Stories of community resilience - NH Charitable Foundation

Anxious Nation, a new documentary will be screened statewide, accompanied by panel discussions and access to mental health and suicide prevention resources. (Courtesy photo.)

Free screenings of Anxious Nation coming to New Hampshire communities

New documentary will be screened statewide, accompanied by panel discussions and access to mental health and suicide prevention resources.

Traci Fowler, the Charitable Foundation’s director of behavioral health discusses the Risk Behavioral Survey (YRBS) findings. (Photo by Cheryl Senter.)

New data point to behavioral health challenges among young people

Traci Fowler, Foundation director of behavioral health, on New Hampshire’s 2021 Youth Risk Behavior Survey: Data show behavioral health challenges among New Hampshire’s children and adolescents are real, and they are widespread. But importantly, they are also treatable, and oftentimes preventable. Prevention works, treatment is effective and people recover.

Announcing temporary changes to Community Grants program for 2023

As we work to improve our Community Grants program for the long-term, in 2023 we will offer a single, one-year, Unrestricted Grant program with awards of up to $20,000. There will be no Express Grants or multi-year Unrestricted grants awarded in 2023.

The Funders Network 2023 PLACES cohort, including Sandeep Bikram Shah, NH Charitable Foundation Senior Program Officer. (Courtesy photo.)

Sandeep Bikram Shah is a 2023 PLACES fellow

The PLACES Fellowship gives leaders in philanthropy the tools, knowledge, and best practices to ensure their work is centered on advancing equity and justice.

Charitable Giving Guide encourages support for nonprofits

New Hampshire Business Review's 2023 Charitable Giving Guide encourages people to give to the nonprofits that make New Hampshire better for all of us.

Meet Meena Gyawali

Meena Gyawali joined the Foundation in December as a Senior Program Officer. She has served as director of grants and compliance at Families in Transition and has a background in planning and community development. She talked to the Foundation’s Lois Shea about urban planning, how high school drafting classes led to her hobby of painting landscapes from Manchester’s Millyard, the search for the best empanada in town and why everyone should visit New Hampshire’s Queen City. Meena lives in Manchester with her family.

One of the ten nonprofit community mental health centers, Monadnock Family Services, Peterborough office staff. (Courtesy photo.)

NH Charitable Foundation commits $500,000 to help bolster New Hampshire’s community mental health centers

Funds to support frontline mental health providers serving New Hampshire’s children, youth and families.

Seana McDuffie joined the Charitable Foundation in fall of 2022 as a program and student aid officer. (Photo by Cheryl Senter.)

Meet Seana McDuffie

Seana McDuffie joined the Charitable Foundation in fall of 2022 as a program and student aid officer. Read about how her experience, including as a U.S. Marine veteran, informs the work she does at the Foundation, about her love of podcasts, movies and retro video games — and about the culture shock and racism she experienced when she first moved to New Hampshire.

Ty, a 13-year-old from Hopkinton who was enrolled in the program, with his mom and Back in the Saddle Equine Therapy Center Executive Director Jaryn Hall-Haines. (Photo by Cheryl Senter.)

SOAR program helps young people thrive

The COVID-19 pandemic turned the world upside-down for children and teens, leaving families and schools looking for ways to help young people overcome feelings of profound uncertainty, anxiety and isolation. The SOAR program at Back in the Saddle Equine Therapy Center in Hopkinton, was designed specifically to help young people cope with COVID’s fallout.

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