Clients
Positive Ventures has worked with the clients below on a range of strategic projects:
The Burlington Community Land Trust - The Burlington Community Land Trust recently merged to create the Champlain Housing Trust - a membership-based nonprofit organization with a commitment to creating and preserving perpetually affordable housing and vital communities in northwest Vermont.
The CoEvolution Institute - The Coevolution Institute's mission is to catalyze stewardship of biodiversity. CoE works to promote the adoption of widespread collaborative stewardship practices on open and working lands, within institutions and among individuals. CoE coordinates the North American Pollinator Protection Campaign, a collaboration of over 70 organizations working to protect pollinators and raise the profile of pollinator issues.
The Intervale Center - The Intervale Center support financially viable and environmentally sustainable agriculture, with the mission to develop farm-and land-based enterprises that generate economic and social opportunity while protecting natural resources.
New Directions for Barre - This Vermont nonprofit carries out substance abuse prevention strategies for youth that have proven to help change attitudes or actions.
Paul and Eileen R. Growald - Venture philanthropists.
NYU Catherine B. Reynolds Foundation Program in Social Entrepreneurship - Joanna Messing is a Business Plan Advisor for the program.
Root Cause Institute - Root Cause Institute is a nonprofit consulting and research firm that is dedicated to fostering entrepreneurship, innovation, and accountability in the social sector to maximize social and economic impact. The goal is to further the development of initiatives (private, public, non–profit) that are integrating applied research, practice, and public policy to address society's most pressing social issues in the most efficient, effective, and sustainable manner.
Vermont Employee Ownership Center - The Vermont Employee Ownership Center is a statewide non-profit whose mission is to promote and foster employee ownership in order to broaden capital ownership, deepen employee participation, retain jobs, increase living standards for working families, and stabilize communities.
Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund VSJF was formed by the Vermont legislature to test the hypothesis that: An organization operating according to principles of sustainable development and with the capacity to administer grants and leverage funds to assist start-up and existing (green) businesses can transform the Vermont economy and can position the state as a sustainable development educational center.