*CLOSED* Intern with CVRAN this summer!

March 27, 2026 Ali Zenie 0 Comments

This position has been filled for 2026. Check back here for future internship opportunities! CVRAN is eager to hire its first Summer Youth Programming Intern! This internship will primarily provide support to our Direct Services and Volunteer Coordinator, Isabelle, during our busiest season, with a focus on getting kids to camps and assigning volunteers to …

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CVRAN’s Record-Breaking Sunshine Fund

March 23, 2026 admin 0 Comments

We could not be happier to report that CVRAN broke the record for funds raised in the first two weeks of February by Lawson’s Finest Liquids’ Sunshine Fund with a whopping $20,399.11! As you can see written all over Kelly and Ali’s faces above, we are overjoyed to have been asked to partner with Lawson’s …

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CVRAN Statement & Call To Action On Behalf of Pastor Steven Tendo

February 7, 2026 Ali Zenie 0 Comments

Steven Tendo Taken Into Custody Steven Tendo, a Ugandan asylum seeker whom CVRAN sponsored for several months in 2021 and 2022 while he lived with the Hankin family in East Montpelier, was taken into custody by ICE on Tuesday February 4 outside his workplace in Shelburne and removed to a detention center in New Hampshire, …

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Another film screening coming up at the Savoy Theater

December 8, 2025 Ali Zenie 0 Comments

Borderland: The Line Within Sat, Dec 13 12:00 pm Savoy Theater 26 Main Street, Montpelier, VT 05602 FREE* screening and discussion of BORDERLAND: The Line Within Borderland: The Line Within is a feature documentary by award-winning filmmakers Pamela Yates and Paco de Onis that exposes the immense business as well as the human costs of …

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CVRAN And Just Basics Team Up To Provide Food

November 21, 2025 CVRAN 0 Comments

  Immigrant families across the country have lost access to food benefits as a result of the Big Beautiful Bill signed into law this summer. CVRAN and Just Basics, operator of the Montpelier Food Shelf, are working together to replace lost food benefits for these families. Click here for an article in the Montpelier Bridge …

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Re-sharing Thoughts About Sharing and Community

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April 9, 2024 CVRAN 0 Comments

In 2021, writer Jules Rabin helped out a new Afghan family in the CVRAN community by donating a table. Getting it to them was another story though – one he shared in through a VT Digger Article. Jules recently turned 100, so we thought it would be fun to share his article with you again. …

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Wanted: Coordinator of Direct Services for CVRAN

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February 9, 2024 CVRAN 0 Comments

Are you looking for a fulfilling employment opportunity to make a direct, positive impact on people’s lives? The Central Vermont Refugee Action Network is a non-profit organization based in Montpelier dedicated to making our communities welcoming, safe places for refugees, asylum seekers, and migrant workers. Based on the success of our recent efforts, we are …

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No General Meeting In October

October 7, 2023 CVRAN 0 Comments

Dear Members and Volunteers, we will not be having a General CVRAN Meeting, open to all, in October, as there are many other CVRAN events this month taking our time. November and December fall near the holidays, so we will see you next on the 3rd Tuesday of January. If you were looking forward getting …

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Letter from the President: A DISASTER AT HOME

July 30, 2023 Rachel Walker Cogbill 0 Comments

July, 2023 Almost everywhere we look, Central Vermont has been impacted by this terrible and historic flood of July 10th, 2023. There is devastation on every side. Many of us have personal experience of being flooded ourselves or knowing others who have lost homes and businesses, or many possessions. Not only do we personally know …

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Letter from the President: An Open Letter to the Artists Who Once Again Raised Thousands of Dollars for CVRAN

April 10, 2023 Rachel Walker Cogbill 0 Comments

Monday, April 4, 2023 This is a wonderfully warm and official thanks from the Central Vermont Refugee Action Network. Once again you artists have provided the largest part of CVRAN’s income stream for the year. Your hard work this month in creating daily art for a group of sponsors has raised about $45,000 for CVRAN! …

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