PRESS RELEASES & ANNOUNCEMENTS
Most Recent Announcements
Health Action NM Honors Con Alma Director
Health Action New Mexico announced recently that Dolores E. Roybal, Con Alma's executive director, is one of 20 individuals the health advocacy group is honoring for making major contributions to improving health care in New Mexico over the past 20 years. Health...
Summit to Explore Supports for Low-Wage Workers and Employers
Con Alma Health Foundation is helping sponsor a statewide summit to explore program, policy and funding supports for employers and frontline workers. New Mexico Direct Caregivers Coalition, in partnership with Con Alma and the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, is...
Con Alma Health Foundation Receives National Grant to Monitor Health Care Reform
Con Alma Health Foundation is proud to announce that it will help monitor the implementation of federal health care reform as part of a $200,000 grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. The goal of the grant-funded project is to ensure that people in low-income...
CAHF Awards Grants to Support Healthy People, Healthy Places Initiative
Congratulations to our 2015 Healthy People, Healthy Places grant recipients. Con Alma awarded about $87,000 in mini-grants as part of its Healthy People, Healthy Places initiative, a partnership of organizations working together to increase access to healthy food and...
IN MEMORIAM: Jane Batson
IN MEMORIAM Jane Batson (September 6, 1947-September 27, 2014) Con Alma Health Foundation Board Member, Jane Batson, died Saturday, September 27, 2014 at age 67. Jane joined the Board of Trustees in April, 2012, representing the southeastern section of the state; she...
IN MEMORIAM: Facundo B. Valdez
IN MEMORIAM Facundo B. Valdez (March 13, 1932 - August 3, 2014) Former Con Alma Health Foundation Board Member, Facundo Valdez, died Sunday, August 3, 2014 at age 82. Facundo served two, three year terms as a member of Con Alma Health Foundation’s Board of Trustees...
Con Alma Health Foundation Receives Recognition for Commitment and Service
The New Mexico Office of African American Affairs recently honored Con Alma with an award for extraordinary commitment and service. The Office recognized Con Alma Health Foundation for its work to increase diversity among New Mexico nurses, support...
Grandparents Raising Grandchildren
Based on the 2000 census projections, by 2030 New Mexico will move from 39th in the nation to 4th in the percentage of people older than 65. The Con Alma Health Foundation lead the EngAGE New Mexico initiative which was designed to increase awareness and funding...
2013 Small Grant and Northern New Mexico Health Grants Group Grant Recipients
Con Alma Health Foundation is proud to announce the recipients of 2013 Small Grants and Northern New Mexico Health Grants Group awards. See Small Grant recipient list See Northern New Mexico Health Grants Group Grant recipient list