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Grants: 2005
Grant Period: January 1, 2005 -
December 31, 2005
Andover Elementary School
Grant: $4,051
Area Served: Andover
This grant helped establish a rollerblading, snowshoeing, and walking program (with pedometers), as well as further development of orienteering, obstacle course, and aerobic activities. Nutrition education was established as a science unit, a salad bar was created in the cafeteria, and parental education materials were developed and distributed.
Ashland Elementary School
Grant: $4,000
Area Served: Ashland
This grant facilitated the construction of five fitness stations along a fitness trail to be used as a self-guided walking, running, and snowshoeing trail.
Barnstead Elementary School
Grant: $5,000
Area Served: Barnstead
This grant facilitated the construction of a fitness playground, and expanded nutrition education through a pilot “healthy food month” program.
Bethlehem Elementary School
Grant: $5,000
Area Served: Bethlehem
This grant helped establish a nutrition education program and promotion of better food choices in the cafeteria. The grant also helped to build on the success of fitness stations along the school’s fitness trail.
Child Health Services
Grant: $20,000
Area Served: Greater Manchester
This grant continued to help Child Health Services enroll minority children in the Manchester area in the Healthy Kids Program. This grant also helped leverage national funding support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s “Covering Kids and Families Initiative.” This is our fourth and final year of support for this project.
Children's Alliance of New Hampshire
Grant: $10,000
Area Served: Statewide
This grant strengthened the educational outreach efforts of the Children’s Alliance in three strategic areas: identifying needs, promoting solutions, and raising awareness.
Danville Elementary School
Grant: $1,000
Area Served: Statewide
This grant facilitated the promotion of fresh fruit choices for snacks and a “fruit-of-the-month” event throughout the school year. The grant also enabled the school to purchase course markers for the Mileage Club track.
Deerfield Community School
Grant: $4,894
Area Served: Deerfield
This grant enabled the school to use existing trails around the school for a variety of programmatic physical activities, and use of pedometers, heart-rate monitors, and stethoscopes as part of the program. Grant helped establish a “Snack Challenge Month,” and promote education about healthy snack choices. Grant funds were also used to purchase nutrition-related library books and staff resource materials, as well as plan nutrition-related field trips and other integrated curricular activities.
East Kingston Elementary School
Grant: $5,000
Area: Kingston
This grant enabled the school to purchase a kettle steamer to facilitate serving fresh vegetables in the cafeteria. Grant funds were also used to facilitate a nutritionist assessment of the school lunch menu, and to conduct nutrition education workshops for parents and families.
Edward Fenn Elementary School
Grant: $2,115
Area Served: Gorham
This grant helped establish a variety of programmatic activity sessions, and the use of pedometers as part of the Walk NH Program. Grant funds were also used to establish integrated curriculum activities promoting healthy snack choices, and the purchase of play equipment.
Effingham Elementary School
Grant: $5,000
Area Served: Effingham
This grant enabled the school to initiate a snowshoe program, with integrated nutritional “mini-lessons” about healthy snowshoeing snacks. The grant also facilitated the creation of a healthy snacks cookbook, which was distributed to all students.
Grantham Elementary School
Grant: $4,854
Area Served: Grantham
This grant established a “healthy cooking” class, and enabled the school to distribute healthy recipes to parents. The grant also funded the community presentation of the music program: “Monsters Under the Bed – Nutrition,” and other monthly community activity events. The school has also created a student incentive program involving healthy meals, and purchased snowshoes, skis, and Dance Dance Revolution.
Henniker Community School
Grant: $3,545
Area Served: Henniker
This grant funded an after-school activity program, and the promotion of pedometer use. The grant also funded in-class instruction with a certified nutritionist about making healthy food choices at snack time. Grant funds were also used to launch a pilot project to limit in-class birthday parties to healthy foods, and the presentation of a nutrition-related play for children and their families.
The HUB Family Resource Center
Grant: $20,000
Area Served: Strafford County
This grant continued to help The HUB enroll rural Strafford County children in the Healthy Kids Program. This grant also helped leverage national funding support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s “Covering Kids and Families Initiative.” This is our fourth and final year of support for this project.
