Whether through a monetary donation or donation of time, your support makes a difference!
The Waysmeet Center, historically known as The United Campus Ministry to UNH, has served the Durham community for nearly 100 years! Started by students, for students, our mission has always been centered around fostering leadership, personal growth, and civic engagement opportunities. We are a decades-long internship site for the UNH Department of Social Work and were honored to partner with the UNH Office of Civic & Community Engagement for the inaugural UNH Day of Service and Small Community Fellowship program last year.
Two of our longest-running programs are our Cornucopia Food Pantry and our Intentional Residential Community. Our pantry is staffed almost entirely by volunteers, UNH students, and local community members alike. It is a multi-generational food sovereignty effort including food cultivation, rescue, and distribution. Our residents often return year-after-year because of the strong bonds forged and nourished at 15 Mill Rd. Many of these folx are full-time students who, seeing the mission of Waysmeet at work, find ways to give back throughout all areas of our local community. This work is only possible through the generous support of our partners.
As we move into the next 100 years of service to our community, we gratefully ask for your continued, renewed, or first-time partnership. Whether that be through a donation of time, a donation of food, or a monetary donation. As an inscription on our very walls reads; “All acts of kindness are lights in the war for justice.” – Joy Harjo
We are calling in support to keep this vision alive. Like so many nonprofits, Waysmeet has faced challenges with maintaining steady funding during these tumultuous times. We are responding to these challenges by creatively redesigning our approach to development. In the coming months, Waysmeet will move forward with intentional visioning work to clarify our vision for the work ahead. With support from local consultants and input from voices like yours, we ask for your support as we work strategically to ensure Waysmeet’s long-term sustainable future. Waysmeet gives in abundance. It provides safe space, inspiration, sustenance, and good cheer for so many, as it has for generations. It is time that we restructure the way we’re organized internally and adopt the best financial path forward to sustain us.
We are calling on our community, all of you who have experienced the beauty and power of Waysmeet’s work, to support us in this moment of revival and change. Please take five minutes now and show your love with these easy but impactful asks:
- Share this link with three friends
- Share our most recent Social Media post
- Join our virtual listening session, which will be announced on social media and our website in the coming weeks.
We envision that the Waysmeet Center will continue to be a safe space for us to gather as we have for decades- with warm food, laughter, stories, and a sense of purpose greater than any one of us individually. We are so grateful for the student volunteers, sponsors, and alumni still supporting our mission
