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VYCC Supports BHW Park Project at the Archive Building

Photos by Jim Lockridge. Big “THANKS!!!!” to the Vermont Youth Conservation Corps and the VYCC crew that spent this week improving our L.S. Gordon Store “Creamery Park” project. The L.S. Gordon Store in Starksboro was built in 1907 and is being gradually restored to its original condition while we create a scenic overlook adjoining it. The [...] More...

Who Wants Grantsmanship Training?

What do you think? Partnering with the Central Vermont Community Action Council, Common Good Vermont has been offered the opportunity to host the nationally recognized Grantsmanship Training Program for Vermont’s nonprofit community. We’d like to find out if you are likely to attend this training opportunity. Please answer these quick questions. The [...] More...

VCF Grantseeker Forum on 8/5 in Brattleboro

From our friends at the Vermont Community Foundation: Staff, board members, volunteers, and supporters of Vermont nonprofit organizations are cordially invited to attend a Grantseeker Forum sponsored by the Vermont Community Foundation and hosted by the Brattleboro Retreat (Education Conference Center) on Thursday, August 5th from 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Come meet [...] More...

37th Annual Vermont Mozart Festival

Words by Julie Seger The Vermont Mozart Festival has come to define summertime for Vermonters. Running July 18th through August 8th this year, the festival celebrates the 200th anniversary of the birth of Frederic Chopin (1810-1849). Both of Chopin’s piano concertos and many of [...] More...

America’s Giving Challenge 2009 Assessment and Reflection Paper

Allison Fine and I, along with my Zoetica colleague Geoff Livingston have completed the  assessment and reflection paper for 2009 America’s Giving Challenge for the Case Foundation.   This is Case Foundation’s second online competition that encouraged people to leverage their social networks to raise money and awareness and recruit supporters for the causes they care [...] More...

Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy: 2011 Grant Program

The Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy is accepting applications for its annual national grant competition. The grantmaking program is designed to help develop or expand projects that support the development of literacy skills for adult primary care givers and their children. To be eligible for funding, the applicant organization must have nonprofit or public [...] More...

Fieldstone Foundation Supports Big Heavy World Outreach Effort

The Fieldstone Foundation of Stow, MA has awarded Big Heavy World a $2,000 grant to support our community outreach work. Big Heavy World is staffed by volunteers, and the Fieldstone Foundation support will help us build a crew and radio station programming staff that better reflects Burlington’s diverse community. We’re very grateful for the support [...] More...

Make a Difference with Project Management

Are we the only nonprofit with a heart and mission that is bigger than our capacity to deliver? Sure, we do “more with less”—but isn’t that really because we don’t manage our time and resources in a SMART way? We convince ourselves we are doing good work, but are we making a difference? And [...] More...

Lodestar Foundation 2011 Collaboration Prize

Thanks to Glenn McRae at the Intervale Foundation for alerting us to this funding opportunity: The Lodestar Foundation is accepting applications for the 2011 Collaboration Prize, a $250,000 national award designed to identify and showcase models of collaboration among nonprofit organizations that are working toward achieving a social good. The prize recognizes collaborations that [...] More...

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