The New Hampshire Campaign for Legal Services reported that 2022 was its most successful fundraising year ever, with businesses, organizations and individual donating over than $457,000.

The NH Campaign for Legal Services is the joint fundraising effort for New Hampshire’s two civil legal aid organizations, 603 Legal Aid and NH Legal Assistance. Each program works primarily in the areas of housing (eviction, foreclosure and property tax deeding); domestic violence and family law (protective orders, divorce, and parenting rights and responsibilities) and public benefits (disability, unemployment). The programs also have several special projects, such as 603 Legal Aid’s Low-Income Taxpayer Project and NHLA’s Justice in Aging Project.

For the 2023 campaign, Megan Hilson of Exeter, in-house counsel at Brady Sullivan Properties, will be chair, and Ned Sackman of Concord, a shareholder at the Bernstein Shur law firm, will chair the 2023 Campaign Kickoff Breakfast.

The Campaign Kickoff Breakfast will be held on Friday, May 5, at the DoubleTree by Hilton in downtown Manchester. The keynote address will be from recently retired NHLA Housing Project Director Elliott Berry, who will be receiving the seventh annual John E. Tobin Jr. Justice Award. Tickets can be purchased at nhcls.org