Community Involvement

• 22Q Foundation
• 3S Contemporary Art Space
• Advice to the Players
• Alton 5k
• Alton Business Association
• Alton Centennial Rotary Club
• Alton Parks & Recreations
• American Bankers Association
• American Cancer Society
• American Legion Post #33 – Meredith
• American Legion Post #49 – Tilton/Northfield
• American Legion Post #59 – Hillsborough NH
• American Legion Post #72
• American Red Cross NH/VT Region
• Annie’s Angels Memorial Fund
• Artistic Roots
• Ashland 4th of July Committee
• Ashland Elementary School Wellness Committee
• Ashland Firefighters Auxiliary
• Ashland Halloween Parade
• Ashland School Parent Teacher Association
• Assistance Canine Training Services
• Audubon Society of New Hampshire
• Belknap House
• Belknap Mill Society
• BelknapEDC
• Belmont Rotary Club Charities
• Best Buddies International
• Betsy’s Park
• Big Brothers Big Sisters of NH
• Bill Lamper Youth Basketball
• Bolduc Park Association
• Boulder Point
• Boys & Girls Clubs of Central NH
• Brewster Academy
• Bridge House
• Bristol Police Department
• BSOG Relief Association
• Business & Industry Association of NH
• Campton Historical Society
• Canterbury Shaker Village
• Career Partnership Program
• Castle Preservation Society
• Celebrate Laconia
• Center for Financial Training & Education Alliance (CFTEA)
• Center Harbor Community Development Association
• Center Harbor Skate Fest
• Center Harbor Soup Kitchen
• Central NH Chamber of Commerce
• Central NH VNA & Hospice
• Child Advocacy Center of Carroll County
• Children’s Museum of NH
• Christmas Night in Ashland
• Circle Program
• Coastal Economic Development Corporation
• Colebrook Ski-Bees Snowmobile Club
• Communities for Alcohol and Drug Free Youth (CADY)
• Concord Hospital
• Copper Cannon Camp
• Country Village Way Condo Association
• Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA)
• Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
• Daniel Webster Council (Boy Scouts of America)
• David’s House
• District 44N – Lions Clubs International
• Exeter Area Charitable Foundation
• Fall Mountain Regional High School
• Families in Transition
• Farmington 500 Soccer
• Farmington Fish and Game Club
• Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston
• First Star Tonight
• For The Love of Dogs Rottweiler Rescue
• Friends Moultonborough Public Library
• Friends of Belmont Football
• Friends of Forgotten Children
• Friends of Lafayette House
• Friends of Meredith Parks & Recreation
• Friends of the Libby Museum
• Friends of the Meredith Library
• Friends of the Music Hall
• Funds For Paws
• Gather
• Geneva Point Center
• Gilda’s Club NH
• Gilford Athletic Booster Club
• Gilford Cal Ripken Baseball
• Gilford Middle School
• Gilford Police Relief Association
• Gilford School District
• Gilford Silverhawks Football
• Girl Scouts of the Green and White Mountains
• Got Lunch! Ashland
• Got Lunch! Gilford
• Got Lunch! Inter-Lakes
• Got Lunch! Laconia
• Governor Wentworth Arts Council
• Governor Wentworth Regional School District
• Grafton Regional Development Corporation
• Granite Backcountry Alliance
• Granite State Adaptive
• Granite State Association of FFA
• Granite State Children’s Alliance
• Granite State Independent Living
• Granite United Way
• GRD Memorial Foundation
• Great Waters Music Festival
• Greater Dover Chamber of Commerce
• Greater Lakes Region Charitable Fund (Children’s Auction)
• Greater Meredith Program
• Hampton Area Chamber of Commerce
• Hands Across The Table
• Holderness Aftercare Association
• Holderness Central School
• Holderness Firefighters Association
• Holderness Historical Society
• Holderness School
• Holderness School District School Board
• Homeland Cemetery
• Hospice Help Foundation
• Hubbard Beach Association
• Huggins Hospital
• ILMA Middle School Football Club
• Inter-Lakes Children’s Theatre
• Inter-Lakes Christmas Fund
