Committees

Here in New Hampshire’s Greater Nashua Area Branch of the NAACP, these committees are actively working to make our community a better place. New members are encouraged to contribute wherever their passions and talents would guide them.

1. Membership: Works to get new members and send reminders to retain existing ones, and represents the branch in the community (as do all members).  
2. Finance: Works to track our inflows and outflows of funds, works with our bank account and online, creates the detailed annual financial report required by National.
3. Legal Redress: Works on legal matters and complaints that come from the community, e.g. someone emails us with a situation.
4. Political Action: Note we have several active NH congresspeople and at least one US congressperson (Maggie Goodlander keynoted at the 2025 Freedom Fund dinner event) who do keep us informed. This committee’s work would be to follow legislation that has an impact on the BIPOC community. 
5. Education: Works on scholarships for graduating high school seniors, monthly book club for members, and annual field trips. Also the Black Baseball Initiative falls in this group, but is being spearheaded byMichael Atkins. 
6. Environmental & Climate Justice: Works to track local issues of pollution and health to our communities. Related to the Health Committee, which is currently not active for our branch. 
7. Youth: Works on getting young talent started for the NAACP’s ACT-SO events, and other events and issues of interest to younger generations. 
8. Communication: Works on our website and our summer intern, and expanding into other areas of social media etc. 
9. Freedom Fund Committee: Works to create a fantastic annual fundraising dinner, with keynote speakers, awards, fine food, and lots of new donations and memberships.

Also, the National Bylaws of the NAACP include several additional committees that can exist in any branch. These areas are described on pages 43-48 in this link to Bylaws on our website.