40 Influential Leaders - Maureen Beauregard

Maureen Beauregard
President and CEO of Easterseals NH

Easterseals NH serves more than 18,000 people across the state. Its staff of more than 1,300 people work with people in every age group and income level providing services including childcare, veteran’s services, vocational services, medical rehabilitation, substance misuse services and adult day programs.

The nonprofit is involved in all 10 counties and just about every NH community. Maureen Beauregard, president and CEO of Easterseals NH, is working to amplify the organization’s good deeds and clarify its critical role in the Granite State.

“We are here for people of all abilities and disability, and we are here for all people of all income streams,” she adds. “Last year we gave away $8 million in free services.”

Easterseals NH is an affiliate of the 104-year-old Easterseals organization, which originally formed to help disabled children. These days, the NH affiliate continues to focus on children through childcare and early education services.

“A lot of people don’t know what Easterseals New Hampshire does because it has been around for such a long time,” she says. “We have grown our services to match the needs of the community.”

But its programs also serve disabled adults through day programs, residential homes and in-home support. Other programs support veterans or people struggling with substance misuse.

“Whoever walks in the door, we want to work with you,” Beauregard says. “That is how we operate.”

These are not easy times for nonprofits, and Easterseals is no different. Finding qualified staff and retaining the ones they have remains one of the group’s biggest challenges.

“People come to us with a need, and we need to be ready to fulfill it,” she says. “We will succeed, we will hire, and we will get this done. We will keep working it until we find a way to get it done.”

Beauregard joined the organization in 2019 after a long career in nonprofit work. In some ways, it fulfilled a lifelong dream. In the 1970s, Easterseals helped her sister learn to walk.

“That always stuck with me,” Beauregard says. “I thought that at some point in my life I wanted to be here, and I feel very blessed to be able to do that.”