VBSR Member Businesses Partner on Local Plastic Film Recycling Program
As the production of single-use plastic increases, many businesses want to do their part by contributing to recycling efforts for hard to recycle items, including plastic #4 low-density polyethylene (LDPE), also known as plastic film. In 2017 alone, the United States produced 8 billion tons of LDPE. Currently, there is no curbside or pick-up recycling […]
Common Good Vermont hosts 2021 Nonprofit Summer Camp
Common Good Vermont hosts 2021 Nonprofit Summer Camp South Burlington, VT: Common Good Vermont, a recently merged program of United Way of Northwest Vermont, will offer its annual Nonprofit Summer Camp in a virtual format this year on July 28 and August 11. Leaders of all levels from Vermont nonprofits are invited to participate […]
VSECU, FEDERAL HOME LOAN BANK OF BOSTON PARTNER TO GIVE $50,000 IN NONPROFIT GRANTS
Eight Vermont nonprofits receive funding to create jobs and provide important community services MONTPELIER, VT—VSECU distributed $50,000 in grants to eight Vermont nonprofits significantly impacted by COVID-19. The $5,000 and $10,000 grants will help preserve and create job opportunities, support local economic development, and further important community services. The grants are funded by Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston’s Jobs for New England Recovery Grant program. The […]
Small Business Member Spotlight: Outpatch
Outpatch is a Vermont-based and veteran-owned company with the goal of using the tourism industry to increase funding to local nonprofits. Launched in February 2021, they sell stick-on patches that represent specific communities and donate 50% of the proceeds to nonprofits supporting those communities. Founder Henry Rosario left the Army in 2017 to pursue humanitarian service. […]
Small Business Member Spotlight: QOR360
QOR360 has set out to change how the world sits – including kids. “Sitting is the new smoking” is an often-heard mantra espoused by epidemiologists, human resource professionals and others concerned with the overall health of our world’s desk-bound peoples. QOR360’s mission is to help ameliorate this sitting disease by bringing active sitting into the […]
Capstone Community Action Exceeds Fundraising Goal for Fuel Your Neighbors
Capstone Community Action Exceeds Fundraising Goal for Fuel Your Neighbors A campaign providing emergency food and heating assistance for central Vermonters this winter (Barre, VT) Capstone Community Action’s Fuel Your Neighbors campaign, in partnership with VSECU, exceeded its fundraising goal by raising $300,000 to support emergency food and heating assistance to vulnerable Vermonters, surpassing the […]
VBSR Board Member Launches Healing and Social Justice Enterprise
Plainfield, VT — Rae Carter, a cancer and trauma survivor, announces the launch of EmpowR, a healing and social justice enterprise centered in co-creating personal and cultural transformation. Services and educational programs are designed to empower and affect heart-centered change in our personal lives and cultures to make space for healthier bodies and a more […]
Casella Honors Sustainability Leaders
CASELLA WASTE SYSTEMS RECOGNIZES SUSTAINABILITY LEADERS Eight customers honored across seven areas of excellence RUTLAND, VT – (February 25, 2021) Casella Waste Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CWST) is pleased to announce that eight of its customers were recently honored for their leadership in sustainability at the inaugural Casella Sustainability Leadership Award Ceremony. The customers were […]
