Awarded Grants

To provide emergency support for essential community provider.

To improve the fundraising capacity of the Children's Alliance as well as fiscal management by obtaining software systems and training.

To promote improved integration of NH's increasing immigrant and refugee populations by developing a statewide humanities initiative focused on increasing knowledge and understanding of immigration nationally and in NH and promoting cultural exchange and understanding between and among newcomers and the NH's receiving communities.

To strengthen The Way Home's organizational capacity to deliver Healthy Homes Services in the greater Manchester area by analyzing and documenting current services.

To improve coordination of interpretation services and thus access to care for deaf and hard of hearing individuals by developing and implementing an online interpreter assignment system.

To call national attention by foundations in all states to the issue of poverty during the 2008 presidential campaign and beyond by promoting a national debate.

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 improve NH's mental health system by transitioning the legislative mental health commission from its planning phase to implementation.

To develop the next generation of Community Health Center and primary care leaders who will deliver comprehensive primary and preventive care services to medically-underserved and geographically, culturally and linguistically isolated persons by establishing the curriculum for a leadership development program.

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.