Vermont Public Interest Research and Education Fund
To design and run a virtual canvass in response to the COVID-19 crisis.
To design and run a virtual canvass in response to the COVID-19 crisis.
To hire a professional facilitator to train up to fourteen senior and junior staff on facilitation skills.
To rebuild both the operational system for the NESCAUM website as well as design a new visual presentation for the site.
To install and train staff on the use of a new software system that would integrate financial management and program monitoring for sixteen funded projects across the organization.
To develop an outreach plan designed to diversify and expand NRCM’s membership to include rural communities, younger advocates, immigrants, and communities of color.
To train board and staff on donor fundraising and development planning, provide coaching for the executive director, and provide training for the director of regulatory affairs.
With partners in the Blueprint Initiative, to provide emergency technical assistance to up to 160 small-scale farmers and food entrepreneurs across New England.
To support the Farmer Emergency Fund and Relief Milking Program, advocate to ensure access to healthy food for all Vermonters during the pandemic, and provide technical assistance to help farmers find new markets for their products during the crisis.
To enable the partners in the New England Food System Planners’ Community of Practice to increase staff capacity in areas such as communications, outreach, policy advocacy, administration, and fundraising during this public health emergency, and to support VSJF in its…
To support Vermont’s immigrant farmworkers during this public health emergency, and to advocate to ensure all “essential workers” in Vermont’s agricultural sector are protected and supported regardless of immigration status.