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La Mujer Obrera is a local independent organization dedicated to creating communities defined by women. Our organization was founded in 1981 by women who were both garment workers and Chicana activists. Our experience showed us that as women we must implement our own ideas and strategies for our community. La Mujer Obrera has developed its organizing strategies based on the following basic human rights: employment, housing, education, nutrition, health, peace, and political liberty. Over the years, La Mujer Obrera has been one of the leaders in the struggle against an “undeclared war” on marginalized women workers of Mexican heritage.
 

Today La Mujer Obrera continues to challenge the perception that women are an infinite source of cheap labor and that progress means we are the ones who must sacrifice. We must see ourselves as being at the forefront of defining progress within our community. The struggle of women in the factories and resistance to NAFTA has strengthened us to create community. Our collective practice includes: cooking, raising our children, working the land, commerce, artisanry, and cultural celebrations. We need these practices to safeguard our ancestral knowledge and apply it to the present. This is our contribution as women workers in El Paso to the struggle for work, dignity, and justice. The space we are creating belongs to future generations of women and their families. 

The mission of the New Mexico Dental Association Foundation is to inspire benevolent dental outreach and to promote dental health in New Mexico.

Founded in 2005 as the charitable affiliate of the New Mexico Dental Association, the New Mexico Dental Association Foundation is a place where the big heart of dentistry is on display every day. Coordinator of donated dental services for hundreds of disabled or elderly New Mexicans who cannot afford dental care, administrator of the yearly Mission of Mercy event that serves anyone who chooses to receive treatment at a 2 day dental clinic, custodian of relief funds for dentists who have practice threatening situations, and big thinker about the future of dentistry and dental care in New Mexico, the Foundation is an important new player on the public health scene in our state.

The year-round outreach project of the New Mexico Dental Association Foundation is the Donated Dental Services program. One hundred and eighty New Mexican dentists from all parts of the state and ninety three dental laboratories have volunteered to provide services on a pro bono basis to the elderly and disabled who cannot afford dental care. The Donated Dental Services program provides once-in-a-lifetime, major dental work. While virtually every dentist quietly and on a daily basis fills cavities and other minor services without pay, the Donated Dental Services program does the kind of expensive, long term work that would be far beyond the wildest dreams of the patients involved. Implants, full and partial dentures, and other restorative work can dramatically change patient’s lives and general health. Participating dentists generally undertake one to two patients in the program each year, and contribute an average of $3200 per case

Imagine one hundred dental chairs being staffed all day long for two days by five hundred dentists, hygienists and assistants from New Mexico and other parts of the country. That’s a lot of dentistry! The New Mexico Dental Association Foundation has now hosted four New Mexico Mission of Mercy events. First organized by the America’s Dentists Care Foundation, the Mission of Mercy program is a massive two day dental clinic where anyone choosing to come for acute dental problems can be treated at no cost. Over 6,900 patients have received dental treatment totaling 4.9 million dollars of care. The care was provided by 7,000 volunteers, both dental professionals and lay volunteers. These events have been the largest charitable outreaches in the history of New Mexico.

TOGETHER, we are helping to change lives, one smile at a time!

University Medical Center Foundation of El Paso is the designated charitable organization for University Medical Center of El Paso, El Paso's only not-for-profit safety net hospital. Since its inception in 2009, the Foundation has provided over $6 million dollars in medical equipment, program support and family care grants to improve patient care and elevate the breadth of services and quality of medicine available to all El Pasoans. 

As the primary academic teaching institution for the Paul L. Foster School of Medicine and Texas Tech Health Science Center, UMC is training the caregivers of tomorrow. With almost 3000 associates, University Medical Center serves as one of El Paso's largest employers and economic drivers.

Whether a donor's primary focus is patient care, expanded clinical services, physician recruitment, medical education,economic impact or an investment for generations to come, University Medical Center Foundation offers donors unparalleled impact.  The lives of one out of every two El Pasoans has been touched by the care at UMC.

Unique to many charities in the region, every penny raised in El Paso stays in El Paso to benefit families and their loved ones receiving the highest level of care right here at home.