THE PURPOSE OF PARKLAND VILLAGE
2021 Photography Contest
Parkland Village's 2021 photography contest ended on July 31, and the winning photos will be included in our 2022 calendar. The theme for this year's contest is: Gates, Walls and Doors of Parkland Village. You can find the winning photos and photographers by clicking here. You can order calendars and cards by clicking here.
2020 Photography Contest -- last summer we held a contest for photography of landscapes and gardens of Parkland Hills and Southeast Heights neighborhoods. The winning photos were included on 2021 calendars and greeting cards, which we sold for fundraising purposes. To see the winning photographs and photgraphers, click here.
We still have last year's greeting cards in stock. To order them, click here.
* Zoom forum, Thursday, September 21, from 5:30 to 7:00. Meet your neighbors and participate in an educational topic, Protecting Tomorrow, Today: Avoiding Financial Scams, with Amanda Reyes of Nusenda Credit Union. For more information, click here.
Recording of July 13 forum on the End of Life Options Act. The New Mexico Villages Network held a Zoom forum in July on the End of Life Options Act, which was recently passed by the New Mexico legislature and signed by our governor. It gives terminally ill people who have mental capacity to choose a legal means to end their lives with choice and dignity. You can review the recording of this forum by clicking on the following link: https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/UcHZWSUX9AGkUBijXVhZ55qdBIEOYCs_-jagbODZVOyagjdsvJnx8NpNq1AjrRob.XjVnlGD6ksroKybz. After you click on the link, enter the following passcode: k!u7Df^1 To make sure you get the passcode correctly, copy and paste it.
The primary goal of Parkland Village is to organize a network of volunteers to assist our older or disabled neighbors in various ways. Planned services include:
In doing this, we want to make it possible for our aging neighbors to remain among us as long as possible (and, of course, ourselves too, when the time comes).
As an important secondary goal, we hope through our interaction with both recipients of services and other volunteers to get to know each other, establish friendships, and work towards building community in its most basic sense, that of a village, in which we know each other, appreciate each other, and help each other.
Inspired by the national village movement, which consists of well over 200 villages across the U.S. and is supported by the Village to Village Network, Parkland Village was established in 2017 by a number of determined residents in the Parkland Hills neighborhood of Albuquerque, New Mexico. First known as Parkland Hills Village, it has now been expanded to encompass the entire Albuquerque census tract extending from Zuni/Garfield in the north to Gibson in the south, and from San Mateo in the east to Carlisle in the west, and the name has been changed to better reflect this larger area.
As of January, 2019, Parkland Village is a New Mexico nonprofit corporation with 501(c)(3) status (so donations to the Village are tax deductible). We have a board of directors, several committees, and a set of bylaws. We have had quite a few social events.
Before we can begin to provide the full array of services to our neighbors, several additional steps need to be taken:
While our in-person activities are almost entirely on hold during the Covid-19 pandemic and the time frame for the start of the full array of services is delayed, we continue to organize and plan to organize online events of interest to residents. We also expect to be able to begin several "safe" services by July 2021: yardwork, friendly calls, and foodbank deliveries.
For more information about Parkland Village, you can email us at info@parklandvillageabq.org
You can call us at (505) 417-8799
You can mail us at: Parkland Village, P.O. Box 8738, Albuquerque, NM 87198
For information about the village movement in general, click here.
For related resources, including links to other villages' websites, click here.
