About AHEAD

Board of Directors and Staff

Affordable Housing, Education and Development (AHEAD) Inc. is a community-based housing development organization dedicated to strengthening families by helping them build and preserve assets for the future. We understand that stable families, and particularly homeowners, are the backbone of a vital community and that safe, warm affordable homes, family resources, and financial assets are essential tools for strengthening families and communities. Since 1991, AHEAD has lived its mission by providing safe, affordable rental housing, family support and financial education to thousands of rural northern New Hampshire families residing in Coös and northern Grafton Counties. We are governed by a ten-member board of Directors and have a staff of seven full-time professionals.

In 1998 AHEAD became a chartered member of NeighborWorks® America, which is a national non-profit organization created by Congress in 1978 to provide technical support and training for community-based revitalization efforts. AHEAD part of a network of 240 similar organizations across the country who are chartered members of NeighborWorks® America.

AHEAD currently owns and operates 273 units of affordable multifamily rental housing in nine northern New Hampshire communities. We contract out 51 units to a third-party management company and co-own a for-profit management company which manages the remainder of our units plus another 1,150+ units in New Hampshire’s Upper Valley and portions of central and northeastern Vermont. We develop an average of 10 new affordable rental housing units per year using a combination of new construction and substantial rehabilitation.

AHEAD’s Mission:

AHEAD strives to strengthen communities in Coös and Northern Grafton counties by providing:

Access to and development of affordable rental housing

• Financial Education
• Homeownership opportunities
• with a primary focus on serving people of limited means in all stages of life.

AHEAD brings people home.