Institute for Law, Health & Ethics
Franklin Pierce Law Center
Grant: $7,500
Area Served: Statewide
This grant enabled the Institute for Law, Health & Ethics maintain their ongoing project: In Defense of Medicaid and Healthy Kids: Bridging New Hampshire’s Public Policy Gap. This initiative helps to keep policymakers and health care advocates informed about the impact of legislative decisions on the Children’s Health Insurance Program and Medicaid.
Kearsarge Regional Elementary School - Warner
Grant: $2,561
Area Served: Warner
This grant helped to establish a walking program and the purchase of more pedometers. Grant funds were also used to consult with a certified nutritionist to increase the choice of healthy meals and snacks. The grant also facilitated the creation of a monthly nutrition-related newsletter for parents, and the introduction of yoga for students and staff.
Kearsarge Regional Elementary School - Bradford
Grant: $4,850
Area Served: Bradford
This grant helped the school integrate the Walking NH Program into ongoing curricular activities, construct a climbing wall, and purchase snowshoes. Grant funds were also used to install signs at fitness stations along the on-site fitness trail, and support nutrition education with a volunteer nutritionist.
Kensington Elementary School
Grant: $4,975
Area Served: Kensington
This grant funded the construction of a walking track, and launch of a walking program. Grant funds were also used to collect, display, and distribute information about nutrition and healthy eating.
Lamprey River Elementary School
Grant: $5,000
Area Served: Raymond
This grant enabled the school to expand the physical education program to include dance therapy and the “Kid Power” pedometer program. Grant funds were also used to educate the school community about the new pyramid food chart, purchase fruits and vegetables for students to identify and taste, and parent education.
Lin-Wood Public School
Grant: $5,000
Area Served: Lincoln
This grant enabled the school to improve its walking and winter activity trail network, as well as purchase snowshoes. Grant funds were also used to expand the nutrition education program, and to design and implement a wellness policy for the school community.
Little Harbour School
Grant: $4,941
Area Served: Portsmouth
This grant was used to purchase of pedometers, heart rate monitors, the Shopping Cart Toolkit, the Childhood Obesity: Breaking the Cycle kit, and other materials. Grant funds were also used to promote nutritional awareness among parents, and to assess the nutritional content of school lunches. The school also contracted with the UNH Cooperative Extension to implement a pilot media nutritional literacy program.
Madison Elementary School
Grant: $4,400
Area Served: Madison
This grant enabled the school to expand the winter sports and walking programs and jump rope club, introduce a salad bar in cafeteria, and expand the breakfast program. The school also launched a pilot project to limit in-class birthday celebrations to healthy foods, and exclude candy sales from school fundraising. The school also contracted with Carroll County Extension for in-class nutrition education and after school programs, and to utilize “5-A-Day Program” materials.
Mascenic Regional School District
Grant: $5,000
Area Served: New Ipswich
This grant enabled to school to introduce orienteering to the activity program, orchestrate a nutrition analysis of school lunches, and disseminate this information to parents. The school is also working to implement nutrition education across the curriculum.
Mascoma Regional School District
Grant: $5,000
Area Served: Enfield
This grant enabled the school to expand nutrition education through monthly newsletters and weekly nutrition trivia games, establish a container garden in Pre-School, and present family “activity nights” that featured healthy community meals provided by the food service. The school also launched a program to increase muscular endurance through the use of free weights, and purchased exercise mats.
Mildred C. Lakeway Elementary
Grant: $5,000
Area Served: Littleton
This grant facilitated the establishment of a school wellness committee that worked with a nutritionist to examine the current food program and create a process for introducing new, healthy foods for snacks. Grant funds were also used to install a new cooler with healthy food choices.
New Boston Central School
Grant: $4,497
Area Served: New Boston
This grant enabled the school to implement a walking program, and use pedometers and snowshoes. Grant funds were also used to organize nutrition education by grade level and provide teacher assistance to develop nutrition-related activities, including a Nutrition Fair. The school also has increased the offering of healthy snacks for purchase, and eliminated unhealthy snacks from birthday celebrations and class parties.
