NHCHF: Active Living Priority

Our Approach to Funding

New Hampshire Children’s Health Foundation concentrates funding in five priority areas and employs both Directed (by invitation only) and Responsive (in response to proposals) grantmaking.

Our Responsive grant awards are made for General Operating Support for the day-to-day work of organizations aligned with one of our other priorities and strategies listed below. Our Responsive grants are made twice each year.

Active Living Priority

New Hampshire Children’s Health Foundation awards grants to support nonprofit organizations, coalitions, and other tax exempt entities that advance our funding priorities and strategies. Our priority populations are children up to age five and their families.

• Priority:
  • Promote access to community level physical activity for young children and families through policies or planning.
• Funding category:
  • Responsive
• Strategies:
  • Inform and implement local level policies, practices or plans that improve access to community-level physical activity for young children and families.
  • Example: This may include creating or improving access to parks and other recreation areas as well as sidewalks, crosswalks and pathways.
  • Data collection, analysis, planning or advocacy to inform and build support for state and local policies to improve community-level physical activity.

Eligibility

_You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website._

• Entities eligible to apply for grant funding:
  • Tax-exempt organizations under any part of section 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code
  • State or local government agencies or a unit of government
  • Grassroots organizations, collaboratives or coalitions that do not hold an IRS employer identification number (EIN) may apply under the auspices of a tax-exempt fiscal sponsor (fiscal sponsorship information is gathered in the Letter of Inquiry phase)
• Applicant organizations must be in compliance with local, state, and federal regulations.
• We shifted our Responsive grantmaking from project-based to general operating support.

Ineligibility

• The Foundation does not consider requests seeking to use grant funds to purchase playground equipment.
• Funding may not be used for:
• Biomedical research
• Capital campaigns
• Expenses already incurred
• Fundraising events
• Out of state projects that do not benefit New Hampshire
• Sectarian or religious programs
• Support for political activities, i.e. campaigns
• International travel expenses
• Organizations or projects that exclude or discriminate based on race, religion, age, gender, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, national or ethnic origin