Get Involved!
NVBR's community service committee and NVBR member volunteers have been involved in some great projects this year. Take a look below at some of the community service projects and area non-profits we have supported.

And, you can help even if there is no particular project scheduled. Take a look at the organizations and efforts that NVBR supports, and click on their current needs links to find out how you can make a difference!

COMING SOON!

COTS Walk
Saturday, May 2
The Annual COTS Walk is a 3-mile trek around downtown Burlington starting from Battery Park, following the route a homeless person might travel to receive shelter and services and visiting COTS shelters and programs along the way. This is the one day of the year that we open our shelters to the community so people can see how their pledges are put to use.

Contact Jan Battaline for information or to sign up for the REALTOR® team!
Email here, or phone at 861-6226

Rebuilding Together
Saturday, June 12
Details coming soon

ONGOING PARTNERSHIPS

Chittenden Emergency Food Shelf
228 North Winooski Ave, Burlington, VT 05401
(802) 658-7939
Website: www.feedingchittenden.org
Current Needs

As part of Chittenden Community Action, the Chittenden Emergency Food Shelf provides crisis assistance and emergency food to low-income families and individuals throughout the county.

Committee on Temporary Shelter (COTS)
P.O. Box 1616, Burlington, VT 05401
(802) 864-7402
Website: www.cotsonline.org
Current Needs

The Committee on Temporary Shelter offers a continuum of care to homeless Vermonters. Through emergency shelters, transitional housing, vocational counseling, and support services. United Way funds the Waystation Emergency Shelter, Firehouse Family Shelter, and Streetwork, a self-sufficiency program.

Rebuilding Together Burlington
PO Box 9426, So. Burlington, VT 05407
(802) 862-1463
Web Site: www.rebuildingtogetherburlington.org
Current Needs

Rebuilding Together*Greater Burlington is one of 250 affiliates of the national Rebuilding Together organization, a non-profit, volunteer organization dedicated to helping low-income homeowners, particularly those who are elderly, disabled and families with children, with free home renovations and repairs. Rebuilding Together began as "Christmas in April"; the name and affiliation was changed 7 years ago to its present form as an independent volunteer organization. Locally, our affiliate, Rebuilding Together*Greater Burlington, is the non-profit arm of the Home Builders and Remodelers Association of Northern Vermont.

Ronald McDonald House
16 South Winooski Ave., Burlington, VT 05401
(802) 862-4943
Web Site: http://rmh-vermont.org
Current Needs

The Ronald McDonald house provides a home-away-from-home for families with seriously ill children seeking advanced medical treatment at our local hospital.

Vermont Cares
P.O. Box 5248, Burlington, VT 05402
(802) 863-2437
Web Site: www.vtcares.org
Current Needs

Vermont Cares seeks to improve the quality of life, create compassionate communities and prevent the spread of HIV by working with people affected by HIV/AIDS as catalysts for social and individual change.
Vermont Cares helps provide emergency financial assistance, housing assistance, wellness programs and social events. These programs include services such as (but not limited to): medical referrals, benefits counseling, child care, food vouchers, alternative therapies.

Vermont Refugee Resettlement Program
462 Hegeman Ave., Suite 101, Colchester, VT 05446
(802) 655-1963
Web Site: www.vrrp.org
Current Needs

The Vermont Refugee Resettlement Program brings hope and opportunity to the lives of refugees and immigrants. We act to defend human rights, promote self-sufficiency and education and to forge community partnerships through a full range of programs & services.

VRRP, founded in 1980, provides comprehensive services to newly arrived refugees through a variety of direct and collaborative social service programs. VRRP helps refugees adapt to life in the United States. VRRP is a field office of the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI), a national voluntary agency that contracts with the U.S. State Department to resettle refugees. USCRI provides the administrative process through which refugees arrive in Vermont. When a refugee arrives at the airport, VRRP's work begins.

Women Helping Battered Women
P.O. Box 1535, Burlington, VT 05401
(802) 658-3131
Website: www.whbw.org
Current Needs
Cell Phone Donation Program

With a promise to respect, empower and inform, Women Helping Battered Women, Inc. ("WHBW") exists to support, identify options and advocate for those who have experienced domestic violence and to serve as a catalyst for social change towards our vision of ending physical, sexual, emotional and economic abuse and promoting cultural systems that foster justice, equity and safety. United Way supports its confidentiality located shelter, 24-hour crisis hotline, case management and advocacy programs and children’s services.