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Grants: 2004
Grant Period: January 1, 2004 - December 31, 2004

Andover Elementary School
Location: Andover
Grant Request: $4,692
Area Served: Andover

This project certifies another staff member in PhysicalBest, adds a salad bar to the school lunch program, increases nutrition education in kindergarten through grade two, adds roller blading and snow shoeing to the kindergarten through grade two curriculum and provides more fitness activities and fitness/nutrition education for families.

Bethlehem Elementary School
Location: Bethlehem
Grant Request: $4,928
Area Served: Bethlehem

This project constructs a walking trail with three strength training fitness stations and is introduced to students in kindergarten through grade two.

Child Health Services
Location: Manchester
Grant Request: $20,000
Area Served: Manchester

In December of 2002, the New Hampshire Healthy Kids Corporation received a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Covering Kids and Families Initiative. HNHfoundation provided the required match for the RWJ grant. HNHfoundation funds are supporting this RWJ CKF project, which reaches out to minority families in the Manchester Community to enroll children in the Healthy Kids Program. This is the Child Health Services’ third-year request for funds for this purpose.

Children's Alliance of New Hampshire
Location: Concord
Grant Request: $10,000
Area Served: Statewide

The Children's Alliance of NH seeks to address a key challenge in their new stage of organizational development, that is, to sustain their successes and set of proven and effective strategies. HNHfoundation’s general operating support will strengthen their sustainability for three core strategies: identifying needs, promoting solutions, and raising awareness.

Deerfield Community School
Location: Deerfield
Grant Request: $2,952
Area Served: Deerfield

This project creates a snowshoeing program and promotes nutrition education via ‘Food of the Month’ presentations for Preschool through Grade Two students and nutrition information sent home to parents.

Edward Fenn Elementary School

Location: Gorham
Grant Request: $2,240
Area Served: Gorham

This project focuses on offering after-school activities for kindergarten through grade two students including snowshoeing, x-country skiing, hiking, and bicycling. The use of pedometers and Dance, Dance Revolution will also be used. Children learn to make their own healthy snacks and understand the nutritional value of healthy foods, while being exposed to a variety of foods from different countries.

FrameWorks Institute
Location: Washington, DC
Grant Request: $75,000
Area Served: Statewide

The Institute will identify and model new communication strategies that have proven effective in lifting the importance of health care insurance as an issue, engaging people in the public discourse about this issue and helping them understand the best solutions available to solve health insurance problems in NH. The FrameWorks Institute will share these findings and the techniques they imply to front-line policy experts and advocates so they will be better equipped to explain both the problems that confront NH and the solutions that exist to solve them.. This is the first request for funds for this purpose.

Grantham Elementary School
Location: Grantham
Grant Request: $4,648
Area Served: Grantham

This project creates a fitness trail and a winter activities program while enhancing the current walking program. Pedometers and stethoscopes educate students in kindergarten through grade two on the effect of physical activity. Healthcare professionals share their experience and knowledge during a week-long health fair.

Henniker Community School
Location: Henniker
Grant Request: $3,371
Area Served: Henniker

This project supports school staff in integrating physical activity and healthy nutrition behavior within the current curriculum for preschool through grade two students. Pedometers and stethoscopes educate students about the need and effect of physical activity. A 5-minute walk-together program and after-school activities are planned as well as a parent/teacher community forum on how to introduce healthy food choices.

HNHfoundation (Public Awareness Campaign)
Location: Concord
Grant Request: $25,000
Area Served: Statewide

HNHfoundation, contracting with Louis Karno & Co., will design and develop a statewide public awareness campaign to promote the importance of health insurance coverage for New Hampshire children with the goal of maintaining New Hampshire’s status as one of the leading states in the nation for providing health care insurance for children.

The HUB
Location: Dover
Grant Request: $20,000
Area Served: Strafford County

In December of 2002, the New Hampshire Healthy Kids Corporation received a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Covering Kids and Families Initiative. HNHfoundation provided the required match for the RWJ grant. HNHfoundation funds are supporting this RWJ CKF project, which reaches out to rural families in Strafford County to enroll children in the Healthy Kids Program. This is the HUB’s third-year request for funds for this purpose.

Institute for Law, Health, & Ethics
Location: Concord
Grant Request: $7,500
Area Served: Statewide

The ILHE will use the Foundation’s award to fund the project titled “In Defense of Medicaid and Healthy Kids: Bridging New Hampshire’s Public Policy Gap.”

Kearsage Regional School
Location: Bradford
Grant Request: $3,766
Area Served: Bradford

This project builds awareness of the importance of healthy food choices and physical activity. Students in grades one and two research and choose which healthy snacks to offer to the entire school. Pedometers and stethoscopes educate students about the need and effect of physical activity. A new fitness/nature trail will be built on site for school and community use.

Kearsage Regional School
Location: New London
Grant Request: $3,069
Area Served: New London

This project enhances the physical education program through the use of a walking program and Dance, Dance Revolution for kindergarten students. Nutrition information is sent home monthly to parents. Cafeteria staff offers healthy choices and snacks to all the children in the school.

Lin-Wood Public School
Location: Lincoln
Grant Request: $5,000
Area Served: Lincoln

This project educates students in Kindergarten through Grade Three about the purpose and goals of fitness testing, increases awareness of physical activity through the use of heart rate monitors and enhances the physical education program through the use of Dance, Dance Revolution.

Madison Elementary School
Location: Madison
Grant Request: $5,000
Area Served: Madison

This project expands the walking program for students in kindergarten through grade three, offers swimming and snowshoeing activities, and encourages healthy food choices. Pedometers and stethoscopes educate children on the effects of physical activity.

