Awarded Grants

To increase integration and social inclusion of immigrants and refugees in Greater Nashua by implementing a multi-sector plan to promote economic, educational, social, and cultural integration of newcomers.

To increase the knowledge and understanding of diversity, inclusion and equity among college and university leaders by documenting and disseminating the results from the June 2016 Project Inclusion NH Symposium: Assessing and Enacting a Commitment to Diversity, Inclusion and Equity on Campus.

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 embark on a media partnership with the state's largest newspaper by underwriting a year-long series on aging using the practice of solutions journalism to raise public awareness of and community engagement about promising approaches that create age-friendly communities in New Hampshire.

To build the capacity of the organization for the future by creating plans for board recruitment, governance and development.

To increase integration and social inclusion of immigrants and refugees in Concord by implementing a multi-sector plan to promote economic, educational, social, and cultural integration of newcomers.

To improve transportation program efficiencies in the Monadnock area by consolidating community transportation programs.

To implement essential stigma reduction strategies for statewide mental health center staff lessening target population obstacles to treatment by conducting a lengthy assessment and training regiment, with intermittent public forums.

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.