Awarded Grants

To raise awareness of barriers to civic discourse in the Lakes Region and educate residents about opportunities to improve racial justice and welcoming activities in the state by covering a variety of issues related to social determinants of health and to examine solutions to the existance of hate groups locally and statewide.

To serve as a learning collaborative and safe space where practitioners working on Immigrant Integration, in particular representatives from the formerly four funded regions of the Immigrant Integration Initiative, can learn together how to implement and sustain robust and successful immigrant integration efforts AND maintain a learning community to share knowledge and address ongoing challenges that arise.

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 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 associated with social identities.

To create more equitable and inclusive leadership practices in New Hampshire organizations and communities, through an intensive series of facilitated dialogues focused on systemic and structural racism, implicit bias, and privilege associated with racial identity.

To enhance the knowledge of NH residents, health policy leaders and practitioners about important health equity issues, activities, and successful national/state-based programs by supporting specific communication strategies.

To enhance capacity of NH’s leaders and communities to advance health and racial equity by working collaboratively within and among specific sector groups.

To draw on the expertise of NH’s Leaders of Color to train and develop a cohort of promising/rising minority community leaders with an equity frame knowledge base and concrete skills for participating in leadership (committees, boards, mainstream leadership development programs) while building collective impact capacity in communities of color.

To enhance knowledge leading to improved policy and practice in health equity by supporting the communication and distribution statewide of information obtained from a national health equity environmental and funding scan of promising and successful health equity programs and the engagement of individuals/organizations to address NH’s health equity challenges.

To promote knowledge of and action to address the root causes of health inequities in NH by building the capacity of the NH Health & Equity Partnership, through a collective impact approach to foster societal understanding and will, to engage broad stakeholder support, to leverage funding, and to strengthen organizational effectiveness.

To build advocacy capacity for environmental justice in NH

To enhance capacity of NH’s leaders and communities to advance Health and Racial Equity by working collaboratively within and among specific sector groups, such as Civic Engagement, Economic Development, Education, Government, Health, and Law Enforcement/Criminal Justice. To identify challenges and needs within these and other sectors, and determine actions and next steps to address these challenges, based on initial work stemming from the Inaugural Symposium on Race & Equity in NH.