The mission of Hundred Nights, Inc. is to provide shelter and crisis related services to those at risk of or experiencing homelessness.
Our goal is to collaborate with the community to see, hear and support those among us who are equally deserving of dignity but who currently lack the means to live independently.
Our vision is a community whose members, regardless of means, are equally valued and supported, where every individual in the Cheshire County area will have access to appropriate and stable housing.
Our History
Hundred Nights, Inc. is a year-round emergency shelter and resource center that helps individuals and families in the region achieve their goal of becoming more independent, self-sufficient, and in a position to secure affordable permanent housing.
The agency was founded in 2010 to provide homeless residents with a warm place to stay during the coldest hundred nights of the year when beds are unavailable at other shelters.
In November 2017, the shelter remained open year-round for the first time to accommodate the demand for shelter in and beyond the cold weather season. The shelter has not had one night without at least one guest ever since.
After a massive community capital campaign effort, we moved into our Water St. home in August 2023. With the shelter and resource center under one roof, we are able to utilize the beautiful space to offer even more critical resources and programming.
In November of 2024, we opened an Overnight Warming Center (OWC) in the existing Kingsbury Resource Center, to offer individuals who could not secure a shelter bed (as shelters continue to operate at capacity statewide) with a warm, safe place to come in from the cold at night, which proved especially dangerous this past winter. From November to April 18, 2025, we served 125 unique individuals, for a total of 2,434 OWC visits. We were the only overnight warming center open in our region.
In 2024, Hundred Nights provided 139 unduplicated guests, including 4 families with 9 children, with an unprecedented 17,363 bed-nights of shelter. The same year, the Day Resource Center served an additional 312 different people with visits totaling 15,982 to use our services.