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Granite State Organizing Project, New Hampshire’s largest faith-based, grass-roots, community organization, seeks to strengthen communities, empowering them to find their voice and effect change.

The work is rooted in accepting, respecting, and valuing each other. GSOP comprises many faith communities, labor unions, community groups, and individuals who care deeply that justice and equity is available to all.

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These are our organization’s core values. They guide us when we don’t know what to do, help us evaluate our behaviors and practices, help us choose a path and method, and help us stay focused and set priorities.

  1. Develop grassroots leadership

  2. Center voices and issues of those most impacted

  3. Make concrete change in people’s lives

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GSOP is proud to support the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which has been signed by 192 nations, representing nearly all the peoples of the world. For the complete text of the UDHR, visit here.

For other questions about how to use the UDHR in your personal and community work, contact Bob Keating.

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Granite State Organizing Project Announces  Hire of New Executive Director

Janet Groat to succeed retiring Director, Sarah Jane Knoy

gsopAt its Annual Meeting on Sunday, June 7th, the Granite State Organizing Project (GSOP) introduced GSOP’s new Executive Director, Janet Groat, to the community. Ms. Groat was welcomed into leadership of the state’s largest grassroots, faith-based community organization by Bishop Dwyane Royster, National Executive Director of Faith in Action, as well as nearly 100 GSOP members from across the state. 

Ms. Groat is an experienced organizer, policy advocate, communicator and executive director. From 2017-24, she was the Organizing Manager at Mothers Out Front in Massachusetts, where she trained and coached hundreds of volunteers on how to design and win campaigns for climate justice. She enjoys coaching teams and individuals as they step into “good trouble” – meaning, as they work together to build power to make concrete changes in their communities. In New Hampshire, she has worked with the Investing in Communities Initiative, NH Community Loan Fund and NH Women’s Lobby. She has a Master’s degree from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and has taught classes on nonprofit organizational management at Southern New Hampshire University. Janet lives in Portsmouth with her husband and their 18-year-old son. 

The GSOP thanked the outgoing Executive Director, Sarah Jane Knoy, and outgoing Board President Marsha Feder for their years of service to the community, as the delegates elected a new Board President, Rev. Jason Wells of St. Matthews’ Church in Goffstown. 

Bishop Royster encouraged the diverse crowd to activate their imaginations and work toward a vision of the world as it should be – safe, welcoming and affordable for all – as the GSOP continues its work of pushing back against authoritarianism and hate.  

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