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New Hampshire Tomorrow
Investing in our kids
New Hampshire Tomorrow 2019 progress report
March 10, 2020
Report details efforts to increase opportunities to help more young people in New Hampshire reach their potential.
‘Like a warm blanket wrapped around me’
January 28, 2020
Lakes Region Family Resource Center is one of 18 in New Hampshire that provide wraparound services to help families thrive.
A future NH firefighter is achieving her dreams
January 23, 2020
Kaylee Downs of Rochester is earning a degree in fire science from Lakes Region Community College with help from Charitable Foundation Scholarships.
From a Lego robotics kit to ocean engineering
January 14, 2020
Matthias Page of Claremont, an ocean engineering and mathematics major at the University of New Hampshire, is working his way through school with help from a Charitable Foundation scholarship.
Person-to-person philanthropy
December 19, 2019
More than 400 New Hampshire people and families have set up scholarship funds at the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation to help other New Hampshire people get the education they need.
‘You are destined for greater things’
December 5, 2019
Charitable Foundation Student Aid program helps some 1,500 students each year get the education they need to achieve their dreams.
Income inequality in New Hampshire, explained
November 21, 2019
New Hampshire had among the largest increases in income inequality in the country from 2017 to 2018, as measured by the "Gini coefficient." Charitable Foundation Senior Strategic Learning and Evaluation Officer Yulya Spantchak examines how the U.S. measures up against other developed countries when it comes to wealth distribution, and how New Hampshire ranks compared with the rest of the country
Restoring the American Dream: Five Questions for Nisha Patel
September 24, 2019
Nisha Patel, who led the U.S. Partnership on Mobility from Poverty, spoke with the Foundation's Lois Shea about why poverty is about more than economic hardship, why the narratives about poverty in the U.S. need to change, and why she is optimistic that the American Dream can be restored
Joining forces for our kids
August 28, 2019
The People’s United Community Foundation has aligned its New Hampshire grantmaking with the priorities of “New Hampshire Tomorrow,” the Charitable Foundation’s initiative to increase opportunity for young people — helping more kids go to summer camp, enabling more kids to get mentors, supporting wraparound services for struggling young families, and more
More than $240k in Express Grants awarded
August 28, 2019
Weekly grocery deliveries are being made to children during summer break and school vacation weeks; high school cross-country skiers will be able to participate on teams and enjoy New Hampshire’s official state sport; new art will be installed on the Franconia ArtWalk — and much more. The Charitable Foundation’s Express Grants program, which has a streamlined application process and short turnaround time, provides small grants (less than $5,000) to nonprofits in need of flexible funding to help with specific projects and programs
Community happens when good is built from tragedy
July 30, 2019
The Austin17 House in Brentwood is a place where young people feel connected, and heard, and celebrated
Community happens when a young man becomes a mentor
July 23, 2019
Brandon Pierre is a mentor with the Mayhew Program. Mayhew doesn’t change people, Brandon says. It gives boys “an authentic, honest belief in themselves — which allows them to change their future.”