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Valley News COVID-19 support fund
Thank you! Our campaign has come to a close and the response was overwhelming. If you are looking to continue to support the Valley News and our local journalism during this crisis please subscribe to the Valley News in print and/or online, purchase an advertisement, or sign up for our daily newsl
U.V.E.R. – Consumer Co-op Delivery Service
U.V.E.R.-- the Upper Valley's first consumer co-op delivery service-- launched earlier this summer; now, we need your help raising $6,500 to fund two e-bikes. The e-bikes will be critical in the growth of U.V.E.R., allowing for more efficient deliveries in the heart of the Upper Valley and ensuring
The Karibbean Restaurant: Building a more welcoming and inclusive community through food
The Karibbean restaurant, based in Lebanon, NH, serves up fresh Haitian & Jamaican dishes every day. Owned and operated by Carline Roberge and Balvin Bowen, they also offer delicious food at the Lebanon Farmers Market and an arts & craft shop. "The Karibbean restaurant in Leba
The Christmas Revels: All Shall Be Well Again
Please consider supporting "The Christmas Revels: All Shall Be Well Again" as a crowdfunding sponsor. Your sponsorship of this film helps make free viewings of this film possible and creates work opportunities for those in the arts, including New Hampshire and Vermont artists, as "The Christmas Reve
The Christmas Revels Festival
Help keep the annual Christmas Revels tradition alive this December with a surprising, entertaining, and safe alternative for our community! Revels North asks for your support as we raise $20,000 to help finance The Christmas Revels Festival, December 17- 19 in downtown Lebanon, NH. This festival w
Sunapee Region ARTS ATLAS
We need your help to launch the new Sunapee Region Arts Atlas! Find out WHY this arts map will bring a collective voice to the cultural destinations throughout the Greater Sunapee Region below! The Sunapee Region Arts Atlas is a colorful, engaging Arts & Culture Asset Map that invit
Show White River Junction Some Love
White River Junction businesses create a resilient downtown that strengthens our village’s character. They have developed a strong, trusted network through years of collaboration on White River Junction First Fridays and, more recently, two-plus years of COVID-19 response. This network is now effect
Plants for People Project with Hillside Botanicals
Where it all started: Our journey started in 2016 as recent college graduates looking for meaningful ways to live in communion with a healthy planet and be of service to our community. So began a lot of study (think organic farming, herbal medicine, permaculture…), getting our hands in the soil,
Light the Nights at Whaleback: amp up your nighttime skiing and riding experience
We know and love night skiing and riding at Whaleback. More than 400 children in the Upper Valley learn to ski and ride after school in Whaleback’s educational programs each winter, and Whaleback is the primary training site for several youth alpine and freestyle training programs. Hundreds of y
Help Us Feed Friends By Feeding Foodie!
The Friends of Mascoma Foundation is committed to combating food insecurity in the Macoma Valley Regional School District (MVRSD) through our Friends Feeding Friends program. The program launched in February 2016 and has grown exponentially over the past few years. Friends Feeding Friends decrea
Help Support a Local Business: Peanuts Dog Treats – From Pop-Up to Permanent Shop
The Beginning Peanut stole our hearts the moment she was plopped into my arms on pick-up day. My fiancé and I treat her like gold and want the best of everything for her to ensure she lives a long, happy life. It was my fiancé's idea to begin making my own dog treats, and I quickly fell in lo
Food For Thought: The Growing Peace Project
If you’re looking to make change, this is the place to get started. The staff is so supportive and so enthusiastic about what YOU have to offer. If you have an opportunity to get involved in this project, jump on it. I would do it again in a second…. There are many different kinds of leaders. I thin
Closing the Food Waste Loop
At least 1/3 of household trash is compostable yet it ends up in the landfill! When food scraps go to the landfill they are compacted with other trash and break down anaerobically emitting greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere. Additionally, all the valuable nutrients that could be helping to
Close the Loop with Compost at Sunrise Farm!
In July 2020, Vermont’s Universal Recycling Law will go into effect for all Vermont residents. Organic waste — including an estimated 197.5 million pounds of edible food and food scraps, and leaf and yard debris, will no longer be accepted with the trash. This is an incredible opportunity to stop th
Building Community Through Food
Darryl Peasley was looking up used cider mills online when he got a call from his cousin, asking him what he thought about trying to make some cider. They hadn’t talked about it before that point. Call it coincidence or call it fate, so began one of Abenaki Helping Abenaki’s (AHA) first food securit
Boost Healthy Food Access in NH and VT
Everyone has a right to nutritious, healthy food. Northeast Organic Farming Association of New Hampshire (NOFA-NH) and Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont (NOFA-VT) both run successful Farm Share Programs that continue to grow and serve more and more people each year. These two progra
Base Lodge Energy Efficiency Updates
Whaleback Mountain, owned and operated by the Upper Valley Snow Sports Foundation (UVSSF), is a nonprofit entity with the mission to support and enhance an affordable, healthy, and sustainable snow sports experience in the Upper Valley of New Hampshire and Vermont. We first came together
Aurora Bakery Expansion
About Us Aurora Bakery is a retail shop on Main Street in Newport, NH and part of Road To Independence (RTI), a 501 (c) 3. The goal of RTI is to offer meaningful work experiences that enhance life skills valuable in all aspects of their lives. Since 2011, RTI has offered non-riding donkey, horti
A Vineyard in Vermont
We are part of a new wave of Vermont farmers, grape growers and wine makers who believe that wine is food and soil comes first. There's a small number of Vermont vineyards farming organically and biodynamically, earning a world-wide reputation for serious, sustainable farming techniques in cold clim
A Place to Plant the Seeds: The Sowing of Strange Blossom
Strange Blossom, is a world at your fingertips. Supporting ecofriendly lifestyles, products and goods. Connecting the community to human growth practices. Evoking creativity and expression. Spreading biodiversity and life. If you visit Strangeblossomvt.com you can see some of the people that are al
About Upper Valley
The Upper Valley of the Connecticut River is made up of thousands of visible and invisible networks of people working together.
Vital Communities works to strengthen those networks so that our region—69 distinct towns and cities spanning two states, with no single dominant metro area—can thrive. Our staff specializes in convening for change: bringing people together to size up and address our challenges. We have evolved as a hub of initiatives, resources, and working groups in such areas as business vitality, food and farming, energy, transportation, climate change, leadership, housing, and outdoor learning.