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2010-2011 CEDO AmeriCorps ProgramCEDO’s Center for Community and Neighborhoods (CCAN) invites non-profit organizations, educational institutions and city agencies interested in having a CEDO AmeriCorps*State or AmeriCorps*VISTA member to submit an application for the 2010-2011 service year. CCAN provides support to interested agencies in designing appropriate AmeriCorps projects. To request an application and for more information, please contact Beth Truzansky at btruzansky@ci.burlington.vt.us (802) 865-7178. Applications must be submitted electronically to Beth Truzansky btruzansky@ci.burlington.vt.us by 4:00 PM Monday, March 22nd, 2010. Briefly, the A*VISTA program places 20 members in
organizations to do capacity building work throughout
Burlington and occasionally in other areas of the state. For
more information, please click
here. To view the RFP, click
here.
The We All Belong AmeriCorps*State program places 25 full
and part-time members in agencies to do both direct service
and support the organization's cultural competence. The
placement of members is part of a technical assistance
package for partner organizations to evaluate, plan and make
changes within their agency to better serve Burlington's
changing demographic. A second information meeting has been
scheduled for Friday, February 19 from 9-10:30 am at the
Fletcher Free Library. For more information, please click
here. To view the RFP, click
here.
Attend Neighborhood Night of SuccessPlease mark your calendars for the 10th Annual Neighborhood Night of Success community dinner and awards ceremony, scheduled for Thursday, March 25, 2010 from 5:30 – 7:30 pm at Contois Auditorium, City Hall. This will be a celebration of people and businesses who make Burlington a great place to live, work and play. Join your neighbors for dinner, entertainment, and a program honoring all of this year's nominees. Thanks for saving the date and for planning to be a part of this celebration. For more info: Jenny Davis, 865-7172, jdavis@ci.burlington.vt.us. Burlington National Service Launch & Celebration held on September 17thThe National Service Launch and Celebration was held on Thursday, September 17th from 3:00 to 3:45 pm on the City Hall Steps at the Church Street Marketplace. The program included a keynote by Mayor Bob Kiss, members of Vermont’s Commission on National and Community Service, remarks from AmeriCorps Members, Alums, and supervisors, as well as the “swearing in” of our 70 new Members. The launch and celebration was the culminating event in a 3-day training for the 70 new A*Corps and VISTA members and 20 agency partners who will sponsor them. Mayor Kiss said, “For more than 16 years Burlington has been hard at work fostering volunteer efforts to address issues of poverty using VISTA Volunteers. The addition of ‘these new resources and volunteers provides Burlington with a great opportunity to tackle and solve some of Vermont’s most daunting problems. As of today, we’re on our way.” A video of the full program is available at: http://www.cctv.org/node/81988. It will be aired on CCTV Channel 17 on the following dates and times:
Thank You, Green Up Volunteers!Many, many, many thanks to all of you who came out on to help us on Green Up Day (May 2, 2009)! The day was a great success. The totals for the day: 469 volunteers, 534 bags of garbage collected, cleaned 60 graffiti tags, and cleaned 440 green-belts. Thanks to your great efforts, the City is now Green and ready for Spring! 5/14/09
Thank you to the nearly 400 people who made the Martin Luther King holiday a 'day on not a day off' in Burlington. People of all ages and abilities gathered at Burlington City Hall on Monday, January 19 for a Service Rally and then divided into teams for an afternoon of service projects. Some of the projects included: collecting canned food for the Chittenden Emergency Food Shelf, cleaning cars to be distributed by the Good News Garage, cleaning toys and painting furniture at the VNA family room and constructing benches at Lawrence Barnes Elementary School. Volunteers returned to City Hall to hear local activist and comedian, Oliver Barkley, followed by a free community dinner. The annual event finished with a performance by UVM's step team 'Urban Flava' and a performance of Dr. Seuss' 'The Sneaches' by youth theater troupe, 'Very Merry Theater.' The event was organized by CEDO's AmeriCorps*VISTA members with sponsorship from many local businesses. To view local press coverage go to:
1/23/09
All are welcome to the Old North End Community Dinners held the second Thursday of every month, 5:30 pm at the McClure Multi-Generational Center, 241 N. Winooski Avenue (next to the old Dairy Queen). FREE! For more information. call Charlie Giannoni at 660-9870. To donate food or help serve dinner, call Janet Hicks at 863-3860. 6/15/08 Burlington, VT Selected as a Learning Community with Every Day DemocracyBurlington was selected as a learning partner in the Communities Creating Racial Equity (CCRE) initiative due to the 2003 Racism Study Circles and for the vision behind this current project. The CCRE initiative works with nine cities nationally and is funded by the Mott and Kellogg Foundations and the National Study Circle Resource Center. While it does not provide funding in year one (grant money is a possibility in the future), it will provide us with extensive technical assistance, evaluation, and profile our work on this initiative throughout the United States. Link: http://www.everyday-democracy.org/en/index.aspx. 6/11/08 2007 Neighborhood Night of Success Slideshow
This is a slide show of neighborhood leadership award nominees...People
who make Burlington a great place!
This slideshow features individuals who were nominated for Neighborhood Leadership Awards for the 7th Annual Neighborhood Night of Success that was held on March 29, 2007. The people in this slideshow demonstrate the qualities that make Burlington such a special place to live, work and play. They deserve to be recognized for contributing to the beauty of this community. 4/15/07 |
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