Meet Fair Tide’s Board of Directors!
Fair Tide’s Board of Directors is a vital part of our organization that helps strategize and guide our work while ensuring fiscal responsibility. We recently asked each of our board members a couple of questions to find out what Fair Tide means to them. Board Chair,...
Fair Tide’s Work Beyond the Seacoast
Everything we do here at Fair Tide centers around our mission of improving the lives of individuals and families in the Seacoast region. Whether it be securing housing for a family experiencing homelessness, providing financial relief for those impacted by the...
Strategic Growth Plan Three Year Progress: Boulders Can’t Stop Us
To say that 2020 was a tough year is to state the painfully obvious. When I look back on Fair Tide’s 12 month journey I see a rocky trail with boulders so large it’s hard to tell where we started. Yet, here we are, standing strong at the finish line which has...
Two Life Changing Gifts
There’s no denying that the impact of this pandemic has been far reaching. For many, it has been a true test of resiliency and grit in the face of job loss, overdue bills, food pantry lines, and unrelenting stress. For others it has been a time of reflection and...
Re-Opening the Thrift Store: More than Just a Reason to Shop
It’s been three months since we closed the doors of the Fair Tide thrift store in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. More specifically, it’s been 13 weeks, or 91 days, or 728 hours, but who’s counting? While we have certainly missed seeing all our regular shoppers,...
Checking Your Privilege During A Pandemic
In our previous blog post we shared the reality that Americans living paycheck to paycheck would be the hardest hit by the financial fallout of this virus. We wanted to dig a little deeper into the idea that COVID-19’s far reaching impact does not offer a uniform...
COVID-19: Getting & Giving Help
By the time this pandemic has subsided, there won’t be a single individual who has been spared from the impact. Let’s be clear, though, some will be harder hit than others. According to The Federal Reserve’s 2018 Survey of Household Economics and Decision Making, 4...
How You Can Maximize the Benefits of Your Thrift Store Donation
The Fair Tide Thrift Store consists entirely of inventory that has been donated by our wonderful community members. Some donations are the result of entire weekends spent ‘Spring cleaning’ attics and basements, or organizing closets and drawers between seasons. Others...
Strategic Plan Update, Year Two: Growth Is Not Always Linear
Last year, around this time, I wrote a blog post that provided a check-in on progress made in year one of our strategic growth plan. As the article suggests, we had some serious momentum going into 2019 and while we definitely ended the year further along than we...
Tax Credit Advisor: Featuring Kittery!
Correction: The article indicates that Fair Tide is based out of Portland, Maine while in fact, we are, and always have been based in Kittery.