Awarded Grants

To advocates for an adequate supply of safe affordable housing in New Hampshire, with special attention to the housing needs of low income people, minorities and seniors.

To conduct and disseminate a comprehensive health and human services needs assessment for Sullivan County.

To collaboratively increase and sustain the body of knowledge regarding New Hampshire's oral health workforce to inform strategic planning in response to oral health status and access issues.

To develop a strategic vision and implementation plan for future programming of Northeast Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services via a collective effort with other organizations serving deaf individuals in NH.

To create a viable business which would provide real work opportunities for students with cognitive impairments.

To comparatively evaluate the New Hampshire Medicaid prepaid dental benefit, fee-for-service program and dental safety net program from the perspective of access, quality and cost.

To develop and implement a program to improve access and capacity to better meet the mental health needs of the Latino/Hispanic population in our region. As our community changes, we recognize the need to be able to change along with it and become more culturally compentent at delivering services that maintain our high quality tradition and are sensitive to the culture and values of the citizens who come through the doors.

To repeat the New Hampshire third grade oral health survey in 2004 to 1) update information on the three childhood indicators in the surveillance system, 2) evaluate changes since the 2001 survey, and 3) assess progress towards Healthy NH 2010 objectives.

To expand the advocacy work of the Children's Alliance of New Hampshire at a federal level and to educate the public and policymakers how such developments affect the children and families of New Hampshire.

To fully unnderstand why people from NH have and do not have health insurance.

To participate in a national program engaged in an effort to integrate primary care medicine and dentistry in preventing oral disease and promoting oral health for children one to three years.

The Claremont Soup Kitchen & Food Pantry hope to accomplish feeding & providing food boxes to everyone who comes to us in need. We hope to accomplish this task through the funding we receive from grants. We hope to purchase nutritious foods, fresh fruit, veg. & meats so families may prepare a balanced meal. We will use the food to prepare & serve a nutritious meal at the soup kitchen. We hope to split the money between the Soup Kitchen & Food Pantry to purchase food we need to supply our depleted supply.