The Sonoran Desert Cultural Preservation Society is thrilled to announce that we are the recipient of the 2025 AZ Humanities Mini-Grant! This funding allows us to offer our eight-part Curanderismo Workshop Series to the public for FREE, removing barriers to connecting community with traditional medicine and ancestral healing arts education. See our "Events and Workshops" page to register for the workshops, and check out the " CAHAM: Center for Ancestral Healing Arts and Medicines" page for more information on our curanderismo educational programming. Thank you, AZ Humanities, for your support in this important work!
Dedicated to providing Arizonans with information about their legal rights and available resources when death occurs. Whether you’re anticipating a death through illness or age, or wanting to be prepared with the facts knowing death can come at any time, this website is designed to enable you and your community to be better equipped to provide meaningful, hands-on care for the dead—what is commonly called a "home funeral".
Celebrating and promoting the Latino presence in Arizona through arts, education, and advocacy.
A multigenerational learning center and designated St. Mary's Food Pantry that serves adults, youth, and families in the greater Phoenix area. Provides youth programming, adult education classes, health and wellness presentations, food boxes, safety net resources such as funeral and utility assistance, and DV support groups. Most services are FREE or low cost. The center also provides a meeting space for a fee for partnering agencies and local business to host their workshops, trainings or other meetings and events. https://bit.ly/CPLCCommunityCenter
Rooted in ancestral and Traditional Knowledge, the Cihuapactli Collective is committed to inclusively empowering families through providing healing for urban Indigenous Peoples from the diaspora. This is done by sharing wisdom, connecting resources, revitalizing Traditional Knowledge, and promoting and advocating for health & wellness.
The City of Phoenix's designated local arts agency. It supports, champions, and promotes the local arts, culture, and educational community to make Phoenix a great place to live, work, and visit.
Connecting communities and generations to ancestral knowledge and practices through artistic cultural preservation and programs.
A trusted advisor to leaders, achievers and people from all walks of life, curandera Patricia Federico focuses on spiritual comfort and insight, emotional healing, and limpias through her traditional teachings. She is also the creator of Madre Tierra Stress-Relief Mist and Nurture Lavender Body Soother, signature formulas which aids with anxiety and pain through their scent and molecular-nutritive properties.
A steady companion across the arc of life. Services for the dying and their loved ones through every stage of end of life, as well as for those who are simply curious about this oft-maligned subject. Assistance with navigating all non-medical aspects of the end-of-life process. Some refer to this work as death or end-of-life doula services, death midwifery, death coaching, or other titles.
A multicultural South Phoenix healing collective dedicated to community education, healing, and wellness for a holistically healthy future. Practitioners of curanderismo and other traditional medicine systems & ancestral healing arts from around the world are available for one-on-one or group healing sessions, education, community health fairs, weddings, funerals, memorial services, public and private ceremonies, and beyond.
A nonprofit tool lending program that provides organizations access to an inventory of tools for use in volunteer and community benefit projects. We provide tools to enhance the charitable sector’s capacity to serve, facilitating volunteerism in Phoenix.
A nonprofit art gallery and community space providing tools and opportunities to empower community through art, culture, and design. Cultivating prosperous communities rooted in arts and culture and engaged in conscious development.
Native woman owned and operated in Tucson, blending Mexican curanderismo and paganism to provide respectful alternatives that help people take care of their spiritual bodies. Products are handmade by local artists, partner artisans in México, and by Guadalupe (aka Lulu, owner and operator) for modern brujas and curanderas of all levels with the foundation of respecting sacred herbs, tribes, and practices.
A nonprofit art gallery and community space providing tools and opportunities to empower community through art, culture, and design. Cultivating prosperous communities rooted in arts and culture and engaged in conscious development.
An award winning & Native Owned Acupuncture Clinic and Retail Herb Store in the heart of Albuquerque's North Valley. Carries over 500 dried loose herbs that are sourced sustainably, ethically, and third party certified organic from local farmers whenever possible. Supports many community organizations focused on Indigenous health & wellness, environmental health, and sustainability.
A unique University of New Mexico course on the history and practice of traditional medicine and healing arts featuring instructors from all over the Southwest, Mexico, Latin America, and beyond. Provides information on the history, traditions, rituals, herbs, and remedies of Curanderismo, a folk healing tradition of the Southwestern United States, Latin America, and Mexico, amongst other countries. Instructors explore integrative approaches to medicine and feature demonstrations that incorporate Curanderismo with various traditional, holistic, and allopathic health techniques.
An Albuquerque-based, community-supported 501(c)3 non-profit organization started in 2014 to reestablish the connectivity of people, plants, and the land in the Middle Rio Grande Valley. Supports the health of ecologically and culturally important native edible and medicinal plants and provides an opportunity for people to reclaim their role in caretaking our land and perpetuating our culinary and healing traditions. Volunteers work to restore some of New Mexico's most legendary nutritive and healing plants, teach youth and adults about their importance, and help to protect critical habitats and associated cultural knowledge for present and future generations.
Your generous support and donations enable us to meet our goals and better serve our communities. Thank you for supporting community-embedded service!
Tu generoso apoyo y tus donativos nos permiten alcanzar nuestros objetivos y servir mejor a nuestras comunidades. ¡Gracias por apoyar el servicio a la comunidad!
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