SportsMix believes in building and contributing to our local community. Teams in each league play for prize money to donate to the teams’ charity of choice. SportsMix is all about encouraging living a balanced lifestyle through physical fitness (playing sports), social interaction (Mixers) and spirit (community involvement).
SportsMix hand picks each charity and creates partnerships that will directly benefit our local community and State. Along with donating prize money, SportsMix will be presenting opportunities for our members to contribute their time to help on a variety of charitable projects.
Below is a list of local charities SportsMix supports. Below please take the time to visit the each charity’s website for more information and volunteer opportunities.
Our Featured Charities throughout New Mexico
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Animal Humane Society
www.ahanm.org
To improve the lives of companion animals through sheltering, adoption, community education, providing quality veterinary services to families in need, and programs that reduce pet overpopulation.
Barrett Foundation
www.barrettfoundation.org
Barrett Foundation is an independent, nonprofit organization in Albuquerque, New Mexico, helping homeless women and children build better lives. In addition to food, clothing and shelter, Barrett Foundation provides case management, critical skills training, and the support needed to plan and establish a more stable future, for themselves and their children.
Since its founding as a nonsectarian institution twenty years ago by Brother Mathias Barrett, Barrett House has given refuge to more than 8,000 women and children. In February 2005 Barrett House moved to a new, larger emergency shelter in which 43 homeless women and children can be sheltered each night. The Barrett Foundation expects to provide more than 8,500 shelter nights and 19,000 meals during the coming year.
Joy Junction
www.joyjunction.org
Joy Junction is a shelter providing both emergency and longer-term food, shelter, clothing, transportation, and an array of other services for homeless women and families. It is the largest shelter of its kind in the state, and usually shelters about 300 people daily.
Joy Junction accepts donations of food, clothing, furniture, appliances, bedding, linens, household items such as bleach, toilet paper, paper towels, trash bags, etc. Please note that we cannot accept any damaged items as we do not have a repair facility. All clothing, furniture, and appliances are sorted at our warehouse and sent to our thrift shop.
New Mexico Special Olympics
www.sonm.org
Special Olympics New Mexico provides year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with mental challenges (intellectual disabilities), giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendship with their families, other Special Olympics athletes and the community.
Children and adults with intellectual disabilities who participate in Special Olympics develop improved physical fitness and motor skills, greater self-confidence and a more positive self-image. They grow physically, mentally, and socially, and through their activities, exhibit boundless courage and enthusiasm, enjoy the rewards of friendship and ultimately discover not only new abilities and talents but “their voices” as well. Through successful experiences in sports, Special Olympics New Mexico athletes are given opportunities to feel good about who they are and celebrate their accomplishments, which carry over into the classroom, the home, the job and the community.
Roadrunner Food Bank
www.rrfb.org
Roadrunner Food Bank of New Mexico has been serving New Mexico’s hungry since 1980 and is the leader in creating solutions to end hunger in New Mexico. Since its inception twenty-eight years ago, Roadrunner Food Bank has distributed more than 170 million pounds of food. That’s more than 5000 transfer truckloads of food. 1out of 6 New Mexicans are at risk of going hungry everyday. Mission is to end hunger in New Mexico.
Susan G. Komen for the Cure
www.komencnm.org
Born in a promise between two sisters -- Nancy Brinker to her sister, Susan G. Komen, who died from breast cancer at the age of 36 - our vow to end breast cancer forever has become the promise of millions.
Since launching the breast cancer movement 25 years ago, we've transformed the culture - how the world talks about and treats this devastating disease and helping to turn millions of breast cancer patients into breast cancer survivors.
Today, Susan G. Komen for the Cure is the world's largest and most progressive grassroots network of breast cancer survivors and activists - the only grassroots organization fighting to cure breast cancer at every stage, from the causes to the cures and the pain and anxiety of every moment in between.
UNM Children's Hospital
www.hospitals.unm.edu/UNMCH/
UNM Children's Hospital, a division of the University of New Mexico Health Science Center (UNMHSC) is an academic medical center with health care providers who are expertly trained to provide the most advanced neonatology and pediatric care available in New Mexico. Our care ranges from Ambulatory care outpatient clinics to inpatient units providing the highest level of intensive care hospitalization. Each year UNM Children's Hospital cares for nearly 40,000 children, more than 50 percent of whom live outside of the Albuquerque area. Everyone in a family is affected when a child is hospitalized. At UNM Children's Hospital, we make it our mission to involve you, as a family, in your child's care. We recognize that every family has different ways of coping and has different needs; we honor and respect these differences.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central New Mexico
www.bbbs.org
Big Brothers Big Sisters is the oldest, largest and most effective youth mentoring organization in the United States. We have been the leader in one-to-one youth service for more than a century, developing positive relationships that have a direct and lasting impact on the lives of young people. Big Brothers Big Sisters serves children, ages 6 through 18, in communities across the country - including yours.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central New Mexico has fostered positive one-to-one mentoring relationships for close to forty years in our six -county service area; Bernalillo, Cibola, Sandoval, Socorro, Torrance, and Valencia Counties.
Big Brothers Big Sisters' Mission is to help children reach their potential through professionally supported, one-to-one relationships that have a measurable impact.
Bernalillo County Council of PTA Clothing Bank
www.bccpta.org
The mission of the BCCPTA Clothing Bank has remained the same throughout its fifty-nine (59) years in the community, to provide school clothing to students in need enabling them to continue to go to school. While the mission of the PTA Clothing Bank has not changed over the years, the number of students served and the cost of serving them has changed dramatically. In the early 1950 the Clothing Bank saw 100 students a year we now see close to 3,000 each year.
