Awarded Grants

To maintain access to needed public transportation services in the Lakes Region by assuring a smooth transition between GLTA and the new service provider, supporting a community planning process to oversee future development, and establishing community support for the system

To educate and inform decision makers and legislatures of the health care disparities related to living in rural areas of New England by consolidating existing data and creating educational materials to be used by advocates trying to improve access to health care.

To increase the knowledge of geographic barriers to heath in New Hampshire by analyzing a statewide survey and other related data on tranporation access issues.

To provide high quality current data on NH's livable wage and the availability of livable wage jobs in NH to policymakers and non-profit organizations throughout the state by 1)researching and publishing a new study of NH's livable wage; 2)researching and publishing a new study of the availability of livable wage jobs in NH; and 3)disseminating the results of the two studies widely by hosting forums to present study results, conducting media campaign, and using advisory committee members.

To assure the safety of the members of the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Nashua by providing emergency first aid kits in all appropriate locations.

To create a healthy and sustainable health system for New Hampshire by engaging citizens, policymakers, providers, and other stakeholders in developing policies and systems that support New Hampshire's residents in their efforts to maintain good health and prevent illness and injury and maintain access to a healthcare system that provides high-quality, cost-effective care.

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 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 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.