30440 Agoura Road

Agoura Hills, CA 91301

818.851.3700
Dear Peter Laugharn and Ofelia Esquivel,
Albuquerque Rescue Mission (ARM) is pleased to present this proposal for your review. We are
looking forward in partnering with you to provide homeless shelters and end homelessness in our
city.
During the last year, we have been piloting the Kids Are Home (KAH) program since 2015 to
give a certain number of housing for homeless children, and hundreds of individuals have been
helped. This program provides homeless children a good place to live and helps them face every
day struggles in society.
We have had measurable success with helping the homeless children and ending homeless
children in Albuquerque, and we are now seeking to expand our program to address the needs of
all homeless kids in the city. Our proposal requests $1,000,000 in funding to obtain the housing,
shelter, emergency care, and basic needs for homeless individuals.
We appreciate Hilton Conrad N. Hilton Foundation taking an interest in helping us end
homelessness through our program. Please give me a call at (918)-906-3194, if you require any
further information or have any questions or concerns on this proposal.
Sincerely,
Trung Nguyen
Coordinated Assessment Director
Albuquerque Rescue Mission
525 2nd St SW
Albuquerque, NM 87102
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30440 Agoura Road

Agoura Hills, CA 91301
818.851.3700
Project requesting funds: KIDS ARE HOME
Project amount: $2,000,000 total / 945000 request from Conrad N. Hilton Foundation
Dear Mr. Peter Laugharn and Ms. Ofelia Esquivel,
Introduction
In the history of ARM, the group was founded in 1954, and it grew, becoming the largest group
of helping homeless people in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The Albuquerque Rescue Mission has
been serving the homeless, hungry, and the ones who struggle for over 60 Years. ARM provide
services that include medical clinics, mental health care, emergency shelters, and substance
abuse counseling. All services are provide free of charge. ARM is open all week excluding
Sundays, from 6:00 am until 6:00 pm and Sundays from 8:30 am to noon. The doors of ARM are
open Monday through Saturday for those people who hungry and need help.
The ARM provides food, shelter, practical life skills, rehabilitation, shoes, clothing, and much
more imaginable. Our employment program has placed close to 200 people who attend full time
and volunteers who have attended part time over the past 3 years.
According to the Albuquerque Police Department, they have declared that Albuquerque currently
has more than 2,000 children under 15 years of age whom were homeless in the year of 2014.
Approximately 60 percent are school-aged children and 40 percent are under the age of six. We
has established a program called Kids Are Home (KAH) since 2015 to build a permanent shelter
and provide services to children who are under 15. We measure our success by giving certain
homeless children and their familys permanent shelter, and hundreds of individuals have been
helped so far. Now, we are seeking to expand an end in children homelessness in Albuquerque.
The Conrad Hilton Foundation assets are approximately $2.5 billion, and has helped over $11
million for homeless people. Im writing this proposal letter to request a $945,000 grant to help
the homeless children in Albuquerque. There are $1,000,000 which has already been funded in
this project. We would highly appreciate the Conrad Hilton Foundation if they are willing to fund
the rest of the amount; $945,000 dollars, for our project is to end homelessness in childrens lives
children for they are the future generation and we hope to have a great nation.
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Current Situation
Last year, 2015, the KAH was established. Our program has provided over 500 homeless
children and their parent shelter to live in and have a good place to sleep in the evening instead
of being maintained outdoors, in cars, or public places. However, with the number being more
than 2,000 homeless children (not including parents) compared to the number that have been
helped, it is not enough to give them what is needed the most, and to provide more for the
children; such as having a safe place to sleep, this is why we need your help. With your help,
over the next year, more than 1,500 homeless children will have a safe place to live, and have the
chances to develop their life skill with training by our volunteers.
In 2014, the report, Americas Youngest Outcast, has declared that New Mexico is the 46th
position of homeless children out of 50 states in the United States. This ranking is already
counted as an extent of homelessness (NM ranks 44), risk for child homelessness (NM ranks 44),
child well-being (NM ranks 37), and state policies (NM ranks 38) (See video for more
information https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKDVROZcITU ).

