The New Hampshire Charitable Foundation board of directors on Wednesday announced that Shawn V. Morehead has been selected to be the Foundation’s next president and CEO. Morehead will succeed Richard Ober of Dublin, who will retire in July after 16 years as president and CEO of New Hampshire’s statewide community foundation.
The New Hampshire Charitable Foundation has made $3,180,000 in grants through its Community Grants Program to support the operations of 68 nonprofits serving New Hampshire communities, including 11 based in Manchester.
The purpose of the fund is to support students from Manchester Central High School who show a strong passion for and interest in technology fields.
Mainstay Technologies ‘pays it forward’ through its donor-advised fund at the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation.
A new scholarship fund at the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation will distribute more than $100,000 annually to New Hampshire students pursuing bachelor’s degrees in engineering.
The New Hampshire Charitable Foundation has made $3,280,000 in grants through its Community Grants Program to support the operations of nearly 70 nonprofits serving New Hampshire communities.
The New Hampshire Charitable Foundation will administer the scholarships through its student aid program. Students may apply through the Charitable Foundation’s online application
The fund, which helps drug court participants who are pregnant or have young children meet critical financial needs, is believed to be the first of its kind in the nation.
The BIA will add a new position, director of workforce development, to oversee Workforce Accelerator 2025 beginning in January. Initial funding for the initiative comes from the BIA, the Charitable Foundation and Fidelity Investments. The partnership is seeking additional funders to support the initiative.
“New Hampshire Tomorrow” is a comprehensive partnership bringing together hundreds of organizations and businesses toward a single goal: increasing opportunities so that young people can reach their potential and be ready to contribute to New Hampshire’s communities and workforce. The Charitable Foundation made the announcement to some 150 supporters and partners during a special Oct. 31 event at the NH Institute of Politics in Manchester.
Three New Hampshire institutions – Live Free & Start, the NH Charitable Foundation, and the NH Community Loan Fund − have teamed up to answer that question for Granite State investors and prospective investors. The third in their series of public forums, Investing in New Hampshire, will be held at Dyn in Manchester on April 19 from 4:30 to 7 p.m.
All gifts received will help increase the number of treatment beds by 62 at Easter Seals NH, which has been on the front lines of this battle and is committed to supporting people in need, through substance abuse treatment programs at the Farnum Center in Manchester, and Farnum North in Franklin. With New Hampshire ranking 49th in access to treatment for substance addiction, and heroin use at epidemic proportions, Granite State residents have joined together to support their own.
Since January 2015, the NH Charitable Foundation has awarded nearly 1,550 scholarships totaling more than $5.24 million to help students pursue post-secondary education.
Manchester schools will be the beneficiary of a $25,000 grant awarded Tuesday night to FIRST as part of the Entrepreneurs Foundation of New Hampshire AMP NH Award Competition.
‘I am not sure this could happen today. It’s no longer possible to pay for tuition with a summer job. The application process and the FAFSA forms are inscrutable. And most importantly, the adults are not as optimistic about higher education opportunities as they were when I was a kid.’
The New Hampshire Charitable Foundation recently announced more than $2.3 million in grants that will support dozens of Granite State organizations and nonprofits.
Each regional advisory board member is elected to a three-year term. Current NH Charitable Foundation membership across the eight regional advisory boards totals 115 members.
A Manchester organization was one of two recipients of a $25,000 entrepreneurial grant during the final night of a non-profit pitch competition, part of the Entrepreneurs Foundation of New Hampshire grant program.
As part of its 10-year, $12 million investment in preventing substance use disorders, the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation made 25 grants in 2013 totaling $1.7 million. About $1.2 million of those grants funded prevention efforts, the rest supported policy and advocacy work.