Kathleen Reardon talking with an attendee at the Leadership Summit in September (Courtesy of NH Center for Nonprofits)
After becoming CEO of the NH Center for Nonprofits, Kathleen Reardon created NH Gives, an annual fundraising event that raised $3.5 million in 2024 for more than 650 nonprofits. The fundraiser is publicized widely on TV, radio, social media, and in print publications. While nonprofits do individual fundraising, it’s a lot harder to get people’s attention that way. Since 2016, NH Gives has raised more than $19 million for more than 1,100 nonprofits.
“Collaboration and engagement is built into the DNA of the nonprofit sector,” Reardon says. “We’re focused on working collaboratively to assess community needs because the issues facing New Hampshire are bigger than what one organization can address. There’s a well-known saying in the nonprofit world and that’s, ‘we’re all better working together.’”…