The Bright Power Fellowship, a program of the Bright Leadership Institute and the Rutland Area NAACP, will offer board leadership training for BIPOC Vermonters who are interested in leadership in nonprofit boards, or non-elected local, regional or state boards, councils and commissions. Apply now: tinyurl.com/bpf2024 What is the Bright Power Fellowship? The BPF is a … Continue reading Bright Power Fellowship
Help us support youth in sports! Currently there is a need to help with local BIPOC youth for the spring AAU basketball season. We have made an initial donation so they can get started for the season, and we are asking our membership and the community to consider donating toward the remaining $2,750. Participation in … Continue reading Youth Sports Fundraising
Thanks to everyone who joined us for our 2024 Freedom Fund Brunch and helped to make it a successful community-building and fundraising event! Please take a look at some great photos of the day, taken by Lennon Philo. We also hope to hear from you about how you are taking the challenge to show up … Continue reading Freedom Fund Brunch success
Please join us for this blood donation clinic sponsored by the Rutland Area NAACP! Rutland Community-Trinity Church • 85 West Street, Rutland VT 05701Thursday, 9/28 • 12:00 pm to 4:30 pm September is National Sickle Cell Awareness Month. Over 100,000 people are living with this disease and need blood transfusions. The disease affects 1 out of … Continue reading Blood Drive
View the recording In the wake of another brutal police murder in the headlines, the NAACP of Rutland Area & Windham County and the ACLU of Vermont are bringing to Montpelier a panel of five family members whose loved ones were lost to police violence. “Voices from the Front: Structural Racism & Policing” will take … Continue reading Families impacted by police violence to speak in Montpelier
