Mission Statement
The Alexander Eastman Foundation strengthens and gives voice to the Greater Derry Community’s Health and Wellness through leadership, collaboration, and funding opportunities.
Values
WE BELIEVE in the power of nonprofits to create positive, lasting change.
WE EMBRACE diversity, equity, and inclusion.
WE ARE COMMITTED to excellence and continual learning.
WE CHALLENGE ourselves to be forward thinking, resourceful, and bold.
WE BELIEVE in the power of community.
Our Future
1 – Be a bold champion and advocate for the community.
2 – Support the nonprofit community in a continually changing landscape.
3 – Strengthen the Foundation’s Capacity
4 – Advance Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
Vision Statement
All individuals, and families, thrive because our community is home to vibrant, impactful nonprofits.
History
Dr. Harrison Alexander, a Derry dentist, died in 1919, leaving money and land to the Town of Derry for the purpose of creating a community hospital. In 1930, a group of public-spirited citizens organized the Alexander Hospital Corporation as a New Hampshire non-profit corporation. The Alexander Hospital Corporation became Trustee of Dr. Alexander’s will, and began the effort toward establishing a community hospital.
In 1933 Mrs. Charles Hood donated her ancestral home (built by her grandfather, Benjamin Eastman) to the community hospital effort. At that time, the Alexander Hospital Corporation began doing business as the Alexander Eastman Hospital.

In 1934 The Hospital began serving the Derry community, and continued its operations for the next 48 years. Funding for hospital equipment was largely supported by the use of funds from the Dr. Alexander trust and by other community donations.
In the 1960s the community identified the need to expand and upgrade the facility. The town of Derry donated Dr. Alexander’s land for a new hospital site, and the Alexander Eastman Hospital’s supporters raised money in the towns of Derry, Londonderry, Windham, Hampstead, Chester and Sandown; eventually constructing a new 37 bed hospital on Birch Street in Derry.

In 1983, The Hospital Corporation of America (HCA), a for-profit health care corporation, sought to acquire the Alexander Eastman Hospital. The Alexander Eastman Foundation amended and restated its charter to allow the hospital to be sold, renamed and expanded as Parkland Medical Center.
The proceeds of the sale of the Alexander Eastman Hospital, in addition to accumulated gifts and bequests of individuals and businesses whose earlier support demonstrated their interest in the health care needs of the community, are now held as charitable assets by the Alexander Eastman Foundation in order to benefit residents in the communities from which patients of the Alexander Eastman Hospital were drawn.
In addition to the charitable assets that resulted from the sale of the Alexander Eastman Hospital, the Foundation continues to benefit from testamentary trusts established by Dr. Harrison Alexander, Leon P. Widger and Charles and Jessie Brooks.
In operating the Foundation, Trustees are guided by the concerns which motivated those donors and the founders of the Alexander Eastman Hospital. Grants are provided to promote good health and well-being for residents of the greater Derry area and to improve the quality and availability of health care in the community.

Trustees
A board of up to sixteen trustees has responsibility for advancing the mission of the Foundation and for decisions on grant awards.
David Clapp, Chair of the Board
Resident of Derry, NH
Laurie Warnock, Vice Chair of the Board
Resident of Hampstead, NH
Craig Bulkley, Treasurer
Resident of Auburn, NH
Michael Hughes, Secretary
Resident of Derry, NH
Joshua Bourdon
Resident of Derry, NH
Dr. Angela Currie
Resident of Chester, NH
Neuropsychology & Education Services for Children & Adolescents
Melanie Davis
Resident of Derry, NH
The Grind Rail Trail Café
Charles Foote
Resident of Derry, NH
Jill Hartmann
Resident of Chester, NH
Hartmann Learning Center
Thomas Hosey
Resident of Chester, NH
Enterprise Bank of Derry & Londonderry
Susan Linehan, RN,BSN
Resident of Derry, NH
Rebecca Sanborn , J.D.
Resident of Derry, NH
Sanborn Corporate Training Solutions
George Sioras
Resident of Derry, NH
Town of Derry
Dennis Toombs
Resident of Londonderry, NH