GRANITE STATE ORGANIZING PROJECT

What GRANITE STATE ORGANIZING PROJECT does

The Granite State Organizing Project (GSOP) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit faith-based grassroots community organization founded in 2002 and headquartered at 1045 Elm Street, #201, Manchester, New Hampshire. GSOP operates as New Hampshire's largest faith-based grassroots community organization, comprising 35 institutional members spanning Catholic parishes, Protestant churches, Jewish temples, Unitarian Universalist congregations, Quaker meetings, labor unions (including SEA/SEIU Local 1984), interfaith councils, and community groups, collectively representing roughly 40,000 New Hampshire families. The organization delivers its services through five active local chapters (Manchester, Nashua, Concord, Souhegan Valley, and Upper Valley), the Young Organizers United (Y.O.U.) youth program across all four Manchester high schools, a statewide Clergy Caucus, and the NH Immigrant Solidarity Network.

GSOP's core offerings center on community organizing, civic advocacy, and educational training. Primary product lines include grassroots organizing campaigns (economic justice, immigration reform, affordable housing, voter access), structured training programs (Immigration 101, Know Your Rights, Active Bystander Training, Rapid Response Training), youth civic engagement via Y.O.U., and interfaith advocacy including monthly vigils at the ICE office. The underlying "technology" is relational rather than digital: face-to-face meetings in congregations and community centers, door-to-door canvassing, and Clergy Caucus convenings function as the organizing platform. There is no proprietary software, API, or AI capability disclosed; digital channels (website, Facebook, email newsletter) supplement but do not replace in-person organizing infrastructure.

GSOP's revenue model is multi-stream and typical of small-to-mid-sized community organizing nonprofits: individual memberships at $30 per year, institutional membership dues from 35 member organizations, foundation grants, individual and organizational donations, and fundraising events. Leadership transitioned on June 7, 2025, with Janet Groat hired as Executive Director succeeding Sarah Jane Knoy, and Rev. Jason Wells elected Board President. The organization employs 13 staff and is governed by a member-elected board, with no parent company, subsidiaries, or external ownership interests.

Name

GRANITE STATE ORGANIZING PROJECT

Legal name

The Granite State Organizing Project

Website

https://granitestateorganizing.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2002

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Granite State Organizing Project is a 501(c)(3) faith-based grassroots community organization founded in 2002 and headquartered in Manchester, New Hampshire. It unites 35 institutional members — congregations, labor unions, and community groups representing 40,000 families — across five chapters to drive campaigns on economic justice, immigration, housing, and voter access.

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akta.pro rank

Product category

Community Organizing and Social Justice Advocacy

NAICS

Social Advocacy Organizations (8133), Civic and Social Organizations (8134), Human Rights Organizations (813311), Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations (813)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300), Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro primary industry

Social Justice & Human Rights Grantmaking Foundations (BPAGAKAN)

Keywords

• Community organizing
• Grassroots advocacy
• Faith-based organizing
• Social justice campaigns
• Civic engagement training

Headquarters

HQ city

Manchester

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Others

Revenue model

1. Membership Dues: Member institutions pay membership dues to GSOP. Individual membership is available for $30 per year. Institutional membership is also offered for religious, labor, and community organizations.
2. Grants: GSOP receives grant funding as part of its revenue mix from foundations and organizations supporting social justice and community organizing work.
3. Fundraising Events: GSOP holds fundraising events as part of its revenue generation strategy.
4. Individual Donations: The remainder of GSOP's budget comes from supportive individuals and organizations through donations.

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Core offering

Granite State Organizing Project (GSOP) is a faith-based grassroots community organization that conducts community organizing and advocacy across New Hampshire. It operates five local chapters, runs statewide campaigns on immigration, economic justice, and voting rights, delivers civic engagement training programs (Immigration 101, Know Your Rights, Active Bystander, Rapid Response), and runs the Young Organizers United (Y.O.U.) youth program, serving 35 member organizations representing approximately 40,000 New Hampshire families.

Product overview

The Granite State Organizing Project (GSOP) is a faith-based grassroots community organization offering a comprehensive suite of organizing and advocacy services. The core offering centers on community organizing through five local chapters (Manchester, Nashua, Concord, Souhegan Valley, and Upper Valley), a statewide campaign infrastructure, and a Youth Organizers United (Y.O.U.) program. GSOP also provides educational training services including Immigration 101, Know Your Rights, Active Bystander Training, Rapid Response Training, and Community Organizing 101 programs. The organization coordinates the Immigrant Solidarity Network and Moral Economy Table for targeted advocacy on immigration and economic justice issues.

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Brands

• Young Organizers United (Y.O.U.): A group of high school aged youth representing all four high schools in Manchester who learn the steps of the community organizing cycle and become civically engaged.

