Brindle

FROM our 2016 GRANTEES

New parents in Truth or Consequences make ring slings for their babies through workshops offered by
Bountiful Babies, a grassroots community effort to improve the lives of babies and their caregivers. The
slings foster critical bonding and attachment.

The Adelante Program of Santa Fe Public Schools supports homeless students and their families, many of which include infants and toddlers. During weekly Juntos dinners, children create art while their parents engage in resource-rich workshops.

Socorro General Hospital offers a variety of countywide services to expecting and new parents including individualized home visiting and parenting support groups. This mom and her baby are having a home visit in the very rural Alamo Navajo Chapter.

Empowering Santa Fe high school teen moms by teaching critical reading and writing skills creates exciting opportunities for parents and their babies. This Mother Tongue Project student reads her essay in a public forum with an admiring onlooker.

Young children with hearing losses gain exciting new opportunities and interactions with their world through the Parent - Infant Program at Presbyterian Ear Institute in Albuquerque, including the possibility of getting hearing aids and a cochlear implant.

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Brindle's 2017 Early Opportunities RFP Announcement

July 31st, 2017

Note: the period for accepting proposals for this funding opportunity has passed. Thank you for your submissions - we will inform of grant awards later this fall.

Brindle Foundation is a family foundation based in Santa Fe focused on giving babies a great start in life. We are pleased to issue this Request for Proposals (RFP) from organizations and agencies providing support and enrichment to babies and toddlers prenatal to age 3 and their families in New Mexico through our Early Opportunities Initiative. This request is open to nonprofit organizations, organizations having a nonprofit fiscal agent and government agencies, including school districts and Tribal governments, able to receive and manage grants from private foundations. Please note that Brindle Foundation does not pay for university or government indirect or overhead costs and does not give grants to individuals, for the promotion of religion, or for political campaigns.

2017 FUNDING PRIORITIES
While this funding opportunity is open to organizations serving all parts of New Mexico, especially rural areas, the Foundation board has decided on the following 2017 priorities:

   • Organizations serving Santa Fe, Rio Arriba and San Miguel Counties
   • Early childhood programs in the state’s higher education institutions
   • Organizations engaged in statewide early childhood policy work

Although the Foundation prefers not to support capital projects, the board may consider requests for items such as playground equipment.

Current and recent grantees of the Foundation may apply for an amount in the range of their previous support. Organizations that have not received prior funding from Brindle may apply for a maximum grant of $15,000.

In most cases, an organization or agency may only submit one proposal. Separate government or university departments may each submit a proposal but should consult with the Foundation Manager, Kim Straus, prior to submitting a proposal.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Brindle is committed to supporting babies and their families prenatal to three and their families in New Mexico, with particular emphasis on underserved populations. Approval of grants this year will be more selective. If your organization does not primarily serve this age group or fit with one of our funding priorities, please contact us before submitting a proposal. We don’t want you to waste your time.

We've been moving more of our grant process (applications, reporting, etc) onto this website. To apply, you'll need to sign-in or register on our portal (click here or can access through the login tab above). Proposals are due no later than 5:00 PM Mountain Time on FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2017.

Kim Straus, Foundation Manager, will host a conference call to answer questions about applying to Brindle on TUESDAY, AUGUST 8 at 10:00 AM Mountain Daylight Time. You may submit questions ahead of time to info@brindlefoundation.org and he will address these at the beginning of the call. The dial-in number is 712-775-7031 and the access code is 278-788-581. Applicants also may send questions at any time during the RFP process to this email address.

Thank you for supporting our New Mexico babies and families!

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