Economy & Business

Bilingual Burlington Bilingue - Classe 6 - Fall 11/17/2011

Elementary Business French for downtown Burlington retail and hospitality workers. Intructor Kim Chase, teacher at Hunt Middle School in Burlington. A production of The Alliance Francaise of the Lake Champlain Region and the Church Street Marketplace Association. Underwritten by Ernie Pomerleau. For more information about this program and how to be involved email Steve Norman at: stevenorman@fastmail.fm or go to www.aflcr.org.

Burlington Wards 4 & 7 NPA Meeting 11/15/2011

Neighborhood Planning Assemblies (NPAs) are grassroots, neighborhood organizations that were established in each of Burlington's seven Wards to empower citizen participation in City government. Working as neighborhood advocacy groups, Neighborhood Planning Assemblies facilitate communication between the citizens of Burlington and city government through regular meetings scheduled in each Ward. Wards 4 & 7 meet the third Tuesday of the month. Meeting place: Robert E. Miller Community Center 130 Gosse Court.

Bilingual Burlington Bilingue - Classe 5 - Fall 11/10/2011

Common Good Vermont: Measuring Will Help Vermont Manage 11/10/2011

Recently released Census data are both a wake-up call and a gift for the Shumlin administration and the Legislature. A wake-up call because the statistics show that middle-income Vermonters are earning less and more of them are slipping into poverty—evidence that things are moving in the wrong direction for Vermonters. Jack Hoffman, of the Public Assets Institute, discusses the importance of using the Census data to rebuild the State of Vermont's system for measuring improvements in the delivery of vital human services and more.

Why Does the US Have a Global Empire? - Michael Parenti 11/10/2011

Micahel Parenti presents. Part of the Will Miller Social Justice Lecture Series. http://www.willmiller.org

The Will Miller Social Justice Lecture series brings speakers to the UVM campus and the Burlington community to provide a continuing program of radical analyses of social, ecological and political concerns. The series is dedicated to Will Miller, Vermont’s activist philosopher and UVM Philosophy Professor for 35 years.

Common Good Vermont: Nonprofit Maven TV: Nonprofit Sustainability Plan with Mike Spencer 11/09/2011

How can a small nonprofit organization attract the financial resources needed to ensure its survival? This question is common among Vermont nonprofits, and the urgency for an
answer is rapidly increasing as organizations scramble to compensate for cuts in grant funding and other sources of revenue. Common Good Vermont speaks with Mike Spencer, principal of The Spencer Group, to learn about his plan for small organizations to cost-effectively acquire new donors and achieve sustainability through individual giving.

Common Good Vermont: Nonprofit Maven TV: Vermont Captive Insurance Association 11/09/2011

Common Good Vermont's Lauren-Glenn Davitian speaks with Richard Smith, President of Vermont Captive Insurance Association, a member-based association whose mission is to educate, communicate, and advocate on behalf of the Vermont-domiciled captive insurance industry.

David White, Director of Planning and Zoning On Parking 11/08/2011

David White, Burlington Director of Planning and Zoning on Parking.

Common Good Vermont: Nonprofit Maven TV: You Get What You Measure 11/08/2011

Common Good Vermont's Lauren-Glenn Davitian speaks with Melissa Levy an Associate of Yellow Wood Associates, Inc. since 2003. Community economic development is about recognizing, preserving, and growing community wealth in all its forms: human, financial, social, ecological, and physical (infrastructure). Our dream is a world where communities can live well off the income from their combined wealth while investing regularly in themselves to counteract depreciation. Our work in capacity building speaks directly to human and Social wealth, our green community technologies service is all about physical and ecological wealth, and our feasibility studies and economic and fiscal impact analyses incorporate all these dimensions of Community economy. Development is effective when it contributes to community self-determination, security, and resilience, improves quality of life, unlocks creativity and reveals new choices. We believe material sufficiency, not maximization, is the goal for community economies.

Robert Huber Debate Tournament - Lowering the Drinking Age 11/04/2011

The Lawrence Debate Union is hosting the Robert Huber Debate Tournament, kicking off with a debate on lowering the drinking age. Robert Huber coached debate at UVM for over 40 years and this tournament remembers him. The Lawrence Debate Union at the University of Vermont was founded in 1899. It is currently one of the leading debating programs in the world, with competitive success at natinal and international levels.

Featured Story

CCTV Receives NEH Grant to Support Community Archives

CCTV Center for Media & Democracy is pleased to announce receipt of a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Humanities Collections and Reference Resources grant alongside 32 peer archival institutions across the country. This $49,927 grant award will support efforts to preserve and expand access to audio/visual community history materials in the CCTV Archives. Read more about this opportunity here!