• Inter-Lakes Elementary School
• Inter-Lakes High School
• Inter-Lakes High School 2021 Prom Committee
• Inter-Lakes High School Alumni Association
• Inter-Lakes Interact Club
• Inter-Lakes Middle & High School Robotics Team
• Inter-Lakes Middle Tier School
• Inter-Lakes PTO
• Inter-Lakes Scholarship Foundation
• Inter-Lakes Summer Theatre
• Inter-Lakes Youth Soccer League
• Isaiah 61 Cafe
• James D. Sutherland Memorial Scholarship
• Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
• Kidworks Learning Center
• Kingswood Vocational Student Building Trust
• Kingswood Youth Center
• Knights of Columbus Council #428
• Krempels Center
• Laconia High School Band Boosters
• Laconia Little League
• Laconia Middle School
• Laconia Multicultural Festival
• Laconia Police Relief Association
• Laconia School District
• Laconia Skate Board
• Laconia Youth Football & Cheer Association
• Laconia Youth Soccer League
• Lake Sunapee Region VNA
• Lake Winnipesaukee Association
• Lakes Center For The Arts
• Lakes Region Board of Realtors
• Lakes Region Builders & Remodelers Association
• Lakes Region Chamber of Commerce
• Lakes Region Community Developers
• Lakes Region Community Services
• Lakes Region Conservation Trust
• Lakes Region Food Pantry
• Lakes Region Girls Softball
• Lakes Region Humane Society
• Lakes Region Mental Health Center
• Lakes Region Model Railroad Museum
• Lakes Region Planning Commission
• Lakes Region Rotary Foundation
• Lakes Region Scholarship Foundation
• Lakes Region Search and Rescue
• Lakes Region Symphony Orchestra
• Lakes Region Technology Center
• Lakes Region Tourism Association
• Lakes Region Visiting Nurse Association
• Lakes Region Youth Hockey Association
• Lavarack Nature Trail
• Leadership Lakes Region
• Leadership NH
• Leadership Seacoast
• League of NH Craftsmen
• Light Up Laconia
• Lincoln Woodstock Community Clean Up
• Lions Twin State Soccer Association
• Live & Let Live Farm
• Live Like Doug Educational Center
• Locke Lake Colony Association
• Loon Preservation Committee
• Lou Athanas Youth Basketball League
• Make-A-Wish NH
• Mayhew Program
• Memorial Hospital Foundation at North Conway
• Meredith Altrusa Club
• Meredith Area Chamber Of Commerce
• Meredith Historical Society
• Meredith Library Fund
• Meredith Lions Club
• Meredith Police Association
• Meredith Public Health Nursing Association
• Meredith Public Library
• Meredith Youth Soccer
• Merrill Fay Arena
• Mid-State Health Center
• Milligan Memorial Golf Tournament
• Monarch School of New England
• Moose Mountains Regional Greenways
• Mortgage Bankers and Brokers Association of NH
• Moultonborough Academy
• Moultonborough Central School
• Moultonborough Lions Club
• Moultonborough PTA
• Moultonborough Snowmobile Club
• Moultonborough/Sandwich Senior Meals
• Mountain Village Charter School
• Nancy Clement Beck Memorial Fund
• National Marine Lenders Association
• NEACH
• NeighborWorks Southern NH
• New Beginnings
• New Hampton Firefighters Association
• New Horizons Band of the Lakes Region
• New Horizons for NH
• Newfound Area Nursing Association
• NH Bankers Association
• NH Bar Foundation
• NH Boat Museum
• NH Center for Nonprofits
• NH Charitable Foundation
• NH Children’s Trust
• NH Coalition Against Domestic & Sexual Violence
• NH Community Development Finance Authority (CDFA)
• NH Community Loan Fund
• NH Food Bank
• NH Higher Education Assistance Foundation
• NH Historical Society
• NH Home Builders Association
• NH Humane Society
• NH Humanities Council
• NH JumpStart Coalition
• NH Lakes Association
• NH Lakes Region Pickleball Club
• NH Legal Assistance
• NH Master Chorale
• NH Preservation Alliance
• NH Public Broadcasting
• NH Rare Disorders Association
• NH Rivers Council
• NH Veterans Home
• NH-JAG
• Nor’Easter Softball Club
• Old Lakeshore Cooperative
• One Sky Community Services
• Opechee Garden Club
