MAY 22 - JUNE 4, 2020 VOL. 42 • NO. 10 • $1.75
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Q&A: UNH Law Professor John Greabe PAGE 33
What will business life be like after PAGE 9 Labor Day?
If you let them, will they
As NH slowly emerges from shutdown, not every business and not all customers are ready to follow
reopen?
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Helping nonprofits manage disruption Empower Success Corps’ retired execs offer expert guidance BY MICHAEL KITCH
“I’ve probably learned more from my clients than I imagined,” said John Woodard. “Each experience has been a formative experience.” A retired attorney, Woodard — who has been engaged in the nonprofit world both as a board member and volunteer consultant for 40 years — is among some 30 retired professionals and executives serving as volunteers in the ranks of the Empower Success Corps-Northern New England,
who provide consulting services to nonprofit organizations across New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine. “I am very committed to my work with ESC,” he said. In 2019, the 6,547 nonprofit corporations operating in New Hampshire — 40% of them providing health and human services — employed 83,000 people earning $4.6 billion in wages. As Susan Geier recently reported in NH Business Review, a survey by the New Hampshire HELPING NONPROFITS, PAGE 15
Lynn Post, director of Empower Success Corps-Northern New England says that its volunteers bring impressive résumés and considerable experience to their role.
New Hampshire hospitals’ changing workforce needs PAGE 30 Localities fear ‘long-term, significant’ fiscal impacts Covid costs, revenue declines raise municipal budget alarms BY MICHAEL KITCH
The financial impacts of the Covid-19 outbreak on cities and towns across the state are expected to be “long-term and significant,” according to a survey conducted by the New Hampshire Municipal Association. Cities and towns are finding themselves squeezed between increasing expenses and decreasing revenues, an equation that foreshadows mounting pressure on property taxes. Gov. Chris Sununu announced on May 5 that $40 million would be distributed among municipalities and counties to offset a share of the expenses incurred between March 1 and Aug. 31 to cope with Covid-19. Municipalities will receive $30 million and the 10 counties $10 million. The funds will be distributed based the 2018 population data as calculated by the Office of Strategic Initiatives. Local governments will be reimbursed only for Covid-19 expenses actually incurred, and then only up to the amount allocated based on their populations. For instance, if a municipality is allocated $100,000, but its qualiMUNICIPALITIES, PAGE 16
