Since the COVID-19 shutdown in March, Opportunity Santa Fe funding has allowed the organizations in Santa Fe ¡Convive!, Many Mothers and Gerard’s House, to provide emergency support to the families they serve. Both agencies have been distributing diapers to families, and Many Mothers has expanded this service to include baby food, formula, and fresh food (in partnership with Reunity Resources
In June, Opportunity Santa Fe and the AmeriCorps VISTAs partnered with Santa Fe Baby Fund to assemble 450 early childhood activity bags for families with young children in Santa Fe, to provide enriching early childhood resources to families during extended stay at home orders and early childhood program closures. The bags, tailored to children under age 1, ages 1-2, and
With the emergence of COVID-19, MathAmigos has had to rethink how to offer innovative strategies to Santa Fe’s public elementary school teachers and come up with creative ways to reach Santa Fe’s public school children so they can experience the joys of learning math. Beginning in March, MathAmigos (a collaborative working group of Opportunity Santa Fe) has pivoted away from
Since the school closures in mid-March, nonprofits, teachers, and volunteers in our community have banded together to support students, families, and the Santa Fe Public School system through the Santa Fe Community Educators Network (SFCEN). The Community Educators Network is a group of educators from nonprofits in Santa Fe who have met monthly for more than six years to share
Lhadze Bosiljevac | AmeriCorps VISTA | 3/20/2020 A medida que todos aprendemos a enfrentar esta crisis del COVID-19 y comenzamos a adaptarnos a la nueva normalidad de este tiempo, es importante que confiemos en fuentes con credibilidad para obtener información de salud actualizada. Opportunity Santa Fe recomienda dos fuentes confiables: Los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades
Lhadze Bosiljevac | AmeriCorps VISTA | 3/20/2020 As we all learn to cope and begin to adjust to the new normal of these unsettling times, it is important that we rely on trustworthy sources for up-to-date health information. Opportunity Santa Fe recommends two evidence-based sources: The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html ; and State-based information, such as the
Remember elementary school math? How you slogged through the times table, struggled with story problems and generally dreaded the whole thing? Since the beginning of MathAmigos, its members who focused their professional lives in math, remembered that experience and asked themselves: “Why shouldn’t kids love math?” Members of MathAmigos know that math can be fun, interesting and exciting. But, how
Ralph Holcomb | AmeriCorps VISTA | 1/24/2020 During this year’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Opportunity Santa Fe VISTAs chose to make it a “day on” rather than taking a day off. Instead of working at desks, we joined Habitat for Humanity and their AmeriCorps National volunteers to make some much-needed construction improvements to Santa Fe’s Sojourners Café. Sojourners is
Last year was a productive one for Opportunity Santa Fe (OSF) and our Collaborative Working Groups (CWGs) — filled with many accomplishments and new insights. In 2019, we supported 14 CWGs and their work in ways that will to help turn the curve for the children and youth of the City of Santa Fe. Below are a few of the
