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Common Good Vermont: VT Legislative Property Tax Exemption Study Committee 12/16/2013

Public Hearing: VT Legislative Property Tax Exemption Study Committee

Common Good Vermont: Legislative Preview 2014 12/11/2013

Jessica Oski, of Sirotkin & Necrason will join Common Good Vermont for a Legislative Preview 2014. We'll look at the major issues being faced by the Vermont Legislature and how they impact Vermont nonprofits when the session resumes in January.

Common Good Vermont: A Primer on Vermont's Genuine Progress Indicator 11/21/2013

The Gund Institute for Ecological Economics recently released Vermont's first Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI) as an alternative measure of the value of Vermont's economic activity. Professor Eric Zencey, GPI co-author will recap the findings and discuss the next steps for developing a using this new data to improve public policy making.

Common Good Vermont: Emerge Vermont: Preparing Women for Elected Office 11/20/2013

Sarah McCall, Executive Director of Emerge Vermont, speaks to the organizations efforts at recruiting, training and mentoring Democratic women to serve in elected and appointed office.

Common Good Vermont: Legislative Preview: Tax and Nonprofit Issues 11/11/2013

Featuring Rep. Janet Ancel/ Calais/ Chair House Ways & Means, and Senator Tim Ashe/Chittenden/ Chair, Finance to discuss upcoming tax issues that pertain to nonprofits and other issues that will be of interest to the sector in the next half of the session. The program will air live on www.channel17.tv and calls will be taken on the air at 802.862.3966

Common Good Vermont: Government Accountability Committee, Part 2 of 2 10/29/2013

This House Committee made up of Rep. O'Brien, Co-Chair along with Sen. Snelling, and Rep Evans, Sen French, Sen. Pollina, Rep. Sharpe, Sen. Starr and Rep. Toleno, discuss RBA (Results Based Accountability) in Vermont's legislature as a way to measure outcomes and impacts of legislation. Agency of Transportation RBA Progreass: Susan Minter, Deputy Secretary, Agency of Transportation, Richard Tetreault, Division Director, Agency of Transportation. Updates from Agency of Natural Resources by Justin Johnson, Deputy Secretary, Agency of Natural Resources. Report Recommendations by BetsyAnn Wrask, Legislative Counsel, Office of Legislative.

Watch part one here.

Common Good Vermont: Government Accountability Committee, Part 1 of 2 10/29/2013

This House Committee made up of Rep. O'Brien, Co-Chair along with Sen. Snelling, and Rep Evans, Sen French, Sen. Pollina, Rep. Sharpe, Sen. Starr and Rep. Toleno, discuss RBA (Results Based Accountability) in Vermont's legislature as a way to measure outcomes and impacts of legislation. Discussion of CT's progress with RBA: Diana Urban, Representative, Connecticut Legislature, Anne McIntyre-Lahner, Program Director, Department of Children & Families.

Watch part two here.

Common Good Vermont: Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food 10/24/2013

Kathleen Merrigan, Former Deputy Secretary of the USDA, will focus on local food and food insecurity during her visit to Vermont hosted by the Vermont Community Foundation.

Named by Time magazine as one of the “100 Most Influential People in the World” in 2010, Merrigan has been a consistent champion for families, farmers, and the environment throughout her career, launching the USDA’s “Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food,” overseeing the development of the USDA Organic standards in an earlier role at the USDA, and working for Senator Leahy as senior staff to the Senate Agriculture committee.

Merrigan will offer her perspective on where Vermont fits in the national picture on these issues, which are central to the Community Foundation’s Food and Farm Initiative.

Common Good Vermont: Benchmarks for a Better Vermont Showcase and Graduation 10/16/2013

Benchmarks for a Better Vermont celebrates the completion of its first Performance Institute with 18 Vermont nonprofit organizations who learned and applied the Results-Based Accountability framework within their organizations. In this video, seven Performance Institute organizations present how RBA has changed their culture and their outcomes.

Common Good Vermont: Cecile Green - Horizontal Leadership 10/08/2013

Common Good Vermont presents Cecile Green of RoundSky Solutions as she discusses "Horizontal Leadership", a paradigm that harnesses everyone as a leader. We'll discuss different ways to look at "power" and how it is used in organizations.

Featured Story

CCTV Receives NEH Grant to Support Community Archives

CCTV Center for Media & Democracy is pleased to announce receipt of a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Humanities Collections and Reference Resources grant alongside 32 peer archival institutions across the country. This $49,927 grant award will support efforts to preserve and expand access to audio/visual community history materials in the CCTV Archives. Read more about this opportunity here!