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Think New Mexico
2 days ago
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A week ago, we needed to raise $50,000 to match 5 generous challenge grants. you all have been so generous that we have been working overtime to keep up!

By this morning, 116 New Mexicans spanning the state from Raton to Las Cruces and from to Gallup to Portales (as well as several friends from out of state) came through with $69,381, more than enough to match the initial $50,000 challenge. This is the first time in our history that our initial challenge was matched in less than a week - but keep reading, there's more!

Because we want to match as many of your contributions as possible, we are very grateful that one extremely generous supporter has stepped up and offered an additional $50,000 challenge, doubling the total challenge from $50,000 to $100,000. This is the largest single challenge grant that we have ever received.

So if we receive an additional $30,619 by this Friday, you will have raised $200,000, nearly one-third of our total annual budget, to support Think New Mexico's work to improve schools, end predatory lending, and repeal the tax on Social Security income.

Please help us reach this ambitious goal by donating online or mailing in a check or sending in a pledge!

We also still have quite a distance to go to meet the $25,000 match for new contributors, new monthly supporters, and returning donors. We are deeply grateful to the 14 contributors who gave to Think New Mexico for the very first time, the three supporters who signed up to become Monthly Amigos, and the two returning donors who made a donation for the first time in five years (one of them for the first time in 16 years!).

All of those gifts are being matched 2:1 by a separate $25,000 challenge grant, meaning that the $3,853 contributed from these donors has already leveraged $7,707 from the challenge grant.

However, in order to receive the full $25,000 challenge grant, we still need to raise and $8,647 from new donors, new monthly donors, and returning donors by this Friday, October 29 at 11:59 p.m.

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A week ago, we needed to raise $50,000 to match 5 generous challenge grants. you all have been so generous that we have been working overtime to keep up! By this morning, 116 New Mexicans spanning the state from Raton to Las Cruces and from to Gallup to Portales (as well as several friends from out of state) came through with $69,381, more than enough to match the initial $50,000 challenge. This is the first time in our history that our initial challenge was matched in less than a week - but keep reading, theres more! Because we want to match as many of your contributions as possible, we are very grateful that one extremely generous supporter has stepped up and offered an additional $50,000 challenge, doubling the total challenge from $50,000 to $100,000. This is the largest single challenge grant that we have ever received. So if we receive an additional $30,619 by this Friday, you will have raised $200,000, nearly one-third of our total annual budget, to support Think New Mexicos work to improve schools, end predatory lending, and repeal the tax on Social Security income. Please help us reach this ambitious goal by donating online or mailing in a check or sending in a pledge! We also still have quite a distance to go to meet the $25,000 match for new contributors, new monthly supporters, and returning donors. We are deeply grateful to the 14 contributors who gave to Think New Mexico for the very first time, the three supporters who signed up to become Monthly Amigos, and the two returning donors who made a donation for the first time in five years (one of them for the first time in 16 years!). All of those gifts are being matched 2:1 by a separate $25,000 challenge grant, meaning that the $3,853 contributed from these donors has already leveraged $7,707 from the challenge grant. However, in order to receive the full $25,000 challenge grant, we still need to raise and $8,647 from new donors, new monthly donors, and returning donors by this Friday, October 29 at 11:59 p.m. Thank you so much for your generous support!
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5 days ago
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This terrific editorial by The Santa Fe New Mexican is right on!

Adding personal finance education to the state's social studies standards is an essential first step toward ensuring that every student learns the finance skills they need to thrive in work and life.

"Think New Mexico wants the state Public Education Department to add personal finance to the social studies curriculum. Building practical economic skills would be woven into the economics classes already being taught in social studies. In kindergarten, children might learn about needs versus wants, while in high school, students might learn more complicated topics, such as investing for retirement or staying atop their personal finances.

Armed with such knowledge, a worker starting a first job might be less inclined to buy a too-expensive car or take out a short-term loan with high interest rates. That worker could avoid the serious financial mistakes that lead to bankruptcy. In short, financial literacy is essential— a customer-friendly course that could serve its user for a lifetime."

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Offering personal finance in public schools makes sense — it will help make sure young people understand dollars and cents before they go it alone as adults.
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New Mexico is one of only five states that fails to include personal finance in its K-12 education standards. We're working to make sure every student learns these essential life skills.

"Santa Fe-based Think New Mexico says public school students could build practical financial skills while learning about economics, which already is taught in social studies classes. If its recommendations are approved, the group says, the state’s kindergartners eventually will be able to distinguish financial “needs” from “wants,” and high school graduates will be able to invest in a Roth IRA and decipher the fine print in loan agreements.

