Awarded Grants
The Paso del Norte Health Foundation works to improve the health of the region, for children and adults. A list of awarded grants, the affiliated organizations and associated initiatives are listed below. Use this resource to learn more about the needs of the community and impact of the Foundation.
For more information, call 915-544-7636 or e-mail health@pdnhf.org.
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| Project Title | Priority Area | Initiative | Organization | Grant Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Children's Home and Comedor | HEALTHY LIVING | Healthy Eating | Arbol de Vida | $164,560.74 |
| Improving Child Health with More Vegetables and Fruits | HEALTHY LIVING | Healthy Eating | Border Partners | $123,803.90 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs Nutrition Education Program | HEALTHY LIVING | Healthy Eating | Boys & Girls Clubs of El Paso | $45,544.86 |
| Canutillo, CATCH on to Healthy Eating! | HEALTHY LIVING | Healthy Eating | Canutillo Independent School District | $41,360.00 |
| Alimentación saludable para jóvenes | HEALTHY LIVING | Healthy Eating | Centro de Asesoria y Promocion Juvenil, A.C. | $74,800.00 |
| Nutricion Consciente | HEALTHY LIVING | Healthy Eating | Ciudadanos Comprometidos con la Paz, A.C. | $221,375.00 |
| Cooking and Nutrition Education Innovation for a Healthier El Paso | HEALTHY LIVING | Healthy Eating | Common Threads | $481,889.10 |
| Community Optimization and Expansion of Taster Space, a Food Education Program | HEALTHY LIVING | Healthy Eating | Desert Spoon Food Hub | $134,208.00 |
| Sabrosa Vida Cooking Program | HEALTHY LIVING | Healthy Eating | El Paso Diabetes Association, Inc. | $33,770.00 |
| Asset Inventory of Nutritional Education and Healthy Eating Initiatives in Cd. Juarez | HEALTHY LIVING | Healthy Eating | Fundacion Paso del Norte para la Salud y Bienestar, AC | $18,560.00 |
| FreshStart Program | HEALTHY LIVING | Healthy Eating | Kelly Center for Hunger Relief | $284,900.00 |
| Cultivating Health through Foodways Education in School and Community Spaces | HEALTHY LIVING | Healthy Eating | La Semilla Food Center | $562,251.00 |
| Platos Amigables | HEALTHY LIVING | Healthy Eating | Organizacion Popular Independiente, A.C. | $45,471.35 |
| "Off to a Good Start: Eating our Way to a Healthy Life" | HEALTHY LIVING | Healthy Eating | Paso del Norte Children's Development Center | $126,959.00 |
| “Programa Educativo:" Bocados de Salud " | HEALTHY LIVING | Healthy Eating | Proyecto Alas AC | $61,215.00 |
| Amigos Healthy Eating Program | HEALTHY LIVING | Healthy Eating | The Mustard Seed Café -- A Community Cafe | $44,251.90 |
| Texas Opportunity Youth Network Innovation Fund | HEALTHY LIVING | Healthy Kids | Aspen Institute-Forum for Community Solutions | $264,000.00 |
| Unidos Prosperamos | HEALTHY LIVING | Healthy Kids | Boy Scouts of America Yucca Council | $148,608.90 |
| Total Teen Takeover (formerly More Teens, More Often) | HEALTHY LIVING | Healthy Kids | Boys & Girls Club of Las Cruces, Inc. | $101,734.40 |
| Espacios de desarrollo infantil y juvenil | HEALTHY LIVING | Healthy Kids | Centro de Asesoria y Promocion Juvenil, A.C. | $162,800.00 |
| ACE Healthy Kids | HEALTHY LIVING | Healthy Kids | Clint Independent School District | $58,300.00 |
| Kids Can Youth Entrepreneur Program 2024: Luna and Otero County Expansion | HEALTHY LIVING | Healthy Kids | Community Action Agency of Southern New Mexico | $195,599.80 |
