Recognizing that soap is also a basic need
September 5, 2024
The high cost of hygiene products has cascading effects on families.
Expanding Medicaid changed lives
August 6, 2024
How a push to change policy got people the care they needed.
‘Here for good,’ a message from our board and CEO
July 30, 2024
New Hampshire’s statewide community foundation was launched in 1962. The era was one of both challenge and peril — but also of audacious optimism, and belief in what was possible. We again find ourselves again in an era of complex challenges. Challenges in decades to come may be more complex yet. The Charitable Foundation will be here. For good.
Here for Good
July 25, 2024
The New Hampshire Charitable Foundation's 2023 annual report, "Here for Good," tells stories of how people around the state are addressing some of today's critical issues — from climate change to voting access, from health care to child care. The report is available online, and printed copies will be mailed soon. Please join us to continue the conversation at events in September.
Pride Month celebrated with events around the state
June 3, 2024
From Nashua to the White Mountains, Pride events honor and celebrate LGBTQ+ rights.
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‘Our kids need to see you’
May 28, 2024
Q&A with Rev. Heidi Carrington Heath, executive director of Seacoast Outright.
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Dental and medical go hand-in-hand
May 23, 2024
The Tri-County CAP’s Tamworth Dental Center provides care for all.
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Helping New Hampshire families thrive
May 21, 2024
New Hampshire nonprofits are bringing extraordinary dedication and ingenuity to the task of making high-quality, affordable child care available to all families who need it.
America runs on child care
May 16, 2024
New Hampshire nonprofits are working on innovations, collaborations and solutions to the child care crisis — from the policy level to the paycheck level.
Kinship caregivers ‘step up’ for young people
March 14, 2024
An estimated 8,000 children in New Hampshire – many of whom have parents who struggle with, or have lost their lives to substance use disorders – are being raised by grandparents, relatives or family friends. The nonprofit Step Up Parents offers support to those families.
Attempts to erode LGBTQ rights undermine the NH community
February 27, 2024
Our LGBTQ families, friends, neighbors and allies deserve to live in a New Hampshire community where they are safe, where they are respected, where they belong. As the legislature and governor have correctly recognized in the past — and as they should again — that kind of New Hampshire community is better for us all.
Boosting community vitality
February 14, 2024
Since 1993, the nonprofit Vital Communities has been bringing people together across sectors to tackle among the most complex challenges facing the region.