Community Resilience Organizations

Conscious homestead fund (chf) is a branch of the conscious homestead bipoc urban farm and wholeness retreat in winooski Vermont stewarded by candace taylor. Conscious homestead is committed to co-creating a space that is rooted in healing our ancestral connection to the land while centering bipoc wholeness and liberation. This lush and beautiful haven is tucked away in candace's recently transformed backyard. With Community support this magicfull space is available as a retreat dedicated to the rest, nourishment and empowerment of bipoc. Our offerings are done in collaboration with local bipoc Community members. The conscious homestead fund, as sponsored by cros, will expand capacity to raise and direct fund towards Community care, mutual aid and affordable offerings at the homestead.

Other programs of Community Resilience Organizations (cros) - helping to create welcoming, resourceful communities that can address the challenges of today and the future - whether climate change, social disconnects, economic hardships or other unforeseen disruptions. Cros will meet you where you are at and help you assess vulnerabilities, determine priorities, implement projects that build local and regional Resilience and celebrate success. Re-localizations of critical resources like water, energy and food is a strategic tool for climate mitigation, adaptation and social change. We provide resources and frameworks for individuals and groups to combat societal inequities by resourcing those first and most impacted by climate change and marginalization. We do this through an organizing hub for localized solutions and fiscal sponsorship.

Regeneration corps' (rc) mission is to empower youth with the knowledge to mitigate and respond to climate change and its constituent impacts, all while building Community Resilience and strengthening local food systems. We offer this programming in schools through a cohort of teaching artists, local adults who share their experience in these issue areas with students using a justice-informed approach.

Radical imagination (ri) is a grassroots Community organization focused on supporting black, indigenous and artists of color in connecting with one another and the land. Their work includes running an arts residency, creating land access, and hosting events. Ri is led by a trio of international black and brown women artists and is based in corinth, Vermont.

Middlebury yoga equity project exists to provide access to healing spaces for people of the global majority. We create teaching opportunities for bipoc teachers (especially black femmes and queer folks), and we pay students to attend classes. Our motto is "everyone deserves to relax and our guiding principles are radical barrier removal and wealth redistribution. We recognize that yoga is a cultural product of india, with many global cross-pollinations, and we seek to offer these teachings in the most respectful, joyous, and non-appropriative ways possible. We are always learning and always seeking to improve the ways we build Community and address and repair harm.

Environmental justice network (vt-ej) network will bridge overburdened Community members with decision-makers at the state and local level, fostering relationships and creating continuity between communities and government, increasing accessibility of information and resources, and supporting context-sensitive communication. The vt-ej network will strategically build on work addressing local environmental and public health issues and develop alliances between grassroots groups in a horizontal structure. This networked approach will allow us to engage communities in setting priorities and establishing practices for building consensus and alignment. These practices will contribute to Community Resilience, as well as inform our agency allies. Long term, the network strengthens communities' ability to equitably distribute environmental burdens and benefits.