Mascenic Regional School District
Location: New Ipswich
Grant Request: $5,000
Area Served: New Ipswich

This project introduces pedometers, heart rate monitors and stethoscopes to students in pre-kindergarten through grade two, during physical education classes to increase their understanding of the need and effect of physical activity. Nutritional resource materials are provided to school staff.

Mascoma Regional School District
Location: Enfield
Grant Request: $5,000
Area Served: Enfield

This project educates students in preschool through second grade and parents about nutrition through monthly newsletters and weekly nutrition trivia, increases physical activity through the purchase of Dance, Dance Revolution and free weights and uses pedometers and heart rate monitors to increase student understanding of the need and effect of physical activity.

Mildred C. Lakeway Elementary School
Location: Littleton
Grant Request: $5,000
Area Served: Littleton

This project creates a walking program for students in kindergarten through grade two and uses pedometers and heart rate monitors to educate students on the need and effect of physical activity. The availability of healthy food snacks is promoted.

New Boston Central School
Location: New Boston
Grant Request: $3,484
Area Served: New Boston

This project increases the daily amount of physical activity for readiness through second grade students, adopts the “5 A Day” program to teach students about nutrition, and eliminates unhealthy junk food choices that are available to students in the school cafeteria during morning snack time.

New Hampshire Children's Trust Fund
Location: Concord
Grant Request: $250
Area Served: Statewide

The Smith Award for Excellence in Service to Families will be given at a public event in Concord, NH on September 28, 2004. The award is given to a New Hampshire agency that has been outstanding in: exemplifying a philosophy of service that recognizes the inherent value of skillful parenting and healthy families in shaping a child’s future; demonstrating an organizational capacity to operate family support in a challenging environment; providing a program delivery system of exceptional quality; and offering leadership in the community. This grant is given in support of the event and is the first request for funding.

New Hampshire Department of Health & Human Services
Location: Concord
Grant Request: $250,000
Area Served: Statewide

The Balanced Budget Act of 1997 established the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) under Title XXI of the Social Security Act. The purpose of the Program is to provide funds to states to initiate and expand children’s health insurance coverage to targeted uninsured children. Foundation funding covers a portion of the costs of premiums for those children whose family income is between 250%-300% of the federal poverty level. This is the Department’ssixth-year request for funds.

New Hampshire Healthy Kids Corp.
Location: Concord
Grant Request: $10,000
Area Served: Statewide

NH Healthy Kids Corp. will use this general operating support toward call-monitoring software, Access/Excel staff training, conversion of mail lists to electronic list serve and for personnel expenses.

New Hampshire Healthy Schools Coalition
Location: Durham
Grant Request: $3,750
Area Served: Statewide

New Hampshire Healthy School Coalition will use this grant money for their fall school conference on childhood obesity. This grant represents one-half of the conference costs. It will be announced at this conference that HNHfoundation is giving a minimum of $85,000 to schools to address this health issue.

New Hampshire Public Radio
Location: Concord
Grant Request: $30,000
Area Served: Statewide

Project: Health is NHPR’s initiative to increase the amount of health reporting on the radio. Foundation funding supports NHPR’s Project: Health produce compelling, high quality radio features, and interview programs that explore health topics in NH, designed to enhance the public’s understanding of a variety of health disciplines, as well as encouraging conversations with NH residents who are affected or otherwise dealing with the issues of health. This is NHPR’s third request for funding.

North Hampton School
Location: North Hampton
Grant Request: $5,000
Area Served: North Hampton

This project creates a walking track at the school with an incentive program for grade one. Opportunities for healthy food choices for students and nutrition education nights for parents are planned.

Raymond Lamprey River Elementary School
Location: Raymond
Grant Request: $3,237
Area Served: Raymond

This project creates walking and snowshoeing programs that assist Kindergarten through Grade Two students in developing life long physical activities. Pedometers and heart rate monitors educate students about the importance of physical activity. Faculty serves as role models for the students by participating in their own walking program.

Richards Elementary School
Location: Newport
Grant Request: $2,412
Area Served: Newport

This project creates an organized walking/activity club and a school-wide winter activities program. Heart rate monitors and pedometers educate students in kindergarten through grade two on the effect of physical activity.

Rye Elementary School
Location: Rye
Grant Request: $3,920
Area Served: Rye

This project purchases a Counter Steamer for the school’s food service program. Students in kindergarten through grade two, teachers, parents, and food service personnel are assisted with healthy food preparation and making good food choices.

Sanbornton Central School
Location: Sanbornton
Grant Request: $3,164
Area Served: Sanbornton

This project creates a ‘Mileage Club’ for students in kindergarten through grade two, a ‘Walk-to-School’ Program, and an education program for students on the importance of healthy food choices.

SBDC Office of Economic Intitiative-UNH
Location: Concord
Grant Request: $5,000
Area Served: Statewide

In June 2000, the Josiah Bartlett Center on Public Policy issued a report called the Livable Wage Study which qualified the cost of living in New Hampshire counties. This grant to the Small Business Development Center repeats and updates the first Livable Wage Study.

Webster Elementary School
Location: Webster
Grant Request: $2,655
Area Served: Webster

This project promotes physical activity on the playground, enhances nutrition education in kindergarten through grade 2 and supports the Physical Best initiatives in the physical education classes.

White Mountain Community Health Center (WMCHC)
Location: Conway
Grant Request: $56,444
Area Served: Carroll County

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Carroll County had the highest rate of uninsured children in New Hampshire at 12.8% in the year 2000. The WMCHC is implementing strategies to enroll Carroll County children in the New Hampshire Healthy Kids Program (Medicaid and State Children’s Health Insurance Program). The goal is to reduce the rate to 5% by 2006.

Total Grants 2004: $591,480

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