Awarded Grants

To develop a coordinated, easily accessible transportation system that provides quality services to the transit dependent residents of the Greater Derry-Salem region.

To continue to improve access to and quality of healthcare by providing a high quality, comprehensive, sustainable language interpretation service to assist both persons who are limited in their proficiency of English and staff at medical facilities/social service agencies to communicate without linguistic or cultural barriers.

To preserve health insurance coverage for construction workers and to inform public policy deliberations by convening labor, management and other stakeholders in order to plan and undertake a comprehensive analysis of construction bidding and procurement policies and practices and the link between those practices and workers' access to health insurance and health care.

To sustain a system developed to prevent early childhood caries by assuring resident physicians provide oral health education, screening and flouride varnish within the context of the well child visit for children ages 0-3 years; and to prevent prematurebirths and provide additional protection against early childhood caries by training resident physicians to provide oral health screening at the routine prenatal physical examination and referral of those at risk to a prenatal referral dental clinic.

To enhance the quality of community benefit reporting by NH health care charitable trusts through the development of uniform standards and guidelines for all aspects of community benefit reporting including needs assessment by designing improved reporting and evaluation tools.

To create systemic change in addressing linguistic barriers of non-English speakers in NH by increasing the number and quality of trained medical interpreters in the health care workforce, increasing awareness of the issue among health care organizations, and offering training to health professionals to enhance cross cultural communication skills.

To increase access to high-quality oral health care for low-income and other under-served populations at the Families First Dental Center by expanding staff time, exploring expansion of physical space, enhancing integration of oral health care with Families First's primary care, prenatal care and other programs; implementing more best practices, and becoming more financially sustainable.

To provide state policy-makers, the general public and health system stakeholders with data and information on healthcare finance and coverage by analyzing current status and trends in the health finance system and the impact on the cost and quality of healthcare and on access of residents to that care through health insurance and public programs.

To educate the NH public about the needs of our seniors, give seniors and caregivers access to resources that can help them, and begin building the public will to make changes benefitting our elderly in our communities through a story series on NH Public TV, an accompanying web site and four community forums.

To assist Falls Risk Reduction Teams develop effective multi-factorial interventions in their facilities and/or communities by convening them to provide evidence-based tools and strategies for initiating and measuring change as well as ongoing technical assistance and support.

To improve revenues by developing a new data base and implementing a new billing system.

To help health-related foundations and corporate giving programs be strategic about fundamental operational challenges facing their organizations by increasing their knowledge and skills about the art and science of grantmaking