Awarded Grants

To promote healthy New Hampshire communities which welcome immigrants and refugees by facilitating inclusive community collaboration, through a learning collaborative of integration practitioners and community leaders who share best practices and collectively address ongoing challenges experienced by immigrants and refugees in NH.

NH Listens will strengthen the field of people in NH giving sustained attention and taking action to address race, equity and justice issues in the state by supporting and cultivating relationships and infrastructure among field actors, in addition to providing programmatic design, facilitation, affinity and multiracial group support to address this work.

To enhance the 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 put issues of race and equity at the center of civic engagement in NH’s civic institutions and public life by developing the combination of knowledge, skills, and motivation to make that difference.

To initiate a change in NH's Law Enforcement/Criminal Justice culture towards one of improved equity and acceptance by development and implementation of an implicit bias training program for NH's law enforcement/criminal justice sector personnel.

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 assist Laconia Daily Sun with reporting solutions journalism approaches by providing ongoing technical assistance.

To build advocacy capacity for environmental justice in NH

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 organize for systems change for racial and economic equity by using an Inclusive Recovery Framework.

To enhance leadership capabilities and educational attainment of primarily youth of color in the Manchester and Nashua School Districts by providing support to expand the YOU program to youth at Memorial and West High Schools in Manchester and Nashua North and South High Schools.