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Groundworks—a dynamic organization committed to providing shelter, food and supportive services with dignity—is hiring a senior leader to oversee its supportive services, supporting roughly 200 individuals each year in the Brattleboro, Vermont area. We are seeking a seasoned leader with an extensive track record in enhancing systems, continuous improvement, and excellence in programmatic, operational and people leadership. Reporting directly to the Executive Director, this position will have the creative opportunity to enhance service sand systems to create programmatic and operational excellence. As a senior clinically trained staff member, theDirector of Supportive Services will implement high service delivery standards, support clients and ensure that all services are provided with non judgment and compassion. As a member of the Executive Leadership Team, this position will also provide agency-wide leadership and maximize impact by enabling seamless integration between Groundworks’ programs and services—contributing to Groundworks’ culture as a great place to work.

Please help us spread this news!  Groundworks Collaborative is recruiting two seasoned and dynamic leaders to oversee and lead change in our shelters and food distribution center.  Reporting directly to the executive director, both positions will have the creative opportunity to enhance programmatic and operational excellence, while building a great place to work and volunteer.

On a recent Tuesday afternoon in the Whitingham Municipal Center in Jacksonville, more than forty local seniors were finishing up their desserts from a congregate meal, while a dozen or so more stopped in to pick up a meal-to-go. The all-volunteer kitchen staff was cleaning up, both from these meals they had cooked, and from the forty additional meals they had organized and sent out for delivery to seniors around the Deerfield Valley who are unable to leave their homes or prepare meals for themselves.

The GIVE60 Challenge is a “choose-your-own-challenge” fundraiser, which this year includes the in-person “CHANGE-OF-PACE CHALLENGE”event—a no-pressure, family-friendly walk, run, stroll and roll event, October 23rd at the West River Trail.

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At the Brattleboro Food Co-op, we have been reeling from all of the violence over the last couple of weeks. We stand with our neighbors from the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities in light of the awful tragedy in Atlanta. And now, we breathlessly stand with our brethren grocery store workers and public servants in Boulder. CO. Breathlessly, because they are us. Grocery store workers all over the country and throughout the world, have worked so hard to continue to provide service and food to our communities in spite of the myriad challenges posed by this pandemic.  Those challenges are not just from the virus and its properties, but from human beings who choose to traumatize and impose their political views on those who simply come to work every day to provide for their neighbors, all the while trying to stay safe. So many of us are not safe in our society already due to our stubborn history of white supremacy. This current environment and its innate stresses only exacerbates the inequity and the inhuman actions that the inconsiderate take over our neighbors. At our Co-op, we simply want to continue to serve our community and strive to do so in a thoughtful and supportive way, for all of our neighbors. We are grateful to those of you who recognize and appreciate the task grocery store employees have undertaken, for more than an year, I myself am humbled to work with such a dedicated staff who continues to do the best that they can in difficult conditions. Let’s try to be better human beings to each other. Life is hard enough.