Help us cultivate immigrant leaders and create a strong community for all.

Your support allows us to provide our comunidad inmigrante with access to education and career development programs that strengthen the critical language, literacy, technology, and job skills needed to thrive in a 21st-century economy.

All donations are used to support Encuentro's programs, staff, and students.


Our Capital Campaign: A Success Story

  • Funding raised to date: $850,000 as of April 2023
  • Building purchase and remodel costs: $768,000 as of January 2023
  • Capital outlay (Legislative funds towards Phase II of the renovation): $537,000
  • Number of individual donors: 389
  • Building and renovation loan: XXX
  • Mortgage payment: $4,352
  • Interest over life of loan: $276,916

Our Capital Campaign: A Success Story

A large reception room in the newly renovated Encuentro building
  • Funding raised to date: $850,000 as of April 2023
  • Building purchase and remodel costs: $768,000 as of January 2023
  • Capital outlay (Legislative funds towards Phase II of the renovation): $537,000
  • Number of individual donors: 389
  • Building and renovation loan: XXX
  • Mortgage payment: $4,352
  • Interest over life of loan: $276,916

Our Journey So Far

Phase 1: Complete

Our community’s support has allowed our team to purchase, renovation and move into our new building.

Special thanks to the following honorees and sponsors who made the completion of Phase 1 possible:

Location Name

Sponsor

The Gathering Place – Our Building
The Joseph Gorvetzian and Nancy Croker Family
The Beatriz Mitchell Home Health Classroom
Carl C. Anderson Sr. & Marie Jo Anderson Charitable Foundation Logo
The Patricia & Hugo Bonilla Computer Lab
Comcast logo
The Dolores Huerta Citizenship Classroom

18 Jewish Families of New Mexico
The Anixter Family
Shana and Mark Baker
The Bernstein Rimson Family
Sandra, Tim, Jonah & Lilly Ortsman Butler
Center for Educational Initiatives
Emily Driver Moore
Renia Ehrenfeucht and Brent Morris
Andrew Gans and Ronnie Chavez
Eva Lynn and Leo Gans and Family
The Gutow Family
David and Tracy Idinopulos
The Painter-Rudd Family
Jeff Spiegel and Katie Gardner
The Tarica Whooley Family
The Trojahn and Gupton Families
Marc Powell and Pamela Weese Powell
The Wells Moller Family

El Rincón de Sabor Kitchen
In memory of Eleanore M. Radoslovich and Isidora M. Badua

Location Name

& Sponsor

The Gathering Place – Our Building
The Joseph Gorvetzian and Nancy Croker Family
The Beatriz Mitchell Home Health Classroom
Carl C. Anderson Sr. & Marie Jo Anderson Charitable Foundation Logo
The Joseph Gorvetzian and Nancy Croker Family
Comcast logo
The Dolores Huerta Citizenship Classroom

18 Jewish Families of New Mexico
The Anixter Family
Shana and Mark Baker
The Bernstein Rimson Family
Sandra, Tim, Jonah & Lilly Ortsman Butler
Center for Educational Initiatives
Emily Driver Moore
Renia Ehrenfeucht and Brent Morris
Andrew Gans and Ronnie Chavez
Eva Lynn and Leo Gans and Family
The Gutow Family
David and Tracy Idinopulos
The Painter-Rudd Family
Jeff Spiegel and Katie Gardner
The Tarica Whooley Family
The Trojahn and Gupton Families
Marc Powell and Pamela Weese Powell
The Wells Moller Family

El Rincón de Sabor Kitchen
In memory of Eleanore M. Radoslovich and Isidora M. Badua

Help us continue to make a difference.

In addition to room sponsorships and naming opportunities*, there are many ways you can help propel Encuentro forward.

For more information about giving to the Capital Campaign, contact [email protected]

*Each space will be named by Encuentro’s students and staff to honor key contributors to our mission. Sponsors will be recognized with a plaque in their designated room.

We have a big vision for this new space, but we need your help to get there.

We have the following sponsorship opportunities available: 

The Larry Moore ESL Classroom 

$50,000 sponsorship available

The Cesar Chavez Financial Literacy & Small Business Classroom

$50,000 sponsorship available

*La Guarderia Child Care Room

$50,000 sponsorship available

*TBD Playground

$50,000 sponsorship available

*Tu Voz Digital Community Journalism Recording Studio

$25,000 sponsorship available

*Pathway Navigators Office

$25,000 sponsorship available

The Andrea Plaza Founding Director’s Office

$30,000 sponsorship available

For more information, contact [email protected].

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