Awarded Grants

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 assocated with social identities.

To conduct a need/gap analysis of the NH integrated behavioral health workforce and create a NH Intergrated Behavioral Health workforce plan.

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

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 provide parents and caregivers tools to boost early learning by developing a plan to launch Vroom statewide.

To advance public policies that make it easier for young children to thrive by conducting a policy analysis on several priorities identified in Spark NH's Framework for Action

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

To strengthen the capacity of the early childhood advocacy infrastructure by monitoring legislation during the 2016 session and sharing information among policy advocates and stakeholders

To promote the adoption of shared goals and activities at the local, regional and state levels; and to raise awareness about the importance of early childhood by supporting five communities to develop concrete action plans for enhancing the development of all NH young children and their families

To document the progress and measure the effectiveness of the four Immigrant Integration Initiative communities in creating local immigrant integration plans and implementing strategies for more Welcoming Communities by conducting a systematic review of the four plans and key informant interviews.

To fund staffing, consultants and related expenditures associated with building backbone infrastructure to monitor progress, to foster coordination and to align partners for Plan implementation efforts.

To support technical assistance and participation of community leaders of color during the development of a set of priorities for advancing a collective impact approach to healthy aging in NH.