About Us Easter Seals provides exceptional services to ensure that all people with disabilities or special needs and their families have equal opportunities to live, learn, work and play in their communities.

Easter Seals NH includes NH, VT, ME, RI, NY, Coastal Fairfield County, CT and the Harbor Schools programs in Massachusetts. It is recognized as the most progressive and diverse Easter Seals nationally.

In 2010, we touched the lives of more than 23,000 individuals of all ages and provided $4.1 million dollars in free and reduced-price services to children and adults in need. Click here to review our financials.

At 22 New Hampshire locations, Easter Seals employs and contracts with more than 1,400 people. Click here for a list of our locations.

For more than 26 years, the National Health Council ranked Easter Seals first among its members for the percentage of program dollars spent on direct client services. Also, every penny raised stays in New Hampshire to benefit Granite State residents. Business New Hampshire magazine recently named Easter Seals NH the 2010 Non-Profit Business of the Decade. Click here to read more of Easter Seals NH's achievements.

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How We Started

Tragedy Leads to Inspiration - The Easter Seals Story

In 1907, Ohio-businessman Edgar Allen lost his son in a streetcar accident. The lack of adequate medical services available to save his son prompted Allen to sell his business and begin a fund-raising campaign to build a hospital in his hometown of Elyria, Ohio. Through this new hospital, Allen was surprised to learn that children with disabilities were often hidden from public view. Inspired by this discovery, in 1919 Allen founded what became known as the National Society for Crippled Children, the first organization of its kind. Click here for more of the Easter Seals Story Click here for the history of Easter Seals in New Hampshire