What's New
Reports from recent VCRD facilitated processes:Values, Vision and Unification in Addison Northwest Supervisory Union. This report synthesizes the discussion from public forums in the Addison NW Supervisory Union on the Renewal of Public Education for the 21st Century. The inputs were presented to the ANWSU Board, the School Boards of the Supervisory Union, and the people of the five communities that make up the union: Addison, Ferrisburgh, Panton, Vergennes, and Waltham as they prepare for a vote on whether to unify their school boards.
Job Creation and Retention Platform. Vermont Economic Development Partners worked together to identify doable, cost-effective and measured ways to advance economic activity that will create jobs and that can be initiated in the short term. This diverse group identified key recommendations for Vermont leaders to consider this year.
Vermont Regional Food Centers Collaborative: Advancing Food Systems through Learning, Planning and Action. This 2009 platform paper outlines the challenges, vision, goals, and workplan in support Vermont farms and local agriculture economies with contact information of the collaborative members and their service areas.
Moving Vermont Agriculture Forward: Strategic Initiatives Report. A report of two initiatives (Branding and Marketing, and Business Development) that emerged through a strategic planning process designed to advance farm businesses and agricultural enterprises in Vermont.
VCRD wraps up its 2-year Council on the Future of Vermont (CFV) project. The CFV final report: Imagining Vermont: Values and Vision for the Future is a reflection of the 18 months of listening to Vermonters and is a call to all Vermonters and decision-makers to act toward specific targets for the future of agriculture, education, infrastructure and civic life.
Final Report on the Summit on the Future of Vermont is available! Click here to read the Summit report.
VCRD's Council on the Future of Vermont presents: VERMONT IN TRANSITION - a comprehensive trend-line analysis of the past two decades in Vermont. This research, written by the Center for Social Science Research at Saint Michael's College, is a contribution to the deliberations of the CFV.
Click HERE for the Table of Contents.
The Young Writers Project, Council on the Future of Vermont and the Northfield
Savings Bank winners of the 2008 ‘Future of Vermont’ Writing Contest. Read the essays.
Champlain Islands Business. VCRD worked with Island residents as part of its Creative Communities Program*
Shoreham residents voting their priorities in a Community Visit meeting.
*Photo courtesy of Michael Levine.
