Thank you, Mascoma Bank Foundation, for supporting Connections!
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New Hampshire Humanities (NHH) announces that Mascoma Bank Foundation has awarded a grant of $1,500 to support the NHH Connections adult literacy program.
Connections is a book discussion program designed to promote English language skills, cultivate conversations about ideas, reinforce family literacy, and support a culture of reading to more than 500 adult learners across the state of New Hampshire each year. Connections participants can receive up to four free books and keep the books they read.
Using a range of children’s and adult literature, Connections provides accessible, literature-based book discussions for refugees, immigrants, individuals with disabilities, general adult basic education students, and incarcerated parents. More importantly, it allows participants to see their own stories in literature, to learn about perspectives different from their own, and provides the opportunity to travel to worlds real or imagined through literature.
The mission of the Mascoma Bank Foundation is to provide funding to nonprofit organizations to contribute to the long-term benefit of the communities served by the bank. To date, the Foundation has awarded over $6 million in grants to local nonprofit groups.
“We extend our heartfelt thanks to the Mascoma Bank Foundation for their meaningful and enduring commitment to family literacy via New Hampshire Humanities’ Connections program,” said Mary Nolin, Connections Program Manager. “Thanks to the crucial support from Mascoma Bank Foundation, hundreds of both new Americans and native English speakers, along with their families, will be enriched through literature and linked to greater opportunities within their communities, workplaces, and beyond.”
To learn more about the Connections program, visit www.nhhumanities.org/Connections.
