Priority

Promote access to affordable healthy foods or safe environments for physical activity.

Funding category

Responsive

Strategies

1. Utilize research-informed, emerging and promising practices that improve participation in federal nutrition assistance programs for children and families. Example >
2. Utilize research-informed, emerging and promising practices to increase availability of and access to affordable, culturally appropriate fresh and local foods for children and families at risk for food insecurity. Example >
3. Inform and implement local level policies, practices or plans that improve access to community-level physical activity for young children and families. This may include access to parks and other recreation areas as well as sidewalks, crosswalks and pathways. Example >
4. Data collection, analysis, planning, or advocacy to:

• Build public support for policies and practices that increase participation in federal nutrition programs. Example >
• Increase access to affordable, culturally appropriate, fresh and local foods. Example >
• Inform and build support for state and local policies to improve community-level physical activity through data collection, analysis, plannng or advocacy. Example >

Please Note: the foundation does not consider requests seeking to use grant funds to purchase food for distribution.

Priority

Funding category

Responsive

Strategies

Funding category

Responsive and Directed

Strategy

The foundation is funding this priority area through both responsive and directed grantmaking. Before applying, please contact the NHCHF Program Director, Patti Baum, to discuss your proposal.

Directed Grantmaking FAQ

Priority

Strengthen protective factors and early intervention practices to prevent or ameliorate childhood trauma and other adverse childhood experiences.

Funding category

Directed

Strategies

Beginning in 2019, the foundation has shifted funding in this priority area to a directed grantmaking model in order to increase its impact.

Directed Grantmaking FAQ

This priority is not eligible for responsive grantmaking.

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All award terms are one year, unless indicated

FALL GRANT ROUND

HEALTHY EATING AND ACTIVE LIVING

Southern NH Planning Commission: $45,000 over 2 years to improve access to places for children and families to walk and play.

FOOD INSECURITY

Building Community in New Hampshire: $90,000 over 3 years to improve nutrition access and consumption for newly settled refugee children in Manchester.

NH Hunger Solutions: $90,000 over 3 years to increase participation in the school breakfast program in Manchester and Nashua.

Boys and Girls Club of Greater Nashua: $27,000 to increase participation in Fresh Start Garden Program.

International Institute of New England: $15,000 to train case managers and build partnerships to connect newly settled refugees to culturally appropriate food resources in Manchester and Nashua.

Regenerative Roots Association: $12,000 to expand fresh food growing capacity for Nashua refugees.

ORAL HEALTH

NH Oral Health Coalition: $90,000 over 3 years for general operating support to advance policy and practice for improved oral health services to children, families and adults.

University of New Hampshire’s Institute for Health Policy and Practice: $64,000 over 3 years to continue to update the NH oral health data dashboard.

STRATEGIC GRANTMAKING: CHILDHOOD TRAUMA AND HEALTH COVERAGE

The Center for Trauma Responsive Practice Change: $60,000 for an 18 month Child Parent Psychotherapy Learning Collaborative comprised of 45 masters level mental health providers.

New Futures: $405,000 over 3 years for community engagement and advocacy leadership training to advance early childhood and healthy policy systems change in New Hampshire.

University of New Hampshire’s Institute for Health Policy and Practice: $618,589 over 26 months to continue and expand its work with pediatric primary care practices to screen for and address childhood trauma.

SPRING GRANT ROUND

FOOD INSECURITY

Amoskeag Health, Manchester: $60,000 over three years to combine home visiting with increased access to food through awareness of federally funded nutrition programs and cooking classes.

