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At our Fall meeting the board approved the following grants:
Congratulations to our Fall 2025 grant recipients! Our Winter 2026 Grant Cycle will focus on Animal & Human Welfare. This Grant Cycle will open on December 7th, 2025, and close on January 7th, 2026. If you already have an account in our grant application and tracking software, Grant360, then you are good to go. If your organization is new to us then please email Martina, our Executive Director, with your idea for a trackable project focused on Animal & Human Welfare. If there is a fit, we will create an account in Grant360 for your organization. All of our grantees are required to use our grants program Grant360 to submit, track, and report on projects. Organizations provide quarterly reports with updates on progress as well as the tracking parameter they have chosen. At the end of a year-long project, organizations provide a final report. In this series of quarterly posts, we will present final reports submitted by our grantees.
Trees, Water, People ($15,000)—TWP submitted their final report for the grant received from the Foundation to support their Restoring and Protecting Pueblo Lands in NM Jemez Mountains. TWP reported that replacing fencing lost to fire on Pueblo lands was completed at the end of 2024. However, TWP reports that the impact of our grant continues as it has provided the catalyst for doubling the size of the fencing project by adding 2.5 more miles. They also reported that this difficult work, which extends through rough terrain, has been time consuming and daunting. In spite of these difficulties, completing the project proved transformative for their Pueblo partners. SITE Santa Fe ($10,000)—SITE Santa Fe submitted a detailed final report, which included photos, for the grant received to support their Public Programs for "Dahodiyinii – Sacred Places" exhibit by Dakota Mace. They reported that on May 18th, 2025, SITE Santa Fe hosted a workshop, Earth + Light. Twenty participants worked with alternative photographic practices, ceramics, and handmade paper-making to create their own pieces. They also reported that on the same day, SITE Santa Fe hosted a free book club-style discussion, which focused on "Here on No Further: Material Rhetoric in Loom with Textile" by Kira Dominguez Hultgren. This text informed Mace’s exhibit. Overall, they had 625 participants in the public programming funded by the FHL Foundation, 389 of these were local students who experienced guided tours, hands-on workshops, and dye-garden workshops that were part of Mace’s exhibit. Santa Fe Conservation Trust ($18,000)—SF Conservation Trust submitted their final report for the grant received to support their Community Conservation Programs. In their report, they report that their Passport to Trails 24-25 spring season welcomed 16 full classes, 384 students from 40 different schools, teachers, and parents, who all hit the trails around Santa Fe during April and May. With their Vamonos 2025 walking season getting underway in May, they hosted 187 walkers who took part in eight walks through June. Weather has been a challenge so far, threatening several walks and resulting in a few cancellations, however, they expect a great season to come. Lensic Theatre ($10,000)--The Lensic Theatre submitted their final report, which included highlights, photos and a detailed ticket tracking list, for the grant received to support their Class Acts and Angel Tickets project. The Lensic Theatre reported that since their last report, the Lensic’s Education Manager established several new partnerships. As an example, the Education Manger made an effort to become familiar with different school programs and arts initiatives in the area as a way toward finding the best partners and pairings for show tickets. Building these strong foundations will help the program to flourish as outreach to partners as well as increased awareness of Lensic programs continue to grow in tandem. At our Summer 2025 meeting the board made the following grant awards:
Our Fall Grant Cycle focused on Arts & Humanities will open September 1st and close September 30th. If your organization already has an account in our grant application and tracking program Grant360, then you are good to go. If your organization is new to us and you have a trackable Arts & Humanities project in mind, feel free to email Martina, our executive director, and briefly describe the project you have in mind. If there is a fit, we will create a Grant360 account for you. At our Spring 2025 meeting the board voted to make the following grant awards:
Congratulations to our Spring 2025 grant recipients! Our Summer 2025 Grant Cycle focused on the Environment will open for proposals on June 1st and close on June 30th. If your organization already has an account within our grant application and tracking program Grant360, then you are good to go. If your organization is new to our Foundation, then please email a brief outline of the trackable Environment project you have in mind. You can email Martina, our Executive Director, at [email protected]. If there is a fit, we will create an account within Grant360 for your organization. At its 2025 Winter Grant Cycle meeting, the board voted to approve the following grants:
