Chris Donnelly, Director of Community Relations at the Champlain Housing Trust shared this news: Burlington, Vermont – Approximately 175 members attended the Champlain Housing Trust’s Annual Meeting Saturday, where three local affordable housing leaders were recognized for their many contributions to creating and sustaining affordable housing in communities throughout northwestern Vermont. Also recognized were four [...]
The Nellie Mae Education Foundation is the largest charitable organization in New England that focuses exclusively on education. The Foundation recently awarded $3.5 million in the form of a three-year grant to the Burlington and Winooski school districts in Chittenden County. The January 26, 2012 article below is courtesy of The Burlington Free Press, http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com [...]
The Pew Research Center for People and the Press issues this report on January 23, 2012. Economic issues continue to be the public’s highest priority as the 2012 State of the Union approaches. Fully 86% say that strengthening the economy should be a top priority for the president and Congress this year, and 82% rate [...]
On Tuesday, January 17th, Representative Suzi Wizowaty (D-Burlington) and Senator Anthony Pollina (P-Washington Co.) held a press conference to introduce three bills to re-state how lawmakers evaluate Vermont’s economy. Bill H.541/ S.237 calls on the legislature to use the Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI) instead of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as the tool to evaluate and [...]
People’s United Community Foundation, the philanthropic arm of People’s United Bank, announced today that it has awarded $2,335,300 to nonprofit organizations throughout its footprint, with $225,336 going to Vermont nonprofits, during the 2011 fiscal year. A total of 278 grants were awarded throughout the communities that People’s United Community Foundation serves in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New [...]
Carolyn Fox of the Vermont Community Foundation shared this info with Common Good Vermont. Upper Valley Strong is made up of 50 local nonprofit groups, churches, schools and government agencies. Granite United Way, NH Charitable Foundation and The Vermont Community Foundation recently announced that they’ve made a $75,000 commitment to supporting the work of Upper [...]
Rhonda Shippee, Community Programs Director for VT/NH DLT Program, recently shared this announcement with Common Good Vermont about $$584,011 in federal funding being made available to improve access to health care and education in Northern Vermont. Mandated by the United States Department of Agriculture Rural Development branch, the Distance Learning and Telemedicine Program (DLT) is [...]
Liz Schlegel of Central Vermont Community Action Council, passed along this interesting article originally published on the Chronicle of Philanthropy’s website, http://philanthropy.com November 18, 2011 Mark Rossenman Calling All Boomers: Don’t Start More Nonprofits Many people probably rejoiced when they heard about a study released last week showing that 12 million baby boomers want to [...]
Pulled from the website www.massnonprofit.org, November 28, 2011 Survey Shows this Still Is the Season of Giving November 28, 2011 — With the nation facing constrained economic growth for a third straight holiday season, 68% of Americans believe it’s important to give something to charity, according to a new American Red Cross poll. A telephone [...]
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Commentary: Nonprofits Have a Great Story to Tell
Todd Cohen offered this commentary on Inside Philanthropy, a blog on philanthropy and nonprofit news and issues that appears in The Philanthropy Journal. A crucial task for nonprofits struggling in the broken economy is to do a much better job talking about the essential role they play serving people and places in need. Through the stories they [...]