Giving Cycle 2023-2024

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Cross Roads House

The mission of Cross Roads House is to offer shelter, respect and collaborative solutions to unhoused individuals and families who aspire to return to permanent housing and thrive in their community. Since 1982, Cross Roads House has met the immediate needs of homeless individuals and families in the Seacoast area and created pathways to affordable housing. The grant will support Cross Roads House as they continue to provide emergency and transitional shelter, housing-focused case management, and wrap-around services at their location in Portsmouth.

 

Fair Tide

Fair Tide works to eliminate homelessness by providing safe, stable, and affordable housing and supportive services to individuals and families in the Seacoast, and through local and state-level advocacy. They own and operate a 5-unit house and are collaborating with the town of Kittery to build two new affordable units, with a third in the pipeline. They also match clients with landlords and property managers through their Landlord Engagement Initiative, and have created a social services collective, Mainspring, to provide coordinated care and resources for individuals and families navigating the social services system.

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Home for All Coalition

The mission of Granite United Way (GUW), the facilitating organization of the Home for All Coalition (HFA), is to prevent homeless and housing insecurity through advocacy, collaboration, education, and prevention efforts to ensure all our Seacoast neighbors have a place to call home. Since 2009, HFA has worked across counties, sectors, and silos to convene community stakeholders, align efforts, bridge service gaps, and advance innovative solutions to address homelessness, housing insecurity, and access to affordable housing in the Greater Seacoast region of New Hampshire and Maine. Home for All emphasizes a regional approach while also understanding the unique housing and homelessness needs of each town and community. Through its workgroups, HFA works to align communities and resources around collaborative responses to: (1) Preventing homelessness, housing instability, and eviction; (2) Removing barriers to create equitable access to housing; and (3) Advocating for the development of affordable housing in the three counties it serves. They believe that together we can help make the Seacoast a home for all.

 

NH Campaign for Legal Services

NH Campaign for Legal Services (NHCLS) provides high quality legal aid for people with low income, regardless of their ability to pay. NHCLS handles issues that impact their clients' most basic needs, primarily in the areas of housing, domestic violence and family law, and public benefits.The grant will help NHCLS support clients living with low incomes and facing civil legal challenges such as eviction, foreclosure or the wrongful denial of income benefits, with the goal of keeping people in their homes.

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Seacoast Family Promise

Seacoast Family Promise (SFP) aims to empower families with children experiencing homelessness to achieve sustainable independence by providing safe family shelter on a transitional basis with the goal of stabilization. Families with children are among the fastest growing segments of the homeless population and to address the long-term effect of homelessness on children, SFP also provides intensive trauma- informed case support and life skills training to each family they serve. This grant will help Seacoast Family Promise continue to invest in families' needs as they transition out of homelessness and on to fulfilling, healthy lives.

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NH Workforce Housing Coalition of the Greater Seacoast

The mission of the NH Workforce Housing Coalition is to advance diverse housing options available to the workforce through education, community engagement, and technical assistance. They have been tirelessly working on this goal for over two decades. The Workforce Housing Coalition envisions an ample supply of affordable, desirable housing throughout the seacoast region, providing opportunities for members of the workforce, including our teachers, firefighters, police officers, small business owners, artists, chefs, caregivers, bankers, and all families and individuals, to put down roots and create a more diverse and equitable community that benefits us all.

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Womenaid of Greater Portsmouth

The mission of Womenaid of Greater Portsmouth is to provide short-term financial assistance to individuals and families in need when all other community resources have been exhausted. They improve quality of life on the seacoast by working to insure that community members' basic human needs are met. Housing insecurity is a central challenge for most of Womenaid's constituents. This grant will support requests for direct housing-related expenses from individuals and families who are often one bill away from facing homelessness.