The Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) is the core source of funding to Southern New Hampshire Services and to over 1100 Community Action Agencies throughout the nation. CSBG defining goal is "...to ameliorate the causes of poverty within communities within the states..."
CSBG legislation also requires us to provide services and activities having a measurable and potential major impact on causes of poverty within the community with a tri-fold focus on families, the community and the continuous improvement of agency effectiveness in this regard.
Therefore, our mission is to provide activities designed to assist low-income participants including the elderly poor, to secure and retain meaningful employment, attain an adequate education, and make better use of available income; to ameliorate the causes of poverty within the community; to meet urgent and immediate individual and family needs;including health, nutrition, housing and employment-related assistance; and to address the problems and barriers which block the achievement of self-sufficiency.
