISTUS St. Vincent. “It is essential that nonprofit providers have greater capacity to deliver the services needed to address critical health and social needs.”

The Alliance’s mission is to strengthen the system of care in our community and achieve greater impact on health outcomes. Anchorum St. Vincent, CHRISTUS St. Vincent, and the Santa Fe Community Foundation coming together doesn’t only mean $1.8 million resources for nonprofits and programs. It means that those who are working in community have less of an administrative burden in applying for funds. Additionally, the Alliance aims to build connections and promote more effective reporting and data collection to meaningfully influence health outcomes across northern New Mexico.

“Our health systems are already complex enough,” said Peter Bastone, President and CEO of Anchorum St. Vincent. “Streamlining the application process saves nonprofits valuable time, increases their access to resources, and promotes better data collection for us to track—and effectively support—the programs that are improving health in our communities.”

The Community Health Funder Alliance is currently accepting applications to its first cycle of Community Grants. This year’s cycle is open until April 9th. Community Grants are annual, open, competitive grants of anywhere between $5,000 and

$15,000. These grants, which will total $350,000 this year, will be awarded annually to new and existing community health programs. In addition, the Alliance’s Health Impact Grant program, which will total $1.5 million in 2020, is offering multi-year grants—by invitation only—to programs that significantly contribute to improved health outcomes in northern New Mexico.

“By combining our efforts as funders, and leveraging our unique strengths, we are in a much better position to help our most vulnerable friends and neighbors,” said William (Bill) Smith, President and CEO of the Santa Fe Community Foundation.

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The Community Health Funder Alliance is a funder collaborative to improve health & wellness in Santa Fe and Northern New Mexico. The Alliance members currently include Anchorum St. Vincent, Christus St. Vincent (CSV) and the Santa Fe Community Foundation. Their mission is to enhance and strengthen the systems of care that address the most challenging health and social needs in Santa Fe and northern New Mexico with a unified funding strategy.

Applications to the 2020 Community Grant will be accepted through April 9, 2020 at 11:59 p.m.

Visit www.communityhealthfunder.org for grant guidelines and details. To apply visit: http://sfcf.spectrumportal.net

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