What We’re Up To

New Hampshire Tomorrow

The Foundation is investing to increase opportunity for New Hampshire’s kids — from cradle to career.

• Helping families help their kids

  Rise for baby and family provides early intervention services, autism services, child care — and more.

• Bringing it Home

  The Monadnock Economic Development Corporation is working to increase child care availability in the region through the “Bringing it Home” program, which is supporting in-home child care providers.

• An evolution

  An integrated response to mental health and substance use disorders is key to promoting health and well-being — and to saving lives. As the science in the field has evolved, so has our work.

Neil and Louise Tillotson Fund

One of the largest permanent rural philanthropies in the U.S. is strengthening communities and spreading economic opportunity.

• Meet Hannah Campbell

  Hannah, of Colebrook, is now leading the Neil and Louise Tillotson Fund at the Foundation. Read about her hopes for the role, her onetime dream to be a fighter pilot, how her parents met working in a Tillotson factory in Dixville Notch — and more.

• Hannah Campbell joins Charitable Foundation as director of Tillotson Funds

  Campbell will oversee the Neil and Louise Tillotson Fund, which invests in the people and organizations of the North Country. She will also provide leadership for the broader family of Tillotson funds administered by the Foundation.

• Onward, with confidence and conviction

  Dick Ober's reflections on stewarding the Foundation and the work ahead.

Private: Substance Use Disorders/Behavioral Health Portfolio

An integrated response to mental health and substance use disorders is key to promoting health and well-being — and to saving lives.

• Medicaid Matters

  Dr. Brian Beals, a pediatrician at Coös County Family Health Services in Gorham, spoke with Lois Shea about why Medicaid matters for families and the effects of recent federal and state changes to Medicaid.

• $3.4 million in grants to strengthen opioid use disorder recovery, treatment, overdose prevention and family support services across New Hampshire

  24 organizations awarded funding through Opioid Abatement Community Grants Program.

• Onward, with confidence and conviction

  Dick Ober's reflections on stewarding the Foundation and the work ahead.

Wellborn Ecology Fund

The Wellborn Ecology Fund is dedicated to increasing environmental and ecological science knowledge in the Upper Valley.

• Local kids learn hands-on local ecology lessons

  The Wellborn Ecology Fund — which celebrates its 25th anniversary this year — supports place-based ecology education in the Upper Valley.

• Helping schools pivot to outdoor learning

  As schools began to close this past spring, educators across the state scrambled to figure out how to keep teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic. Programs supported by the Wellborn Ecology Fund have been helping schools move to more outdoor instruction for years, and more schools are now making "outdoor classrooms" a regular part of the school day.

• Chipmunk Game Theory 101

  The latest installment of "The Outside Story," sponsored by the Wellborn Ecology Fund of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, explains how eastern chipmunks have evolved to be energy maximizers, seeking to strike the optimal balance between energy gain per cheek-pouch load of food and number of trips back to the burrow.