UNH Cooperative Extension recently received the following grants and awards:

Family and Consumer Resources Program Leader Charlene Baxter, received $30,000 to support teaching parenting education skills to incarcerated parents housed in state prisons in Berlin and Laconia. The award was made by the Linden Foundation. She also received $70,501 from HNHfoundation in support of a virtual library for HEAL NH's web site.

Charlotte Cross, 4-H Youth Development Extension specialist, received $100,000 for Operation Military Kids 2009 from Kansas State University.

Valerie Long, FSNEP Nutrition Coordinator, and Debbie Luppold, Food and Nutriton Extension specialist, received $774,083 from USDA's Food and Nutrition Service for the 2009 N.H. Food Stamp Nutrition Education Plan.

Ken LaValley, Commercial Fisheries Technology Transfer Extension specialist, received $2,500 from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for the "Conservation Engineering in the Shrimp Fishery" project to equip up to 12 shrimp fishing vessels in Port Clyde, Maine, with the dual-grate system and to quantify bycatch, shrimp size selectivity and vessel catch.

Suzann Knight, Family Resource Management Extension specialist, received $750 from Consumer Federation of America for "New Hampshire Saves - America Saves Social Marketing" campaign. She also received $25,000 from the Annie E. Casey Foundation for her project, "Linking Workers with the Earned Income Tax Credit," and another $56,000 from the U.S. Dept. of the Treasury for the IRS Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) Alliance.