COVID-19 (Coronavirus) United Response Fund

Update on United Response Funds:


Our community met the challenge and matched $25,000 in giving from the Pomerleau Family! Thank you to all our donors. 

United Way of Northwest Vermont has issued emergency funding from this campaign to 20 different organizations including the following. Thank you to all our donors!

CVOEO to support two food shelves: Feeding Chittenden and Northwest Family Foods

Age Well for Meals on Wheels

CVOEO to support other basic needs for vulnerable populations

Chittenden Housing Review Team to support housing retention and rapid rehousin

Franklin Grand Isle Community Housing Response Team to support housing retention and rapid rehousing


Microgrants (18 grants so far)

Organization providing emergency shelter and related services:

  • ANEW Place
  • COTS
  • Samaritan House
  • Spectrum Youth & Family Services
  • Steps to End Domestic Violence

Parent Child Centers:

  • NCSS Parent Child Center
  • Milton Family Community Center
  • Lund
  • Janet S. Munt Family Room

Home Health organizations:

  • Franklin County Home Health
  • UVM Medical Center Home Health and Hospice

Food & Meal delivery:

  • CIDER
  • HANDS/Heineberg Senior Center
  • BTV Food Project
  • Martha's Kitchen
  • Hunger Free - Food Access Communication

Other supports to vulnerable and underserved people:

  • Champlain Community Services
  • CarePartners Adult Day Center 
  • UVM Extension Bridges to Health (serving farm workers)
  • AALV (Associations of Africans Living in Vermont)
  • USCRI (US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants)
  • School Districts across the region
  • Multilingual Task Force
  • Mercy Connections

About the Campaign

United Way's COVID-19 United Response Fund is designed to help our community in a critical time of need. All dollars given through this fund will be used to support organizations and people in Northwest Vermont.


You're helping our most vulnerable community members battle the unknown. Let's work together to respond to our community's most urgent needs TODAY.


United Way has established the COVID-19 United Response Fund in order to rapidly mobilize resources to support organizations on the front lines of supporting communities and families most impacted by COVID-19.


In order to mobilize the resources for both short-term impacts and long-term challenges to the pandemic, we will be working in alignment with the City of Burlington, United Ways across the state, the Vermont Community Foundation, other state/local governments and private funders.


This crisis has brought front and center the economic and health fragility of many Vermonters, an issue we work to address year-round at United Way. We will leverage our unique position at the center of business, nonprofit and government organizations to create both immediate and long-term sustainability for our communities.


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