The current situation in New Mexico is that 22,463 children around the age of 17 and under, or
for every 30 homeless children in the United States there is at least 1 in New Mexico. The
numbers represent an increase up to 8% from 2012 through 2013 (Rick Nathanson). There are
many risk issues the can occur to homeless children, especially girls. Instead, in New Mexico,
the teen birth rate is 47.5 births per 1000 teens, which is the highest number in the US, and this
can be the cause to homelessness (Rick Nathanson). According to Veronica C. Garcia stated in
the Albuquerque Journal, Homelessness has a devastating impact on children that can last a
lifetime and negatively effects brain development (Albuquerque Journal). Homeless children
need a safe place to live, communicate, develop their ability to grow and to avoid bad things to
happen around them.

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There is a single mother

named Nolanda, who
struggles in finding a stable
housing for her children. She
moved from shelter to
shelter, and she also
struggled with trying to keep
her kids safe (Daily LoBo).
Another example in
Albuquerque is another
mother named Theresa, she
was first homeless at the age
of 14, she has 4 kids but one of kids was born premature and died. This happened to her for she
had a conflict with her boyfriend which caused her to become homeless again with her children.
Both her and her children became depressed making life for them unhappy and fighting
constantly. There are more and worse situations that can happen to children, and children still
have no safe place to live. This shows how important it is to help homeless children by providing
them a safe housing.
Furthermore, New Mexico has the second highest rate in teen alcohol, drug abuse, and the teen
suicide rate is more than the US average; drug overuse deaths in all ages is twice the number for
the US average, as well as one third of them have been affected by depression (New Mexico
Voices for Children). The number above is also including a huge quantitative of homeless
children. If homeless child have training, guidance, and living in a safe place, they wont have
many chances or influences in using alcohol and drugs which lead to depression and long term
effects, or thoughts about suicide.
By doing this project, we have created the solutions for these problems, which is buying old
warehouses in Albuquerque and rebuilding them for homeless children and their family to stay
in, as well as implements for living in the building. The project plan in this proposal will provide
full information and steps that we are going to do to end homeless children.
Project Plan
ARM has formulated a strategy to help end homeless children, we try to give homeless children
and their families a good environment and safe place to stay and sleep. We are buying old
warehouses and then rebuilding them to create the residences for homeless children in which will
be able to let them stay in and to avoid bad issues which can happen to them if they dont have a
safe place to stay
For the fact that the number of homeless children will not stop growing in the future, and our
buildings will not be enough room for all of the children and their families, we have decided to
give permanent housing for all children under age of six who have parents with disabilities until
they turn to 18 years of age, and 2 years temporary housing for all children as long as their parent
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accept to find a job. Also, when opening housing for homeless children, we will check that each
person meets enough requirements to stay.
Our goals in this project is to give a good place for all of the children to live in and to be properly
be fed and taken care of and to make all of the children feel safe and secure. The steps that we
have to take is to invest enough money to find a place to hold the children, make an organization
or an association to see where the children are and so they know that there is a safe place
provided with enough food, beds, rooms, blankets, pillows, storage and people to help. So far in
this project, we have already made funds for the access and people to help, and we are half way
of our invest money goal to buy a warehouse to rebuild.
GOAL: The KAH is established to help provide homeless children and their families a safe
place to live, an opportunity to develop their life skills by our staffs, volunteers and to finally end
homelessness in Albuquerque.

Objective 1: Increase revenue to support prevent and end child homelessness. To end
child homelessness in Albuquerque we will need adequate, stable, and predictable sources of
funding.
1. We will get funding from citizens and companies around Albuquerque, this should be
collected in a fair way which means not including unduly burden taxpayers or low
income.
2. Asking for mankind to help provide items such as clothing, shoes, and necessary
equipment.
3. Writing grant proposals, asking help from different organizations about helping
homelessness in the US.
4. Expand the funding annually to provide additional homeless children by securing a
dedicated source of funding for the KAH program which generates at least $1,000,000
each year.
5. Design posters (50) to put them front of Walmart, malls and 30 donation boxes placed
around Albuquerque, which contain information about our project to get receive funding
To do so, Trung Nguyen, working as Coordinated Assessment Director in ARM program will
convince the companies and other organization such as Churches to increase revenue by having a
meeting with their directors to show them the statistic and let them know the current situation of
child homelessness in Albuquerque.
ARM will also put several donation boxes outside of markets and malls to receive support from
people. Besides that, our staffs and volunteers will be in charge in making the posters and try to
sell merchandise such as candies, cakes, or doing housework for funding to help homeless
children.