Granite United Way: $20,000 for SNAP enrollment training for agency staff in Coos County

Organization for Refugee and Immigrant Success (ORIS): $20,000 to expand access to Mobile Market offerings in Manchester, Concord and Nashua and $50,000 in operating support for its Food Hub

UNH Foundation:  $20,000 to grow and strengthen the NH Food Access Coalition, creating a coordinated effort and unified voice to advance food security and nutrition policy and collaboration across the state

Willing Hands: $20,000 to increase the number of fresh fruits, vegetables, and dairy products that children receive through the Healthy Fresh Food Boxes pilot project in Lebanon, Claremont and Cornish

HEALTHY EATING AND ACTIVE LIVING

Southwest Regional Planning Commission, Keene: $20,000 to engage communities in identifying policy strategies to increase access to parks and places to be active

All award terms are one year, unless indicated

FALL GRANT ROUND

FOOD INSECURITY

UNH Foundation: $19,900 to expand its food access map

Hillsborough Country Conservation District: $12,800 to expand its number of gleaning sites

Seacoast Eat Local: $15,000 to expand the number of food outlets for participants in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program

Cheshire Country: $20,000 for assessment and planning to expand children’s food programs

Regenerative Roots Association of Nashua: $12,000 to lease additional agricultural land

UNH Carsey School of Public Policy: $19,700 for research on statewide food availability, accessibility, affordability, and quality

New Hampshire Hunger Solutions: $10,000 for developing a statewide hunger plan

NH Fiscal Policy Institute: $15,000 for research on food insecurity in the state to inform better public policy

Fair Food Network: $50,000 to expand SNAP Double Up incentive program

ORAL HEALTH

New Hampshire Oral Health Coalition: $20,000 to support oral health statewide policy, advocacy and provider education

SPRING GRANT ROUND

FOOD INSECURITY

Merrimack County Conservation District

Award: $18,000 – Area Served: Merrimack County

To create community and school gardens that provide children and families the opportunity to grow their own produce, and proved direct access to local food through programs that specifically serve children.

UNH Foundation

Award: $20,000 – Area Served: Statewide

Work with collaboratives and expanded coalition partners to advance policy recommendations to increase participation in federal nutrition programs, and increase access to affordable, culturally appropriate, fresh, and local foods for children and families at risk of food insecurity.

PREVENT CHILDHOOD OBESITY

Strafford Regional Planning Commission

Award: $40,000 / two years – Area Served: Greater Strafford County Region

Ensure access to recreation for families with young children throughout the region using an online Story Map and an interactive marketing and outreach campaign.

All award terms are one year, unless indicated

FALL GRANT ROUND

FOOD INSECURITY

Gather

Award: $70,000/3 years  – Area Served: Rochester

Reach and feed 400-500 Rochester area children during summer & school vacations with a mobile market. Reduce food waste. Define/document  key activities that are instrumental to this model’s successful replication.

New Hampshire Fiscal Policy Institute

Award: $15,000 – Area Served: Statewide

Research to inform the public and policymakers regarding the challenges families with low incomes have in obtaining basic necessities, such as food. Show the elevated levels of food insecurity in New Hampshire and describe quantitatively the trends in both well-being and costs faced by those who are food insecure.

Organization for Refugee and Immigrant Success (ORIS)

Award: $20,000 – Area Served: Manchester, Nashua, Concord

Increase access to healthy, locally grown, culturally appropriate produce in Manchester, Concord, and Nashua, and the viability of refugee farmers’ businesses through scaling the Fresh Start Farms mobile market.

UNH Carsey School of Public Policy

Award: $17,000* – Area Served: Statewide

Production of a white paper of synthesized research specific to ways that food availability, affordability, accessibility, and quality link to measured food security and child/family health outcomes.

ORAL HEALTH

New Hampshire Oral Health Coalition

Award: $27,000 – Area Served: Statewide

Core operating support to enable the Coalition to respond to emerging community needs.

SPRING GRANT ROUND

FOOD INSECURITY

Catholic Charities/NH Food Bank 

Award: $15,000 – Area Served: Carroll & Coos Counties

Improve low-income children’s food security and nutrition during the summer, when free or reduced-price school meals are not available.

Fair Food Network

Award: $60,000/three years – Area Served: Statewide

Increase the number of stores participating in SNAP incentives; grow incentive spending by SNAP participants.

