Awarded Grants

To improve the behavioral health of NH’s children and their families by implementing a collective impact initiative based on the March 2013 plan, Transforming Children’s Behavioral Health Care.

To enhance health and health care media reporting by providing selected journalists an intensive nine days and nights of training.

To sustain effective advocacy to ensure that New Hampshire residents have access to affordable, quality healthcare and thus lead healthy and productive lives.

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

To identify some of the policy, programmatic and cultural challenges facing today's disadvantaged children, families and communities in New Hampshire and to raise awareness of programs that are meeting the diverse needs of New Hampshire's children by producing a companion documentary to the new PBS series called The Raising of America: Early Childhood and the Future of our Nation in partnership with the Endowment for Health.

To increase timely and appropriate access to behavioral health care for NH children and youth with behavioral health care needs and their families by supporting the field to increase community-based capacity to deliver evidence-based individualized treatment and to leverage national and foundation funding.

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 establish a statewide system for seriously ill, frail elders to have conversations with loved ones and health providers regarding goals of care and specific life sustaining treatments by having the patient's choices documented on a POLST form (medical orders) as the patient moves among different care settings before they die.

To inform and guide the policy debate on NH's transportation system through a broad based coalition of organizations and a public messaging campaign.

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 consider mission expansion by conducting an assessment and business plan for creating a Community Engagement Center/Thrift Store in Durham NH as an extension of its Wildcat Friends Program.

To support the operations of Health Strategies by providing operating support.