Feeding Chittenden

A nonprofit partnership in Vermont is helping Afghan refugees adapt to their new lives in the United States— starting with groceries. “I’m really enjoying being here in Vermont,” said Hedayat Arya, one of a wave of refugees from Afghanistan who have come to Vermont in recent weeks and months. “We are feeling here like we are in our own...

A nonprofit partnership in Vermont is helping Afghan refugees adapt to their new lives in the United States, through groceries.

Community leaders in Vermont’s largest city say even they were surprised by the initial success of a pilot program to clear backlogs of unpaid parking fines.

The city raised nearly $40,000 to help feed hungry families by asking those with outstanding parking fines to settle their debts and sending some of the proceeds to Feeding Chittenden.

A new program in Vermont’s largest city aims to take some of the sting out of settling up unpaid parking tickets by directing half the money to charity. “We’re trying to think in these more creative ways,” said Jeff Padgett, who heads the parking and traffic division of the Burlington Department of Public Works. The division’s pilot program, Fines...

A project in Burlington, Vermont, is using art to uplift a hard-working charity, while helping that nonprofit with a job its own tight budget wouldn’t otherwise have had room for. “It’s popping out now,” said Midhat Hadzic of Feeding Chittenden, Vermont’s largest provider of direct emergency food support, referring to how the nonprofit’s formerly drab and gray building is...

Art is being used to help a hard-working charity in Vermont.

Vermont’s governor asked people who can to consider participating in Giving Tuesday, the charity movement which reported raising nearly $2-billion for U.S. nonprofits on the day in 2019. “In a year when so many are hurting, please consider donating to a local charity, your food bank, rescue, shelter, or nonprofit, to help those in need,” Gov. Phil Scott, R-Vermont,...

The governor of Vermont pleaded with the public to consider participating in Giving Tuesday, the charity movement that annually raises donations for those in need.