A Breath of Fresh Air at the Boys and Girls Club
BDCC joined forces with the Brattleboro Boys and Girls Club in 2021 with a Community Facilities Technical Assistance grant for a feasibility study looking at near-term building upgrades along with…
Helping Communities Move Projects Forward: The Community Assessment and Project Prioritization Process (CAPP)
Above: Halifax community members brainstorm during a breakout session during a community meeting on March 25, 2023| Photo: BDCC Staff Faced with unprecedented funding as part of COVID relief, many…
Putney Historical Society as Community Developer
Photo by Michael Herrick, via the Historical Marker Database (hmdb.org) Putney Town Hall to be PHS’s Third Building Project While many historical societies focus on archival collections and lectures about…
Emergency Department Expansion at Grace Cottage
In 1949 and 1953, two 1800s houses in Townshend were converted into a hospital connected to nursing home – a quintessential example of Vermont’s penchant for “continuous architecture.” This structure…
HatchSpace Expansion Focuses on Inclusivity in Woodworking as a Hobby and Career
In October 2021, HatchSpace reopened in its brand-new space at High Street and Green, a newly updated downtown building housing the woodworking makerspace as a key tenant, along with about…
Windham Solid Waste Receives Funding to Expand Composting Facility
The composting facility at Windham Solid Waste District is going strong. As the second-largest food scrap composting facility in Vermont, it has become a solid source of revenue for the…
Video series ‘plants seeds’ for home child care businesses
By Chris Mays From the Brattleboro Reformer BRATTLEBORO — A new video series delves into many of the questions that might pop up when considering the creation of a home-based…
Neighborhood Connections Unveils “Mountain Town Connector” Rural Transportation Service
Yesterday, Neighborhood Connections, one of BDCC's community partners in Londonderry, had an open house for their new "Mountain Town Connector" van service. BDCC has been working with Neighborhood Connections through…
Community Facilities Technical Assistance Program
Southeastern Vermont – The Brattleboro Development Credit Corporation is honored to announce another two years of funding for the Community Facilities Technical Assistance Program to help foster advance local projects.…
Continuing to help support our rural communities in partnership with USDA
Our Community Facilities Technical Assistance partnership with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development has continued strong into the Spring. Since September, the program has connected with 18…