What We’re Up To

New Hampshire Tomorrow

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

• 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.

• 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.

Neil and Louise Tillotson Fund

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

• Onward, with confidence and conviction

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

• ‘It’s life-changing’

  The Neil and Louise Tillotson Fund at 20: Investment in community, at the speed of trust, is making people’s lives better in the North Country.

• At ‘The Tilly,’ everyone has a place

  In Colebrook, the Tillotson Center and Colebrook Recreation Department build belonging and community across generations.

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.

• $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.

• $3.08 million in grants to strengthen opioid use disorder recovery, treatment and prevention efforts across New Hampshire

  23 organizations awarded funding through Opioid Abatement Community Grants Program.

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.