January 31, 2012 – 4:32 pm
Want to learn about how the federal health care law will impact our transition to universal health care? VPIRG is hosting an interactive webinar focused on how the federally-required health benefit exchange fits into our path to universal, affordable health care access. I’ve spent a lot of time on the road in recent months, talking [...]
January 27, 2012 – 4:48 pm
Rachel Jolly of Vermont Works For Women asked us to spread the word about their newest recruitment: The Building and Construction Trades Council and Vermont Works for Women are offering Step Up to Green Electrical and Plumbing; an eight week, co-ed, pre-apprenticeship course with a sustainability focus. Starting in early March, this course will prepare [...]
January 25, 2012 – 5:33 pm
The United Way of Chittenden County is in search of a new Resource Development Director. Under the direction of the Executive Director, the Resource Development Director will be responsible for the day-to-day management, expansion, and overall coordination of the entire range of United Way fundraising activities including: annual campaign; new business development; major gifts; planned [...]
January 24, 2012 – 1:41 pm
This recent Johns Hopkins Study finds nonprofit sector leading in national job growth! The report states “Nonprofits have been playing an unprecedented role during the current recession by responding to increased demands for services and have had to unfairly operate with a lack of access to equity funding, limits on the ability to lobby for government contract business and other negative policy shortfalls.”
January 24, 2012 – 12:15 pm
Thanks to Kathy Jones of Planned Parenthood of Northern New Englandfor sharing this job opportunity with Common Good Vermont. Have something you’d like to share with Vermont’s nonprofit community? Get in touch Coordinator@CommonGoodVT.org, 802.862.1645 x21 The Grass Roots Organizer (GRO) will cultivate and manage activists and volunteers, raise public awareness of women’s health issues and [...]
January 24, 2012 – 11:24 am
From the Twitter Feed @SevenDaysJobs. Have something you’d like to share with Vermont’s nonprofit community? Get in touch – Coordinator@CommonGoodVT.org, (802) 862 – 1645 ext. 21 Vermont Legal Aid seeks a full-time advocate in its Health Care Ombudsman Project located in Burlington. Responsibilities include: investigating and resolving complaints and questions from Vermonters regarding health insurance [...]
January 15, 2012 – 11:15 am
More than 2,700 people shared their priorities for the year with Senator Bernie Sanders in the last Vt. Bernie Buzz poll. The most significant economic downturn since the Great Depression continues to dominate the issues. More than one in three people, or 36 percent, said jobs and the economy were their top concerns. And more [...]
January 2, 2012 – 9:17 am
Three years after the start of the Great Recession, the gap between Vermont’s wealthiest and everyone else had widened, and thousands of Vermonters had sunk into poverty, according to a new report released by Public Assets Institute today. The governor’s goal of rebuilding the middle class is an important start, but Montpelier must begin to create a state that works for everybody, the report says.
November 4, 2011 – 10:49 am
Reported by The Chronical of Philanthropy, Professionals for NonProfits just released an important study on the job satisfaction of nonprofit workers in New York and Washington. Two reports released Monday show a disconnect between what nonprofits provide to their workers and what employees say is essential to their job satisfaction. Seventy percent of workers in [...]
November 2, 2011 – 11:48 am
The Nonprofit Quarterly’s Rick Cohen posted this great article on new data that underscores the value of the national nonprofit sector. Based on an analysis of four years of federal government data on tens of thousands of nonprofit, for-profit, and government employers, there are some important and startling findings about employment trends in the nonprofit [...]
