2023 Round-It-Up Recipients

Family Promise of Greater Concord’s mission is to help families experiencing homelessness and low-income families achieve sustainable independence through a community response. Family Promise is one solution to eradicating family homelessness and is more than a shelter – they are hospitality in action and empower compassionate individuals.

Overcomers Refugee Services is a resource center for New Hampshire refugees and immigrants, particularly those in the greater Concord area. Overcomers provides ongoing practical support, education and cultural orientation through people who understand both the refugees’ language and culture of origin. They assist clients with access to necessary social services by identifying resources, making referrals to partner agencies, helping to fill out forms, interpreting mail, navigating the immigration process, assisting with scheduling appointments and providing transportation.

Merrimack River Greenway Trail’s mission is to develop and promote a continuous, off-street paved trail in Concord, NH, following the Merrimack River from Pembroke to Boscawen. The trail is intended to be a 4-season paved “shared use” facility that will serve bicyclists, pedestrians, skiers, snowshoers and other non-motorized users.  To the extent practicable, it will be universally accessible to people of all mobility abilities.

The Northeast Organic Farming Association of New Hampshire (NOFA-NH) is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to building a community of organic food activists and educated consumers to help support New Hampshire’s local organic farming community. They feel that organic farming is important to creating a sustainable future and recognize that more resources and greater education is needed to help farmers, gardeners, and consumers learn to work together to build a support network. 

The Friendly Kitchen seeks to provide a meal for the hungry in a warm and caring non-discriminating environment through the coordination of volunteer resources. The Friendly Kitchen has one purpose – to feed the hungry. Anyone who comes to their door is welcome – without question or qualification.

The Sycamore Community has three basic missions. The first is to provide residents of the Concord area, particularly new Americans and those with limited incomes, the opportunity to grown organically-farmed food on land accessible by public transportation. The second is to increase social capita, cultural understanding, and empathy through the communal act of gardening. The third is educational. NHTI and the SCG Board will work together, when appropriate, to benefit the gardening community, complement the college mission, and demonstrate the benefits of environmentally sound, sustainable agriculture.

The Five Rivers Conservation Trust conserves local farms, recreation lands, and the landscape around us in partnership with landowners and local communities. Through conservation easements and other means, Five Rivers is doing its part as an active land trust to help keep those places intact for future generations.

Equality Health Center is a non-profit healthcare facility serving all genders and sexualities throughout New England. They have been providing individualized, quality, compassionate care with respect since 1974. They are New Hampshire’s longest standing abortion provider and provide comprehensive sexual and reproductive health care. You can go to EHC for an annual preventative health exam, any and all FDA-approved birth control methods, emergency contraception, medication and in-clinic abortion, sexually transmitted infection testing and treatment, and HIV testing, among other services.

Grace Episcopal Church‘s “Take a Tote” outreach program was created in 2010 to address the issue of physical hunger at our city schools.  When Vestry leaders learned that many of the children who qualify for free or reduced lunch at school often do not receive another nutritional meal until they return to school on Monday, they formed a committee to develop a list of food items that could be packed and delivered to a near-by school that would supplement a child’s weekend meals at home. 

CCEH’s mission is is working with their community partners to eliminate chronic homelessness; support and quickly re-house people who have recently become homeless; and build a system that effectively responds to the diverse needs of people experiencing homelessness. Their vision is a Concord community where everyone has a safe, decent, stable and affordable place to live.

Families in Transition aims to support and empower people experiencing homelessness by providing them the necessities of life – shelter, sustenance, and support. FIT says, “our mission moves us to empower people experiencing homelessness.” They do that by providing signified housing, by delivering comprehensive and innovative solutions, by developing collaborative relationships with our clients and partners, and by creating opportunities for donors and volunteers committed to making a difference where they live and work.

NHHS’s mission is to advocate to end food insecurity, improve access to nutritious food, and address hunger’s root causes for all New Hampshire residents. Their vision is that ​hunger is eliminated in New Hampshire. In order to achieve our mission and vision, NH Hunger Solutions focuses on these four priority areas:

1. Engage in policy advocacy to close the gap between those eligible for/enrolled in federal nutrition programs (SNAP, School Meals, Summer Meals, WIC)
2. Work with schools and communities to increase participation in school meals
3. Increase public awareness of the causes of and solutions to hunger in New Hampshire
4. Engage in coalition building among existing and emerging food access councils and coalitions