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Your Gift Makes Our Work Possible
When you make a donation to NSKS, you help us provide food and shelter to individuals and families struggling with food insecurity and homelessness. But your gift goes far beyond meeting those immediate needs. We work closely with our clients to help them find jobs and housing, and to access a wide range of support services available through other area organizations. Thank you for helping to make this transformative work possible!
Read this page in Spanish
Your Gift Makes Our Work Possible
When you make a donation to NSKS, you help us provide food and shelter to individuals and families struggling with food insecurity and homelessness. But your gift goes far beyond meeting those immediate needs. We work closely with our clients to help them find jobs and housing, and to access a wide range of support services available through other area organizations. Thank you for helping to make this transformative work possible!
How You Can Help
Online Donation
Make an Online Charitable Donation
NSKS is a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization, and generous donations and grants provide 90% of our budget.
Donate Goods
Donate Food, Toiletries, and Other Essentials
Donations of non-perishable food, new and gently used household goods, and other essentials make a real difference for our clients.
Planned Giving
Make a Planned Gift
By including NSKS in your will, you ensure that we can continue to provide food, shelter, and other essential services to those in need, well into the future.
Donate Stock
Invest in Our Community's Future
Thank you for considering a stock gift to Nashua Soup Kitchen & Shelter. Contributions like yours have a significant impact on our work to address homelessness and food insecurity in Greater Nashua. We are deeply appreciative of your generous donation.
Donation FAQs
Donate Food & Personal Hygiene Items:
Please help us comply with Health Department guidelines by checking expiration dates on food donations.
The best time for drop-off donations is Monday – Friday, 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Please help us comply with Health Department guidelines by checking expiration dates on food donations.
The best time for drop-off donations is Monday – Friday, 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Our Commitment to Our Donors
Nashua Soup Kitchen & Shelter, Inc. (NSKS) will not sell, share or trade our donors’ names or personal information with any other entity, nor send mailings to our donors on behalf of other organizations.
We use information collected from donors (name, amount donated, address, telephone number, donor comments, e-mail address and any other personal information) exclusively for the purposes of processing donations and communicating with donors about NSKS, as well as:
- Distributing receipts and thanking donors for donations
- Reporting to applicable government agencies as required by law
- Informing donors about upcoming events and other activities of NSKS
- Internal analysis, such as research and analytics, record keeping
- Recognition in our Annual Report unless specified anonymous
- Other purposes related to development staff activities
This policy applies to all information received by NSKS, both online and offline, as well as any electronic, written, or oral communications.
Our Candid (formerly GuideStar) Gold Seal of Transparency
NSKS has earned a Gold Seal of Transparency, so you can be assured that your gift will have maximum impact.
Charity Navigator
The Nashua Soup Kitchen and Shelter has attained the coveted Charity Navigator 4-star rating for demonstrating strong financial health and commitment to accountability and transparency.