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5/2/2025

Spring 2025 Grant Awards & Summer Info

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At our Spring 2025 meeting the board voted to make the following grant awards:

  • Reading Quest—Reading Is Magic Summer Camp—$6,500
  • Collins Lake Ranch—Summer Reading Program—$10,000
  • Hawks Aloft—Living With Landscape Educational Program—$5,000
  • Libros for Kids—Imagination Library Books for Children—$10,000
  • Taft School—PAL Summer Enrichment Academy—$20,000
  • Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute—General Operations—$10,000

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.

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1/25/2025

Winter 2025 Grant Awards & Spring Info

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At its 2025 Winter Grant Cycle meeting, the board voted to approve the following grants:

  • Animal Humane NM—Donor-subsidized Veterinary Clinic—$15,000
  • Meals on Wheels NM—Meal Delivery Program—$15,000
  • Animal Protection NM—Companion Animal Rescue Effort (CARE)—$10,000
  • NM Friends of Foster Children—Essential Needs Program—$5,000
  • Underdog Rescue—Spay & Neuter Services, Navajo Nation—$10,000
  • Paws & Stripes—Companion Animal Program for Disabled Vets—$5,000
  • Storehouse NM—Food Box Distribution Program—$10,000
  • Locker #505—Supplemental Clothing & Shoe Program—$5,000
  • World Central Kitchen—L.A. Wildfire Relief Efforts—$10,000
  • Atalanta Association—Community Garden Program—$5,000
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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.

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10/16/2024

Fall 2024 Grant Awards & Winter Info

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At its Fall meeting, the board voted to approve the following grants as a part of its 2024 Arts & Humanities Grant Cycle:
  • Site Santa Fe—Programs for "Dahodiyinii-Sacred Places"—$10,000
  • Vero Beach Art Museum—43rd International Lecture Series—$10,000
  • Santa Fe Desert Chorale—Public Archive Project—$7,500
  • Lensic Theatre—Class Acts & Angel Tickets—$10,000
  • National Atomic Museum Foundation—Science Fiction vs Fact Exhibition—$10,000
  • UT Dallas Geoscience Studios—Geoscience Video Production—$10,000

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.

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7/10/2024

Summer 2024 Grant Awards & Fall Info

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At its summer meeting, the board voted to make the following grants:

  • Trees, Water, People—Replacing Fire-destroyed Fencing on Pueblo Lands—$10,000
  • Timucuan Parks Foundation—Support for Volunteer Clean-up Events—$10,000
  • Santa Fe Conservation Trust—Community Conservation Programs—$16,600
  • Animal Humane of NM—Ruidoso Emergency Fire Rescue Efforts—$5,000

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.

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4/24/2024

New Blog Series—The Drama of Earth Systems

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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:
  • Biological Sciences
  • Computer & Information Sciences
  • Education & Human Resources
  • Engineering
  • Geosciences
  • Social, Behavioral, & Economic Sciences
  • Mathematics & Physical Sciences
The booklet makes it clear that the NSF is going to bring all of these various groups together in a concerted effort to better understand global warming, and to develop possible interventions and policies.

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.

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4/24/2024

Spring 2024 Grant Awards & Summer Info

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The board approved the following grants at its spring board meeting:

  • Wilderwood Equine Therapy—AutFest NM Conference—$5,000
  • Reading Quest—Reading Is Magic Summer Camp—$5,000
  • Taft School—PAL Summer Enrichment Academy—$10,000
  • Libros for Kids—Books for Children in Bernalillo & Valencia Counties—$10,000
  • Santa Fe Children's Museum—STEAM Grab & Go Kits—$2,500
  • ​Embudo Valley Tutoring Assoc.—Tutor/Mentor Professional Development—$4,770
  • Reunity Resources—Root to Fruit Farm Educational Field Trips for Kids—$5,000
  • Syracuse University—Research by Dr. Corvo Concerning Anti-science Trends—$17,500
  • UT Dallas—Film Projects by Geoscience Studios—$5,000

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.

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2/2/2024

Winter 2024 Grant Awards & Spring Info

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At its winter meeting, the board approved the following grants as a part of the Animal & Human Welfare Grant Cycle.

  • Animal Humane NM—Donor-subsidized Veterinary Clinic—$18,000
  • Storehouse NM—Food Box Distribution—$10,000
  • Animal Protection NM—Companion Animal Rescue Effort (CARE)—$10,000
  • Bienvenidos—Special Foods Program—$5,000
  • Hawks Aloft—NM Raptor Rescue Program—$5,000
  • Meals on Wheels NM—Meal Delivery Program—$15,000
  • Action Protection for Animals—P.A.W.S. program—$10,000 
  • Stray Hearts—Mega Spay/Neuter 2024 Clinics—$4,000
  • Santa Fe Raptor Center—Eagle Care—$3,000

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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11/22/2023

Fall 2023 Awards & Winter Information

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The following grant awards were made at our Fall board meeting:
  • Vero Beach Museum—42nd International Lecture Series—$10,000
  • National Atomic Museum Foundation—Da Vinci Machines & Robotics Exhibit—$15,000
  • Taos Center from the Arts—NM-Based Live Show Series—$2,500
Congratulations to our Fall grant recipients!

We will open our Winter Grant Cycle on December 7th, 2023 and close it on January 7th, 2024. The Winter Grant cycle is focused on Animal & Human Welfare. If you have an idea for a trackable project that fits within this focus area, feel free to contact our executive director, Martina.

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7/12/2023

Summer 2023 Grant Awards & Fall Info

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At our Summer 2023 meeting, the board of the FHL Foundation approved the following grants in our Environment focus area:

  • University of Minnesota—Interpretive Trail Project—$10,000
  • Santa Fe Conservation Trust—Community Trail Project—$14,070
  • Trees, Water & People—NM Pueblo Fence Repair Project—$13,000

Congratulations to our Summer 2023 grant recipients!

Our Fall 2023 Grant Cycle will open on September 1st and close on September 30th. The Fall 2023 Grant cycle will focus on Arts & Humanities. If your organization currently has an account within our grant application and tracking program Grant360, then you are good to go. If you are an organization new to us and you have an idea for a trackable project in the focus area of Arts & Humanities, then send Martina, our Executive Director, a quick email outlining your project. If there is a fit then we will create an account for you within Grant360.

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4/21/2023

Spring 2023 Awards & Summer Info

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At its Spring meeting the board voted to approve the following grants:

  • Libros for Kids—Book Delivery Program—$10,000
  • Wilderwood Equine Therapy—Neurodivergent Workshops for Professionals—$5,000
  • Reading Quest—Reading Is Magic Summer Camps—$5,000
  • NM High School Musical Theatre Awards—Lessons of Musical Theatre—$5,000
  • Santa Fe Children's Museum—STEAM Ahead Grab & Go Kits—5,000
  • Explora—Statewide STEAM Outreach—$10,000

Congratulations to our Spring 2023 grant recipients!

Our Summer 2023 Grant Cycle will be focused on the environment. This grant cycle will open on June 1st and close on June 30th. If you are new to our Foundation and have an idea for a trackable project in the area of the environment, then feel free to share your idea with the Foundation's Executive Director, Martina, by sending her a brief email.

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