| Kids Can Youth Entrepreneur Program: Dissemination and Expansion | HEALTHY LIVING | Healthy Kids | Community Action Agency of Southern New Mexico | $200,000.00 |
| Project ABLE (Art Brokers Learning Experiences) | HEALTHY LIVING | Healthy Kids | Creative Kids, Inc. | $210,897.50 |
| Rodis Jr. | HEALTHY LIVING | Healthy Kids | Espacio Interactivo La Rodadora, A.C. | $91,889.83 |
| Moving Montañas | HEALTHY LIVING | Healthy Kids | Friends of the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks Wilderness Inc. | $93,181.50 |
| Kickstart Kids El Paso OST Programs | HEALTHY LIVING | Healthy Kids | Kickstart Kids (Kick Drugs Out of America Foundation) | $33,000.00 |
| NNA & adultos jóvenes en acción | HEALTHY LIVING | Healthy Kids | Organizacion Popular Independiente, A.C. | $165,412.69 |
| Improve the Regional Response to Commercially Sexually Exploited Youth. | HEALTHY LIVING | Healthy Kids | Paso del Norte Center of Hope | $52,864.31 |
| Project Vida After-School Enrichment and Youth Development | HEALTHY LIVING | Healthy Kids | Project Vida | $100,000.00 |
| Creando más espacios seguros para niñas, niños y adolescentes. | HEALTHY LIVING | Healthy Kids | Salud y Desarrollo Comunitario de Cd. Juarez, A.C. | $99,041.80 |
| Conectando con ValorArte, Creativa | HEALTHY LIVING | Healthy Kids | Salud y Desarrollo Comunitario de Cd. Juarez, A.C. | $79,002.00 |
| La Nube: Blue Sky Lab | HEALTHY LIVING | Healthy Kids | The EPC Museum/ La Nube | $500,000.00 |
| Healthy Kids Program | HEALTHY LIVING | Healthy Kids | The EPC Museum/ La Nube | $500,000.00 |
| El Paso Opportunity Youth Action Network | HEALTHY LIVING | Healthy Kids | The University of Texas at El Paso | $100,000.00 |
| Healthy Kids Backbone Organization 2022-2024 | HEALTHY LIVING | Healthy Kids | United Way of El Paso County | $486,057.97 |
| Y-Pathways: Shaping Youth for Tomorrow | HEALTHY LIVING | Healthy Kids | YMCA of Greater El Paso, TX & Rio Grande Valley | $117,866.78 |
| Colonias Outreach & Education: Let's Talk About Vaping | HEALTHY LIVING | Smoke Free | Texas A&M University | $21,500.00 |
| Southwest Dona Ana Move Trail | HEALTHY LIVING | Healthy Eating and Active Living | City of Las Cruces | $350,000.00 |
| Aprende a cuidar de ti | DISEASE PREVENTION | Diabetes | Centro Familiar para la Integracion y Crecimiento, A.C. | $48,565.00 |
| Diabetes Education and Kids Camp | DISEASE PREVENTION | Diabetes | El Paso Diabetes Association, Inc. | $163,440.56 |
| "Now What?" Diabetes Awareness and Advocacy Campaign | DISEASE PREVENTION | Diabetes | El Paso Diabetes Association, Inc. | $527,242.00 |
| On the Road to Living Well with Diabetes (OTR) | DISEASE PREVENTION | Diabetes | New Mexico State University Foundation, Inc. | $35,139.50 |
| NMSU National Diabetes Prevention Program | DISEASE PREVENTION | Diabetes | New Mexico State University Foundation, Inc. | $43,483.44 |
| Diabetes Prevention and Management: Data and Referrals | DISEASE PREVENTION | Diabetes | PHIX | $255,750.00 |
| Diabetes Prevention Program | DISEASE PREVENTION | Diabetes | Project Vida Health Center | $65,404.00 |
| Project VyBE | DISEASE PREVENTION | Diabetes | Texas A&M University | $237,013.00 |
| Engaging Community Dentists to Screen for and Provide Diabetes Education | DISEASE PREVENTION | Diabetes | Texas Tech Foundation, Inc. | $166,989.90 |
| Promotoras de Salud Working Group | DISEASE PREVENTION | Diabetes | Texas Tech Foundation, Inc. | $3,000.00 |
| Ongoing Technical Assistance, Documentation, and Evaluation of Regional Diabetes Initiatives | DISEASE PREVENTION | Diabetes | The University of Texas at El Paso | $48,035.00 |
