Awarded Grants

To identify one to three actionable policy priorities that will advance the priorities identified in the NH Early Childhood Framework for Action.

To promote more effective and efficient service delivery for New Hampshire’s children and their families by enhancing coordination and alignment within the child and family serving systems.

To promote the importance of investing in early childhood by increasing the capacity of Spark NH to reach a broad audience of influential NH leaders with Bedrock messaging.

To raise awareness about the importance of early childhood and the impact of toxic stress by supporting a national keynote speaker at the conference A Future Without Violence.

To strengthen connections among cross-sector stakeholders working regionally and at the state level to implement shared early childhood goals by providing a Collective Impact Workshop for Spark NH membership and other regional coalitions.

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 strengthen the early childhood field’s shared identity by providing core operating support to Spark NH.

To strengthen the early childhood field by supporting research needed to inform policy decisions and by funding technical assistance to leverage funding.