3 2Give Grandly booths line Main Street Plaza next to the Makers’ MarketGive Grandly does it again! Thanks to this wonderful community, the Give Grandly! Give Local! 2022 annual fundraiser on May 7 brought in nearly $230,000 in donations and matching funds for 55 local nonprofit organizations. And a steady stream of visitors to their booths on a beautiful spring Saturday in May learned more about what our nonprofits do. 

Folks in our corner of New Mexico have been incredibly generous throughout this pandemic. Now that there is light at the end of the tunnel, the participating nonprofits are busy making plans to use those donations to fund all sorts of community services and events. Food pantries and shelters are better equipped to help. Scholarship funds have been replenished. Libraries and museums are launching exhibits and activities. New programs are being developed to promote education and literacy and activities for young people. And music, theater, literature and art events will be organized for our enjoyment. 

In fact, in every area in which the participating nonprofits engage—food security, education, youth engagement, historic preservation, animal welfare, border programs, domestic violence prevention, environmental conservation, arts and culture, and general community well-being—they are now energized to make new efforts to improve the quality of life in southwest New Mexico.

The Give Grandly Coalition of local nonprofits warmly thanks the partners who generously provided matching funds: Suzi & Janey; United Way of Southwest New Mexico; Freeport-McMoRan; Grant County Crime Stoppers; Sherman Community Foundation in Deming; Vladimir Gnilozubov, Edward Jones; Niel McDonald, Edward Jones; Better Homes and Gardens; Hidalgo Medical Services; and Kooler Ice.

Generous grants from the McCune Charitable Foundation and United Way of Southwest New Mexico made it possible operate the website donation platform.

The Coalition is also very grateful to the media who helped with publicity: Grant County Beat, Desert Exposure, SkyWest Media, Silver City Sun-News, and especially the Silver City Daily Press and Independent, which enabled us to have our big four-page spread and ran many stories on the participating nonprofits, and Gila/Mimbres Community Radio, which aired interviews with the nonprofits on our May 7 Give Grandly Live Broadcast. 

Many thanks to Future Forge for enabling participating nonprofits to have booths by the Makers Market on Main Street Plaza on the big day.

And warmest thanks to the people at the Grant County Community Foundation, without whom Give Grandly would not happen at all!

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