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Next on New Hampshire Outlook tonight. It's the season of giving. We will take a look at philanthropy in New Hampshire and a new trends from "Venture Philanthropy" to service leaning. And you'll meet some volunteers. They are the bedrock of our communities throughout the year, not just during the holidays. |
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Good Evening. Welcome to this special year-end edition of New Hampshire Outlook. Tonight, we explore the state of giving in New Hampshire. |
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In this season of giving it might be hard to believe that according to a recent survey New Hampshire ranks next to last among states in charitable donations. But, those numbers don't tell the whole story. According to the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, we are well above the national average in civic engagement and memorial giving. So philanthropy is alive and well in New Hamphire you just have to look in the right places. Producer Chip Neal shows us where to begin. OUT: |
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pkg: woman1: Philanthropy? Yes, it's like giving, sharing, helping other people out with money or with their time. man1: Well, it's giving some of what you got to other people. Chip: OK, and is that something that you do? man1: Sure. Yeah. Chip: In what ways? man1: Well mainly catholic charities. man2: When someone who has plenty of money gives it to someone who doesn't. Chip: What is philanthropy? woman2: I'm not so sure I know. Chip: Philanthropy as defined in the dictionary is love of mankind or concern with human welfare in the reduction of human suffering. woman3: I think it's a big a fancy word "philanthropy", and we think that the philanthropists are the rich people, but all of us who give a little bit of money, I think, particularly in philanthropy, but even as I said the dollar a week through United Way makes us philanthropists. Chip: This day care center survives in part because of contributions from the United Way and that scenario is repeated all over the state. In fact, giving or philanthropy is one of the state's most important revenue sources. woman4: In 1998, which is the last year of which we have data, New Hampshire citizens gave more than $380,000,000 for charitable purposes. That's based on IRS data. In fact, they probably gave more. Chip: But according to a recent survey of IRS tax returns, New Hampshire ranks 48th in the nation in itemized contributions to charity while we rank 9th in per capita income. Ross Gittel: So we're a wealthy state and on the other hand, we rank very poorly--relatively low in terms of charitable contributions so there's that sort of a disconnect between our ability to give and our actual giving. And that's disappointing to many in the state not only because we are not giving up to our capacity but people who live here like New Hampshire because of its sense of community and there is this high volunteerism, and the issue is why does that volunteerism and that high per capita income translate into higher charitable contributions. woman4: Philanthropy is critical for New Hampshire. New Hampshire has a tradition of deminimized government, and so, we really rely on our community organizations probably more than most states. Ross Gittel: Yes, what we find is that potential givers, the residents out there, do care about a range of issues like the environment, like education in the state, and they are willing to give if they have that connection to the giving, and they can see results. woman3: United Ways all over the state, 12 United Ways but specifically ours here in Merrimack County funds 39 different programs in this county, and they range from the prenatal programs that work with woman with high risk pregnancies, through programs for kids like we see here, programs for youths like the boys and girls club, programs for adults like the Red Cross--its blood drawings; its disaster reliefs--programs for seniors like the foster grandparents programs on up to programs up to the very end of life like the hospice programs that the VNA's run, so it's really philanthropy across the board. Ross Gittel: People really connect into philanthropy through their own civic engagements such as their involvement in their neighborhood, their involvement in local schools whether or not they have children, and it seems like the more and more residents are connected in a variety of ways to their community the more likely they are to contribute to a charitable organization. Chip: The New Hampshire Charitable Foundation's Giving New Hampshire Initiative is trying to strengthen philanthropy in New Hampshire by partnering with small working groups at the county level. woman4: The Strafford County group really feels that people learn to give, so they are examining different programs from across the country, which engage children or young people in philanthropy and teach them the value of getting involved in the community teaches them how good it feels to reach out to somebody else and lend a helping hand. Ross Gittel: But I think given our fiscal capacity, given our household income that we should start asking the next question not only to volunteer but also to give in terms of financial donations to non profits. Maybe it's not that we are terrible givers but maybe we are terrible askers. |
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Here in the studio with me is Lew Feldstein president of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation and Mary Jo Brown of Brown & Co in Portsmouth. |
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Do we need to do a better job of asking for money as Ross Gitell suggests? The role that philanthropy has played in N.H. Lew talk about N.H. Charitable Foundation Some of New Hampshire's most successful businesses recently teamed up with the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation to form a new venture philanthropy initiative. It's called e-cares. Tell us about Corporate or Venture Philanthropy. Talk about "Giving N.H." initiative of N.H. Charitable Foundation How does N.H. differ from other states What cultural trends are affecting giving |
