NMRECA is a Statewide Not-for-Profit Service Organization. The mission of the New Mexico Rural Electric Cooperative Association is to strengthen, support, unify, and represent Cooperative member interests at the local, state, and national levels. Organized in 1944 and headquartered in Santa Fe, the New Mexico Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NMRECA) represents the interest of the state's electric cooperatives who are members of NMRECA and their members through actively working to protect cooperative interests before regulatory, political, and governmental bodies as well as the general public; administering the New Mexico Rural Electric Self-Insurer’s Fund, a workers’ compensation fund owned by New Mexico’s rural electric cooperatives who are members of NMRECA; and coordinating specialized training for its members. The New Mexico Rural Electric Cooperative Association assists in arranging training programs for directors, managers and employees with outside agencies and consultants. NMRECA provides advocacy and general communications through directories, websites, apps, the annual Legislative Almanac, and its monthly magazine, enchantment, which give New Mexico’s electric cooperatives, who are members of NMRECA, a united forum to communicate with their members.