Gather

Award: $20,000 – Area Served: Rochester

Increase the number of Rochester children receiving fresh healthy food during the summer via  children’s “shop” at mobile fresh markets.

Grow Nashua

Award: $11,000 – Area Served: Nashua

Increase Nashua’s footprint of growing sites in the format of community gardens for families, as well as Recruit, educate and work with families and community members to increase knowledge of preparing fresh food; deliver fresh food to families.

UNH Sustainability Institute

Award:  $20,000 – Area Served: Statewide

Develop state-level food policy recommendations and begin to advance non-legislative food policy change in state and local agencies.

ORAL HEALTH

North Country Health Consortium

Award: $60,000/three years – Area Served: Coos and Northern Grafton Counties

Increase the number of children ages 0-5 that access oral health preventive care in Coos and Northern Grafton Counties.

UNH Institute for Health Policy and Practice

Award: $40,000/two years – Area Served: Statewide

Expand the utility of the Oral Health Report Suite, an online reporting tool based on dental and medical claims data for the commercially and Medicaid insured populations.

STRATEGIC GRANTMAKING: TRAUMA AND COVERAGE

UNH Institute for Health Policy and Practice

Award: $374,090/three years – Area Served: Manchester, Nashua, Claremont, sites in Coos County

Increase pediatric practice knowledge of trauma informed care, community based ACEs resources, and practice system change.

All award terms are one year, unless indicated

PREVENT CHILDHOOD TRAUMA

HAVEN

Award: $25,000 – Area Served: Seacoast Region

Pilot to increase knowledge of signs of child abuse for preschool and daycare staff and parents, and implement an age-appropriate modification of Safe Kids Strong Teens program for preschool age children.

JSI Research and Training

Award: $30,000 – Area Served: Statewide

Establish and facilitate an advisory committee that will research practices to improve NH’s capacity of behavioral health/trauma recovery services for children who have experienced abuse.

Antioch University New England

Award: $29,909 – Area Served: Statewide

To build a strong administrative, supervisory, & clinical network of Child Parent Psychotherapy providers throughout NH to support delivery of the model with fidelity.

Early Learning NH, for SPARK NH

Award: $30,000 – Area Served: Statewide

For general operating support.

North Country Education Services

Award: $30,000 – Area Served: Coos County

To build knowledge of Trauma-Informed Care (TIC) for a range of professionals working with young children.

PREVENT CHILDHOOD OBESITY 

Strafford Regional Planning Commission

Award: $30,000 – Area Served: Strafford County, with emphasis on Somersworth

Inform active living policies and projects for implementation in local planning processes.

REDUCE FOOD INSECURITY

Families in Transition

Award: $30,000 – Area Served: Manchester

To implement policy and environment changes for greater utilization of resources and cost savings.

UNH/Carsey School of Public Policy

Award: $21,399 – Area Served: Statewide

To update the 2012 research brief on NH food insecurity to include maps and discussion of geographic trends.

Belknap Merrimack Community Action Program

Award: $15,000 – Area Served: Statewide

To update communication vehicles (videos, social media presence, etc) to better serve and reach WIC participants

Community Action Program of Strafford County

Award: $29,667 – Area Served: Strafford County

For startup costs to expand Summer Meals Program.

Willing Hands

Award: $20,000 – Area Served: Upper Valley, Sullivan County

For volunteer coordination and management.

PROMOTE ORAL HEALTH 

North Country Health Consortium

Award: $30,000 – Area Served: Coos and Northern Grafton Counties

To address the gap in access to oral health treatment by providing screening and referral services for area Head Start participants through age five.

NH Public Health Association, for the NH Oral Health Coalition

Award: $27,000 – Area Served: Statewide

For general operating support.

INCREASE ACCESS TO CHILDREN’S HEALTH AND DENTAL INSURANCE COVERAGE 

ProgressNow Education Fund

Award: $25,000 – Statewide, with emphasis on the southwest region

Conduct outreach and education campaign utilizing multiple social media channels during ACA open enrollment period.

