The Granite YMCA was recently awarded $1 Million Dollars in grant funding by Hillsborough County. The award is part of the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding from which the Hillsborough County Board of Commissioners has approved $12,419,645 to area non-profits.
Building community happens when people come together and discover where their missions intersect. Such was the case when Dr. George Jumpp, president of Manchester Rotary Club happened to meet Michael Blair, a Central High School junior who serves as Editor-in-Chief of the school’s The Little Green newspaper.
As cold snaps move across the community, a local collaborative effort has launched the Manchester Winter Relief Fund. This special fund will be directed to ensure services and shelter to unhoused individuals in Manchester, New Hampshire.
The lawmakers also heard from representatives of the Business and Industry Association and the New Hampshire Association of Realtors who noted the challenges of a tight labor market and how the lack of affordable housing impacts the state’s economy.
The New Hampshire Charitable Foundation announced this week that it has made $3,810,500 in grants through the Community Grants Program to support the operations of 82 non-profits across the state in December 2022, including several in Manchester.
The meeting, organized by the city’s Economic Development office, was billed as a “sit down” with Adrienne Beloin, Director of Homeless Initiatives, to talk about the “impacts of homelessness” on downtown businesses and properties.
Manchester Fire Department Chief Ryan Cashin has announced stats from the first weekend of emergency shelter operations at the William B. Cashin Senior Center over its first three nights of operation.
“Our research focused on the theory of ‘threatened egotism,’ which states that highly narcissistic people—those with excessive self-love—can have vulnerable egos that are fragile and need to be fed with risky and aggressive investment behavior,” says Jeffrey Sohl, professor of entrepreneurship and decision sciences and director of UNH’s Center for Venture Research. “Any negative feedback on those investments can motivate angel investors to calibrate their future investment behavior, engaging in even larger deals and a higher level of portfolio diversification.”
Abigail LePage joined the company 24 years ago as a technician in the vacuum laboratory testing products. She rose through the ranks to become manager, general manager, COO and was named CEO three years ago. She continues the mission of the founder: “To advance humankind by doing good physics—specifically electron optics and vacuum physics —and all the while growing, being good citizens, making a living and having fun.”
Three days after opening an emergency winter shelter at the West Side senior center the city’s Director of Emergency Operations announced that the city will be evacuating the sidewalk encampment that has mushroomed around the Families in Transition shelter in the coming week.
As financial pressures push news outlets to take a hard look at their payroll, alternative funding sources have come into play as a way to bolster reporting positions. At The Keene Sentinel, Olivia Belanger holds one of those positions. She leads the paper’s Health Lab, and she said the position doesn’t just add another position, it allows whoever holds that position to do a different kind of work.
Tonight the city will prepare a space for the chronically homeless, those who for a number of reasons either can’t or won’t go into the state’s largest low-barrier shelter, operated by Families in Transition.
Ten MCC students will soon be selected for a life-changing opportunity to work in the computer science field with free direct training by Google and TalentSprint, through a new partnership program with Manchester Community College. The tech giant chose MCC for a virtual program designed to build entry-level software developer expertise. The students will build technical expertise, enable effective peer learning, impart hands-on learning, confidence and tech career readiness by TalentSprint, which will include mentoring sessions by Google.
This topic may look familiar, because in November I addressed cutting expenses. But today’s column looks at the small things everyone can do right now to save money. Here are five small things that are easy to do – honest! – that can eventually lead to a big impact on your pocketbook.
The Maple Street location had previously been packed full of products, such that there was hardly any room to walk. The new location has considerably more space, which it seems will soon get filled up just as quickly – if owner Chris Proulx’s expectations are anything to go by.
An Xfinity service outage caused buy a car accident had Manchester customers frustrated and without internet, phone and more for most of Wednesday.
Commercial brokers said that Heartwood Media, and other businesses, moving back downtown isn’t a trend yet, but it is a signal of a transition.
The newest Bangor Savings Bank Manchester branch at 170 Baker Street strengthens the Bank’s commitment to Granite State communities.
Universities can be hubs for innovative thought, products and even spin-out businesses. The University of New Hampshire is no exception, and has actually created an ecosystem to accelerate future high-tech leaders, companies and socially responsible nonprofits.
In honor of the new year, I was going to lay out some things that are done in other cities that may work here, (adapting ideas is a good thing in my opinion). But in light of the recent deaths of two homeless people, I switched gears and am going to write about an issue that is unfortunately as common in Manchester as the day is long.