| UTEP Diabetes Awareness Training Program for Community Outreach | DISEASE PREVENTION | Diabetes | The University of Texas at El Paso | $53,529.30 |
| UTEP BBRC CHW Led Diabetes Intervention | DISEASE PREVENTION | Diabetes | The University of Texas at El Paso | $163,219.50 |
| Improving Systems to Improve Care: Building a Culture of CIT in Alamogordo | DISEASE PREVENTION | Behavioral Health Consortium | City of Alamogordo | $151,731.00 |
| Impulsando un Sistema de Salud Mental Eficaz in Cd. Juarez | DISEASE PREVENTION | Behavioral Health Consortium | Comision de Salud Fronteriza Mexico-Estados Unidos | $144,901.56 |
| Local Collaborative 3 (LC3) | DISEASE PREVENTION | Behavioral Health Consortium | Families and Youth, Inc | $169,041.00 |
| The Paso del Norte Center at The Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute | DISEASE PREVENTION | Behavioral Health Consortium | Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute for texas | $1,500,000.00 |
| Help Me Grow El Paso: Neurodevelopmental Workforce Capacity Building | DISEASE PREVENTION | Behavioral Health Consortium | Paso del Norte Children's Development Center | $68,750.00 |
| Equitable Approaches to Build Community Mental Health Resilience | DISEASE PREVENTION | Think.Change | Big Brothers Big Sisters of El Paso | $80,117.95 |
| PLENA-MENTE | DISEASE PREVENTION | Think.Change | Centro Caritativo para atencion de Enfermos de Sida A. C. | $95,000.00 |
| NAMI Stigma Reduction Rolling On | DISEASE PREVENTION | Think.Change | Dona Ana County Health & Human Services | $146,758.00 |
| Strong Families Community Change Initiative | DISEASE PREVENTION | Think.Change | El Paso Center for Children, Inc. | $43,967.00 |
| People Empower El Paso (PEEP) Project | DISEASE PREVENTION | Think.Change | Family Service of El Paso, Inc. | $207,805.68 |
| Autism PEERS | DISEASE PREVENTION | Think.Change | New Mexico State University Foundation, Inc. | $66,225.64 |
| Colonias Project Cares | DISEASE PREVENTION | Think.Change | Texas A&M University | $97,845.00 |
| Pensamientos y Platicas: A Mental Health Engagement Program | DISEASE PREVENTION | Think.Change | The University of Texas at El Paso | $55,379.00 |
| Transforming Lives: Accelerating Momentum to Expand Diabetes Education and Engagement | DISEASE PREVENTION | Diabetes | El Paso Diabetes Association, Inc. | $3,143,350.00 |
| Leveraging Resources with Fundacion Paso del Norte | HEALTH LEADERSHIP | Leveraging Resources | Fundacion Paso del Norte para la Salud y Bienestar, AC | $558,564.22 |
| Community Foundation Leveraging Resource Grant | HEALTH LEADERSHIP | Leveraging Resources | Paso del Norte Community Foundation | $525,000.00 |
| REALIZE Board Training | HEALTH LEADERSHIP | REALIZE Board | United Way of El Paso County | $153,392.00 |
| Improving Health Outcomes in the Paso del Norte Region - Support for the Hunt School of Dental Medicine | HEALTH LEADERSHIP | Strategic Initiative | Texas Tech Foundation, Inc. | $5,000,000.00 |
| EP Center for Children: Exploring the Path Foward Phase II | HEALTH LEADERSHIP | Strategic Initiatives | El Paso Center for Children, Inc. | $25,000.00 |
| Establishment of the Steve and Nancy Fox Cancer Center | HEALTH LEADERSHIP | Strategic Initiatives | Texas Tech Foundation, Inc. | $5,000,000.00 |
| Increasing Health Care Professionals in the Paseo del Norte Region | HEALTH LEADERSHIP | Strategic Initiatives | The University of Texas at El Paso | $4,500,000.00 |
