VITAL COMMUNITIES
How to find assistance
UPDATE: A new federally funded New Hampshire Emergency Rental Assistance Program (NHERAP) will launch at noon on March 15. 2021,to provide assistance to eligible residents of New Hampshire who cannot pay their rent and utilities due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more
Upper Valley Strong:
Upper Valley Strong is a team of non-profit agencies (including Vital Communities), churches, schools, towns, and local branches of State government whose mission is to help communities rebuild after natural disaster. You can find resources on their website concerning:
- food
- housing
- childcare
- family & elder health
- domestic & sexual violence
- mental health & substance use
- financial relief & unemployment
- utilities
Get support from neighbors through local Mutual Aid networks:
There are many mutual aid networks popping up in our region and around the world. These are community-driven networks of people helping each other and are critical in these times. If you need help, please sign up in the mutual aid sign-in sheet (below) for your region, and a local organizer will contact you.
- Bradford Area Mutual Aid Volunteer Sign-Up
- Central Vermont Mutual Aid
- Chelsea/Vershire/Corinth/Tunbridge/Washington mutual aid volunteer and need sign up
- Hartland-Area Mutual Aid volunteer sign-up
- Randolph Area Mutual Aid Network (RAMAN)
- South Royalton mutual aid
- Southern NEK Delivery Request Form
- Southern NEK Mutual Aid
- Strafford Emergency Management
- Thetford mutual aid volunteer and need sign up
- Upper Valley Area Mutual Aid(for both NH & VT)
- Vermonters Feeding Vermonters
- Barre mutual aid volunteer and need sign up
- Crowd-sourced Vermont COVID-19 Resource List
- New Hampshire – Mutual Aid and Defense Resources
Food assistance:
- Upper Valley Strong: Food Resources by Town
- NH Food Bank: list of pantries
- NH Food Access Map
- Veggie Van Go
- Farmers to Families Food Box Schedule & Registration (VT)
- NOFAVT Crop Cash program
- Granite State Market Match
- SNAP/3Squares federal food assistance program
- Vermont WIC Farmers to Families coupons
- Vermont 211
- 211nh.org