Vermont Business Magazine ReSOURCE is once again providing $150,000 in essential goods to alleviatepoverty in Vermont through the Essential Goods Program. By obtainingvouchers, individuals and families in need can receive donations of thosedurable goods essential to safe and comfortable living such as cookware,mattresses, bed frames, dressers, books, washing machines, ranges, toys forkids, and even desktop computers.ReSOURCE’s Essential Goods Program also supports sister nonprofitorganizations, helping them meet their own organizational needs forinformation technology, office furniture, and appliances.
Vouchers for Essential Goods can be obtained from over 30 partner agenciesin northern and central Vermont. Those agencies will identify the needs of theapplicants and issue vouchers in the appropriate amounts. Vouchers can thenbe redeemed at any of ReSOURCE’s retail stores in Burlington, Barre, andHyde Park. Nonprofit organizations needing materials for their ownoperations are eligible for a 25% discount on all purchases off ReSOURCE’salready low prices and may request additional support by talking with storemanagers at each ReSOURCE location.
In 2015, the ReSOURCE Essential Goods Program supported 1,013beneficiaries including low income families, refugees, victims of disaster,women fleeing domestic violence, and homeless individuals moving intopermanent housing. ReSOURCE also provided information technologyequipment, office furniture, and other needed supplies to 66 nonprofitagencies. This support helped these agencies fulfill their mission.
ReSOURCE’s Essential Goods Program is made possible thanks to thousands ofcash and material donations from individuals, corporations, foundations, aswell as the Vermont Agency of Economic Opportunity.
Applicants can call 211 for a list of partner agencies that distribute ReSOURCEEssential Goods Vouchers.
ReSOURCE Essential Goods Partners include:
- Addison Community Action/CVOEO
- Agency of Human Services ‐ Field Services
- Burlington Community Justice Center
- Burlington Housing Authority
- Capstone Community Action, Inc.
- Chittenden Community Action/ CVOEO
- Chittenden County Treatment Court
- Committee on Temporary Shelter
- Champlain Valley Agency on Aging
- Central Vermont Council on Aging
- Essex Community Justice Center
- Franklin/Grand Isle Community Action
- Good Samaritan Haven
- HOPE/Retroworks
- Howard Center ‐ Child, Youth, and Family
- Howard Center ‐ Developmental Services
- Howard Center ‐ Human Services
- Joint Urban Ministry Project
- Lamoille Family Center
- Lund Family Center
- Milton Family Community Center
- Pathways to Housing VT
- Somali Bantu Community Association of
- Vermont, Inc.
- Safe Harbor Clinic
- Spectrum Youth and Family Services
- Visiting Nurse Association ‐ Children and
- Families
- Visiting Nurses Association ‐ Adult Home
- Care
- Vermont Refugee Resettlement Program
- Vermont Cares
- Winooski Community Justice Center
- Women Helping Battered Women
- Church of Good Shepard
- Vermont Foundation for Recovery
For information about the ReSOURCE Essential Goods Program, contact BobTurnau, Finance Director at [email protected] or (802) 658‐4143extension 29.
For general information about ReSOURCE, contact Curtis Ostler, Development& Communications Director at [email protected] or (802) 658‐4143extension 15.