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Brattleboro Time Trade receives grant

Wednesday, February 4, 2015 — Issue 291

BRATTLEBORO — Brattleboro Time Trade is one of 38 organizations to receive a recent grant from the Small and Inspiring Grants Program at the local-minded Vermont Community Foundation.

One of a number of competitive grant rounds at the Foundation, Small and Inspiring Grants fund work “that helps connect people to their neighbors, their land, and their history in ways that strengthen community.”

Brattleboro Time Trade says it has received $2,080 through the program to reach out to low-income community members and welcome them into the organization's extended network of time- and resource-sharing neighbors.

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