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"Investment in Prevention" Funding
The New Hampshire Children’s Trust Fund works in partnership with community-based child abuse prevention programs across New Hampshire to keep children safe and families strong. Funding, supporting, and evaluating family strengthening programs is one strategy in our mission of preventing child abuse and neglect. Funded programs cover a wide range of family support services and are dynamic in their approaches to reaching out to all families regardless of age, race, or socioeconomic status.
Dates for 2010 Funding Process
2010 Applicant Workshop: June 18, 2010
2010 Application Due Date: August 20, 2010 by 5:00 pm
Applicants selected for funding: mid-September, 2010
Funding period: October 2010 - September 2011
Download the 2010 materials here
2010 "Investment in Prevention" funds will be awarded as one-year grants with a maximum award of $10,000, pending availability of funds. We encourage you to learn more about our funding process and review our application guidelines.
Funding Priorities of the New Hampshire Children’s Trust Fund
Our focus is primary and secondary prevention initiatives that keep children safe and families strong. The NHCT believes that the best way to prevent child abuse and neglect is to provide parents, caregivers and other adults with the skills and support they need to raise healthy children. To this end, the NHCT invests in community-based programs and collaborative networks as one strategy toward strengthening a system of support and services accessible to all families so that they may thrive.
The highest funding priority of the New Hampshire Children’s Trust is therefore to support programs that emphasize primary and secondary prevention services for children and families. Primary prevention is defined by the NHCT as those services and programs designed to promote the general welfare of all children and families, while secondary prevention is defined as those programs and services designed to reach families with risk factors for child abuse and neglect such as poverty, single parenting, low educational level, persistent unemployment, children with special needs and challenges, etc. Both primary and secondary prevention are provided before abuse or neglect occurs. Given the current economic climate, organizations are encouraged to design programs and seek funding for secondary prevention.
Minimum Requirements for Funding
- Public or private non-profit organizations, including non-profit civic organizations and community coalition groups may apply for funding from the NHCT.
- If the proposal is developed by a coalition or network, the administrative organization must also serve as the fiscal agent (managing, tracking and reporting use of funds). For more information about fiscal agents, see http://foundationcenter.org/getstarted/faqs/html/fiscal_agent.html.
- All administrative organizations must be recognized as tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, and all program services must benefit NH children and families. Please see application guidelines for further details.
Grants are not awarded:
- To individuals
- To intervention or treatment programs
- To capital campaigns for acquisition of land, buildings, or renovations to facilities
- For deficit reduction or to support activities which have already been completed
Register for the Applicant Workshop
The 2010 Applicant Workshop is scheduled for Friday, June 18 at Casey Family Services in Concord. The workshop will run from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm. The morning will be devoted to a review of the application materials and process while the afternoon is an optional session of work time and technical assistance in grant-writing basics, logic model development, evidence-based practices or other topics identified by participants. Lunch is on your own.
To register, please contact Becky Berk at 224-1279 or bberk@nhctf.org no later than June 11th and provide your name(s), your organization, your phone number, your email address(es) and whether you are registering for the entire day or just the morning session.
Attendance at the workshop is not a requirement for funding. Attendance is encouraged, however, for both new and returning applicants.
The Smith Award for Excellence in Service to Families
Since 1998, the New Hampshire Children’s Trust Fund has honored the memory of Lou and Lutza Smith by awarding the Smith Award for Excellence in Service to Families to a New Hampshire family support program that has demonstrated leadership in the community, a philosophy of service that recognizes the value and importance of parenting and healthy families, and organizational capacity. This special recognition cash award of $15,000 is awarded every other year in even years (i.e. 2006, 2008, 2010, etc.)
Click here to learn more about the Smith Award’s previous winners, unique set of guidelines, eligibility criteria, and requirements.