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Let's go back to Ross Guittell with a caution against embarassing people into giving. out: "It's essential that we all give and contribute to the community." cg Ross Gittell Whittemore School of Business & Economics |
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Let's go back to Jacqueline Truesdale with some insight about the growing high tech sector in New Hampshire. |
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Thanks to our guests. Lew Feldstein President of the N.H. Charitable Foundation and Mary Jo Brown of Brown & Co in Portsmouth. |
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New Hampshire Charitable Foundation www.nhcf.org E-Cares www.e-cares.org |
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Now we turn our attention to another kind of philanthropy. Philanthropy in the schools. Over the past 10 years a form of teaching called "service learning" has been catching on all over the country. According to the Kellog Foundation's "Learning in Deed" initiative more than 12 million American students are participating in service learning projects this year. Here in New Hampshire that number is conservatively estimated at 4100. Simply stated service learning is a way of teaching that links community service experiences to classroom instruction. Chip Neal visited two service learning projects at the Moultonborough Academy. |
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PKG Service Learning 29:22 VO of Man 1: I had the kids potting plants and my five students came in and we were working in the classroom and were potting plants and they were excited about having our hands in the soil; they enjoyed. They said this is what we like to do--why don't we build a greenhouse? 29:37 Man 2: You know, we said a greenhouse and it was just like that idea just could leave our heads, you know and from there we knew that it had to be done. 29:46 VO: With help and support from the community, the greenhouse became a reality, and they raised some 4,000 flowers as well as some pumpkins this year. 29:55 Woman 1: We made pumpkin pies from them, which we entered in a local Sandwich Fair, and we actually won first prize. 30:04 Man 1: The students were the initiators; they were the ones that have have pulled all of this together. And what they did is that they felt that they should work this out in thirds. A third of the plants should go to the benefits of the school--the beautification of the school, another third of the plants might be for sale and the students were able to sell those through our school's PTA for a fundraiser for them, and then the other third was donated to a needy organization within our town, Moultonborough. 30:32 Chip: The concept of expecting students to do community service has been around for a long time, but service learning takes that community service a step further. In fact, some educators believe that service learning is a higher form of teaching. 30:46 Man 3: This is not an add on program. Service learning is a teaching methadology in such that it is integrating a certain type of teaching with addressing and meeting the needs of curriculum frame works and also with meeting the needs of the community and meeting the needs of the youth, which are the most important. 31:07 Man 4: It's difficult. It's not easy. It takes a lot of planning, and it takes a lot of up front time on a teacher's part, and there's no allusion on our part that this is doesn't take some extra effort in the beginning for teachers and students to begin the process. In its evolution in its playing out of a project, I think then you win back some of that time because now the kids are fully invested. 31:31 Man 1: I see in our specific case here at the greenhouse every discipline can be involved. From whether you are using the experiences here to write, whether we are calculating through our data whether we are calculating changes in our mass and height and therefore including math. We certainly have the history of farming and agriculture within New Hampshire and clearly a ton of science. 31:55 VO: Another one of there service learning projects involves improvements to the Sheridan Woods Trail on Red Hill. 32:01 Man 3: We came out here with our students; we talked with a member of the Lakes Region Conservation Trust. What do we have a need for? What can we do to help you? And then going back and brainstorming what can we do as far as projects that would tie in with our classes. 32:17 Man 5: Every hundred meters there is a post and on the brochure, which we also made and everybody was in a different group. There's information about each post and there was an archaeology group and we looked for artifacts. And there was also a boundary group and they set up boundaries for Sheridan Woods. 32:08 Woman 2: We built benches for the people that were hiking to sit on and take breaks and enjoy the scenery when they come up and just, you know, have fun on their hike up. We had a group of probably five kids come up, and I was one of them and Zach was, and we dug holes and we put these posts in about a foot down into the ground and then we built the benches ourselves. 33:11 Man 3: There's definitely a trend towards service learning--community service learning, and it will affect schools in the future. 33:19 Man 4: Service learning to me is an ideal vehicle for accomplishing our mission for accomplishing a lot of our goals as a school. So, I see that it's it's sort of grassroots right now and that it is growing and it's going to grow and we have--we have some big plans. |
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It looks like the Moultonborough Academy's next big service learning program will be helping the local historical society with a 5 year town history project. |
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As it turns out the people of New Hampshire are very good about giving their time to others. Volunteers are the heart and soul of many organizations, including New Hamsphire Public Television. Producer Cindy Jones introduces us to some people who make volunteering a year-round commitment. OUT: |
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Tomorrow on New Hampshire Outlook - With the soltice, winter officially arrives. Are you prepared? Home heating experts take us room by room to show us exactly what we can do to warm up this cold house. |
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