Our Grant Recipients

Local grant recipients receive 70% of the funds raised through the Taste of the Nation Portsmouth. These local recipients are:

  • Footprints Food Pantry provides emergency food to low-income individuals in southern York County, Maine.
  • The Seacoast Family Food Pantry (SFFP) is committed to serving the Seacoast community with determination and compassion, respecting the dignity of every individual and family who needs our assistance.
  • Rockingham Community Action is committed to the prevention, reduction and elimination of poverty by providing a wide range of comprehensive services to low-income families in Rockingham County.
  • Strafford County Community Action Committee provides assistance to meet immediate and long-term needs for low-income households.
  • The New Hampshire Center for a Food Secure Future (NHCFSF) is a University of New Hampshire-based collaboration that was created to address the need for coordinated, comprehensive action linking agriculture, the food environment and health and nutrition in our state and region.

State recipients receive 10% of the funds raised from the Taste of the Nation Portsmouth, and 10% from the Manchester Taste of the Nation. These groups are:

  • Children’s Alliance of New Hampshire is a statewide advocacy organization for children that addresses problems associated with child poverty through research, education, outreach and lobbying.
  • Nesenkeag Cooperative Farm is a nonprofit farm that grows high quality, fresh organic produce and promotes environmental conservation and stewardship of land through education. Share Our Strength funds farming activities the produce of which Nesenkeag then donates to the New Hampshire Food Bank.

Of the remaining funds, 17% are granted to international organizations: Grassroots International, Oxfam America, ACCION International, The Lambi Fund of Haiti, Los Ninos, Bread for the World, SHARE Foundation: Building a New El Salvador Today, Ashoka, International Development Exchange and Global Food Bank Network— and 3% are granted to Share Our Strength’s Operation Frontline, a cooking-based nutrition education program for low-income adults and kids.

Share Our Strength Seacoast also hosts the annual Share Your Love dinner, which to-date has provided $40,000 in direct funding to bring Operation Frontline nutrition education classes to families right here on the Seacoast of New Hampshire.