The NAACP is looking to put together a list of BIPOC-owned businesses and the products and/or services they provide. The list would go out to our members and other contacts. To submit your business to the guide, please fill out the form at this link. Responses are due October 31. Photo by Jess Bailey on … Continue reading BIPOC Gift Guide Submissions
In partnership with the VT Department of Health and the Windham County NAACP, we are holding several clinics coming up to provide booster vaccines to the BIPOC community in Rutland and Bennington. If you have received both doses of the Pfizer vaccine at least six months ago, and identify as BIPOC or live with someone … Continue reading BIPOC Vaccine Booster Clinics
Did you know you can get up to 12 months of rent and utilities paid with COVID assistance through the State of Vermont's Rental Assistance Program? NAACP wants to make sure you can access this benefit! Please email housing@naacprutland.org or call 802-379-6311 and leave a message. We can be on the computer to walk you … Continue reading Rental Assistance
We're helping to spread the word about 350Vermont's postcard campaign. Attached are premade postcards encouraging the Climate Council to support a plan that centers on equity, Justice, and a fair distribution of economic incentives, as well as low income weatherization, food justice and green Justice zones. climate-postcards-1-2-Download
The Rutland Area branch of the NAACP will host its third annual Freedom Fund Dinner on Saturday, September 18, 6:30pm to 8pm. Due to the pandemic, the program will be virtual this year, much of it recorded professionally at Castleton University. The organization is also soliciting local restaurants in Addison, Rutland, and Bennington counties to … Continue reading Freedom Fund Dinner goes virtual
Rutland Area Branch of the NAACP 