21-05-2025
AmeriCorps holds service day in Chittenden County Thursday
SHELBURNE, Vt. (ABC22/FOX44) – AmeriCorps volunteers will be serving three locations in Vermont's Chittenden County on Thursday by helping remove invasive plants and organizing books at a small lending library.
In each of three projects, Vermont Housing and Conservation Board's (VHCB's) AmeriCorps program will be partnering with a local organization:
Invasive plant removal at Memorial Park in Winooski (partner organization Friends of the Winooski)
Invasive plant removal at Shelburne Farms in Shelburne (partner organizations MycoEvolve and Shelburne Farms)
Book organizing at Susan's Place in Essex (partner organization Champlain Housing Trust)
After the projects, VHCB AmeriCorps members will have lunch followed by a tour and activities in the afternoon at Shelburne Farms.
Public meeting to discuss VT's environmental protection rules this Thursday
AmeriCorps is one of a number of organizations that have come under fire by the Trump administration as it looks to cut federal programs. Vermont Attorney General Charity Clark filed a lawsuit in April alongside 23 other states which is challenging the administration's termination of grants and placing on leave of 85% of its workforce. The lawsuit argues that the Trump Administration's directives violate the U.S. Constitution.
VHCB AmeriCorps is a statewide project that helps give volunteers assignments relating to affordable housing and environmental education. VHCB, established in 1987, calls itself an organization taking a 'comprehensive approach to affordable housing and community development linked with land conservation and historic preservation.'
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