Partner organizations

Our friends at non-profit housing development organization Housing Vermont in Burlington are looking for a Project Manager.

Read more about the position at the Seven Days Web site. Or email [email protected].

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has awarded Burlington Housing Authority approximately $392,000 to help house low-income families living with AIDS/HIV.

Elsewhere in New England, $1.3 million is going to the Frannie Peabody Center in Portland, Maine; $1.4 million to the city of Portland; and more than $716,000 to the state of New Hampshire.

The Vermont Division for Historic Preservation wants to know your thoughts on, well, historic preservation.

The division's working to revise its 10-year plan, and is soliciting the opinions of Vermonter through an online survey.

Take the survey now.

The deadline for Champlain Housing Trust's "What Home Means to Me" photo contest is approaching.

As part of CHT's 25th anniversary celebration they're giving away an Olympus 1020 camera, memory and camera bag to one 1st Prize winner.

Two 2nd Prize winners will receive photo books.

The contest is open to all current and former residents of CHT apartments, cooperatives and shared-equity homes.

Read all the rules and download the entry form at the CHT Web site.

As planners for the town of Wilmington consider the next scheduled revision to their town plan, our friends at Smart Growth Vermont are encouraging a plan for growth that preserves the character of the town.

During a presentation to the planning commission last night, Smart Growth Vermont Executive Director Noelle MacKay said the town should be encouraging people to agree they should have safe, decent housing people already living in their community can afford.

Read the Brattleboro Reformer's story about last night's meeting.

Our friends at NeighborWorks of Western Vermont will receive $2 million in federal economic stimulus funds to help first-time homebuyers.

The funding comes from the Community Development Financial Institutions Program, part of the recent American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

The $2 million is part of $6 million being split among three Vermont non-profit organizations: NeighborWorks of Western Vermont, Vermont Community Loan Fund and Opportunities Credit Union.

The federal government is allocating $90 million to 59 organizations in 26 states.

Read more about the stimulus funds in today's Burlington Free Press.

Some photos here from Champlain Housing Trust's block party last Friday, celebrating their new digs at 88 King Street, Burlington.

Thanks to Jon Shenton, Marketing and Communications Coordinator over at CHT.

The Vermont Green Building Network (VGBN) and the Vermont Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIAVT) is presenting "Deep Energy Retrofits," a workshop for builders, architects and others, June 19 in Montpelier.

As a follow up to the "Toward Net-Zero Energy Homes" series, this workshop will focus on the deep energy retrofits of homes and other building types.

They'll cover what the nature of the challenge is, where energy goes in homes, and look at the underlying building science. Air barriers and insulation detailing will be illustrated through case study examples.

They'll look at mechanical systems for low load retrofits as well.

Cathleen Gent will wrap up her tenure as administrator for Vermont Resident Service Coordinators (VRSC) at the end of this month.

Cathleen, a former Public Affairs Director at VHFA, has been involved with VRSC since the late 1990s — before the organization was officially recognized as a non-profit organization — and is a familiar face to just about anyone who's worked in housing in Vermont in the last decade or two.

The VRSC Board of Officers is encouraging members to attend its June 26 training event in Randolph to wish Cathleen well on her future as a town planner and zoning administrator in Richmond.

Champlain Housing Trust (CHT) is throwing an old fashioned neighborhood block party Friday, June 12 from 4 to 6 p.m.

It's in celebration of NeighborWorks Week and as a "thank you" to their neighbors along King Street, between Saint Paul and Pine streets, who were so patient during construction of CHT's new headquarters at 88 King Street.

There'll be kid-friendly events, snacks, drinks and a lemonade stand courtesy of the King Street Youth Center, CHT's new neighbor across the street.

Heads-up: No pets, alcohol or street parking, please.