Author: Nakonah Secat

2024 National Midwifery Week

Written on October 3, 2024.

October 6-12, 2024 National Midwifery Week (#MidwiferyWeek2024) was created by the American College Nurse Midwives to celebrate and recognize midwives and midwife-led care. This year’s theme is “Midwives Looking to the Future.”...

Happy September!

Written on September 5, 2024.

With September comes the changing of the seasons, and we’re ready to continue sharing the exciting changes and events happening at DAL! Our annual family day is BACK! We are so excited to announce the return of our DAL family day...

Introducing Our New Director of Development!

Written on August 2, 2024.

Hello! I’m Gabriela Estala-Lopez, an Albuquerque native and UNM alumna with a heart for community work. My journey started at Global Ties ABQ and led to a focus on reproductive health care with Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains....

Pints for Parenthood was a huge success thanks to all of you!

Written on May 14, 2024.

Thank you to all of our DAL families, friends, and supporters for coming out and spending part of your Mother’s Day weekend with us! 💐 There aren’t enough words to describe how grateful and honored we are to be so loved and supported by our...

#DaraLuz2.0 Help us find our first Development Director!

Written on February 1, 2024.

Dear Dar a Luz Community, Happy New Year Dar a Luz community! Welcome to the first newsletter of 2024. We ended last year’s fundraising campaign having raised $220K from Dar a Luz community members, individual donors, local foundations, board...

Thank you for helping us #SaveDaraLuz in 2023!!!

Written on December 21, 2023.

What’s next? Dear Dar a Luz Community, We wanted to tell you some amazing news: together, we’ve saved Dar a Luz! Some of you might remember from our community letter published back in June 2023, that we had a projected deficit...

#SaveDaraLuz on Giving Tuesday! 11/28/2023

Written on November 27, 2023.

November 27, 2023 Dear Community, Last week Baby #1500, #1501 and #1502 (all on the same day!) were born at Dar a Luz! Since opening in 2011, we have taken care of nearly 2,500 families with our midwives and nurses having attended over 1,500...

#SaveDaraLuz Update – November News!

Written on November 11, 2023.

November 11, 2023 Dear Community, We want to let you in on a little secret: we are on our way to closing the gap! So far we have raised a total of $180K since June, 2023. This means that we are more than halfway to our goal of $300K by December...