News & Updates

The George W. Bush Institute recently highlighted the work of Mission: Graduate. The piece focuses on their College and Career Readiness efforts as a strategy to prepare students for both college and career. Read more about it in our May Newsletter below.

Thank you to ALL of our donor group members for their fundraising efforts. These groups truly are leaders in giving and set the bar high. Each group supports a specific initiative. Grant applicants are currently making presentations and final grant awardees will be announced in July 2018. Learn...

The staff and volunteers of United Way of Central New Mexico are deeply saddened by the loss of Jennifer Riordan of Wells Fargo. Jennifer cheerfully championed so many causes in our region and was a real force for good. We have so many wonderful memories of Jennifer’s willingness to connect people...

United Way of Central New Mexico’s new family stability effort, Mission: Families, is surging ahead. This focused initiative will increase the number of families in central New Mexico with the resources to care for and support their children so they can succeed in education and in life. Read more...

Enterprise Holdings is hosting their 7th Annual Charity Golf Tournament, benefitting United Way of Central New Mexico on May 24, 2018 at Paako Ridge. Don’t miss this fun opportunity to help our community! For more information and to download the registration form, click here.

Jason Harrington, CEO of HB Construction, will chair the 2018-2019 Board of Directors of United Way of Central New Mexico (UWCNM). He was elected at the organization’s annual meeting on March 13, 2018. Harrington also serves on UWCNM’s Mission: Families Vision Council. Other officers who were also...

United Way of Central New Mexico’s new family stability effort, Mission: Families, is surging ahead. This focused initiative will increase the number of families in central New Mexico with the resources to care for and support their children so they can succeed in education and in life.

Tax Help New Mexico is a free service for people whose household income is $54,000 or less, or those who are 65 years or older.  The service includes the opportunity to sit down with an IRS-certified preparer to identify any potential tax credits a person may be eligible for and help file both the...

Absenteeism in the younger grades, where students largely rely on parents to get them to school, can be a product of poverty. In Albuquerque, N.M., and elsewhere, schools are starting to track attendance student-by-student to better target support. Read the full article in The Christian Science...

America’s Promise Alliance, with generous support from AT&T, awarded a GradNation Acceleration Grant to Mission: Graduate as part of the GradNation campaign. The campaign strives to raise the high school graduation rate to 90 percent by 2020. Read the full Albuquerque Journal article