Awarded Grants

To successfully replicate and test expanding the disease focus of the Community Prevention and Treatment Initiative (CPTI) model in three New Hampshire communities to prevent childhood obesity.

To strengthen the collective capacity of northern New England to advance policies that help families, children and communities including regarding health and human service issues by providing intensive and sustained high level collaborative training of current and future regional leaders consisting of reflection, learning from state, regional and national policy experts and participation in guided strategic regional collaboration opportunities.

To develop an advocacy plan to assist the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services in accelerating adoption and implementation of its Communication Access Plan (CAP) for people with limited English proficiency or who are deaf or hard of hearing by creating a coalition of key stakeholders that will conduct an assessment of DHHS progress in adopting and implementing the CAP, identify current barriers to full implementation, and determine ways to address those barriers.

To advance public policy outcomes of the NH Child Advocacy Network's 2007 Priorities by training leaders on effective communications and by developing strategies to ensure effective promotion of each Action Step.

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 demonstrate the negative and positive affects of different frames available to talk about Mental Health, and to explain these in ways that communications practitioners can understand in order to strengthen their messages and materials, thereby enhancing their potential for better public understanding and support.

To empower Somali Bantu families affected by lead poisoning with the skills and resources to address their needs and protect their children from further harm due to lead hazards in our housing stock.

To develop a Multi-Stakeholder, Collaborative Regional Partnership for Autism in the North Country by organizing a regional input forum; developing a database of stakeholders and expert health care providers; gathering input via surveys; organizing follow-up meetings; developing a web site; and enlisting technical assistance resources to deliver trainings and to ensure long-term sustainability through organizational capacity building.

To learn fundraising.

To maintain essential health services to a vulnerable population by providing support during a funding transition.

Our goal is to assure the children of Nashua will have access to oral health.

To transition NH Center for Nonprofits' website and e-mail newsletter, Nonprofit Notes, to a new program developer by providing quality training, mentoring, and education.