February, 2024 Dear CVRAN Community, Greetings on a snowy morning. We in Vermont get used to shifting weather, and the different types of preparation for each foray outside. On this grey day, I want to share with you some causes for celebration! Have you noticed, that like the Vermont weather, our work with CVRAN goes …

November 13, 2023 Dear CVRAN Community, Greetings. Imagine yourself a plant in a garden. All around you other plants are growing, clustering, and the fruit and the blooms emerging, or in this season preparing for a season of hibernation. From your unique position you cannot see the borders of the garden, nor know what plant …

June 7, 2023 105 donations in 10 days bring in $100,000!  The numbers are startling.  A group of neighbors in Montpelier stepped forward with the dream of helping to  buy a house, and its working. The neighbors want to keep a refugee family in their neighborhood, even though their lease is expiring, and they are …

April 21, 2023 Dear CVRAN Community, Our world is changing… literally our world. We all know that because of climatic, economic, and political upheavals, there are mass migrations around the globe. The United States, with our relative economic prosperity and political stability looks to be a haven and people come. They come despite political opposition …