Rooted Together
About Us
Rooted Together
About Us
About Us
Rooted Together
Introducing Rooted Together
Together We Give. Together We Grow.
Rooted Together is a community-centered initiative that brings neighbors, nonprofit partners, and donors together to celebrate local impact, shared values, and the power of collective giving over the course of two years.
Through storytelling, music, grantmaking, and conversation, our first gathering this fall will be hosted as a block party to highlight the importance of investing in community strength, honoring cultural roots, and working collaboratively toward a more equitable future. Rooted in joy and purpose, the event offers an opportunity to connect, reflect, and grow stronger together.
This event will spotlight grantmaking strategies centered on a two-year commitment to emphasize the importance of longer-term investment in the greater Albuquerque metro area. As we've learned from our grantmaking partners, long-term funding provides grantees the time, flexibility and stability they need to deepen impact, build lasting capacity and plan more effectively.
Rooted Together Grantmaking
Rooted Together is a unique opportunity to build a lasting impact. Focused on multi-year funding, our grantmaking process is prioritized on relationship building, learning, and long-term vision. If your organization is working toward meaningful, community-centered change, Rooted Together is an opportunity to support the kind of investment that matches the depth of your work and mission.
Bringing Rooted Together to life will take time, and we are grateful for all the community feedback we've heard to this point. With a spirit of adaptability and listening to community, we are committed to reviewing the application and evaluation each year to ensure a more equitable and transparent grantmaking process for all. This pilot year will help us to create parameters and examples for future cycles, continuously evolving to meet the needs of the community.
- Foundation staff will fundraise to support this project for two years, via donors, corporate partners and other foundations.
- Awards will be a minimum of $200,000 over two years.
- Organizations will commit to participating in one event per year for the two-year funding commitment and will work with Foundation staff to select the location and logistics for the second year. Events will be fully funded and coordinated by the Foundation, but hosted at the location selected for funding or a location selected by the partner organization.
- The selected organization will be expected to attend the kickoff event, planned for October 17 from 4:00pm-6:30pm.
- Organizations will be notified of selections by September 5, 2025.
- Coffee Chat sessions will be available for open Q&A. See below for times and Zoom registration.
- Be based in the four-county region of Bernalillo County, Sandoval County, Torrance County, and Valencia County
- Be place-based and include neighborhood and/or community involvement
- Have the potential as a catalyst for change in the community
- Be bold and visionary; can be multi-layered in concept and possibility
- Can be bricks and mortar; can be project-based
- Can be in any stage of development
- Application Opens – July 8, 2025
- Application Closes – August 14, 2025
- Coffee Chat Sessions via Zoom
- Grant Announcement – September 5, 2025
Kickoff Celebration
SAVE THE DATE: Friday, October 17, 2025
More details to come!
Sponsors
Coming soon!
Interested in becoming a Rooted Together Sponsor? Please contact Denise Nava Wyrick, Marketing & Development Director.
Introducing Rooted Together
Together We Give. Together We Grow.
Rooted Together is a community-centered initiative that brings neighbors, nonprofit partners, and donors together to celebrate local impact, shared values, and the power of collective giving over the course of two years.
Through storytelling, music, grantmaking and conversation, our first gathering this fall will be hosted as a block party to highlight the importance of investing in community strength, honoring cultural roots, and working collaboratively toward a more equitable future. Rooted in joy and purpose, the event offers an opportunity to connect, reflect, and grow stronger together.
This event will spotlight grantmaking strategies centered on a two-year commitment to emphasize the importance of longer-term investment in the greater Albuquerque metro area. As we've learned from our grantmaking partners, long-term funding provides grantees the time, flexibility and stability they need to deepen impact, build lasting capacity and plan more effectively.
Rooted Together Grantmaking
Rooted Together is a unique opportunity to build a lasting impact. Focused on multi-year funding, our grantmaking process is prioritized on relationship building, learning, and long-term vision. If your organization is working toward meaningful, community-centered change, Rooted Together is an opportunity to support the kind of investment that matches the depth of your work and mission.
Bringing Rooted Together to life will take time, and we are grateful for all the community feedback we've heard to this point. With a spirit of adaptability and listening to community, we are committed to reviewing the application and evaluation each year to ensure a more equitable and transparent grantmaking process for all. This pilot year will help us to create parameters and examples for future cycles, continuously evolving to meet the needs of the community.
- Foundation staff will fundraise to support this project for two years, via donors, corporate partners and other foundations.
- Awards will be a minimum of $200,000 over two years.
- Organizations will commit to participating in one event per year for the two-year funding commitment and will work with Foundation staff to select the location and logistics for the second year. Events will be fully funded and coordinated by the Foundation, but hosted at the location selected for funding or a location selected by the partner organization.
- The selected organization will be expected to attend the kickoff event, planned for October 17 from 4:00pm-6:30pm.
- Organizations will be notified of selections by September 5, 2025.
- Coffee Chat sessions will be available for open Q&A. See below for times and Zoom registration.
- Be based in the four-county region of Bernalillo County, Sandoval County, Torrance County, and Valencia County
- Be place-based and include neighborhood and/or community involvement
- Have the potential as a catalyst for change in the community
- Be bold and visionary; can be multi-layered in concept and possibility
- Can be bricks and mortar; can be project-based
- Can be in any stage of development
- Application Opens – July 8, 2025
- Application Closes – August 14, 2025
- Coffee Chat Sessions via Zoom
- Grant Announcement – September 5, 2025
Kickoff Celebration
SAVE THE DATE: Friday, October 17, 2025
More details to come!
Sponsors
Coming soon!
Interested in becoming a Rooted Together Sponsor? Please contact Denise Nava Wyrick, Marketing & Development Director.