Community Outreach Partnership Centers Program FY 1999 Grantee

UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT, BURLINGTON, VT -- $399,845

The University of Vermont will receive a Community Outreach Partnership Centers Program New Grant of $399,845 to work with the City of Burlington and community residents and organizations on a wide variety of outreach activities. Vermont will target its resources and activities to Burlington's Old North End (ONE) neighborhood and the surrounding low-income areas that make up the City's Enterprise Community. The overall goal is to further the ONE's physical, economic, social, and political development, while advancing the University's missions of service, education, and research.

Among the activities Vermont will undertake are:

• Building the capacity and effectiveness of existing civic groups and community organizations, improving leadership skills of residents, drawing those who are currently non-engaged into community involvement, and facilitating communication among civic organizations, citizen groups, and government;

• Identifying the economic impacts on Chittenden County, the City of Burlington and ONE of the University's employment, purchasing, technology development decisions and developing strategies to redirect these decisions so that they increase economic benefits for ONE; and

• Working to open up the suburbs outside Burlington to housing for low-income people through increased supply and increased fairness in treatment of potential and actual renters in order to reduce the affordable housing pressure in ONE.

Contact: Beverly Blakeney, 802-656-1326

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