Understanding that people know their own communities best, we build upon personal experiences to impact the greater good. We support families and community leaders to take ownership of the solutions and lead the way, connecting communities to institutions and decision-makers, who, together, can create lasting change. 

• 2022-2023: Actively utilizing the Social Enterprise space along with fellow partners to build parent leadership, promote family advocacy opportunities, and host community events.
• 2022: We celebrated VOTE YES for New Mexico children! After decades of cross-organizational community action, New Mexico voters approved the expansion of the Permanent School Fund to invest $250M annually in early childhood education.
• 2020-2021: Supported a collaborative guaranteed basic income pilot with fellow organizations to secure and distribute over $35M in direct cash transfers specifically for families excluded from traditional relief funding.
• 2019-2020: Celebrating the Social Enterprise Center groundbreaking
• PCA selected as one of 20 organizations to participate in the Aspen Family Prosperity Innovation Community. Ascend’s initiative for breakthrough innovations and collaborations that position families to reach educational success, economic prosperity, health and well-being.  
• PCA pivots, amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, to serve the community virtually; family engagement, economic stability, leadership and advocacy opportunities remain at our core.
• PCA launches its Emergency Loan Program through the Co-Op Capital Program a collaboration with Nusenda Credit Union. The Program flips the traditional lending model and bases lending on trusted relationships between partner organizations and individuals in the communities they serve.
• Home-based childcare providers concluded a collaborative effort with a local artist to develop an arts-based curriculum for young children that emphasizes storytelling and cultural preservation
• Sept 2018: Medicaid Buy-in Resolution

• 2014: PCA launched community-based economic advancement initiatives focused on local small business and family economic security. 
• PCA leaders advocated tirelessly against predatory lenders and the economic duress these lenders create at the neighborhood level.
• Community leaders and PCA successfully got Bernalillo County on board with the initiative for Quality Healthcare for All. In 2016, PCA and the New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty successfully negotiated with Bernalillo County and the UNM Hospital to create a healthcare financial assistance policy that provides undocumented residents of Bernalillo County with low-cost healthcare services.
• Coordinated the Underage Drinking and Prescription Drug Prevention Program promoting  positive development of children, youth and families.
• PCA leaders began the development of the early childhood parent-led Cooperativa, Korimi. The Cooperativa managed early childhood supportive services that includes Abriendo Puertas, Prosperity Kids child savings accounts for over 300 children, nutritional cooking classes for home-based early childhood providers for La Cosecha and First Choice, NMAEYC Shared Services, Coop Consulting and others. 
• 2015: PCA moved into the Community Action Campus, which is becoming a shared community space where families, neighborhoods and institutions can come together to create enduring relationships, develop collective leadership, design innovative solutions and advocate for a stronger New Mexico. The improvement and revitalization of this property in the South Valley is an investment in innovative community and economic solutions with families at the center. PCA’s Community Action Campus contributes to the educational, economic and overall well-being of families and community.
• 2016: PCA joined the national Kresge Foundation FreshLo (fresh, local, and equitable access to healthy foods) cohort to strengthen community by integrating Creative Placemaking and food oriented development in

• Established the Neighborhood Collective Learning and Action Project, with the goal of improving early childhood educational outcomes in three neighborhoods in Bernalillo County. 
• PCA helped equip families with the knowledge and tools needed to advocate for their young children. This successful initiative grew into the Communities for Education and Action, which uses the Abriendo Puertas curriculum, and continues to expand its work with neighborhoods and supporting the development of strong parents. 
• Successfully worked with the Latino/Hispano Education Improvement Task Force coalition to pass the nation’s first Hispanic Education Act.
• Albuquerque Partnership changed its name to the Partnership for Community Action to better reflect the organization’s work with communities across central New Mexico. 
• Advocated for stricter consumer protection laws on mortgage modifications and foreclosure processes.

• The Albuquerque Partnership moved under the fiscal sponsorship of New Mexico Advocates for Children and Families, (now called New Mexico Voices for Children).
• The Partnership framed the issue of education reform as a civil rights issue, and moved with urgency to implement both short- and long-term strategies for education reform, closing the achievement gap, and offering quality school choice options for students and their families.
• 2002: The Albuquerque Partnership became an independent non-profit organization

• The Albuquerque Partnership successfully worked with local neighborhoods to identify nuisance liquor sale establishments that contributed to criminality and economic depression
•  Engaged the community to enforce responsible alcohol retailing, zoning ordinances, challenging land use variances, and prosecuting zoning violations.
• Coordinated with neighborhood associations to teach the process of monitoring alcohol vendors in their communities to ensure the safety of their neighborhoods. 
• Successfully led a statewide movement that resulted in the closure and ban of drive-up liquor stores – an outdated business model that heavily contributed to driving while under the influence and substance abuse in our state.

• November 1990: The Albuquerque Partnership was formed, bringing together 17 agencies to implement a five-year comprehensive plan, and engage community members in developing strategies to prevent substance abuse in the Greater Albuquerque Metropolitan area.
• July 1991: the City of Albuquerque, named lead agency in the grant, was funded for multi-year funding (5 years) with a reapplication process.