Tag Archives: human services

Walter Cerf Community Fund Awards More Than $115,000

November 7, 2011 – 10:20 am

MIDDLEBURY, VT – The Walter Cerf Community Fund, a component fund of the Vermont Community Foundation, announced 2011 grant awards totaling $115,823 to 40 organizations. Since 2001, the fund has made grants to organizations located in Addison County or Brandon, or that have a statewide reach and make a unique contribution to Vermont. Priority interests [...]

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Benchmarks for A Better Vermont (BBVT) Jumpstarts VT Capacity Building

October 13, 2011 – 6:00 pm

Small to midsize nonprofit organizations across Vermont will make a leap forward in the area of performance measurement over the next two years. A $200,000 federal grant to Marlboro
College’s Benchmarks for a Better Vermont (BBVT) program is targeted to help nonprofitsdevelop specific ways to gather data and assess the impact of their work.

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Job Alert: HowardCenter Job Fair

September 14, 2011 – 10:07 am

Visit the Howard Center Job Fair on September 29! The Howard Center Job Fair will be held Thursday, September 29 from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm at HowardCenter’s Administration building (208 Flynn Avenue in Burlington). Staff recruiters will be available to discuss full and part-time positions as well as assist in the on-line application process. [...]

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Watch it Now – The Truth: A Young Adult Prespective on Alcohol & Drugs

August 3, 2011 – 11:26 am

Click play on the screen below to watch the full 54:04 video recording The Vermont Young Adult Advisory Team (YAAT), a statewide team of 18-29 years olds, undertook a project to create and produce a video of young adults talking to other young adults about their personal experiences with alcohol and drug abuse. For more [...]

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Watch it Now: NPO Profile – Lund Family Center

June 1, 2011 – 9:36 am
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Melinda Moulton speaks with  Barbara Rachelson, Executive Director of the Lund Family Center about the work of the organization, success stories and challenges facing the nonprofit sector. Annually serving more than 4,000 individuals throughout the State of Vermont, Lund Family Center is Vermont’s oldest and largest private non-profit adoption agency Press play on the screen [...]

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United Way of Chittenden County Names New Executive Director

April 19, 2011 – 7:12 pm

Common Good Vermont is so pleased to share this news! Martha Maksym, of Grand Isle, will replace the retiring executive director of the United Way of Chittenden County, Gretchen Morse. The director of the nonprofit’s board, Don Rendall, announced the hiring Tuesday morning. Rendall said, “We reviewed over sixty applications and interviewed a pool of [...]

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Job Alert: VT 2-1-1 Seeks Regional Resource Specialist Manager.

April 6, 2011 – 11:04 am

MaryEllen Mendl, Director of Vermont 2-1-1, shared this job opening 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 ext. 21 Vermont 2-1-1, a statewide telephone Information and Referral program of the United Ways of Vermont, is seeking a full time [...]

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Watch Now – Senate Appropriations: Doug Racine, AHS – 03/15/2011

March 23, 2011 – 11:48 am
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Courtesy of The Capital Beat – The Senate Appropriations Committee hears testimony on Gov. Shumlin’s proposed FY2012 Budget regarding the Agency of Human Services. Testifying is Doug Racine, Secretary of AHS. Recorded 3/15/11.

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Watch Now – Anti-Hunger Advocacy Hunger Councils

March 23, 2011 – 11:32 am
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Dorigen Keeney, Program Director of Hunger Free Vermont, Erik Filkorn and Eileen Eliot, Co-Chairs of Chittenden County Hunger Council talk about anti-hunger advocacy and the role that the Hunger Councils play in advocating for policy that helps end hunger.

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This Week’s Hearings from the VT Legislature

February 18, 2011 – 6:29 pm

Stay on top of the Vermont Legislature with video coverage of  the week of February 14th from our friends at Capitol Beat (ORCA Media in Montpelier): Vermont House Appropriations Committee: Natural Resources Vermont House Appropriations Committee: Environmental Conservation Vermont Senate Finance Committee: Folding Catamount into VHAP

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