HOW YOU CAN HELP

We Appreciate Your Support!

Partners and Funders Contributing to Our Youth Initiatives:

New Mexico Collaboration to End Hunger, New Mexico Department of Health, New Mexico Children, Youth, and Families Department, USDA, Roadrunner Food Bank, PNM Resources, Daniel’s Fund, Albuquerque Community Foundation, The Mescalero Apache Tribal Council, Boys and Girls Club of America, AmeriCorps, Microsoft Giving, Wal-Mart,

Elks Lodge of Alamogordo, Compass Bank, Ruidoso Noon Lions Club, District 40S New Mexico Lions, Ruidoso Optimists Club, National Gardening Association, Native Seeds, McCune Foundation, New Mexico Community Foundation, Learning Disabilities Foundation of America, Dollar General Foundation, Price’s Creamery “Give ‘Em Five” Fund, Rise Above Youth Group of Dallas, Texas, Leslie Diane Thrasher Memorial Fund, Reebok Shoes,

Union Bay, The Raynier Foundation/No Wasted Notes Productions, Skokomish and Lummi Indian Bands, The Ruidoso Public Library, Optimists’ of Ruidoso, Eco Servants, Ruidoso Dance Gallery, New Mexico State University’s ICAN Program, Hubbard Museum, Big Brothers/Big Sisters, Lincoln County Garden Club, Ruidoso Computer Genie, Lincoln County Sheriff’s Posse, DWI Prevention Council, Sierra Contracting, Conley’s Nursery,  Season’s Nursery, Inc., Ruidoso Office Supply, Josie’s Framery,

Ruidoso First Presbyterian Church,  The Wild Herb Market, The Herb Shop.

Thanks to the generous support of our funders and community volunteers, we were able to provide quality programming for more than 400 youth in Lincoln and Otero Counties in 2009. In addition to our arts and literacy program, we supplied take-home food, snacks, nutritional guidance lessons, and art enrichment programming for 225 youth who attended Eating Smart last summer. The eleven-week program took place at two locations of the Mescalero Apache Boys and Girls Club.

With your help, we will be able to continue our present programming and expand our services to other areas of the state as well in the coming year. Our vision for the expansion of Eating Smart in 2010 is to train teachers and implement summer programs at eight new sites in Lincoln and Otero Counties and three sites in Albuquerque. We are very excited about the opportunity to offer Eating Smart to a growing number of children in our state, and grateful to the funders who make it possible!

Sierra Dove Global Association is an educational non-profit organization, designated 501©3 by the federal government. All donations of any size to further our youth initiatives, whether monetary or in-kind, are tax deductible and are gratefully accepted.

For more information about how you can give, please contact

Julia Price, Executive Director, Sierra Dove

PO Box 1729; Alto, New Mexico 88312

Phone: 575-336-1933

email Julia

Thank You from the Children of Eating SmART!

Thank you for showing us how to do stuff and eat right. I loved all the things we learned. I liked painting the fish.

--Love, Your Friend, Hope

Thank you for having the art classes that we did this summer! I liked the jewelry painting and the clay sculpture and when we got to plant the garden. It was so much fun! THANK YOU! --Mariah

Thank you for everything! We liked painting and making the garden. Thanks for all the projects we did this summer.

--Clavin and Adrian

Thank you for the garden and the dance program!

--Samuel

What I liked best was the art because we get to make stuff and take it home.

--Korey King

Thank you for coming and visiting us in the summer. I liked painting, jewelry, and working in the garden. Thank you for everything you have done with us this summer. The garden is very pretty. It has been so much fun.

Thank you for teaching us the art projects. Thank you for teaching us how to draw cartoons. Thank you for helping us plant the garden.

--Lauren

Thank you for everything! The very best part was the garden and learning the Freedom Train song. Thank you for the field trips. Thank you for the program this summer. Everything was SO wonderful! We had fun!

--Katelyn and Pearl

Thank you for the healthy food and the garden and when we went caving.

--Lily

Many Thanks!