“Personal finance alone is not the silver bullet to solving all of our problems in education, but it’s a start,” said Abenicio Baldonado, Think New Mexico’s education reform director. “We can start attacking generational poverty, which our state has suffered from.”

Many students would take their newfound financial knowledge home to parents and guardians who may need it, Baldonado added.

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Santa Fe-based Think New Mexico says public school students could build practical financial skills while learning about economics, which already is taught in social studies classes.
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Myron Lizer, Vice President of the Navajo Nation, eloquently explains why New Mexico should make personal finance education a graduation requirement for all of our students, just as our neighbors in Arizona have already done.

"Prior to becoming vice president of the Navajo Nation, I learned through the school of hard knocks for many years. Being a meat cutter in Phoenix, I learned I had much more to offer in my life than cutting meat at a grocery store. Then, I proceeded to receive higher education in business administration at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colo. — where I gained enough wisdom with finances to operate the family businesses on the Navajo Nation.

Through these experiences, and because I did not have access to a personal finance course in high school, I realized I had missed out on a vital opportunity. As a result, I continue to advocate for personal finance courses across the Navajo Indian Reservation, for our Diné students to become confident and capable of handling their monies.

In Arizona, I am honored to serve on the state treasurer’s Financial Literacy Task Force, which advances financial literacy for students and families across the state. Just last year, Arizona enacted Senate Bill 1184, making financial literacy and personal finance management a high school graduation requirement. These topics are now included in a required one-semester course in economics.
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I urge Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham to place personal finance education on the call for the 2022 legislative session. I also urge the New Mexico Senate to join the New Mexico House in passing legislation to make personal finance a high school graduation requirement. Ahe’hee’."

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In the heart of the Diné Nation, a public school was recognized for its educational commitment to providing students with an opportunity that is currently missing in the rest of
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Think New Mexico
1 week ago
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This year, five extremely generous New Mexicans who believe strongly in Think New Mexico's work have put together a pool of challenge grants totaling $50,000 - now we need your help to raise another $50,000 by Friday, October 29 at 11:59 p.m. in order to meet this ambitious challenge!

You can help us meet this challenge by donating online using the link below.

www.paypal.com/donate/?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=G5NJ673ZUKSJQ

In addition, another supporter has offered a separate $25,000 challenge grant that must be matched with contributions from new donors, new Monthly Amigos (monthly donors), or returning donors who haven't given to Think New Mexico in the past five years.

All of these contributions will be matched 2:1, meaning that every $1 from a new donor, new monthly donor, or donor who hasn't given since 2016 will raise $3 to help support our work.