Congratulations to all of our Winter 2025 grant recipients! Our 2025 Spring Grant Cycle, focused on education, will open on March 1st and close on March 31st. Those organizations who have an account within our grant application and tracking program Grant360, are set to go. For those organizations who are new to us, feel free to send Martina, our Executive Director, a short description of the trackable education project you have in mind. Please, briefly answer Who, What, Where, and When as described in the Elevator Story under the Apply tab on our web site. If there is a fit, we will create an account for you within Grant360. You can reach Martina at [email protected]. Please note that for each grant cycle the number of grant proposals accepted is limited depending on available funds. Typically grant cycles accept approximately (10) proposals. At its Fall meeting, the board voted to approve the following grants as a part of its 2024 Arts & Humanities Grant Cycle:
Congratulations to all of our Fall 2024 grant recipients! Our Winter Grant Cycle will open on December 7th, 2024, and close on January 7th, 2025. Our Winter Grant Cycle will focus on Animal & Human Welfare. If your organization already has an account within our grant application and tracking program Grant360, then you are ready to go. If you have an idea for a trackable Animal & Human Welfare project, feel free to email Martina ([email protected]) with a brief outline of what you have in mind. If there is a fit, we will create a Grant360 account for you. At its summer meeting, the board voted to make the following grants:
Congratulations to our Summer Grant Cycle recipients! This concludes our grantmaking activities for the 2023–2024 fiscal year. We made 25 impactful grants totaling almost a quarter of a million dollars. Our Fall Grant Cycle focused on trackable Arts & Humanities projects will open for grant proposals on September 1st and close on September 30th. If your organization has an account within our grant application and tracking program Grant360, then you are good to go. If your organization does not currently have a Grant 360 account, then email Martina ([email protected]), our Executive Director, in early August and briefly describe the trackable project you have in mind. If there is a fit, we will create an account for your organization in Grant360. Arguably the most pressing issue facing humankind has to be global warming. Climate scientists are now convinced that global warmning is contributing to changes in weather patterns leading to increased levels of storms, flooding, ocean temperatures, and wild fires. Increasingly younger generations are concerned not only for themselves but for their children. With good reason, younger generations are putting pressure on governmental and educational institutions to do something about global warming. Their cries are being recognized. As an example, the geoscience department at UT Dallas (the alma mater of the Foundation's president, Rick Leonhardt) recently changed their name to the department of sustainable earth system science (SESS). As another example, the National Science Foundation (NSF) recently released a booklet entitled Next Generation Earth Systems Science at the National Science Foundation (2022). You can access a copy of this booklet at this link. This booklet talks about how the NSF makes grants in areas such as:
Rick has been monitoring these developments and noticed that although there is a big emphasis on systems, there is little emphasis on systems theory, especially organic systems theory. As an example, the NSF report does, in passing, mention the work of Ludwig von Bertalanffy, arguably the father of General Systems Theory, however, that is the only mention of systems theory proper. Rick decided to write a blog series entitled The Drama of Earth Systems as a way of bringing attention to the various approaches to systems theory—information systems, organic systems, sociological systems, and emancipatory systems—that have arisen since the close of WWII. Interestingly, the Macy and Geneva conferences that took place in the aftermath of WWII brought together a similar group of researchers and academics (including John Bowlby and the aforementioned Ludwig von Bertalanffy). Rick's blog series (found over at the Bowlby Less Traveled blog site) takes a look at this earlier effort and traces the various paths it took ultimately leading to such present day developments as AI (artificial intelligence) and even the DEI (diversity, equity, inclusion) movement, which is prominently profiled in the NSF report. Here's the link to Part 1 of the blog series The Drama of Earth Systems. The board approved the following grants at its spring board meeting:
Congratulations to our Spring Grant Cycle recipients in the focus area of education! Our Summer 2024 Grant Cycle will focus on the Environment. Applications will be accepted between June 1st and June 30th. Those organizations that already have an account within our grant application and tracking program Grant360 are good to go. If you do not already have a Grant360 account, then feel free to email Martina, our Executive Director, and briefly describe the trackable environment project you have in mind ([email protected]). If there is a fit, we will set up an account for your organization. At its winter meeting, the board approved the following grants as a part of the Animal & Human Welfare Grant Cycle.
Congratulations to our Winter 2024 grant recipients! Our Spring 2024 Grant Cycle will focus on Education. Applications will be accepted between March 1st and March 31st. Those organizations that already have an account within our grant application and tracking program Grant360 are good to go. If you do not already have a Grant360 account, then feel free to email Martina, our Executive Director, and briefly describe the trackable education project you have in mind. If there is a fit, we will set up an account for your organization. |
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