The Greater New Haven Help Alliance, Inc., a faith-based 501c3 corporation, is currently comprised of two components. The first deals with "glocal" anti-poverty efforts and the second deals with efforts to support local Youth Development.

Our Leadership

Executive Director: R. Richard Everett

Board of Directors:

President: Chris Bamgboye : Agent/Owner: Bamgboye Insurance Agency

Vice-President: C. Gene Kirby, President- New Alliance Bank

Treasurer: Sandy Woodbridge: CPA - Woodbridge & Cusano, Inc.

Secretary: Attorney John Parese: Parrett, Porto, Parese & Colwell

Lt. Abraham Colon: Director, West Haven Emergency Response Team

Rev. Todd Foster (GNHHA Founder): Senior Pastor - Church on the Rock

Dr. Charles Dike, Psychiatrist, Medical Director of the Whiting Forensic Division of Connecticut Valley Hospital

Our Mission Statement

The Mission of Greater New Haven Help Alliance is to increase opportunities both locally and globally for individuals and families to partake in a standard of living that includes basic healthy food, clean water, adequate shelter, clothing, education, affordable healthcare, and economic self-sufficiency.

Specifically concerning youth, we will endeavor to maximize the intrinsic potential of at risk young people by 1) enabling them to thrive and reach for personal excellence and academic success, 2) supporting, undergirding and where necessary, supplementing an effective family base, and 3) promoting and providing opportunities for positive engagement within their communities.
 

Greater New Haven Help Alliance: Poverty Connection

The Poor Connection is the anti-poverty task force of the Greater New Haven Help Alliance. The Poor Connection was formed specifically to help in the alleviation of poverty and its byproducts locally,  nationally, and globally.

Our mission is to 1) help those who live in poverty by raising and distributing monetary funds and other resources, to 2) address causes of poverty and provide remedy at the root levels, 3) work in partnership with local communities, non-governmental organizations (NGO’s), governmental agencies, social service agencies and key individuals in delivering key strategies and resources to help end poverty, and 4) on the global level, emulate organizations like the Millennium Promise, the Millennium Congregation and the anti-poverty strategies outlined in Professor Jeffrey Sach’s book; The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for our Time.

For further information regarding "The Poor Connection," please visit its website at www.poorconnection.org.

Greater New Haven Help Alliance:
Youth Connection

A Summary of our Youth Related Needs Assessment Findings:

During the fall of 2008 and winter of 2009, GNHHA completed a community needs assessment with help from volunteers at Church on the Rock, New Haven.  This needs assessment gave us important insight into the needs of our community and opportunities to create transformative impact through service. 

Challenges that We Exist to Overcome

Based on the insights of our community needs assessment we have targeted specific community characteristics that we seek to change.

NHHA seeks to change the future of New Haven and the communities where it serves, overcoming:

·         Widespread academic failure

·         Weak and broken families

·         Directionless youth

We Envision

Healthy communities where individuals and families strive to reach achievable goals in a safe and supportive environment; a place where healthy interdependence and responsive support structures nurture young people toward the realization of their full potential.

Values that Guide Our Service-

We believe in the shared responsibility to overcome the causes and effects of poverty in all its forms, fostering the realization of individual, family and neighborhood promise, extending to the glocal community.

We seek to make GNHHA a haven where life values are modeled in all that we do, with an emphasis on these characteristics:

• Dignity—each person and each family is valued and respect fosters an awareness of that value.
• Justice—those who are excluded from access and opportunity find ways to grow and reach their personal goals.
• Whole Person—we nurture the whole person including mind, body, community and spirit.
• Intrinsic Potential—individuals and families discover and reach the full capacity as contributors to the community.
• Cooperative Growth—mutual support across traditional boundaries and among diverse institutions is the norm.
• Excellence—a culture of personal and corporate excellence pervades our work and lifts our minds.