Doug Hall honored for Board Service

Doug Hall received the 2023 Board Impact Award from the New Hampshire Center for Nonprofits on April 11 in a ceremony at the Bank of New Hampshire Stage. In her presentation of the award, Kathleen Reardon of the Center for Nonprofits, quoted former BCNH board chair, Tilak Niroula, who said Doug “consistently displays our organizational values of humanitarianism, honesty, and public service.”

Reardon went on to explain that sixty-six years ago, Doug went to Nepal as a Peace Corps volunteer and learned Nepali.  He has been volunteering ever since.  When Nepali-speaking refugees from Bhutan arrived in New Hampshire, Doug welcomed them, published a dictionary for them, and in 2009, became an incorporator of their nonprofit self-help association, the Bhutanese Community of  New Hampshire. When that organization broadened its mission in 2017 and became Building Community in New Hampshire, Doug joined the board, saved the organization from near collapse in 2018, and led it to new levels of service to refugees from Bhutan, Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Afghanistan and Ukraine.  Doug retired from the board in December.

The photo shows Doug, left, with Executive Director Rick Minard.

Watch Doug’s moving acceptance speech and call to action here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1dYwzj3yEw&list=PLiFxncbFUUqQu3itPsHlrYKFfMMBK2R6P