Greater Rochester Community Health Foundation announces $450,000 in grants

The Greater Rochester Community Health Foundation’s Board of Directors has announced $450,000 in grants to 35 nonprofits working to improve the health and well-being of people in Strafford County.

The following organizations each received awards from the GRCHF Targeted Grants Program to provide mental/behavioral health, early education/childcare, and/or food insecurity services to residents of Strafford County:

• Behavioral Health & Development Services of Strafford County (d/b/a Community Partners), Dover, $25,000
• Community Action Partnership of Strafford County (CAPSC), Dover, $25,000
• Greater Seacoast Community Health, Portsmouth, $25,000
• HAVEN, Portsmouth, $25,000
• SHARE Fund, Rochester, $25,000
• Triangle Club, Dover, $25,000
• Dover Children’s Home, Dover, $20,000
• End 68 Hours of Hunger, Farmington, $20,000
• Dover Mental Health Alliance, Dover, $15,000
• Gather, Portsmouth, $15,000
• Hope on Haven Hill, Rochester, $15,000
• SOS Recovery Community Organization, Rochester, $15,000

In addition, unrestricted grants for operating support were awarded from the GRCHF Small Grants Program to the following organizations for work addressing access to care issues for people in Strafford County:

• AIDS Response Seacoast, Portsmouth, $10,000
• Connors Climb Foundation, Exeter, $10,000
• Cooperative Alliance for Seacoast Transportation (COAST), Dover, $10,000
• Cornerstone VNA, Rochester, $10,000
• Dismas Home of New Hampshire, Manchester (which operates a site in Rochester), $10,000
• Dover Adult Learning Center, Dover, $10,000
• Dover Police Charities, Dover, $10,000
• Great Bay Services, Dover, $10,000
• My Breast Cancer Support, Portsmouth, $10,000
• New Hampshire Harm Reduction Coalition, Dover, $10,000
• Our Place NH, Dover, $10,000
• Strafford Nutrition & Meals on Wheels, Somersworth, $10,000
• The Joan G. Lovering Health Center, Greenland, $10,000
• Twenty-One Senses, Madbury, $10,000
• Vouchers for Veterans, Rochester, $10,000
• Waypoint, Manchester (which operates sites in Dover and Rochester), $10,000
• Zebra Crossings, Dover, $10,000
• Memories Made, New Durham, $6,500
• Reach Out and Read, Boston, $6,500
• Connections Peer Support Center, Portsmouth, $5,000
• ElderPet, Durham, $5,000
• Reproductive Freedom Fund of New Hampshire, Dover, $5,000
• Strafford Library Association, Strafford, $2,000

Access to care was identified as a priority for the foundation by initial research of community needs assessments from the major healthcare providers in the region.

GRCHF’s mission is to improve the health and well-being and reduce the burden of illness of people residing in Strafford County and surrounding communities. GRCHF does this work by awarding grants, making program-related investments, and providing other financial assistance to health and social service programs, organizations and projects that benefit the community.

GRCHF was created in 2021 with proceeds from the sale of the nonprofit Frisbie Memorial Hospital. GRCHF is a “supporting organization” of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, drawing on the Charitable Foundation’s community knowledge and financial and investment expertise to meet its mission.

The GRCHF Board includes (in alphabetical order): Betsey Andrews Parker, CEO of Community Action Partnership of Strafford County (CAPSC); Brian Hughes, President & CEO of Holy Rosary Credit Union (HRCU); Emmett Soldati, Founder of Teatoller in Concord and Dover; Jennifer Ufkin, RN, Vice President of Operations at Cornerstone VNA, chair; Josh Dame, President & Founder of LDI Solutions; Kerrie Landry, Director of Finance & Accounting at Living Innovations; Nathan Byrne, Superintendent of Northwood School District (SAU 44); Sandra Jalbert, Community Volunteer; and Sonjia Tainter, Founder of the Rae Impact Collective and Director of Development at the Rochester Childcare Center.

To learn more about the Greater Rochester Community Health Foundation and grantmaking opportunities, please visit www.nhcf.org/GRCHF.