Why We Do It
SHARE is a respected nonprofit that cares for the community’s most vulnerable in collaboration with governmental and other non-profit agencies by providing a temporary safety net to ensure basic needs are met. SHARE also offers advocacy, planning, and facilitation of services to help clients enhance their strengths and capabilities that will lead to long-term stability and success.
Our Values
- Making a Difference/Impactful: We seek to change the status quo, making an impact.
- Dignity and Respect: We treat each person as a meaningful.
- Financially Strong & Prudent: We are financially strong and are prudent about our resources
- Responsibility: We have a responsibility to implement our core values in everything we do.
- Nonjudgmental/Open-minded: All clients deserve to be treated with dignity and served in a nonjudgmental way.
- Trust/Integrity: SHARE assistance is confidential. Over the past 39 years, SHARE has gained the trust of our communities to provide service to those in need.
- Resourcefulness: We are helping people become self-sufficient.
- Passion/Empathy: We strive to be compassionate and enthusiastic while listening to our clients’ individual circumstances.
- Accessible: We strive to break down barriers and make our services accessible to all who need them.
- Client-centered: All decisions at all levels of the organization are client-centered.
Did You Know?
- ONE IN 12 GRANITE STATERS live below the federal poverty line, which is $24,600 for a family of four.
- The median rent for a two-bedroom apartment with utilities is $1,206
- After paying the median rent, a family of four would have just $10,128 left for the year to cover all other expenses.
- About 11 percent of New Hampshire’s children live in families with incomes of less than $24,600.
- A family of four in New Hampshire NEEDS AN ANNUAL INCOME OF $50,000 to achieve economic independence.
- Approximately 10 PERCENT OF PEOPLE IN NEW HAMPSHIRE ARE FOOD INSECURE, not certain where their next meal is coming from.
Sources: U.S. Census, N.H. Food Bank, N.H. Charitable Foundation
