CROP Hunger Walks are community-wide events sponsored by Church World Service and organized by local congregations or groups to raise funds to end hunger at home and around the world.

Visit CROP Hunger Walks at https://www.crophungerwalk.org/

“The Nashua Soup Kitchen & Shelter (NSKS) is dedicated to providing shelter and food to those in need. The overall objective of the agency is to advocate, create, and operate programs and services that promote dignity and self-sufficiency for those we serve. To ensure that basic needs are addressed, NSKS is committed to joining with others in a community-wide ethic of caring.”

Visit the NSKS website here: https://nsks.org

Family Promise provides a unique service to an often underserved population in the homeless community – families. Believe it or not, keeping families together during a period of homelessness is often nearly impossible to do as family members are often asked to split up amongst available spots at homeless shelters, women-only programs, men-only programs, between other family members, etc. At Family, we believe that keeping families together is of utmost importance in ensuring that our families achieve successful and sustainable lifestyles. We accept two-parent families, single mothers or fathers with children, grandparents raising grandchildren, etc. Children under the age of 18 represent approximately 60% of the residents at Family Promise.

All of our guests are referred to Family Promise through our host congregations and network of social service providers. Guests entering the program must be substance free; have a source of income and transportation, career searching or, involved in a job training program; and sign an agreement that is renewed monthly based on progress toward individual goals. Each family works with our Family Services Director to identify and maintain their plan for regaining independence and self-sufficiency. In addition, each family is offered the opportunity to attend classes on parenting, financial management, housing and real estate opportunities, and career searching.

The Adult Learning Center is a vibrant, exciting place to learn. We provide academic programs, skills training, and support services to help people succeed, including:

• Adults who want to better train themselves for the workplace
• Young adults who want to complete their high school education
• Children who need safe, nurturing child care and after school programs

Visit the website for the Adult Learning Center here: https://nashuaalc.org/

The Front Door Agency, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization that invests in New Hampshire individuals and families as they transition from crisis to self-sufficiency by providing a hand-up opportunity to those at risk of homelessness.

Through our four core programs–Transitional Housing, Prevention and Intervention of Homelessness, Crisis Advocacy and Resource Education, and Financial Literacy, we invest in those who need assistance with basic needs by providing direction and educational opportunities as they transition from crisis to self-sufficiency.

We take great pride our delivery of services and in our approach of offering hands-up opportunities to those who are invested in themselves to improve their situations. We believe in dignity, respect, and compassion for all people.

Our main office is located at 7 Concord Street, Nashua, NH 03064 and is open Monday through Thursday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. We are closed on Fridays.

Visit the website for the Front Door Agency here: http://www.frontdooragency.org/About/

The Children’s Resiliency Retreat Project consists of one-day retreats each month for school age youth who are affected by a loved ones’ drug or alcohol use. In addition to receiving the 2019 Yankee Chapter Professional Association Health & Wellness Award, the Retreat program is a New Hampshire Service to Science “Promising Practice” designed to provide children with opportunities to develop healthy outcomes from positive experiences. Children will receive supportive education relative to the disease of substance use disorder, also known as addiction; social emotional learning; and life skill/civic engagement opportunities.

Learn more about the Resiliency Retreat Program:  https://svbgc.org/childrens-resiliency-retreat/

End 68 Hours of Hunger is a private, not-for-profit, effort to confront the approximately 68 hours of hunger that some school children experience between the free lunch they receive at school on Friday afternoon and the free breakfast they receive at school on Monday morning.

This weekend program, established in New Hampshire in 2011, puts nourishing food in the hands of school children to carry them through the weekend.

We are entirely volunteer based and 100 percent of funds go directly to feeding at-risk children unless otherwise designated by the donor.

Childhood hunger – or food insecurity – is a national problem. It occurs when children receive insufficient food on a regular basis and in many cases, missing meals entirely. After a while, these children also experience ‘fear of hunger’ that affects their behavior as much as physical hunger affects their bodies.

– CLAIRE BLOOM
Founder and Executive Director

Learn more about End 68 Hours of Hunger here: https://www.end68hoursofhunger.org/

Improving Lives and Strengthening our Communities

United Way of Greater Nashua is an independent, non-profit organization controlled by our local donors. It was established in 1930 when business leaders helped raise $42,677 to assist local families who were suffering from the community’s greatest problems of the time: the Great Depression and the aftermath of the Crown Hill fire. We’ve been here ever since, bringing together donors, businesses, non-profits, government, and faith-based communities to make our region a stronger, healthier place to live and work.

Learn more about the United Way of Greater Nashua here: United Way of Greater Nashua