Awarded Grants

To help improve access to quality, affordable health care by developing a collaborative network of organizations, stakeholder groups and individuals to understand and advance public policy change on key health policy issues facing New Hampshire.

To identify Best Practices for integrating volunteer drivers into regional human service transportation brokerages, and develop an action plan for implementing these Best Practices in transportation coordination efforts ongoing in the southeast corner of the state.

To improve the mental health and well being of children, youth, and families in Dover by strengthening the ability of the Dover Kid's Cabinet to assess community needs, develop an integrated community approach, and sustain these efforts.

To reduce childhood lead paint poisoning in New Hampshire through a coordinated approach to improving NH's lead poisoning prevention policies by continuing to convene and expand a strong coalition of diverse interests, strengthening a lead paint prevention communications network, advocating for primary prevention and other sound policies, and engaging in other strategic activities designed to further primary prevention policy change in systems throughout the state.

To assure the availability of primary care services northern Coos County by developing a long-term sustainability plan for the Indian Stream Health Center.

To review the space needs of the health center for current and planned growth. To review business operations of the health center and make recommendations to improve business operations of the health center.

This project will begin a dental screening and treatment program for elementary school children in the Hillsboro-Deering School District by contracting with a licensed dental hygienist.

Work towards building community consensus that can address both institutional and internalized social-cultural barriers that contribute to racial and ethnic health disparities by convening a multi-racial, multi-cultural group of community residents and social and human service providers for a 2.5 day Undoing Racism workshop.

To ensure quality advocacy, nonprofit capacity building and knowledge development for the health system in NH in order to improve the health of NH residents by piloting the use of core operating support to sustain key NH nonprofits.

To increase funding sources to care for uninsured people in eastern Grafton County by a completing a request for newly available State funds.

To ensure that First Responders in Colebrook area comply with new training mandates by Jan 2009 by providing scholarships to attend training.

To ensure quality advocacy, nonprofit capacity building and knowledge development for the health system in NH in order to improve the health of NH residents by piloting the use of core operating support to sustain key NH nonprofits.