League of Women Voters Wins 100 Men Who Care March Giving Award

The League of Women Voters of Los Alamos outpolled two competing nonprofits at the 100 Men Who Care March gathering, winning the group's pooled member donations to fund voter education, candidate forums, and civic outreach across Los Alamos County ahead of the next local election cycle.

The giving circle's format is deliberately concentrated: three pre-selected nonprofits each make a five-minute presentation, members ask brief questions, then vote. Every member contributes $100, and the full pool goes to the winning organization in a single lump sum. That structure gives smaller nonprofits like the League a financial jolt they could not easily replicate through incremental fundraising, while also generating public recognition from a visible community network.

The League's Los Alamos chapter centers its work on nonpartisan civic infrastructure: candidate forums, voter registration drives, civics education in schools, and ballot measure outreach. That programming requires sustained funding to execute at the scale the county needs, and concentrated awards like this one give the chapter the runway to plan events months in advance rather than scramble for resources mid-cycle.

The timing is not incidental. With local elections approaching, the capacity to host candidate forums and circulate voter guides directly shapes how prepared Los Alamos County voters are when they go to the polls. In a community where county council and school board races can be decided by slim margins, a well-organized nonpartisan forum or a widely distributed voter guide carries real influence over outcomes.

For the League, the measure of this award will be the events it makes possible. How many forums can the chapter schedule before contested races? How many voter guides will reach households across White Rock and Los Alamos proper? How many new registrants does the chapter add to the rolls before Election Day? Those numbers, not the award itself, will determine whether this donation moved the needle on civic participation in Los Alamos County.