The Indian Pueblo Cultural Center (IPCC) Organization Fund is part of the Foundation’s Philanthropy Central Program. This initiative allows nonprofits to set up organizational endowments, held within the Foundation to take advantage of its benefits, including a diverse investment portfolio and low investment fees that typically only come with very large funds.

The program is helping keep IPCC’s focus on its core mission as well as growth strategies versus devoting resources to managing the fund.

“Right now, we’re focusing on how we communicate the existence and importance of the fund,” says Mike Canfield, President and CEO, “and are working to develop individualized opportunities to give into the fund for long-term growth and to sustain the work we do. It’s inspiring to be able to impact all of New Mexico’s 19 Pueblo Communities, and act as a gateway for guests visiting New Mexico and Albuquerque.”

IPCC is a gathering place where the culture of New Mexico’s 19 Pueblos is celebrated and shared through creative and cultural experiences and provides economic opportunities to Pueblo and local communities through museum and gallery space, a library, archives, an education department, a teaching kitchen and restaurant, and a collection of murals and other Native arts and artifacts.

“We see our relationship with the Foundation as a partnership with an organization that is similar in nature and that also operates with the ideas of values-aligned philanthropy, like we do. We’re both bringing people together in ways that make our community better,” says Monique Fragua, IPCC’s Chief Operating Officer.