New Hampshire has received More Than $277,000 In Funding To Help With Our Community's Most Pressing Needs

The State Set Aside (SSA) Committee is pleased to announce that New Hampshire has received $277,346 from the Emergency Food and Shelter Program through the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA.) FEMA works with national partners like United Way to distribute these critical funds. The SSA Committee had submitted their recommendations regarding the counties that were in greatest economic need.

Granite United Way leads the State Set Aside Committee and has a presence on each of the county committees across their footprint.

“These funds are coming into our state when there is a tremendous amount of need in many communities, post covid,” said Cary Gladstone, Chair of the State Set Aside Committee. “This is a significant amount of funding that will certainly help local programs fill those needs of New Hampshire residents.”

For 2024, NH received $277,346. Based on FEMA criteria, Hillsborough and Sullivan counties received direct allocations of $119,325 and $9,501, respectively, due to certain economic conditions.

“Community organizations in New Hampshire like Granite United Way play an important role in ensuring that members of our community have access to the food and shelter that they need in order to thrive,” said Senator Maggie Hassan. “I am grateful that this federal funding from FEMA is headed to the Granite State to support local food pantries, homeless shelters, and other providers, and I will continue working to uplift communities across the Granite State.”

The SSA Committee was charged with allocating $148,520 among the remaining counties. The committee considered factors in the number in poverty, number unemployed, number experiencing homelessness, and number receiving fuel assistance in each county.

“I’m pleased to see federal funding through FEMA’s Emergency Food and Shelter Program delivered to New Hampshire communities to help Granite Staters as they continue to face the ongoing housing crisis and rises in food insecurity,” said U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen. “I appreciate the Granite United Way’s efforts to distribute these funds to key nonprofit organizations and service providers across our state.”

From here, the individual county committees will now reach out to local food pantries, homeless shelters and other providers in their regions to distribute those funds.