Awarded Grants

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.

To begin building a health and healthcare advocacy model in New Hampshire by conducting an assessment to determine current assets, current gaps and resource needs to begin building and sustaining an advocacy model.

To implement the Equity Leaders Fellowship program for cohort number 2, by utilizing the expertise of NH leaders of color to train rising minority community leaders with an equity frame knowledge base, concrete skills for participating in leadership roles, and the ability to create change through collective impact.

To help newspaper, radio, television and online reporters and editors do a better job covering critical health care issues by participating in a comprehensive curriculum designed to enhance their knowledge of complex health policy issues.

To finalize the 2015 NH Oral Health State Plan by developing action plan steps, assigning lead responsible parties and identifying resources for each priority area.

To ensure quality advocacy, nonprofit capacity building and knowledge development for the health system in NH in order to improve the health of NH residents by sustaining the general operations of key NH nonprofits.

To enhance capacity of the field to analyze and use cross-sector data to improve the early childhood system and advance policy.

To raise awareness about the importance of investing in early childhood by promoting and disseminating the NH Public Television program Raising New Hampshire.

To create and sustain a public dialogue that will measurably improve the systems that finance and provide health care in NH in order to create an effective system of care and ensure a healthy population.

To support the development of a comprehensive plan for the health and well-being of NH children and families by facilitating a working group to create goals and strategies, and providing the working group with research on current NH programs and services for children and families, as well as research on similar planning efforts used by other entities.

To raise awareness of addiction as a chronic disease, as well as the importance of screening for and addressing substance abuse in advance of the emergence of addiction by engaging conference attendees and invited guests to witness a dramatic performance of Act Three of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night as a catalyst for town hall discussions about the disease of addiction as it touches patients, families, and health professionals.