Awarded Grants

To increase awareness about the achievement gap between children in families with low- and middle-incomes and proven strategies for languagizing early childhood environments and encouraging parent/child conversations for at least 75 early childhood and public school professionals and 50 parents by offering a) a keynote address and b) a special session for parents

To align cross-sector stakeholders on a common set of goals for NH's young children by updating the Spark NH strategic plan for the next 5 years and by ensuring committees are multi-disciplinary, diverse, intentional, and energized.

To promote early childhood policy consistent with the Framework for Action by hosting a gubernatorial forum and by increasing the visibility of the issue for candidates.

To support age-friendly communities through an expanded transportation dialogue, a stronger transportation advocacy network and a policy change agenda for increased and diversified transportation options for community members, particularly older adults.

To measure outcomes and ongoing assessment of progress for strategies implemented from the Impact Monadnock

To determine the viability of expanding the organization

To reduce the number of babies born with neonatal abstinence syndrome by implementing a prenatal substance abuse program, A New Life, for low-income drug-dependent pregnant women and their newborns.

To create a three to five year strategic and child abuse prevention plan to be implemented in 2017.

To strengthen the field of early childhood by strategically supporting technical assistance to leverage funding from federal sources and national or regional funders.

To create an effective Board of Directors by undertaking a board development project with a strategic consultant.

To create a thought provoking newspaper/web series on aging that engages the audience in learning about possible approaches and solutions to create age-friendly communities in New Hampshire by providing technical assistance on the practice of solutions journalism.

To actively engage a diverse base of stakeholders in promoting the importance of investing in early childhood by enhancing Spark NH's public awareness capacity.