NH Business Review
Organizations hope to maintain donation boost after unprecedented fundraising success last year
May 11, 2021
Editor’s note: NH Gives takes place from 5 p.m. June 8 to 5 p.m. June 9. Nonprofits that haven’t yet done so can sign up to participate in the event until May 17. Over 325 nonprofits have already signed up. Interested organizations can sign up at the NH Gives
Donations for many New Hampshire nonprofits surged last year, thanks in particular to 2020’s NH Gives, an online event run by the New Hampshire Center for Nonprofits that encourages Granite Staters to support their local nonprofits. Last year’s event “shattered all previous records,” according to an official press release, raising more for nonprofits than the previous four years combined.
The bill has received significant pushback, including from New Hampshire businesses, non-profits, and colleges. A letter opposing the bill from New Hampshire Businesses for Social Responsibility includes non-profits and businesses like Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health, Pete and Gerry s Organics, and Southern New Hampshire University.
The Oyster River School District has grappled with racism, including a high-profile incident of racist bullying in 2017. So far, it is the only public school district to sign on to the letter, though members of school communities have testified against it during legislative proceedings.
On Monday, the Concord School Board also approved a resolution in opposition to HB 544.
D-H’s Manchester surgery center targets NH’s southern tier; telehealth looks even farther afield
Modified: 4/23/2021 10:30:27 PM
LEBANON Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health opened its newly expanded $62 million ambulatory surgery center in Manchester last month and is preparing to begin same-day surgeries there next week.
New Hampshire’s southern tier is a critical market for the Lebanon-based health system because it is the largest and most densely populated part of the state, and the population there also is younger and growing, D-HH Chief Strategy Officer Steve LeBlanc said during a conference call to update bond investors on Thursday.
It’s also a region where D-H faces competition from Boston-based health systems, he said. It’s “important for us to have a strong position,” said LeBlanc.
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BENNINGTON â Southwestern Vermont Health Care has checked off another box in the lengthy permitting process for a $26 million expansion of the hospital emergency department, and the project remains on track to receive final approvals in the fall.
The town Development Review Board provided unanimous land use approval for the project Tuesday, as well as for the related demolition of one of the early Putnam Memorial Hospital buildings to allow a new hospital entrance and access drive.
Proposed is demolition of The Lodge building opposite the current entrance to Southwestern Vermont Medical Center. The brick structure was built in 1925 for employee housing for what was then Putnam Memorial, which opened in 1918.