How the Personal Becomes Professional: Unconscious Bias in the Workplace
Everyone is talking about unconscious bias and how it is inevitable. That is a scary idea for those of us who try so hard to be “bias free”. Just because it’s inevitable, doesn’t mean that we can’t do something about it. Join Tabitha Moore and VBSR for an Implicit Bias Training where we will explore […]
VBSR Virtual Workshop: Measuring Your Impact
Click here to register for this workshop Join VBSR for a webinar-style workshop discussing strategies and innovative examples for measuring your company or organization’s socially responsible impact. Hear from five leading Vermont businesses who will share their experiences creating triple bottom line (People, Planet, Prosperity) business metrics, developing annual impact and mission reports, and […]
VBSR’s 2020 Legislative Breakfast
Click here to register With the new biennium just around the corner, join VBSR members, politicians, lobbyists, and state officials in celebrating the upcoming session with digital networking and policy discussion on the morning of Wednesday, December 16. Hear from incoming Senate Pro Tem Becca Balint on her hopes for the session, celebrate our legislator […]
Virtual Workshop: Building Better Businesses – Community & Sustainability
Click here to register Join VBSR for an interactive virtual workshop that will dive into the Investing in Your Community, Transportation, and Greening Your Organization sections of our recently developed Better Businesses Toolkit! You’ll hear from three member businesses about their socially responsible community giving and environmental policies and initiatives, while getting the chance […]
Virtual Workshop: Building Better Businesses – People & Culture
Click here to register Join VBSR for an interactive virtual workshop that will dive into the People & Culture, Employee Benefits, and Family Friendliness sections of our recently developed Building Better Businesses Toolkit! You’ll hear from three member businesses about their socially responsible human resource policies and initiatives and get the chance to discuss […]
The Transportation & Climate Initiative: Opportunities and Updates
Click here to register Transportation represents a whopping 44.5% of Vermont’s total greenhouse gas emissions. Fortunately, our state has an opportunity to transform our outdated transportation system by participating in the Transportation & Climate Initiative—a regional effort to put a cap on transportation-sector emissions across the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states and reinvest the proceeds […]
19th Annual VBSR Awards Ceremony
Click Here to Register VBSR is pleased to honor three outstanding individuals and organizations who are pushing new ideas and initiatives forward, leading by outstanding example, and developing successful socially responsible business models. Our 19th Annual Award Ceremony will take place virtually and will recognize our three awardees: Dave Barash (1955 – 2020) […]
E.P.I.C. Education Series
Click here to register for the E.P.I.C. Education Series Following the success of the E.P.I.C. Education Series in 2020, VBSR and Abundant Sun are pleased to announce the launch of the second cohort of our E.P.I.C. Education Series! E.P.I.C. is short for Ethical Performance Improvement Campaign, which we have designed to help organizations […]
Seeing and Disrupting Racism: A Focus on White Fragility
Join VBSR and Peace & Justice Center for an interactive virtual workshop for Vermont business and organization leaders, exploring racism and white fragility. This two-hour introductory-level workshop will define racism and white fragility, explore how white fragility perpetuates racism, and provide ways to disrupt that cycle. While the workshop was developed for predominantly white audiences, […]
VBSR Webinar: Where Our Food Grows – Farmers’ & Producers’ Path to Recovery
Click here to register for this webinar. Before COVID-19, Vermont’s agricultural sector was simultaneously at the heart of Vermont’s cultural & economic identity and facing a crisis brought on by global market forces, demographic shifts away from rural communities, and looming effects of climate change. Now in the middle of a pandemic that […]
