Michelle Kennedy's keynote address from last month's Vermont Statewide Housing Conference will air again on CCTV Channel 17 in Chittenden County:
Michelle Kennedy's keynote address from last month's Vermont Statewide Housing Conference will air again on CCTV Channel 17 in Chittenden County: Dec. 24 at 11:45 a.m.
You can also watch the keynote online anytime.
Michelle lives in Chelsea, Vt., and is the author of a number of books about parenting, including "Without a Net: Middle Class and Homeless (with Kids) in America," which details her time as a homeless mother of three.
You can watch Michelle Kennedy's keynote address from Nov. 18's Vermont Statewide Housing Conference here:
Michelle lives in Chelsea, Vt., and is the author of a number of books about parenting, including "Without a Net: Middle Class and Homeless (with Kids) in America," which details her time as a homeless mother of three.
You can also catch the keynote on CCTV/Channel 17 in Burlington, South Burlington, Essex, Essex Junction, Winooski, Williston, St. George, and parts of Colchester:
We've just finished tabulating the results of the attendee surveys we received at the end of last week's Vermont Statewide Housing Conference.
The 180 people responding to the survey, just less than half of those who attended, gave the event an overall score of 4/5 stars.
Some interesting statistics: 58 percent of you were attending your first Vermont Statewide Housing Conference; and 99 percent said they'd attend another in the future.
In the week since we distributed log-in credentials to attendees of the Nov. 18 Statewide Housing Conference, approximately 100 people have logged onto the site to access the attendees database and download presentation files.
The "members-only" area of the conference site contains nearly 180 MB of PowerPoint presentation files, as well as some online-only PDFs provided by conference speakers.
Visitors can search the attendees database by keyword (pictured), or download the entire thing in a variety of file formats.
VHFA honored Andy Gurley, recently-retired from UBS, for his decades of work with the Agency.
VHFA Executive Director Sarah Carpenter spoke about Andy's long history with the Agency at the 2008 Vermont Statewide Housing Conference, held last Tuesday.
A resident of Irvington, N.Y., Andy was instrumental in VHFA's creation in 1974, and has been a wise and loyal partner ever since, through his affiliation with an impressive list of financial institutions such as First Boston Corp., Morgan Stanley, Drexel Burnam Lambert, Paine Weber and UBS.
Robert McBride (center, right) and Richard Ewald (center, left) received the 2008 Vermont Community Leadership Award from the Vermont Council on Rural Development (VCRD).
USDA/Rural Development State Director and VCRD Board of Directors Chairwoman Jolina LaClair (right) and VCRD Director Tony Elliott (left) presented the two the award at the 2008 Vermont Statewide Housing Conference held last Tuesday.
Melinda Bussino (right), Executive Director of the Brattleboro Area Drop-In Center, has received the Housing Hero award.
VHFA Executive Director Sarah Carpenter presented Melinda with the award at the 2008 Vermont Statewide Housing Conference held last Tuesday.
She received the award for her years of commitment and leadership providing comfort and shelter to homeless Vermonters, and her tireless advocacy on their behalf.
We've placed 65 photos from yesterday's Vermont Statewide Housing Conference online.
You can see them on the conference Web site.
Thanks to everyone who came out to our Vermont Statewide Housing Conference yesterday.
We had a huge turnout — despite some early morning weather-related commuting challenges! — and a great day.
We're still crunching numbers, but it looks like we had approximately 450 people in attendance.
Today we'll be processing the attendees database and distributing usernames and passwords to all attendees for access to the "members only" section of the conference Web site.