Your local Red Cross Chapter plays a critical role in making our community a safer place to live & work by providing our neighbors with Disaster Relief Services, Health & Safety and Armed Forces Emergency Services.

Please know that the Annual Heroes Event and the Golf Classic are our primary fund raising events & the funds we raise through these efforts will be used to provide these essential services throughout the year. Thanks to your ongoing and generous support, we had a record year for events and you provided the essential support your local Red Cross Chapter.

March 17, 2009

Thanks to The Cogswell Benevolent Trust for thier contribution to purchase Disaster Response Materials. This will help strengthen the disaster response to build a service delivery system that combines chapter material and human resources.  Part of our Mission is to provide relief to victims of disasters and help people prevent, prepare for, and respond to emergencies. Every day we provide information on how families should be disaster prepared.  Our goal as a chapter is to also to Be Red Cross Ready when a large scale disaster happens.

Thanks to a very generous grant from ORACLE all SSI School Safety Initiative Programs are available for free to all NH Gateway Chapter service area public and private schools.

February 6, 2009

Thanks to the Bishop's Charitable Assistance Fund for thier contribution of $4,000 towards Ice Storm 2008 Relief.

February 27, 2009

Thanks to the Milford Rotory for the new TV for our training room.

The NH Gateway Chapter of the American Red Cross was awarded a $14,864 grant from the Nashua region of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation to help pay the cost of hiring a full-time Health & Safety Education Assistant.  

"Working with our volunteer Board members and a volunteer HR Committee, we have developed a plan to reorganize the Chapter staff to maximize the time and talents of our paid and volunteer staff," said Rebecca Justice, Executive Director of the NH Gateway Chapter.

"Our goal is operate more effectively and efficiently given the challenges of this economic climate and with the chapter's recent addition of 3 new communities: Salem, Pelham and Windham."

The New Hampshire Charitable Foundation has been improving the quality of life in our communities since 1962. It builds and manages a collection of charitable funds, totaling nearly $490 million, created by individuals, families and corporations. The New Hampshire Charitable Foundation's accepts grant applications from seven regions throughout the state of NH for more information, please visit http://www.nhcf.org/ or call 603-225-6641.

December 28, 2008

Thanks to the Mary Louise Billings Trust for $2,500 to provide sholorship money for the Licensed Nursing Assistant (LNA) Program.

December 29, 2008

Thanks to The McInich Foundation for thier support to purchase new computers and software for our chapter.

Thanks to Nashua Rotary West for support to purchase Cribs and Car Seats for victoms that have loss everything due to a natural disasters.

July 8, 2008

Thanks to the Kelly Foundation for thier contribution for Disaster Services.

Major Gifts FY- 2007-2008

Cogswell Benevolent -NEW CPR manikins

Samual P. Hunt Foundation -Volunteer Computers

Parker Nelson Foundation -Computer Upgrade

Nashua Rotary- NEW computers for Disaster Services

Milford Rotary -Disaster Relief

First Church of Nashua -Disaster Relief

The Nichols Trust -Disaster Relief

Amherst Juniors Woman's Club -LNA Scholorships for woman

Baldwin Foundation -LNA Supplies Kits

St. John Newman -Disaster Relief

Thanks to all other supporters who donate in many ways: