Awarded Grants

To provide expansion of supported services for low-income people with mental illness attached to residential services.

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 community-generated plan for a Transportation Cooperation serving geographically isolated people in the eastern Monadnock region to improve access to health care and other services by creating 1) citizen groups from several abutting towns to identify and document transportation needs and opportunities; and 2) project steering group composed of health-related non-profit organizations, planners and representatives of town groups to identify and document organizational needs and opportunities.

Determine the space needed for existing and future programs in one consolidated, centrally located building.

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.

The goal of this project is to create a plan to improve access to health care services for the geographically isolated residents of the five towns of the Mascoma Valley. This will be accomplished by first creating and considering a cost-effectiveness analysis of two distinct solutions to this problem of access: 1) improving public transportation to existing health care resources in the Hanover/Lebanon area; and 2) creating a health care center within one of the five towns to serve the needs of residents locations.

To enhance public understanding and public policy regarding health care access and finance by providing information and analysis to stakeholders in health care and health policy, including the Citizens Health Initiative and its working groups.

To examine the effectiveness of the New Hampshire Healthy Kids Program (NHHK) by systematically analyzing the characteristics of the program, comparing it as appropriate with programs in other states.

To educate healthcare organizations and the people who work in them to meet the challenge of providing quality healthcare to the Deaf and hard of hearing and the limited English proficient (LEP) populations in NH by convening a half-day conference of experts and people from this target population.

To understand the impact of current trends of health care cost increases on the economy and the health care system of New Hampshire over the next decade by developing a research strategy and plan.

To address the national Philanthropic Divide which is the increasing gap in foundation assets between those States with the most and those with the least (NH ranks among the 10 states with the least amount of in-state foundation assets) by 1) increasing regional and national grantmaking to help develop in-state philanthropic resources, 2) increasing regional and national grantmaking to strengthen and expand in-state nonprofit sector infrastructure, 3) by leveling the playing field for grantseekers from divide states to increase access to national foundation grants.

To extend the existing evaluation of the InShape health promotion project to include long-term follow-up on participants and to include an evaluation of Medicaid service use and expenditures associated with participation in the project by conducting 18 month interview evaluations of program participants and by accessing and analyzing Medicaid service use and expenditure data.