2024 Financial Services and General Government Congressionally Directed Spending Requests

Signed Disclosure Letter Available Here.

Project Description: The Asian Business Collaborative will assist small businesses through technical assistance, expertise, workforce development, job training, and public/private partnership resources.

Project City/County: Albuquerque, NM

Amount Requested: $100,000

Project Description: The Borderlands and Ethnic Studies Department at New Mexico State University will expand their program to collect and archive primary sources on Southern New Mexican history to create an online digital archive and lesson plans resource. 

Project City/County: Las Cruces, NM

Amount Requested: $170,000

Project Description: Center of Southwest Culture Community Development Center will provide year-round technical support, training, and resources to small farmers, cultural tourism efforts, and emerging small businesses in New Mexico.

Project City/County: Bernalillo County, NM

Amount Requested: $160,000

Project Description: Center of Southwest Culture Community Development Center will provide year-round technical support, training, and resources to small farmers, cultural tourism efforts, and emerging small businesses in New Mexico.

Project City/County: Bernalillo County, NM

Amount Requested: $160,000

Project Description: The County of Luna DWI Program will provide community outreach, education, and alternative activities for youth in Deming and Columbus area to encourage substance-use prevention.

Project City/County: Luna County, NM

Amount Requested: $200,000

Project Description: Taos County’s Rural Co-working and Resource Network initiative will leverage our existing network of rural community centers to provide resources and technical assistance in support of small businesses.

Project City/County: Taos County, NM

Amount Requested: $1,000,000

Project Description: DreamSpring will expand its online technical assistance and training materials in English and Spanish for small businesses and entrepreneurs.

Project City/County: Albuquerque, NM

Amount Requested: $307,000

Project Description: DreamSpring will increase targeted, personalized outreach to small businesses in high-impact rural areas of New Mexico to provide one-on-one technical assistance and financial counseling.

Project City/County: Albuquerque, NM

Amount Requested: $200,000

Project Description: The Farmington Museum Daily Times Digitization Project will provide insight into daily life and culture of the Four Corners area throughout the late 20th century.

Project City/County: Farmington, NM

Amount Requested: $175,000

Project Description: Girls Inc. of Santa Fe will deliver the Friendly PEERsuasion program to girls ages 11 to 14 and PEERsuade-Me, a similar program for girls 6 to 10, to build skills for resisting pressure from peers, media, and others to use tobacco, alcohol, and illegal substances and to introduce them to healthy ways of responding to stress.

Project City/County: Santa Fe, NM

Amount Requested: $338,000

Project Description: The Greater Gallup Economic Development Corporation’s New Mexico Hydrogen Business Accelerator Initiative will create a hydrogen-economy ecosystem in Northwest New Mexico to provide hydrogen companies access to business technical assistance.

Project City/County: Gallup, NM

Amount Requested: $250,000

Project Description: Keshet’s Ideas and Innovation Community (KIIC) will provide technical assistance in funding strategies, marketing, and industry best practices for small businesses and arts entrepreneurs working in the creative industries.

Project City/County: Albuquerque, NM

Amount Requested: $225,000

Project Description: The Museum of the American Military Family & Learning Center will create a virtual library and digital archives to curate and preserve centuries of military family culture and history.

Project City/County: Tijeras, NM

Amount Requested: $100,000

Project Description: The Museum of Indian Arts and Culture’s Digitization Project will advance access to the institutional and collected research archives to scholars, educators, artists, and the wider public.

Project City/County: Santa Fe, NM

Amount Requested: $500,000

Project Description: The New Mexico Bioscience Authority’s Bioscience Business Accelerator program will support bioscience businesses in establishing valuable collaborations between academia and industry and procuring grant funding to support the commercialization of their innovations.

Project City/County: Albuquerque, NM

Amount Requested: $650,000

Project Description: This request would provide funds for the environmental impact statement (EIS) and the design project phases for the modernization of the Santa Teresa Port of Entry (POE).

Project City/County: Santa Teresa, NM

Amount Requested: $15,000,000

Project Description: The New Mexico Minority Business Development Agency Technical Assistance Project will provide professional business development services to support and promote the growth and success of minority-owned businesses across the state.

Project City/County: Albuquerque, NM

Amount Requested: $200,000

Project Description: The New Mexico Minority Business Development Agency Technical Assistance Project will provide training in high-demand skill areas to promote the growth and success of minority-owned businesses in northwestern New Mexico.

Project City/County: Albuquerque, NM

Amount Requested: $300,000

Project Description: The New Mexico Minority Business Development Agency Accelerator Business Growth Program will provide business development services to promote the growth of minority-owned businesses across the state.

Project City/County: Albuquerque, NM

Amount Requested: $80,000

Project Description: The New Mexico Museum of Space History in Alamogordo, NM, will increase access to its collections and archives to researchers and the public in an easily accessible digital format.

Project City/County: Alamogordo, NM

Amount Requested: $116,000

Project Description: The New Mexico Small Business Development Center will provide numerous business management trainings, including many that target hard to reach rural clients and minority, underserved populations, on a regular basis at no-cost to attendees.

Project City/County: Santa Fe, NM

Amount Requested: $338,000

Project Description: The New Mexico Veterans Business Advocates Expo will provide an opportunity for New Mexico’s Veteran-owned businesses to interact with potential partners, customers, and employees, enhancing their opportunities and potential for success.

Project City/County: Albuquerque, NM

Amount Requested: $50,000

Project Description: The NM Museum of Natural History and Science Digitization Project: Phase II will improve historical records digitization by photographing specimens, enhancing museum programs with online learning and discovery modules, and expanding online accessibility of these important records for all New Mexican.

Project City/County: Albuquerque, NM

Amount Requested: $200,000

Project Description: Partnership for Community Action will start the Quality Child Care Matters Program to train small businesses and entrepreneurs to fill critical community needs such as childcare.

Project City/County: Albuquerque, NM

Amount Requested: $250,000

Project Description: The Roswell Museum will digitize their collection to make it accessible to the public online.

Project City/County: Roswell, NM

Amount Requested: $250,000

Project Description: The Southeastern New Mexico Historical Society’s (SENMHS) Collections Improvement Project will help further protect its collections and expand public access to its physical and digital holdings of oral histories, photos, documents, and artifacts.

Project City/County: Carlsbad, NM

Amount Requested: $200,000

Project Description: The Three Sisters Kitchen's Manufactured Food Business Training Program will launch Spanish language programming for hands-on training and technical assistance for low-income, aspiring food business entrepreneurs in Bernalillo County.

Project City/County: Albuquerque, NM

Amount Requested: $300,000

Project Description: WESST will offer a pilot program -called Making a Living Through Entrepreneurship- to formerly incarcerated NM individuals.

Project City/County: Albuquerque, NM

Amount Requested: $139,000

Project Description: WESST will pilot a virtual incubation program as part of the WESST Incubator.

Project City/County: Albuquerque, NM

Amount Requested: $173,000

Project Description: The University of New Mexico Art Museum will create an online version of their collection that will be available to the public.

Project City/County: Albuquerque, NM

Amount Requested: $200,000