Pandemic-response fund helped NH through crisis and recovery
June 20, 2023
The Charitable Foundation launched the Community Crisis Action Fund in 2020, and generous people responded with donations ranging from $25 to $6 million. The fund was structured so that every penny in donations went into our communities. Grants funded everything from hunger relief to an emergency childcare system for essential workers, from health equity efforts to emergency rental assistance. The fund is now deactivated, and will be re-activated as needed to respond to future crises.
Simon Delekta named VP of Community Engagement and Impact
June 14, 2023
Simon Delekta of Portsmouth has been promoted to vice president of the Community Engagement and Impact Department at the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation.
Free screenings of Anxious Nation coming to New Hampshire communities
April 14, 2023
New documentary will be screened statewide, accompanied by panel discussions and access to mental health and suicide prevention resources.
New data point to behavioral health challenges among young people
March 28, 2023
Traci Fowler, Foundation director of behavioral health, on New Hampshire’s 2021 Youth Risk Behavior Survey: Data show behavioral health challenges among New Hampshire’s children and adolescents are real, and they are widespread. But importantly, they are also treatable, and oftentimes preventable. Prevention works, treatment is effective and people recover.
Announcing temporary changes to Community Grants program for 2023
March 10, 2023
As we work to improve our Community Grants program for the long-term, in 2023 we will offer a single, one-year, Unrestricted Grant program with awards of up to $20,000. There will be no Express Grants or multi-year Unrestricted grants awarded in 2023.
Sandeep Bikram Shah is a 2023 PLACES fellow
March 9, 2023
The PLACES Fellowship gives leaders in philanthropy the tools, knowledge, and best practices to ensure their work is centered on advancing equity and justice.
Charitable Giving Guide encourages support for nonprofits
February 28, 2023
New Hampshire Business Review's 2023 Charitable Giving Guide encourages people to give to the nonprofits that make New Hampshire better for all of us.
Meet Meena Gyawali
February 23, 2023
Meena Gyawali joined the Foundation in December as a Senior Program Officer. She has served as director of grants and compliance at Families in Transition and has a background in planning and community development. She talked to the Foundation’s Lois Shea about urban planning, how high school drafting classes led to her hobby of painting landscapes from Manchester’s Millyard, the search for the best empanada in town and why everyone should visit New Hampshire’s Queen City. Meena lives in Manchester with her family.
NH Charitable Foundation commits $500,000 to help bolster New Hampshire’s community mental health centers
February 22, 2023
Funds to support frontline mental health providers serving New Hampshire’s children, youth and families.
Meet Seana McDuffie
February 7, 2023
Seana McDuffie joined the Charitable Foundation in fall of 2022 as a program and student aid officer. Read about how her experience, including as a U.S. Marine veteran, informs the work she does at the Foundation, about her love of podcasts, movies and retro video games — and about the culture shock and racism she experienced when she first moved to New Hampshire.
SOAR program helps young people thrive
January 18, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic turned the world upside-down for children and teens, leaving families and schools looking for ways to help young people overcome feelings of profound uncertainty, anxiety and isolation. The SOAR program at Back in the Saddle Equine Therapy Center in Hopkinton, was designed specifically to help young people cope with COVID’s fallout.
Stories of hard work + community strength
December 13, 2022
The latest issue of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation’s Purpose newsletter is available online, with hard copies arriving in mailboxes soon.