Awarded Grants

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 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 increase the awareness and support of a stronger public health system in NH in conjunction with the NH Public Health Improvement Plan in order to improve health outcomes of NH residents by communicating the value and importance of public health to key audiences through a statewide public health awareness campaign.

To build the skills, confidence and knowledge of nonprofit leaders, board members, advocates and volunteers in the art of advocacy and lobbying.

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 create a comprehensive plan to strengthen the NH CoalitionAgainst Domestic and Sexual Violence's current provision of mental health services and support for children and their families who experience violence in their homes by engaging key stakeholders in a needs assessment of the mental health needs of these children, the current provision of Coalition and community-based services and supports, and best practices and reimbursement models.