15 Workshops = Thousands of Conversations

Bring Peer-to-Peer End-of-Life Conversations to 15 New Hampshire Communities.

Many of us know we should talk with the people we love about serious illness, dying, medical choices, and what matters most at the end of life.

But many of us do not know how to begin.

We put it off. We assume there will be time. We assume our families will know what we would want. We assume an advance directive will answer every question. We assume hospice, palliative care, DNR orders, and other end-of-life options are simple to understand — until we are suddenly facing them in real life.

Our peer-to-peer workshops help people begin.

Help us raise $4,212 to support 15 peer-to-peer workshops across New Hampshire — in libraries, senior centers, retirement communities, faith communities, and other trusted local gathering places.

Our workshops help people move from private worry to shared understanding and action. Trained NHAELO facilitators offer clear information, practical tools, and guided conversation about end-of-life planning and options, including advance directives, medical proxies, DNRs, hospice and palliative care, stopping unwanted treatment, and medical aid in dying — including where things stand in New Hampshire.

The heart of the work is conversation.

Peer support provides a safe place to discuss difficult issues around death and dying, and  a chance to process and benefit from shared experience and community based learning. Individuals are better prepared to go home and talk with a spouse, adult child, close friend, doctor, spiritual leader, or medical proxy. Early identification of needs and planning can help families avoid confusion in a crisis. It can help people ensure that their values, beliefs, and needs are heard.

Our work follows a simple but meaningful path:

Personal → Relational → Civic

First, we clarify our own wishes.

Then, we talk with the people who matter most.

Then, together, we help build a more compassionate New Hampshire — one where people are better informed, better prepared, and more able to advocate for end-of-life options rooted in freedom, care, and self-determination.

Your gift will help us bring these conversations to communities across the state.

What Your Gift Makes Possible

With your support, we will:

• Hold 15 peer-to-peer workshops in New Hampshire communities.
• Serve an estimated 300 people directly.
• Reach more than 2,000 family members, friends, care partners, and community connections through the conversations participants carry home.
• Help people begin, update, or revisit their end-of-life planning as health, age, family circumstances, and personal wishes change.
• Encourage participants to talk with those who matter most before a crisis occurs.
• Help people think carefully about choosing a medical proxy — and whether that person is truly able to understand and honor their wishes.
• Provide clear, practical information about real end-of-life options, including what they can and cannot do.
• Connect participants with our website resources, planning tools, and practical guides.
• Invite those who are ready to become part of a growing movement for more compassionate end-of-life options in New Hampshire, including medical aid in dying.

This is how grassroots change happens: one conversation, one family, one community at a time.

Please help us raise $4,212 for 15 workshops and bring honest, compassionate, practical end-of-life conversations to more people across New Hampshire.

Your gift to this NH Gives campaign will help us bring these conversations - which are in-person and free  - to more communities across New Hampshire.

A gift of $300 helps support one local workshop.

A gift of $750 helps us reach a cluster of communities through library, senior center, or retirement-community programming.

A gift of $4,212 funds the full goal: 15 peer-to-peer workshops that help Granite Staters move from private concern to shared understanding to civic action.

Please help us bring honest, compassionate, practical end-of-life conversations to more people across New Hampshire.

Let’s build a movement grounded in freedom, compassion, and care — together.