2024
December 2024
Telling Our Story: Couch Family Foundation and the Early Care & Education Association Release a New Case Study About How Collaboration Catalyzes Change in Early Care and Education
October 2024
The Couch Family Foundation is seeking dedicated individuals to join our team and help create equitable opportunities for children and families to learn, thrive and lead healthy, fulfilling lives.
October 2024
Moving Further Forward: A Pivotal Transition for the Couch Family Foundation
October 2024
This edition of Connections summarizes recent projects by two of our research partners: The Carsey School of Public Policy at the University of New Hampshire and the New Hampshire Fiscal Policy Institute.
August 2024
We are excited to announce that Kim Cooper and Sarah Robinson have joined the Couch Family Foundation team. Read more in our Connections newsletter.
July 2024
The Couch Family Foundation is grateful to work with inspiring partners in New Hampshire to increase access to and quality of early care and education (ECE). This edition of Connections spotlights the work of some of those partners.
June 2024
In the new edition of our e-newsletter, Connections, we are excited to highlight a few recent examples of the exceptional work of several of our grantees.
April 2024
Read the third edition of our e-newsletter, Connections: New Investments Fund ECE Research Partnerships.
April 2024
The New Hampshire Fiscal Policy Institute hosted a webinar on April 15, “Strengthening the Foundations of a Thriving Economy: Child Care.” Couch Family Foundation executive director Sara Vecchiotti moderated the panel. (InDepthNH.org)
April 2024
Additional coverage of Early Care & Education Association’s executive director Amy Brooks, who testified on New Hampshire’s child care shortage at a U.S. Senate committee hearing. ECEA is a grantee of the Couch Family Foundation. (CBS Action News)
April 2024
Early Care & Education Association’s executive director Amy Brooks testified on New Hampshire’s child care shortage at a U.S. Senate committee hearing. ECEA is a grantee of the Couch Family Foundation. (WMUR)
April 2024
Read the second edition of our e-newsletter, Connections.
February 2024
UNH to Establish Hub for Early Childhood Education Research
January 2024
Dartmouth Health’s medical-legal partnership program secures funding for next two years (dartmouth-health.org)
January 2024
Dartmouth Health secures legal aid for patients experiencing health disparities (healthcarefinancenews.com)
2023
December 2023
We’re excited to share with you the first edition of our newsletter, Connections, which will keep you updated on Couch Family Foundation news, activities and developments in the field.
October 2023
Our executive director, Sara Vecchiotti, was a guest on the NH Family NOW Podcast to discuss early childhood strategies and investments that strengthen Granite State families. Sara’s portion of the episode can be played below, or listen to the full episode on the NH Children’s Trust website.
September 2023
Legislature deserves thanks for investing in NH’s youngest learners: An op-ed by Barbara and Dick Couch (Union Leader, Valley News, New Hampshire Bulletin, Concord Monitor)
August 2023
Low income families struggle with getting childcare in New England (NHPR)
August 2023
Upper Valley initiative might be a solution to ongoing shortage of child care providers (Union Leader)
April 2023
The Couch Family Foundation Names Sara Vecchiotti as Inaugural Executive Director
March 2023
Changing Child Care Supply in New Hampshire and Vermont’s Upper Valley
March 2023
Child Care Investments and Policies in the Upper Valley, in the Pandemic and Beyond
March 2023
Why Interstate Child Care Scholarship Policy Choices Matter in the Upper Valley
February 2023
Proposal to expand child care training program goes before Lebanon board
2021
Childcare In the Upper Valley: Challenges, Successes, and the Way Forward
Resource center for families opening in Lebanon
Couch Family Foundation partners with five Family Resource Centers in the Upper Valley to Improve Child and Family Well-Being
2020
Progress for the youngest among us
Pandemic exposes fragility of child care system
Foundation fund-holders responding with generosity, urgency
Hopeful news on Upper Valley’s child care crisis
2019
Mt Ascutney Hospital awarded grant from Couch Family Foundation for Wellness Coach
DHMC’s recovery-friendly pediatrics program supports parents struggling with addiction
2018
Headrest Aims to Help People in Recovery Get Back to Work
Couch Foundation Hopes to Initiate Systemic Change
Free Community Lunches Now Open to All
Photography Credits
Banner photograph courtesy of Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth. Photo credit Dan Grossman