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Funding from Foundation's Community Grants program is focused on providing multiyear operating support to nonprofits working all over New Hampshire.

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Neil and Louise Tillotson Fund announces more than $210,000 in grants to support efforts in the North Country

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Every tree tells a story

Victoria Elbroch of Kittery, Maine has been awarded the $25,000 Artist Advancement Grant, one of the largest unrestricted grants made to a single artist in the country. The fund from which the annual grant is made was created at the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation by a group of generous people who wanted to help cultivate the Piscataqua Region's arts community, boost artists’ careers and help keep them living and working in the area. It may be used for anything an artist needs to advance her work

High school students participating in the Dartmouth Dragonfly Mercury Project — which engages high school students across the region to collect dragonfly larvae at national parks in the Upper Valley so they can be tested for mercury. (Courtesy photo.)

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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JerriAnne Boggis and Joseph Morone join New Hampshire Charitable Foundation Board

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Neil and Louise Tillotson Fund awards nearly $1 million to support the North Country

Families will have increased access to nutritious foods. Community forests in Gorham and Milan will expand, providing additional income, lumber and open space for recreation. A local community college will train students for high-demand careers in industrial mechanics. And more

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Louise Tillotson Teaching Fellowships awarded to three North Country teachers

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$690,000 in grants awarded for river and watershed conservation

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