Economy & Business

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.

Tripp Muldrow: Burlington Downtown Retail Market Analysis 11/03/2011

Tripp Muldrow: Burlington Downtown Retail Market Analysis

David White, Director of Planning and Zoning: Burlington, Downtown and Waterfront Plan 11/03/2011

David White, Burlington Director of Planning and Zoning, talks about the Downtown and Waterfront Plan.

Bilingual Burlington Bilingue - Classe 4 - Fall 11/03/2011

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.

Common Good Vermont: John Killacky on Challenges Facing the Arts & Lessons in Leadership 11/02/2011

Common Good Vermont's Lauren-Glenn Davitian speaks John Killacky, Executive Director of the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts on raising funds in tough times, lessons in leadership, rethinking the arts and the blessings of mucking pony stalls.

Local Media Show: Digital Media at a Cross Roads in VT 11/01/2011

CCTV's Lauren-Glenn Davitian brings new media resources to the table for discussion and reflects on the implications of the fast moving, digital media that promises while it threatens our community and family life.

Common Good Vermont: Nonprofit Maven TV: Coaching for Success 10/28/2011

Common Good Vermont's Lauren-Glenn Davitian speaks Susan Palmer of Susan Palmer Consulting. Susan Palmer provides leadership development services through a series of structured conversations designed to help professionals achieve more of the results they seek. Coaching helps a leader make more powerful, informed choices and take more decisive action. Coaching topics are determined by the client and might include: strengthening management and decision-making skills; enhancing self-awareness, confidence and authenticity; expanding communication skills; improving time management; deepening leadership “presence;” clarifying action plans; and increasing job satisfaction by enjoying a healthier work/life balance.

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St. Michael's College: James K. Galbraith - Inequality, Instability, and the Great Financial Crisis 10/27/2011

As part of St. Michael's College Sutherland Lecture Series, James K. Galbraith, Ph.D, Lloyd M. Bentsen Chair in Government and Business Relations and Professor of Economics at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, will speak on 'Inequality, Instability, and the Great Financial Crisis. Mr. Galbraith's latest book is 'The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too.

Positively Vermont: Energize Vermont - Lukas Snelling 10/24/2011

Host Dennis McMahon talks with Lukas Snelling of Energize Vermont. The mission of ENERGIZE VERMONT is to educate and advocate for establishing renewable energy solutions that are in harmony with the irreplaceable character of Vermont, and that contribute to the well-being of all her people.
We achieve our mission by researching, collecting, and analyzing information from all sources; and disseminating it to the public, media, community leaders, legislators, and regulators for the purpose of ensuring informed decisions for long term stewardship of our communities.

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!