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This year, five extremely generous New Mexicans who believe strongly in Think New Mexicos work have put together a pool of challenge grants totaling $50,000 - now we need your help to raise another $50,000 by Friday, October 29 at 11:59 p.m. in order to meet this ambitious challenge! You can help us meet this challenge by donating online using the link below. https://www.paypal.com/donate/?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=G5NJ673ZUKSJQ In addition, another supporter has offered a separate $25,000 challenge grant that must be matched with contributions from new donors, new Monthly Amigos (monthly donors), or returning donors who havent given to Think New Mexico in the past five years. All of these contributions will be matched 2:1, meaning that every $1 from a new donor, new monthly donor, or donor who hasnt given since 2016 will raise $3 to help support our work. Thank you so much for your support!
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A week ago, we needed to raise $50,000 to match 5 A week ago, we needed to raise $50,000 to match 5 generous challenge grants. you all have been so generous that we have been working overtime to keep up! By this morning, 116 New Mexicans spanning the state from Raton to Las Cruces and from to Gallup to Portales (as well as several friends from out of state) came through with $69,381, more than enough to match the initial $50,000 challenge. This is the first time in our history that our initial challenge was matched in less than a week - but keep reading, there's more! Because we want to match as many of your contributions as possible, we are very grateful that one extremely generous supporter has stepped up and offered an additional $50,000 challenge, doubling the total challenge from $50,000 to $100,000. This is the largest single challenge grant that we have ever received. So if we receive an additional $30,619 by this Friday, you will have raised $200,000, nearly one-third of our total annual budget, to support Think New Mexico's work to improve schools, end predatory lending, and repeal the tax on Social Security income. Please help us reach this ambitious goal by donating online (link in bio) or mailing in a check or sending in a pledge! We also still have quite a distance to go to meet the $25,000 match for new contributors, new monthly supporters, and returning donors. We are deeply grateful to the 14 contributors who gave to Think New Mexico for the very first time, the three supporters who signed up to become Monthly Amigos, and the two returning donors who made a donation for the first time in five years (one of them for the first time in 16 years!). All of those gifts are being matched 2:1 by a separate $25,000 challenge grant, meaning that the $3,853 contributed from these donors has already leveraged $7,707 from the challenge grant. However, in order to receive the full $25,000 challenge grant, we still need to raise and $8,647 from new donors, new monthly donors, and returning donors by this Friday, October 29 at 11:59 p.m. Thank you so much for your generous support!
This year, five extremely generous New Mexicans wh This year, five extremely generous New Mexicans who believe strongly in Think New Mexico's work have put together a pool of challenge grants totaling $50,000 - now we need your help to raise another $50,000 by Friday, October 29 at 11:59 p.m. in order to meet this ambitious challenge! You can help us meet this challenge by donating online using the link in our bio. In addition, another supporter has offered a separate $25,000 challenge grant that must be matched with contributions from new donors, new Monthly Amigos (monthly donors), or returning donors who haven't given to Think New Mexico in the past five years. All of these contributions will be matched 2:1, meaning that every $1 from a new donor, new monthly donor, or donor who hasn't given since 2016 will raise $3 to help support our work. Thank you so much for your support!
New Mexico's students deserve personal finance edu New Mexico's students deserve personal finance education! New Mexico is one of only 5 states that does not include personal finance education in its state education standards. Personal finance standards teach students essential life skills and concepts like budgeting, checking and savings accounts, credit, interest, investment in stocks and bonds, and the costs of borrowing. All students benefit from this education, whether they are going on to college or entering the workforce. The NM Public Education Department is currently revising its social studies standards and Think New Mexico has submitted comments urging the department to include personal finance standards as part of the K-12 economics benchmarks. Please add your voice to ours and encourage the state's education leaders to make sure that all students have access to essential personal finance education! https://www.thinknewmexico.org/action-center/#/40
Marisa Pérez González wears her Think New Mexico Marisa Pérez González wears her Think New Mexico “thinking cap” while reading and relaxing on the beach in Portugal!
We are delighted to have Sophie Hare as one of our We are delighted to have Sophie Hare as one of our stellar Think New Mexico Summer Leadership Interns for 2021! Sophie is a native New Mexican and rising third-year merit scholarship student at the University of Chicago, where she is majoring in Public Policy, with a dual concentration in healthcare and immigration studies, and minoring in Spanish. At UChicago, Sophie tutors immigrants studying for the US citizenship exam and serves on the Student Advisory Boards of both David Axelrod’s Institute of Politics and the College’s Public Policy Department. Sophie has previously interned with the political consulting firm Seven Letter Strategies in Washington, DC, and with KJD Strategies in Chicago. She has volunteered on many New Mexico campaigns, including that of Senator Ben Ray Luján. Prior to college, Sophie spent a year working in Madrid to improve her Spanish. She hopes to pursue a career in public policy and work for institutional change on the state and federal level.
Great to see Ken Saxon wearing his “thinking cap Great to see Ken Saxon wearing his “thinking cap” at his home in Santa Barbara, California!
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As you head back to school, make sure you have you As you head back to school, make sure you have your trusty Think New Mexico hat like Romy Anderson pictured here sporting her “thinking cap”!
@walmart We were very disturbed to learn that you @walmart We were very disturbed to learn that you are still taxing delivered groceries in New Mexico even though that has been prohibited since July 1. We urge Secretary @stephanieschardin Clarke to crack down on this illegal practice! @nmvoices @thefooddepot @govmlg
We are delighted to have Ciara “Key” Macfarlan We are delighted to have Ciara “Key” Macfarland as one of our stellar Think New Mexico Summer Leadership Interns for 2021! Key was born and raised in Albuquerque and graduated from the Albuquerque Academy in 2018. Key is currently a rising senior at Colorado College, where she is pursuing a major in Political Science with a special interest in law and a minor in English. At Colorado College, Key is a member of the swim team, where she became the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference champion in the 400 IM and the recipient of the Rookie of the Year award as a freshman. She is currently an officer for the Student Athletic Advisory Committee, focusing on diversity and inclusion in the athletic department. Key previously interned for Collins and Collins, P.C., where she researched inequities in the New Mexico private prisons. Key plans to attend law school and pursue a career in criminal justice reform and civil rights law. She hopes to return to New Mexico to tackle the injustices in the correctional facilities across the state.
We are happy to have Abenicio Baldonado as Think N We are happy to have Abenicio Baldonado as Think New Mexico’s Education Reform Director! Abenicio grew up in Las Vegas, New Mexico, where he is a proud graduate of Robertson High School. He earned a BA in political science and Master of Public Affairs degree from Highlands University. Abenicio went on to teach government, economics, and history in a public New Mexico charter school, and later chaired the governing board of that school. He previously served as an Ethics Officer for the Secretary of State’s Office and as the Legislative Liaison at the Public Education Department under both Republican and Democratic administrations.
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