• Parents Music Club of Portsmouth
• Parents Music Club of the Portsmouth
• Parma Music Festival
• Partnership for Public Health
• Patriot Resilient Leader Institute (Camp Resilience)
• Peabody Place
• Pemi-Baker Community Health
• Pemi-Baker Cooperative School District
• Pemi-Baker Home Health
• Pemi-Baker Literacy
• Pemigewasset Choral Society
• Pemigewasset Search and Rescue
• Pemi-Valley Habitat for Humanity
• Pittsburg Ridge Runners
• Plymouth Area Community Closet
• Plymouth Area Renew Energy Initiative
• Plymouth Downtown Committee
• Plymouth Regional High School 
• Plymouth Regional High School Hockey Boosters
• Plymouth Regional Senior Center
• Plymouth Regional Youth Softball
• Plymouth State University
• Plymouth Youth Leadership
• Prescott Farm Environmental Education Center
• Prescott Park Arts Festival
• Pro Portsmouth
• Raven Gael Blaisdell Foundation at Hall Memorial Library
• Red Oak Stables
• Rescue Dogs Rock NYC
• Rockshow
• Rotary Club of Alton
• Rotary Club of Gilford
• Rotary Club of Hampton
• Rotary Club of Hampton Charitable Foundation
• Rotary Club of Laconia
• Rotary Club of Meredith
• Rotary Club of Plymouth
• Rotary Club of Plymouth Foundation
• Rotary Club of Portsmouth
• Rotary International District 7870
• Rumney PTO
• Rye Lions Club
• Salvation Army
• Sandwich Business Group
• Sandwich Children’s Center
• Sandwich Community School
• Sandwich Fair Association
• Sandwich Home Industries
• Santa Fund for Town of Moultonborough
• Santa Fund of the Greater Lakes Region
• Save for America
• Save Our Gale School
• SCORE
• Seacoast Board of Realtors
• Seacoast Child Advocacy Center
• Seacoast Mental Health Center
• Seacoast Science Center
• Seacoast Soul Models
• Seacoast Task Force on Family Violence
• Seacoast United Sports Club
• Sleep in Heavenly Peace
• Society for the Protection of NH Forests
• Society of Saint Vincent de Paul (Laconia)
• Southeast NH Habitat for Humanity
• Spaulding Academy & Family Services
• Speare Memorial Hospital
• Special Olympics NH
• Squam Lakes Association
• Squam Lakes Natural Science Center
• Squam Trail Busters
• State of NH Department of Children Youth & Families
• Step Up Parents
• Surfrider Foundation NH
• Tamworth Community Nurse Association
• Tamworth Outing Club
• Tanger Outlets 5K
• Teen Master Tennis Academy
• The Barnstormers
• The Chamber Collaborative of Greater Portsmouth
• The Friendly Kitchen
• The Friends Program
• Thornton Conservation Committee
• Town of Alton
• Town Of Ashland
• Town of Center Harbor
• Town of Gilford
• Town of Holderness
• Town of Meredith
• Town of Moultonborough
• Town of New Durham
• Town of New Durham – Parks & Recreation Department
• Town of Plymouth
• Town of Sandwich
• Town of Tuftonboro
• Town of Wakefield
• Town of Washington
• Town of Wolfeboro
• Toys for Tots
• Trick or Treat in Holderness
• Tuftonboro Historical Society
• Veterans Count
• Village Players
• Voices Against Violence
• Vouchers for Veterans
• Waterville Valley Adaptive Sports
• Waterville Valley Business Association
• Waterville Valley Foundation
• Waterville Valley Town Square "Get to Know the Valley Event"
• Waukewan & Winona Watershed Protection Association
• Wentworth Economic Development Corporation (WEDCO)
• White Horse Addiction Center
• White Mountain National Forest
• White Mountain Youth Hockey
• Wicwas Lake Grange
• WinnAero
• Winnipesaukee Muskrats
• Winnipesaukee Playhouse
• Winnipesaukee Wellness Center
• Wolfeboro Area Chamber of Commerce
• Wolfeboro Area Creative Art Center
• Wolfeboro Area Meals On Wheels
• Wolfeboro Area Recreation Center (The Nick)
• Wolfeboro Christmas Parade
• Wolfeboro Cooperative Nursery School
• Wolfeboro Friends of Music
• Wolfeboro Lions Charity
• Wolfeboro Nursery School
• Wolfeboro Public Library Foundation
• Wolfeboro Rotary Club Charities
• Wolfeboro She-Wolves Hockey
• WOW Trail
• Wright Museum of World War II

