Awarded Grants

To improve the educational and community outcomes of youth with emotional and behavioral challenges in New Hampshire as they transition from adolescence to adult life by building the capacity of community mental health centers to train and coach their staff to implement the RENEW model, assist the centers to build strong linkages with schools and community agencies, and continue to facilitate a leadership process to problem solve around funding, implementation, and administrative barriers that prevent full implementation and access to high-quality transition services for youth with emotional and behavioral challenges.

To improve behavioral health outcomes and access to care at Newport Middle High School by integrating behavioral health services at a school-based health clinic.

To provide the tools for improving quality of life and wellness in the physically-disabled, wheelchair using population of New Hampshire by creating 1) a safe and accessible fitness environment in multiple communities 2) a peer-driven, grass roots wheelchair exercise program 3) a peer support, networking group that shares health promotion and disease prevention information.

To improve specialty medical care for rural populations served by critical access hospitals and the financial viability of the institutions that serve them by the design and implementation of Bundled Payments pursuant to the CMMI bundled payment initiative.

To strengthen nonprofit organizational capacity by assessing the nonprofit organization's effectiveness in relation to four core capacities

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 implement the NH Healthy Eating/Active Living (HEAL) Plan by establishing and sustaining a lead organization to coordinate the implementation and to support communities to implement the Plan.

To improve the health of Coos and northern Grafton County residents by engaging key stakeholders in a strategic planning process to prioritize health factors and to create an action plan.

To help assure a healthy population and health care system for New Hampshire by developing a plan for a Roadmap for New Hampshire Health.

To provide a workshop to introduce to those NH nonprofits unfamiliar with federal grants, or those with limited or disappointing experience, with the basics about approaching a federal agency or department for a discretionary/competitive grant, formula/block grant, cooperative agreement, or contract.

Development of a video documenting the accomplishments of Leadership New Hampshire over its first 20 years, showing through interviews with a representative sample of its 600+ graduates their experience of going through the program and the lasting impact of it as evidenced by their increased civic engagement.

To advance inclusion and immigrant integration by convening a conference for cross-fertilization and knowledge sharing across New Hampshire's regions, while also offering concrete learning opportunities of best practices for formal and informal helpers who make immigrant integration happen in our state.