Volunteering

AARP NH is proud to honor Vicki Laforet with the 2025 Andrus Award for Community Service, recognizing her extraordinary dedication to improving the lives of older adults through volunteerism, leadership, and innovation.

Welcome to the New Hampshire Retired Educators Association (NHREA) — your community of support, advocacy, and connection for life after the classroom.

AARP New Hampshire is pleased to recognize Iris Altilio, of Pembroke, as the 2024 recipient of the Andrus Award for Community Service which honors Granite Staters 50-plus who are sharing their experience, talent, and skills to enrich the lives of their community members.

Our volunteers are committed to the work we do for the Granite State’s 50-plus population and we can’t thank them enough. Simply put, we could not do everything we do without their help and dedication that manifests in ways that bring tangible impact to our 215,000 members throughout the Granite State!

Are you passionate about lifelong learning and helping others? AARP New Hampshire is seeking new volunteers for its Speakers Bureau.

With Valentine’s Day right around the corner, love is in the air!

Every election season, AARP advocates for the issues that are important to Granite Staters 50-plus. Our volunteers are our boots on ground at campaign events where they ask questions and get every candidate on the record about where they stand on the issues that matter the most to our members and all people age 50-plus.

Concord Television's Senior Speak NH September 2023 edition, hosted by AARP NH volunteer Karen Ulmer Dorsch, features AARP Volunteer State President Patrick McDermott.

“Our ‘active’ years were absorbed in the preliminaries of the business of living. Now, freed at last, we face the challenge of making a life rich in expression without friction and without futile desires. This existence today is life itself. …To savor the present, to squeeze out every bit of its flavor, its scent, its quality, to enjoy it is to live it to the full. It's folly to believe that tomorrow will be uniquely different from today. Today is ours! It will be significant as it is purposeful.”