If you are interested in having Meredith Village Savings Bank support your non-profit organization, please contact your local office. For a listing, click here.

We are always happy to help local non-profits share information about their organizations and special events whenever possible. Please reach out to mvsbmarketing@mvsb.com for assistance with the following:

• Presence on our digital signs outside our branches in Meredith’s main office, Rochester and Laconia. Per local regulation, Rochester and Laconia can have graphic messages with color and pictures. Meredith can only be text with no color.
• Inclusion on our digital signs in all of our branch offices. Nonprofits can select the locations where they would like their message to run. Many regular users simply send us a PowerPoint slide – it’s the exact right size for the screens and software.
• Distribution of dollar bill sized cash-envelope stuffers with the money & receipts for each customer in the lobby or drive-up. Again, this is available at the location(s) of the nonprofits’ choice.
• Inclusion on the magnetic community board available at each branch office.
• Re-sharing of your posts on social media. We are on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube.

Please Note: that we cannot promote lotteries or religious or political messages.  Other restrictions may apply.

MVSB recently designed a checking account with non-profits in mind.  Click here or contact your nearest branch office to learn more about this account and the benefits available to you.

MVSB James D. Sutherland Memorial Scholarship is awarded annually to one graduating senior from each of the following public high schools:

• Gilford High School
• Inter-Lakes High School
• Kingswood Academy
• Laconia High School
• Moultonborough Academy
• Plymouth Regional High School
• Portsmouth High School
• Prospect Mountain High School
• Spaulding High School

Information and applications for this scholarship are available at guidance offices at the schools listed above. You can also access the application here.

The MVSB Culinary Arts Center Scholarship
The MVSB Culinary Arts Center is part of The Huot Technical Center, a regional program for students at Laconia, Gilford, Belmont, Inter-Lakes, Franklin and Winnisquam Regional High Schools. The Center provides students the opportunity to begin to develop skills that are essential to employment in all facets of the food service trade.

Information and applications for this scholarship are available at Huot Technical Center Administrative Offices.

The IOLTA program was created in 1982 when a NH Supreme Court ruling began requiring attorneys to maintain a pooled interest-bearing trust account for clients’ funds which were nominal in amount or to be held for a short period of time. Under Supreme Court Rule 50, the interest generated in those accounts was required to be transferred to the New Hampshire Bar Foundation for charitable purposes. Since its inception, the IOLTA program has raised more than $28 million to help provide legal services to New Hampshire citizens who are struggling to overcome poverty.

To be designated as a Leadership Bank by the NH Bar Foundation, MVSB must pay 2% or higher interest on IOLTAs, exceed the bank’s standard NOW account rate, and waive routine service charges.

The MVSB Fund makes grants every year to local nonprofits that make a significant impact upon the lives of people in the communities we serve. These grants are in addition to the Bank’s regular contributions and the extraordinary volunteer efforts by our employees.

Established in 1997, the MVSB Fund awards grant-based contributions to nonprofit organizations that enrich and improve the quality of life for residents living in the Bank’s service areas. Since its inception, 447 grants totaling $1,804,248 have been awarded to a wide range of environmental, social, educational and historic projects throughout the Lakes Region, Plymouth and Seacoast areas.

Over the years, the Fund has supported literacy programs, after-school programs, environmental monitoring as well as education and restoration of historic structures, organizations that provide support for individuals and families in challenging circumstances and equipment that helps save lives. While not focused on a particular category, Fund administrators are mindful of the receiving organization and its contribution to the quality of life in the communities served.

“Each year, grants from the MVSB Fund help our local nonprofit organizations make meaningful improvements, add programming and simply keep up with demand,” said Rick Wyman, President of MVSB. “It is our pleasure to help them continue to provide such meaningful services and support to local individuals and families, especially during a time that has been so challenging for so many.”

This year’s MVSB Fund $121,000 grant recipients include:

Belknap House, Laconia
Awarded $5,000 to support direct resident services provided through case management by the house manager. Belknap House’s mission is to provide families in Belknap County a safe shelter, when children are particularly at-risk during homelessness, and to empower families to become self-sufficient and independent by providing opportunities of education and resources available to them.

Circle Program, Plymouth
Awarded $5,000 to send new program participants to summer camp. Circle Program is a nonprofit that empowers and provides opportunity to low-income NH girls through camp and mentorship.

Exeter Area Charitable Foundation, Exeter
Awarded $5,000 to support Children’s Fund clothing vouchers for children in need in the Seacoast area. The Community Children’s Fund was created by the Exeter Area Chamber of Commerce to raise funds to provide warm winter clothing and bedding to children in their surrounding communities.

