Looking back on this year, Partnership for Public Health (PPH) has a story worth telling: the story of an ordinary community that kept showing up like a hero when it mattered most.

The Lakes Region came together again and again this year, for public safety, for prevention, for a healthier way of living. Our scattered villages acted like one community, and that community grew. Our work even began reaching beyond the Lakes Region, planting the first seeds of a statewide effort so more of New Hampshire can experience what we've built here.

But every hero's story has a villain, and this year, ours showed up as funding cuts. In a year when our programs were flourishing, the money to sustain them dried up. Our small, dedicated team absorbed the loss, taking on more with less. We lost funding for staff positions and for our youth prevention program, leaving hundreds of young people in our region more vulnerable to substance misuse. Our Mobile Integrated Health program, still in its early stages, has had to shift and adapt just to survive.

We are not invincible. Like nonprofits across Laconia, the Lakes Region, our state, and this country, we've been hit hard. But every time a barrier has gone up, our organization has climbed it, because the work we do, quiet as it often is, changes hundreds of thousands of lives across this state. Public health touches every one of us, whether we notice it or not.

That's why we're asking for backup. PPH wants to keep this momentum going, but we can't do it alone. We need our community, our neighbors, and people like you to stand with the ones doing this work: showing up, adapting, and refusing to quit even when the odds aren't in our favor.

Join us for our Gala, where we'll trade the everyday for a heroic evening of glamorous giving, and help write the next chapter of this story together.

Masked for a Mission Gala

An Evening of Heroic Glamour and Giving