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Foundation scholarships are helping Marissa and Dalton Courtemarche of Lyndeborough pursue their degrees. (Courtesy photo.)

Siblings getting ready for the careers of their dreams

February 14, 2020

Charitable Foundation scholarships are helping Marissa and Dalton Courtemarche of Lyndeborough finish their degrees and embark on careers in veterinary medicine and environmental conservation.



Grants map shows where NH generosity is making a difference

February 11, 2020

New interactive tool allows users to explore Foundation grantmaking by region, interest area, initiative and more.



Melissa Grella (right), Taproot founder and executive director with Kris von Dohrmann from Otokahe Farm of Jefferson. (Photo by Cheryl Senter.)

Rooted in community

February 6, 2020

Taproot Farm & Environmental Education Center makes communities stronger by connecting people with healthy, local food.



Members of the Tillotson Fund’s Empower Coös Youth Grantmaking Committee (from left to right): Jessie Church, Bethlehem, NH; Tristan Robertson, Milan, NH; Colbe Goudreau, Gorham, NH; Faith Gingras, East Norton, VT; and Jonah Cote, Canaan, VT. (Photo by Cheryl Senter.)

Building on the North Country’s strengths

February 4, 2020

The Neil and Louise Tillotson Fund of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation made $3.4 million in grants to 58 nonprofits in Coös County and surrounding communities in 2019.



Rosalind Erwin, senior program officer for the Piscataqua Region.

Meet Rosalind Erwin

January 30, 2020

The Foundation's new senior program officer for the Piscataqua Region and environmental grantmaking on the delight of learning new places, the coolest-ever internship (jellyfish husbandry!), her current favorite nature writing — and more.



Amanda Littlefield of Belmont (right) with Kerri Lowe of the Lakes Region Family Resource Center. (Photo by Cheryl Senter.)

‘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 Foundation scholarship is helping Kaylee Downs of Rochester achieve her dream of becoming a firefighter and paramedic. (Courtesy photo.)

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.



Elizabeth Dragon, city manager of Keene, 2019 Caroline and Martin Gross Fellow. (Photo by Cheryl Senter.)

Learning at the edge of the comfort zone

January 22, 2020

Elizabeth A. Dragon, Keene City Manager and 2019 recipient of the Caroline and Martin Gross Fellowship, reflects on how the Senior Executives in State and Local Government program at Harvard pushes attendees to the edge of their comfort zone – the best place to learn.



New Hampshire poets Maura MacNeil and Ewa Chrusciel read with four new immigrant writers as part of the New Hampshire Humanities' “New Voices” project. Nawras Altaher, Federica Odetti, Fatima Ejam, and Sophia Bomba presented original poetry about home and the journeys of their lives. (Courtesy photo.)

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.



A helicopter tackles a wildfire in East Gippsland, Victoria state, Australia. Wildfires burning across Australia's two most-populous states trapped residents of a seaside town in apocalyptic conditions Tuesday, Dec. 31, and were feared to have destroyed many properties and caused fatalities. (State Government of Victoria.)

Australia’s bush fires: Here’s what you can do to help

January 15, 2020

Australian Communities Foundation shares information on how to best help their country recover in the months and years ahead.



Matthias Page, Foundation scholarship recipient. (Courtesy photo.)

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.



The chimpmunk. (Illustration by Adelaide Tyrol.)

Chipmunk Game Theory 101

January 10, 2020

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.



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