Con Alma Health Foundation awards grants each year to support nonprofits’ efforts to improve their community’s health. Our investments focus on ensuring that all people have full and equal access to opportunities that enable them to lead healthy lives. While Con Alma...
Con Alma is proud to announce two health heroes who have built coalitions with partners to improve the health of their communities: Ophelia Reeder, facilitator of the McKinley County Health Council, and Mary Stoecker, who retired this year as health promotion...
We are pleased to report we had another busy, satisfying year as we continued to focus on a core principle: everyone should have an equal chance at living a healthy life, regardless of a person’s ethnicity, income or zip code. In addition to supporting minority and...
On June 13, 2017, Dolores Roybal, Con Alma’s executive director, joined a roundtable discussion to explore impacts of racial inequities, economic issues, and immigration and learn about approaches to addressing these challenges. As a participant in the morning...
“No study in New Mexico and few studies in the nation use an ‘equity lens’ to assess the implementation of the ACA,” said Lisa Cacari Stone, Ph.D., an associate professor at UNM and the report’s lead researcher and author. “So this community-academic research endeavor...
We have had another rewarding year at Con Alma Health Foundation as we have strengthened relationships with partners across New Mexico and continued our work toward health equity for all. Two of our major projects have focused on making changes in our communities so...