Awarded Grants

To advance a regional approach to address the challenges and opportunities presented by an aging Northern New England by providing learning opportunities, facilitating opportunities for networking and encouraging cross-sector collaboration among municipal, policy, advocacy and business leaders working across Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont.

To create more equitable and inclusive leadership practices in NH organizations and communities through an intensive series of facilitated dialogues focused on systemic and structural racism, implicit bias, and privilege associated with social identities.

To equip and mobilize six municipalities to take local actions that will protect children from the avoidable, lifelong impacts of childhood lead poisoning through civic engagement

To increase the capacity of the Healthy Aging field to implement Reframing Aging tools and recommendations in NH.

To create social and physical environments that promote good health for all who live, work and play in the Winnipesaukee Public Health Region by conducting an analysis to determine the feasibility of creating a Regional Health Officer position.

Advance a shared vision for age friendly communities in NH through a collective impact approach by providing backbone support to the NH Alliance of Healthy Aging.

To serve as a learning collaborative and safe space where practitioners working on Immigrant Integration, in particular representatives from the formerly four funded regions of the Immigrant Integration Initiative, can learn together how to implement and sustain robust and successful immigrant integration efforts AND maintain a learning community to share knowledge and address ongoing challenges that arise.

To create welcoming communities in NH into which immigrants are more likely to integrate by facilitating community collaboration, promoting a welcoming community climate and advocating for institutional change that promotes mutual respect and cooperation between foreign-born and U.S.-born Americans.

To increase awareness of substance use prevention by hosting a Legislative Breakfast to get the conversation started.

To improve the behavioral health of NH's children and their families by implementing a collective impact initiative based on the statewide Plan, Transforming Children's Behavioral Health Care.

To strengthen the early childhood field by supporting research needed to inform policy decisions.

To improve the health of NH residents by increasing the quality of behavioral health collaborative services provided in hospital emergency care departments and aligned community settings.