Products and services

• Community Organizing Services Grassroots community organizing delivered through local chapters, member organizations, and statewide campaigns focused on social and economic justice issues including housing, immigration, minimum wage, and voting rights. Designed for member faith communities, labor unions, community groups, and individual members in New Hampshire.
• Local Chapters Five active local chapters (Manchester, Nashua, Concord, Souhegan Valley, and Upper Valley) that focus on community-specific issues and meet regularly to address local concerns. Open to members and prospective participants in each region.
• Young Organizers United (Y.O.U.) A youth organizing program for high school students from all four Manchester high schools that teaches community organizing skills and civic engagement through the organizing cycle. Has successfully advocated for an African American studies class in Manchester High School curriculum.
• Immigration 101 Training One-hour training covering immigration status types, immigration laws, common terms (DACA, TPS, undocumented), and myth-busting. Offered in-person or via Zoom in collaboration with NH Alliance for Immigrants and Refugees. Free for member organizations; donation requested for non-members.
• Know Your Rights Training One-hour training covering Constitutional rights, deportation risk factors, ICE contact procedures (at home, public, work, worship), legal arrest warrants, and detention preparation. Available in-person or via Zoom. Free for member organizations; donation requested for non-members.
• Active Bystander Training Two-hour interactive training teaching de-escalation skills when witnessing biased anger in public, including group activities and story sharing. Available only in-person. Free for member organizations; donation requested for non-members.
• Rapid Response Training One-hour training teaching legal bystander strategies for witnessing arrests (recording, asking questions), and how to set up local support teams and emergency hotline responses. Available only in-person. Free for member organizations; donation requested for non-members.
• Immigrant Solidarity Network Monthly interfaith prayer vigils at the ICE office (Norris Cotton Federal Building) and statewide coordination of the NH Immigrant Solidarity Network for immigration reform advocacy. Designed for faith communities and immigrant rights advocates across New Hampshire.
• Economic Justice Campaigns Advocacy for raising the minimum wage in New Hampshire, convening the Moral Economy Table coalition of labor unions, community groups, and social justice ministries. Designed for workers and low-wage劳动者 in New Hampshire.
• Voter Outreach Program Non-partisan voter engagement program including rides to polls, voter education events, and door-to-door canvassing to ensure voting access across New Hampshire.
• Clergy Caucus Coalition of clergy across New Hampshire providing a unified moral voice on policy issues and hosting candidate forums during election seasons. Designed for religious leaders statewide.

Quantifiable outcome

• Successfully advocated for African American studies class to be added to Manchester High School curriculum
• +1 more outcomes

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Ideal customer profiles3 records

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Regional players

• NH Community Loan Fund: A New Hampshire-based community development financial institution that incoming ED Janet Groat has worked with; operates community-focused programs (financial resilience, affordable housing) that overlap with GSOP's economic justice mission in the same geography.

Broad incumbents

• Center for Community Change: A national hub for grassroots organizing groups focused on economic, racial, and immigrant rights; broader in scope than GSOP but uses the same grassroots leadership development and base-building playbook, and is a likely grantmaker peer in the same funding ecosystem.

Direct peers

• Gamaliel Foundation: One of the dominant faith-based community organizing networks in the U.S. (parent of many state-level affiliates) using the same relational, congregation-based organizing methodology as GSOP, and a structural peer in the national organizing infrastructure.
• Rights & Democracy NH: A New Hampshire-based grassroots advocacy organization running multi-issue campaigns on economic and immigrant rights, with door-to-door canvassing and chapter structures closely mirroring GSOP's organizing model.
• NH Alliance for Immigrants and Refugees: A New Hampshire-based immigrant advocacy coalition that co-delivers GSOP's Immigration 101 training; comparable on immigrant rights focus with overlapping programs, training delivery, and statewide advocacy in the same geography.
• Faith in Action (formerly PICO National Network): Faith in Action is the national federation of faith-based community organizations; GSOP is a New Hampshire affiliate, with national leadership directly participating in GSOP's governance transitions. Directly comparable as a parent network and peer organizing model.
• Maine People's Alliance: A statewide grassroots community organizing coalition in Maine operating chapters, leadership development, and policy campaigns on economic justice and immigration — structurally and operationally near-identical to GSOP in a neighboring New England state.
• Vermont Worker Justice: A New England-based worker and immigrant rights organizing group combining direct service, policy advocacy, and base-building — highly comparable to GSOP's economic justice and immigrant solidarity work, though more narrowly focused on labor.

Emerging players

• Mothers Out Front: Massachusetts-based climate-justice organizing network where incoming GSOP Executive Director Janet Groat previously led organizing for seven years; comparable volunteer-led, multi-chapter base-building model focused on a single-issue campaign domain.
• New Hampshire Women's Lobby: A New Hampshire-based policy and advocacy nonprofit on which incoming ED Janet Groat previously served; smaller in scale than GSOP, with a single-issue focus (women's equity) but operating in the same state-level advocacy ecosystem with shared personnel networks.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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