Gather, Portsmouth
Awarded $4,000 to expand the reach of mobile food delivery and strengthen the regional food system. Gather serves those in the community experiencing hunger by providing nutritious food through innovative distribution programs and their Pantry Market. They also offer nutrition education and recipes for healthy living.

Got Lunch, Ashland and Holderness
Awarded $2,000 to provide healthy lunches to children from low- to moderate-income families during the summer months. Got Lunch is a community-based program serving Ashland and Holderness that provides healthy lunches to children during their summer break.

GOT LUNCH! Laconia, Laconia
Awarded $7,500 to provide healthy groceries to children from low- to moderate-income families during the summer months. GOT LUNCH! Laconia is a collaboration of community partners coming together to feed the children of Laconia.

Kingswood Youth Center, Wolfeboro Falls
Awarded $2,000 to fund life skills programs. The Kingswood Youth Center provides a safe and positive environment in which youth may grow, learn and develop life skills critical to their success in the adult world.

Lakes Region Community Developers, Laconia
Awarded $8,000 to provide summer camp scholarships for children who live in their affordable housing developments. Their mission includes aiding homeless families in securing stable employment and permanent housing. They also operate a four-unit transitional housing program where families stay for about 18 months.

Lakes Region Food Pantry, Moultonborough
Awarded $5,000 that will go toward their healthy food voucher program. The Lakes Region Food Pantry helps meet the needs of local individuals and families facing food insecurity and services are provided to individuals with dignity and respect. They offer food, food vouchers, personal care products, cooking classes, among many other programs.

Peabody Place, Franklin
Awarded $5,000 to be used toward the purchase of a new mode of transport. Peabody Place (formerly Peabody Home) in Franklin is a home for seniors, where they welcome diversity, believe in aging with dignity and strive to meet the needs of our community members in a professional and loving home-like atmosphere.

Pemi Youth Center, Plymouth
Awarded $5,000 to support their after school program. The center’s mission is to provide a safe and welcoming environment where local youth may gather outside of school and gain a sense of community, belonging and self-esteem.

Raven Gael Blaisdell Foundation at Hall Memorial Library, Northfield
Awarded $2,500 to support community reading programs for local youth. The foundation’s mission is to encourage youth in the area to embrace reading and explore all of literature’s wonderment and joy. This includes a diverse group of volunteers who advance the Hall Memorial Library through promotion, advocacy and fundraising.

Sandwich Children’s Center, Center Sandwich
Awarded $5,000 to be used for toddler and preschool enrichment and vacation weeks programming. The center is an exemplary nonprofit early childcare and education center that strengthens families and communities by nurturing the development of the whole child and fostering their curiosity for learning about themselves, the natural world and the communities around them.

Sleep in Heavenly Peace, Inc., Rochester
Awarded $3,000 to enable the Rochester Chapter to purchase lumber, hardware and bedding materials to build and provide 11 fully furnished beds to bedless children within their service area. Sleep in Heavenly Peace, Inc. is a volunteer organization that builds beds for kids who are sleeping on the floor.

Speare Memorial Hospital, Plymouth
Awarded $5,000 to match funds toward replacing the Cardiac Stress testing system for their Cardiac Rehabilitation program. Speare Memorial Hospital is a Critical Access Hospital in Plymouth that works to serve the needs of their patients and community.

Step Up Parents, Portsmouth
Awarded $5,000 to provide financial assistance to New Hampshire Kinship caregivers and to expand outreach. Step Up Parents supports caregivers in New Hampshire who are raising the children of parents with substance use disorder. Kinship caregivers are relatives or close family friends who step up to care for, nurture and protect children who find themselves without a responsible parent or a safe place to live.

The Homeless Center for Strafford County, Rochester
Awarded $15,000 to meet the temporary housing needs of members of the Seacoast community. The center provides community members and families with shelter, case management and educational programs that lead to self-sufficiency and permanent housing.

White Horse Recovery Center, Center Ossipee
Awarded $5,000 to support jobs creation program for those going through substance abuse recovery. The mission of White Horse Recovery is to provide behavioral health services that meet the individual needs of those they serve, offering a path to a better tomorrow.

Winnipesaukee Wellness Center, Moultonborough
Awarded $5,000 to establish and maintain a supervised exercise program for elderly in the Lakes Region area. The center’s fitness programs are tailored to the individual needs and capabilities of people with chronic disabilities, or whose doctors feel could benefit from a supervised exercise program.

Food Pantries
Eleven local food pantries that serve the same communities as MVSB will also share a donation of $22,000.

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