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Foundation welcomes five new board members
October 30, 2024
George Bald, Peter Bergh, Jada Keye Hebra, Dottie Morris and Jenny Williams have joined the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation’s 16-member board of directors.
Aris Moore awarded 2024 Artist Advancement Grant
October 10, 2024
Portsmouth artist is recipient of grant that helps cultivate the Piscataqua Region’s arts community, boost artists’ careers and helps keep them living and working in the area.
Foundation files ‘friend of the court’ brief in ConVal case
October 1, 2024
Foundation encourages the court to uphold the fundamental right of every child in New Hampshire to receive an adequate education.
Nurturing the next generation of leaders
September 25, 2024
Gregory Williams of ADAPT, on how that organization is helping young people to develop confidence and resilience.
Here for the good of communities and people — since 1901
September 25, 2024
Anne Truslow of the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests on how that organization is protecting and managing land for climate resilience as well as recreation, advocating for policy and funding, and engaging people in the outdoors.
Creating a new center of community
September 25, 2024
Jason Tors of The Loading Dock in Littleton, which has created space for the community to connect around a shared appreciation of the arts.
Focus On
New Hampshire Tomorrow
The Foundation is investing to increase opportunity for New Hampshire’s kids — from cradle to career.
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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.
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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.
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From chaos to thriving
CASA volunteers bring stability and consistency to children who need it most. Judges refer a child to CASA when the state opens a child protection case. A volunteer CASA advocate is a child’s representative through court proceedings, developing a trusting relationship and offering extensive information to help judges decide what is best for the child.
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Neil and Louise Tillotson Fund
One of the largest permanent rural philanthropies in the U.S. is strengthening communities and spreading economic opportunity.
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Nurturing the next generation of leaders
Gregory Williams of ADAPT, on how that organization is helping young people to develop confidence and resilience.
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Creating a new center of community
Jason Tors of The Loading Dock in Littleton, which has created space for the community to connect around a shared appreciation of the arts.
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Working together on child care solutions
The situation was dire. One town came together to fix it.
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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.
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Expanding Medicaid changed lives
How a push to change policy got people the care they needed.
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Kinship caregivers ‘step up’ for young people
An estimated 8,000 children in New Hampshire – many of whom have parents who struggle with, or have lost their lives to substance use disorders – are being raised by grandparents, relatives or family friends. The nonprofit Step Up Parents offers support to those families.
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Children’s Resiliency Retreat helps young people tap into strength, community, joy
Program at the Boys and Girls Club of the Souhegan Valley helps young people whose lives have been affected by a family member's substance use disorder.
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Wellborn Ecology Fund
The Wellborn Ecology Fund is dedicated to increasing environmental and ecological science knowledge in the Upper Valley.
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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.
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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.
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Nearly $300,000 in grants will support place-based ecology education
The Wellborn Ecology Fund of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation supports place-based ecology education in the Upper Valley region of New Hampshire and Vermont
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