Objective 2:

Find an appropriate warehouse to buy and rebuild for homeless children.

We will use the money from projects and by funding to buy two old warehouses that can hold
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enough people to stay based on the certain number of homeless children and their families by our
research and receive help from Albuquerque Police Department (APD).
1. Collecting data through website and APD statistics to find out how many children will
need a safe place to live
2. Decide how much an old warehouse will cost and which location is appropriate to buy it.
3. Sign contracts with companies that build houses and ask for help from volunteers.
To find an appropriate warehouse, Juanita Mitchell, who is working at finance/administration in
our organization will try to contact with some dealers and searching on websites to find out
which old warehouse is meets enough qualifications to be brought and transformed.
Besides collecting data from APD, we will assume that there are 500 families including homeless
children outside, and we will estimate to build approximately 600 rooms just to be on the safe
side.
We are looking for a non-profit rebuilding housing is our first choice. This organization was
established in 1994 with renovation of just 5 homes. Now a days, they are renovating 10 to 15
home evert year. Since our building is so big, we have decided to pay them the extra income to
help us. (http://www.rebuildingalbuquerque.com/)

Objective 3: Housing for homeless child and spread the words. The number of homeless
children is increasing each year, but our organization is not big enough to provide for them all.
So we will create a requirement form in able to see who will qualify to stay. The statements
below are the main purposes:
1. Create the qualification form which list requirement information from homeless parents
and children, which are:
Homeless children under the age of 15 who have disabled parents or their parents do
not have enough work ability. They will be supported with housing until the child
turns 18
Parents with enough work ability who have children from 1 to 15 have to attend our
Life Skill classes to get trained and agree to find a job during a 2 year term.
2. Create an outreach structure for reaching homeless children and ensure that homeless
children and their families are served fairly by our program.
3. Open workshops to provide information and do the application for homeless children on
weekdays every two weeks. Each workshop provides 300 applications.
In order to create the application form, our directors will have a meeting to list out the most
possible advantages to provide chances for homeless children and their families a safe place to
live. Trung Nguyen will present the detail ideas and information for homeless children and their
families in order to complete their application. Besides that, our staffs will guide the parents how
to do it correctly and make sure that they will agree to do what application say. We also support
free food during the workshop for all children and their families.
Qualification
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The Albuquerque Rescue Mission non-profit organization has supported efforts to help and end
long-term homelessness across the nation over the past 60 years. Since 1954, ARM has
approached more than $50 million in grant funding to support homelessness about access and
permanent housing. For over the years since the organization was established, the ARM has
develop the cost effective solution to homelessness and the primary solution are permanent
housing as a long term solution.
There are about 120 organizations in Albuquerque that provide food to hungry people. However
we are supporting more than just food. There are more than 350,000 meals served to the hungry,
44,411 nights of safe shelter was provided, 8,750 hours of classes, work training, and 6,980
hours of 1-on-1 counseling was also provided. We also help the children arrive to school, and
provide free classes training children from 6 to 15 year of age. The ARM has received more than
1,500 in-kind donations a year, including budgets, foods, clothing, books, towels, shoes,
toiletries, and much more.
Our free residential programs provide drug and alcohol recovery, job training, continuing
education, and Biblical discipleship to men, women and children. We are dedicated in teaching
the skills necessary for a life to be transformed. The Albuquerque Rescue Mission's residential
programs operate longer than any other of their kind - 12 to 22 months - in Albuquerque.

Management
With over sixty years of doing the project, our managements and staffs has been provide
with huge experiences and reasonable skills to develop the organization.
As a Coordinated Assessment Director in the ARM organization, Trung Nguyen has
created and led the organization change with a clear sense of direction and a strong sense of
purpose. He has an expertise leading major organization change and executive levels. Hes also
been assigned to lead and manage staff with more than 15 years of experience. He begins by
reviewing each personal record of all other management and staff to determine their strength and
weakness as documents in there document records to help them develop their skill in helping the
homeless. Hes also have had a lot of experiences in helping homeless people such as attending
the world organization in ending homelessness in other countries such as Vietnam, Thai, or Laos.
Since the time he was accepted to be director, he has helped the organization develop in
cooperations with other organizations to help homelessness and by giving the ARM the specific
plan of what we should do to end homelessness effectively.
Juanita Mitchell, finance/administration at ARM system. She has worked in organizations
for more than 10 years. In January 2005, she was accepted as the financial/ administration
director from ARM when they were looking for someone who could create and control a much
stronger financial and administrative management function; he was that person. He has helped
the organization get funds from other organizations, and create reasonable budgets using all of
the ARM system. With a limited budget, limited resources, he develop a strategy to improve the
financial budget in order to help ARM have enough money to help homelessness.
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By working together, we are confident that we will accomplish this project responsibly and
effectively.
Budget
Description

