Increase in Local Support for SEVCA This Year

Each year, along with many other nonprofit organizations, SEVCA applies for town funding to support the services we provide to residents of the towns in our service area. This year, 34 Windham and Windsor County towns voted to provide funds to SEVCA amounting to a total of $81,575, a slight increase over last year’s total allocation of $80,052.

SEVCA utilizes these funds to help meet the needs of town residents with lower incomes, enabling us to provide our full range of program services to them, including crisis fuel assistance, housing assistance and homelessness prevention, home repair, weatherization, early childhood education, financial fitness education, budget counseling, small business counseling, job readiness training, matched savings accounts, income tax preparation, and emergency clothing and furniture.

The actual cost of the services we provide typically exceed town allocations many times over, as SEVCA is able to leverage significant state, federal, and private grants with the funds contributed. Typically, our town funding is only 1–2% of the total value of services provided to residents.

The following towns voted to allocate funding to SEVCA for the 2016-17 fiscal year:

Andover, Athens, Baltimore, Brattleboro, Bridgewater, Brookline, Cavendish, Chester, Dover, Dummerston, Grafton, Guilford, Halifax, Hartford, Hartland, Jamaica, Londonderry, Ludlow, Marlboro, Newfane, Norwich, Putney, Rockingham, Springfield, Townshend, Vernon, Wardsboro, Weathersfield, West Windsor, Westminster, Weston, Windham, Windsor, and Woodstock.

“We would like to thank the many towns who have consistently supported SEVCA over the years. This is a critical flexible source of revenue, and we simply could not do as effective a job of meeting community needs without it,” said Steve Geller, SEVCA’s Executive Director.