Knowledge Bites: Data Resources for Your Town or Community Projects
In this webinar, Alison Peoples of Argonne National Laboratory will show us how to access new data resources developed with the needs of community and economic development practitioners in mind. From planning to grant applications, the National Economic Resilience Data Explorer (NERDE) is a powerful but easy-to-use tool that will get you right to the […]
Knowledge Bites Webinar: Hosting a Successful Internship at Your Community Organization
With Kristen Andrews, UVM Career Center How can your organization make the most of having an intern, while also providing a young Vermonter with valuable work experience? Kristen Andrews, UVM’s Internship Outreach and Engagement Professional, will share guidelines and pointers to help nonprofits and municipalities define potential internship projects, publicize the opportunity, and find a […]
Finding Your Next ED: Succession Planning for Small Nonprofits
For small organizations, finding a new leader can be a difficult process, especially in a rural region with a small workforce to draw on. Lacking the capacity for full-blown executive search, what’s an org to do? Can you hire someone with intersectional experience and train them to be great for the job? Can you create […]
Knowledge Bites: VLCT’s Municipal Operations Support Team
The Southern Vermont ‘Knowledge Bites’ webinar series is designed to connect Southern VT communities and organizations with resources that can help them improve operations and complete important community and economic development projects. For this edition, we are sharing the tremendous suite of resources that the Vermont League of Cities and Towns Municipal Operations Support Team […]
Knowledge Bites: Village Trust Initiative
Join the Southern Vermont Economy Project for the next in our series of lunchtime webinars that are designed to bring you timely information for your local project! This session will focus on the Village Trust Initiative, a partnership between Preservation Trust of Vermont, Vermont Council on Rural Development and Vermont Community Foundation. In their words: […]
Knowledge Bites: Submitting your Project for Regional Consideration
If you’re working on a project in Southern Vermont, we want to know about it! Each year, BDCC and our regional parter in Bennington County, BCRC, put out a call for projects to be submitted for two important regional project collection and review processes. Projects can be: business development which contributes to regional development goals, […]