About Us
The idea that built the Crotched Mountain Foundation has lived on for a century.
Since its inception, Crotched Mountain Foundation, one of New England’s most iconic non-profit organizations, has worked towards one goal: helping children, students, and adults with disabilities to live, learn, and thrive in the community.
Our programs include Crotched Mountain Community Care case management services for seniors and adults with disabilities, chronic illness, and needs related to aging throughout New Hampshire, community-based residential living options, innovative day programming for people with disabilities, affordable HUD housing for adults, accessible hiking trails, and CMF Kids, which supports community-based special education programming in local school districts.
Crotched Mountain’s impact reaches throughout New Hampshire and beyond.
Our Mission
Creating opportunities for children and adults with disabilities and chronic conditions to live, learn, and thrive in their own communities.
Our Vision
An equitable, accessible, and inclusive world
Our Values
Compassion
Exercising empathic concern for the well-being of all
Equity and Inclusion
Embracing fairness, regardless of ability
Independence
Championing individual autonomy
Integrity
Acting with the highest ethical standards
The History of Crotched Mountain
Harry Alan Gregg, founder of the Crotched Mountain Foundation, was born in 1883. His love for children inspired him to start a program in Nashua where he arranged for host families to take poor children into their homes for the summer. This idea soon expanded and Gregg established a camp for children on Crotched Mountain.
Once Gregg established the children’s camp, he met Ezra Jones, MD, who was working to rehabilitate World War I veterans with war injuries. Jones was the first orthopedic doctor in New Hampshire. Together, they founded the New Hampshire Society for Crippled Children in 1936. The Society publicized the need for more extensive treatment programs for people with disabilities, lobbied for favorable legislation and carried on mobile rehabilitation clinics around the state.
Crotched Mountain opened its doors in 1953. The hallmark of its near 60-year history has been an ability to adapt to meet the needs of many populations, many of whom have unique challenges and disabilities.
Though Harry A. Gregg died in 1972, his vision for Crotched Mountain is still guides our work to this day - to create a lifelong alliance to people with disabilities.