Conrad Hilton

Other
Funding

In- Kind

TOTAL

Personnel
Trung Nguyen

Juanita Mitchell

Staffs

Volunteers

Full time program Coordinated

Assessment Director/job yearly
salary. Trung will be part time
volunteer for the project, working
5 hours/day. We already have the
funding for his salary from
Standup for Kid Foundation
Working full time at
finance/administration and
paying yearly salary. She will be
full time volunteer, but we
requesting 22% salary for her
from Conrad Hilton Foundation
Our staffs (25) will work 6 hours
per week in this project for 3
months, at $20 per person per
hour. We also need funding from
Conrad Hilton

There are 55 volunteers from

University of New Mexico
coming to help our project for 4
hours/week in one month. Paying
with $12/hour

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5500

6600

35000

45500

30000

36600

36000

36000

10560

10560

Rebuilding
together company

Were asking for help from the

10000
rebuilding together company to
repair the building that we will
buy, and to make the rooms. The
amount needed to pay for the
company is $30,000 just to repair
housing. Fortunately, the
company agree to support us with
reducing two/thirds of the price,
which to support for the
volunteers during their work.

20000

30000

Were going to buy two old

warehouses, the first one located
on Copper street, the warehouse
with approximate 18,000 SF.
The second warehouse is located
on 6th St with 31,503 SF. The
second warehouse was found by
Churches, and other non-profit
organization for homelessness
50 poster will be placed around
Albuquerque, inside and outside
of Walmart and malls. This will
inform people about our project

110000

1825000

Housing,
Equipment &
communication

Warehouse

Poster

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825000

1000

1000

Donation Boxes

30 donation boxes will be placed

around Albuquerque to receive
fundings

Blanket & pillow

For homeless children and their

family.
Blanket : 3000
Pillow: 3200

TOTAL per
funding source

4000

36000
11750

4000

9000 (600)
4250 (850)

945000

Cost and Benefit

We are all aware of the fact that there are a lot of homelessness in the world, but we seem to be
too busy in our everyday lives that we do not seem to pay attention much to what is actually
going on around us. Our proposal will benefit the homeless children in multiple ways, by provide
them a safe place to stay and live is very helpful to those for it gives them a sense of comfort and
hope for tomorrow. Being outside for the whole night is quite dangerous, and the weather
conditions could be horrible leaving the children sick or in bad condition. Also, children could be
having a bad day for they don't have much supplies, and providing a safe place to come to every
night is a good way to end the bad issue can happen for them, for us and for society.
Cost is the most important item needed in our plan. As shown in the Budget table, the cost is
estimated around $ 2,000,000 to accomplish this project. We believe the funding from Conrad
Hilton Foundation will help us to end child homeless in Albuquerque
Moreover, the children will have chances to be trained and taught by our staffs about life skills
based on age, are for free. Besides that, they will also been take care about health by our medical
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37500
15000

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health groups. This will give them a lot of experiences when they grow and help them prevent
bad diseases which may occur usually in children age.
By supporting housing and training, this will provide a safe place for homeless children in
Albuquerque, preventing many bad issues from happening in their lives, and to help them face
struggles is society. Finally, this project will help reduce the current number of homelessness of
children in Albuquerque.
Thank you for your consideration, we really appreciate the Conrad Hilton Foundation in having
interest in helping us start this project, and its amazing for us to share your kindness to others.
Please call Trung Nguyen at 1-918-906-3194, our Coordinate Assessment Director, or you can
email him at trungnuyen@unm.edu, and feel free to contact us if you have any questions/ or
concerns.

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Reisen26, Matthew. "Center Gives Homeless Kids a Healthy Environment." The Daily Lobo.
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