ADVOCACY IN SUPPORT OF NH CHILDREN’S HEALTH FOUNDATION FUNDING PRIORITIES AND POPULATIONS

New Futures

Award: $405,000/three years – Area Served: Statewide                    

To build local level advocacy capacity to advance early childhood and related efforts, and develop and enhance advocacy leadership capacity across NH nonprofit organizations.

NH Fiscal Policy Institute

Award: $15,000 – Area Served: Statewide

To conduct state-level policy analysis to inform children’s health insurance benefits, and food insecurity/SNAP benefit policy planning.

One year only

PREVENT/REDUCE CHILDHOOD TRAUMA

Antioch University New England

Award: $25,844 – Area Served: Manchester

Training for first responders, social service and mental health providers in trauma informed skills (based on audience) for children up to age 6 exposed to domestic violence.

NH Coalition against Domestic and Sexual Violence

Award: $29,358 – Area Served: Statewide

1. Provide Children Exposed to Domestic Violence training 15 crisis center shelter staff and 12 AmeriCorps members serving survivors of domestic violence with children.
2. Train approx. 75-100 direct services providers statewide in understanding trauma in children and/or trauma informed services.
3. Include childhood trauma in the domestic violence training curriculum for 100 NH police academy recruits and 20 sexual assault nurse examiners.

Turning Points Network

Award: $13,000, Area Served: Sullivan County

Conduct a needs assessment via interviews and focus group to inform new onsite services for children experiencing trauma as a result of witnessing domestic violence.

PREVENT CHILDHOOD OBESITY

Central NH Planning Commission

Award: $10,000 – Area Served: Town of Hillsboro

Through various outreach and planning activities produce a plan for the Town of Hillsboro to improve access to play for young children up to age 5 and their families.

REDUCE FOOD INSECURITY

Hunger Free Vermont

Award: $12,000 – Area Served: Upper Valley

To develop the Hunger Council of the Upper Valley to reduce the incidence of hunger and food insecurity for children, families, and individuals in the region.

Merrimack County Conservation District

Award: $6,000 – Area Served: Concord

To support ongoing assistance to refugee and New American women in the establishment of an International Farmers’ Market.

The Organization for Refugee and Immigrant Success (ORIS)

Award: $29,029 – Area Served: Greater Manchester, Concord

Expand educational programming about the uses, preparation, availability and health benefits of fresh produce items at farmers’ markets, CSAs and other venues.

Fair Food Network

Award: $50,000 – Area Served: Goffstown, Allenstown, Laconia, Berlin

To pilot a Double Up SNAP incentive effort in retail grocers (this project is in partnership with five NH funders).

Nashua Soup Kitchen and Shelter

Award: $30,000 – Area Served: 4 census tracts in Nashua

To plan, coordinate resources, and implement a course of action to bring access to fresh, healthy food to four target neighborhoods.

Cheshire County Conservation District

Award: $17,380 – Area Served: Winchester

To establish, market and distribute locally produced fruits and vegetables for residents/families @ low income housing site.

PROMOTE ORAL HEALTH PREVENTION

University of NH, Institute for Health Policy and Practice

Award: $28,971 – Area Served: Upper Valley

Establish a six month learning collaborative to support up to five family medicine and pediatric clinics in integrating into well-care visits for children under 6 years with a particular focus on fluoride varnish application.

INCREASE ACCESS TO HEALTH AND DENTAL INSURANCE COVERAGE

ProgressNow Education

Award: $96, 728 – Area Served: Statewide

For ACA outreach and enrollment efforts, via social media, print materials, enrollment fairs.

OTHER

Health Strategies of New Hampshire

Award: $10,000 – Area Served: Statewide

To prepare a study and report of communities that benefit from increased investment in evidence based home visiting, quality child care and child care subsidy.

Bearcamp Valley School

Award: $1,850 – Area Served: Tamworth

To purchase a commercial refrigerator for storing federally funded meals and snacks.

Payments for previously awarded multi-year grants: $447,267