1. Denyse Richter, founder of Step Up Parents of Portsmouth, NH, holds a $5,000 grant from The Fuller Foundation, Inc. The grant will be used to support the individualized needs of kinship families raising the children of parents with substance use disorder. With generous donations, Step Up Parents has been able to help over 100 kinship families, giving over $42,000 in assistance since its founding in 2019.
2. In 2020, Common Man Roadside delivered 50 “Do Good” pizza lunches to essential works across the state, ranging from staff at New Horizons’ homeless shelters in Manchester to front-line medical workers at Catholic Medical Center (pictured here). In total, an estimated 750 donated pizzas helped make some challenging days a little brighter for essential workers in New Hampshire during a difficult year.
3. The NH Troopers Association expressed gratitude to the community for their generous donations to the Trooper Merrill Recovery Fund. Earlier this month, Trooper Matt Merrill was shot and severely injured in the line of duty. “The outpouring of support from the thousands of people who showed how much they care for our Trooper is amazing and we are still at a loss for words,” said the association on their Facebook page. “In this family, no one fights alone.”
4. Waste Management of New Hampshire has donated $5,000 to End 68 Hours of Hunger’s Rochester program. Even during remote learning, school districts are rising to the challenge of providing school meals, and End 68 Hours of Hunger continues to provide weekend food for local families in need of the help. Pictured here: Rochester End 68 Hours of Hunger Co-Coordinators Jackie Fitzpatrick and Lisa Stanley; Bob Magnusson, senior district manager for Waste Management; and End 68 Hours of Hunger Founder and Executive Director Claire Bloom.
5. TFMoran has made another $5,000 contribution to the New Hampshire Children’s Scholarship Fund to help families. TFMoran’s COO, Dylan Cruess, presented the check to Kate Baker, executive director of Children’s Scholarship Fund New Hampshire. The fund is available to New Hampshire children of low- and moderate-income families to attend K-12 private or out-of-district schools, as well as homeschooling needs.
6. PR Management Corp., which runs 12 Panera Bread locations in New Hampshire, donated $25,800 to the New Hampshire Food Bank as part of its Feeding America initiative.
7. Eastern Bank’s Manchester branch recently held a food drive that enabled New Hampshire Food Bank to provide an additional 245 meals.
8. The Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire has announced further expansion of the Trail into Andover, NH, sparked by a gift of a sculpture of legendary contralto Marian Anderson. She may be most well known for her 1939 concert at the Lincoln Memorial, arranged after the Daughters of the American Revolution refused to allow her to sing at its Constitution Hall and DAR member Eleanor Roosevelt publicly resigned. Dana Dakin (right), pictured with BHTNH Executive Director JerriAnne Boggis (left), donated the sculpture created by Andover sculptor Winslow Eaves. The sculpture will be on display at BHTNH’s statewide headquarters in Portsmouth, when they reopen to the public in the summer.
