CSC Projects and Sponsored Projects:

--Binational Schools Project, an ongoing effort to develop fully articulated K-12 curricula and student exchanges between New Mexico and Chihuahua schools.

--Indigenous Exchange Project is a cultural exchange program between New Mexico Pueblos and Mexican Indians to find common ground and common cultural touchstones through intense on site group-to-group meetings and ceremonies.

--Affordable Housing in Land Grant & Colonias Communities Project is working to help land grant and colonias communities develop alternative housing that is economically competitive with mobile homes and manufactured housing. The goal of the project is to build personal wealth for working and poor people through home ownership.

--Rural Economic Development Summit is an ongoing series of statewide meetings organized and facilitated by CSC to bring land grant communities and colonias together with local, state and federal agencies to plan and implement effective economic development programs.

--Latino Sustainability Institute was founded by CSC president Arturo Sandoval to serve as a statewide Latino conservation organization to provide advocacy, education and policy on key conservation issues in New Mexico.

--Dual Language of New Mexico is one the country’s pre-eminent dual language organizations. It provides training, educational materials, curricula and advocacy for dual language immersion programs that build high language competency for students K-12.

--Strategic Leadership Institute is a statewide learning community and tappable network of New Mexico’s progressive leaders.

--New Energy Economy is dedicated to creating opportunities for New Mexico by developing solutions to global warming, primarily through the promotion and use of alternative and renewable energy.

--Prison Literacy Project seeks to make books, reading and literacy programs an integral part of inmates’ lives to enrich and elevate the spirit and enhance chances of attaining goals that are grounded, responsible and contributory.

Affordable Housing through Adobe Construction—This project brings together land grant activists and housing professionals to develop a comprehensive plan to create adobe-made affordable housing for low income people in New Mexico.

AMP Concerts—This project produces the annual Globalquerque! Music Festival, which brings diverse and seldom seen musical performers from across the world for performances in Albuquerque. This project also produces regular year-around world music programs for audiences in Albuquerque and Santa Fe.

Green Building—This project works with local governments to encourage retrofitting of public buildings to LEED standards and works to ensure that any new public buildings are built to LEED standards.

Indicators’ Progress Commission—This project brings together a cross-section of Albuquerque residents to help City officials define the ideal conditions in which the citizens would like to live. This process is completed every four years.

International Art Apprenticeship Project—This project provided support for a young and emerging Native-American artist to study with a world-class master in France for one year.

Architecture 2030—This project provides support to other architects interested in learning how to design and build housing, public buildings and other public structures using the latest climate-friendly technologies.

New Mexico Oral History Project—This project provided support for a writer/poet to record the stories, wisdom and lives of elderly Hispano residents of northern New Mexico.

Communications Technology and New Internet—This project provided technical support to non-profit organizations and local communities to develop their capacity to obtain and use communications technologies, including access to the Internet.

South Valley Restoration—This project created and facilitated public involvement in a Super Fund settlement project to restore water quality to Albuquerque’s South Valley.

United Mexican-American Students Retrospective—This project researched the history of the Chicano student movement at the University of New Mexico from 1968-1970 and presented a community forum to hear speakers and films documenting the student group and its activities.

New Mexico Public Lands Action Network—This project works to ensure that OHV riders use public lands in a responsible and safe manner. The project promotes OHV safe riding and respect for rules of the road to all New Mexicans.

Past CSC projects have included:

--Las Mujeres de la Tierra del Sol, an oral history and photo documentation project that gathered archival and educational information on New Mexico Hispanic women. The University of New Mexico Library is the permanent repository for the project. The project presents a traveling photo and oral history exhibit to schools across New Mexico. CSC has helped Las Mujeres grow into a bilingual education project that is producing classroom materials, developing curriculum, and providing teacher training. CSC helped Las Mujeres become a stand-alone project in 1996.

--Festival de Otoño, an annual celebration of Albuquerque’s South Valley that includes educational, visual arts, oral history, and performing arts by South Valley youth, a traditional burning of the bogeyman, called Kookooee, a community parade and a two-day arts and crafts fair that attract more than 15,000 people. (Co-sponsored with the Rio Grande Community Development Corporation, Inc.)

--Festival Flamenco Internacional, the leading flamenco teaching and performance event in North America. CSC provided key organizational development, fundraising, evaluation and management support to the Festival Flamenco Internacional from 1991--1995, when CSC helped the Festival become a stand-alone project. Of special note is CSC’s effective strategy to build the Festival’s earned income base, which is currently an astounding 78% of all Festival-generated income. CSC also helped the Festival’s budget increase tenfold between 1992 and 1995.

--Las Promotoras Tradicionales Project has created a collective of community teachers and learners who bring a different view of medicine and economic development to the underserved, uninsured and economically disadvantaged women of Albuquerque. The project is increasing access to preventative health care services, expanding capacity for community health education, and forging a link between health care providers and traditional community healers.

--Teatro Nuevo México is a multilingual, multicultural theater that promotes Spanish and English plays, trains New Mexicans in all theater arts, produces original plays based on New Mexico themes and issues and encourages New Mexico youth to engage in theater as an educational and human development process.