New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services
Grant: $250,000
Area: Statewide
This grant funded a portion of the 35 percent state share of the Children’s Health Insurance Program that benefits children living in families with income between 250 and 300 percent of the federal poverty level. This was the sixth year of grant support for this program. Since 1999, the HNHfoundation has granted the state over $2.8 million to create and maintain this critical program that enables New Hampshire’s children to have access to the health care system.
New Hampshire Healthy Kids Corporation
Grant: $10,000
Area: Statewide
This grant to the New Hampshire Healthy Kids Corporation enabled this organization, which is the “gateway” to health care coverage for many New Hampshire children, to maintain their organizational stability during the year.
New Hampshire Healthy Schools Coalition
Grant: $52,460
Area Service: Statewide
Our grant enabled the Coalition to provide direct technical assistance to those schools funded in 2004, those that were beginning their second year of program implementation in 2005, as well as supporting nine new schools to increase physical activity, promote nutrition education, and improve the food environment.
The Coalition, with HNHfoundation support, also convened a statewide conference on October 4, 2005 that brought together nutrition and activity experts with public educators and administrators to address the many issues surrounding childhood obesity in our schools, and how to best address these issues in our public school system.
New Hampshire Public Radio
Grant: $20,000
Area Served: Statewide
This grant helped to fund New Hampshire Public Radio’s (NHPR) initiative called Project: Health. The goal is to produce and air high quality radio features and interview programs that explore important health topics, including the importance of health care coverage for children. This is our third and final year of funding for this project.
New Hampshire Public Television
Grant: $10,000
Area Served: Statewide
This grant helped to support New Hampshire Public Television’s Healthy Families NH program, which provides information, resources, and support to families and communities aimed at raising healthy children, especially in the areas of nutrition and exercise.
Newmarket Elementary School
Grant: $4,680
Area Served: Newmarket
This grant enabled the school to purchase of 24 bicycles and related safety equipment for a school biking program. Grant funds were also used to implement the “5-A-Day” nutrition program, and to integrate nutrition education in physical education classes. The school also established a fruit and vegetable tasting program, and distributed nutrition educational materials to parents.
North Hampton School
Grant: $4,243
Area Served: North Hampton
This grant helped the school to introduce a pedometer-based walking program, as well as a variety of healthy food tasting activities. Grants funds were also used to purchase a “Cardio Kids Stepper” and a “Cardio Kids Moonwalker,” and for ongoing support to create a school-wide wellness policy.
Northwood Elementary School
Grant: $4,943
Area Served: Northwood
This grant enabled the school to sponsor monthly school-wide healthy food tasting events, and present a nutrition family night event. Grant funds were also used to construct a walking course, and purchase pedometers, snowshoes and sleds. The school has introduced low-priced healthy snacks, and implemented a healthy snack policy for classroom celebrations.
Rye Elementary School
Grant: $1,949
Area Served: Rye
This grant enabled the school to expand the walking club and distribute the activity pyramid, and a list of Ten Things that a Family can do to Increase Physical Activity to the school community. Grant funds were also used to build nutrition awareness through lunch menus, principal’s newsletter, and guest speakers.
Sanbornton Central School
Grant: $4,209
Area Served: Sanborton
This grant established a snowshoeing program, and enabled the school to incorporate the “Recharge Program” into the after-school program. The school is also incorporating nutrition education across the curriculum.
Webster Elementary School
Grant: $2,595
Area Served: Webster
This grant expanded the use of pedometers and enabled the school to participate in the “World Wide Day of Play.” Grant funds were also used to incorporate the “Jump, Jiggle, and Move for Brain Power” curriculum into classroom activities, and present a theatre group presentation called “Opera of Health.”
White Mountain Community Health Center
Grant: $70,186
Area Served: Carroll County
This grant helped the White Mountain Community Health Center enroll more Carroll County children in the Healthy Kids Program. According to the 2000 census, Carroll County has the highest rate of uninsured children in our state: 12.8 percent. The goal of the White Mountain Community Health Center program is to reduce the rate of uninsured children in Carroll County to 5 percent by 2006. This is the third and final year of funding for this project.
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