‘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.
New Hampshire Charitable Foundation grants nearly $3.2 million in operating support to nonprofits
January 16, 2020
Funding from Foundation's Community Grants program is focused on providing multiyear operating support to nonprofits working all over New Hampshire.
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 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.”
New instruments headed to Laconia, Manchester
June 19, 2019
Grants from the David M. Brooks Music Fund are sending new cellos, trumpets, trombones, flutes, violins and more to children in Manchester public schools; and guitars, keyboards, ukuleles and xylophones to public-school children in Laconia
The Power of Many: giving and working together for NH
May 29, 2019
A few examples of recent grants making a difference in communities around the Granite State: Portsmouth Music and Arts Center builds community through the arts; Christa McAuliffe's legacy continues; Kids in Chichester get new playground equipment; Empower Coös Youth Grant Committee makes its first round of grants; Veterans get support and services; History is preserved in Manchester; The largest remaining dairy farm in the Monadnock region is conserved
Applying ‘conscious capitalism’ to your mission
May 24, 2019
Mainstay Technologies ‘pays it forward’ through its donor-advised fund at the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation. Foundation staff help identify giving opportunities, and the Mainstay "charity team" recommends grants — from helping refugee children be able to attend summer camp to contributing to a scholarship to help a student get his associate degree at NHTI
The power of a very generous crowd
January 4, 2019
Here are just a few examples of what happens in New Hampshire communities when people give, and work, together
Meet Ben Amsden
September 26, 2018
New Charitable Foundation senior program officer on rural sociology, the perfect New Hampshire day, and a hobby that helps keep stuff out of landfills
On a mission to help our kids thrive
July 19, 2018
Lakes Region Child Care provides high-quality early education to 424 infants and children from 28 towns
How screening breaks the cycle
March 8, 2018
Dr. Kelley White talks about the profound effect of the state's drug crisis on her young patients, and how the "screening, brief intervention and referral to treatment" protocol is helping
A forest stays a forest — and generates money to give
January 18, 2018
A generous family donated the 2,086-acre Beaver Brook Forest to the Charitable Foundation. Now, the land is in process of being conserved forever, and charitable resources generated by the sale are already at work in New Hampshire communities