New Hampshire Center for Justice & Equity

ABOUT

The New Hampshire Center for Justice & Equity (NHCJE) sparks dialogue amongst Granite Staters and examines real solutions that reflect New Hampshire’s realities and values, emphasizing to state leaders that New Hampshire is more productive and competitive when everyone can belong. 

The legacy of race and the intersection of wealth, class, gender, and opportunity in the United States has been documented by numerous scholars and thinkers across many academic disciplines. History demonstrates that many of the obstacles experienced by our communities of color and similarly historically marginalized communities are structural and mutually reinforcing, contributing to longstanding inequities in income, wealth, academic achievement, and health outcomes, while weakening our social fabric and damaging our democracy. 

In recent years, New Hampshire has been one of many states subjected to outside interests pushing an agenda to “normalize inequity and injustice.” These messages and policies have moved into the mainstream public discourse even as New Hampshire’s changing demographics reveal a younger, more socially conscious and diverse population. This increasingly diversified community strengthens the state’s economic and cultural vitality, strength, and competitiveness in an increasingly connected world. Our future depends on creating an ever more welcoming Granite State. 

Learn more about what we do: nhcje.org

NHCJE’s Program Pillars: 

• Community Building & Organizing: Facilitate the movement of ideas into action with community partners and collaborators 

• Public Policy: Disseminate information and develop solutions to support good policy and prevent detrimental policy 

• Institutional Capacity Building: Grow the capacity of the network of justice and equity organizations and efforts through training and technical assistance 

• Operating Supports & Intentional Investments: Strengthen communities by distributing resources for programs and initiatives