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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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GSOP’S NORTH STARS

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

A STATEMENT ON HUMAN RIGHTS

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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Sarah Jane Knoy, the Executive Director of the Granite State Organizing Project, will be retiring in 2026.

The GSOP Board of Directors, with some sadness, would like to announce that Sarah Jane Knoy, the Executive Director of the Granite State Organizing Project, will be retiring in 2026. GSOP was founded in 2002 and Ms. Knoy started as Lead Organizer for GSOP in 2007. She spent her first few years at GSOP rebuilding the membership base of faith communities and raising funds to add staff.

During her time with GOSP the organization has grown in size and strength, adding chapters in the Upper Valley, Concord and the Souhegan Valley to the original Manchester and Nashua hubs. Ms Knoy brought innovative leadership training models developed in Chicago to the Granite State as well as revitalizing GSOP’s commitment to grassroots organizing.

She was instrumental in bringing youth organizing into GSOP with the addition of Young Organizers United to our Manchester Chapter’s work. In several presidential cycles since 2008, GSOP faith leadership has met with all declared candidates that came though the Granite State to press for policies that treat everyone fairly and allow us all to thrive.

During the pandemic, Ms. Knoy supported dynamic adaptations to the crisis including a computer lab for high school youth suffering from isolation, community vaccine clinics and a weekly zoom check in with leaders from across the state.

In 2016 GSOP began voter education and outreach efforts in the lowest voter turnout areas of Manchester and Nahusa. In 2019, they created and spun off a sister organization, the Granite State Interfaith Action Fund, to expand voter outreach efforts.

GSOP collaborates with multiple partners to convene several statewide efforts including the Moral Economy Table and the Immigrant Solidarity Network (ISN). The ISN has held monthly vigils at the NH headquarters of ICE since 2017.

“ Ms. Knoy has been an inspiring leader and tireless organizer. Our transition team has been in place for several months, preparing for the changes to come. Recruiting began in the fall of 2025 and will continue until we find a candidate who will support our leadership and maintain our focus on the GSOP North Stars of building grassroots leadership, centering the voices of those most impacted, and winning real measurable improvements in ordinary peoples’ lives.”

Ms Knoy will stay on at GSOP until her successor is hired.

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