Other Reports of Interest

We encourage you to explore the following list of reports produced by nonprofit organizations around Vermont. Like the Foundation's Understanding Vermont series, these reports aim to provide philanthropists, grantmakers, and Vermonters at large with useful information about major issues in our state. Our hope is that reports such as these will continue to spark conversation and stimulate new ideas about the ways giving can make a difference in Vermont.

This page will be updated regularly, so we invite you to check back often. Click here to share a report with us.

• St. Michael's Research Report: "Vermont in Transition"

This book covers the major changes in fourteen public policy issues areas in Vermont over the past two decades. St. Michael's College researchers worked in a team with state, federal, non-profit and business data analysts to compile all the data and trendlines. The book is based on the major topics raised in the Council on the Future of Vermont public forums, as well as the expertise of St Michael's research team. 

• Imagining Vermont: Values and Vision for the Future

Council on the Future of Vermont members wrote about what Vermonters want to see for our state in six areas of Vermont life: Vermont Community; Vermont Economy; Youth and Education; Vermont’s Landscape and Natural Resources; Health, Transportation and Public Safety; and Vermont’s Civic Culture. Each of these areas has specific recommendations for state and local decision makers, philanthropists, business leaders, non-profit organizations, and citizens about how we might make Vermont a special place together.

• Economic Footprint of the Arts in Vermont

Main Street Landing commissioned this report on the Vermont Arts “industry” - including artists, museums and historic sites, arts promoters and agents, and performing arts companies - to get a sense of its size and importance to the state’s economy.  

• Farm to Plate Executive Summary

The F2P Strategic Plan provides statistics and detailed analyses of Vermont’s food system, from soil-to-soil. It contains 33 goals and 60 high priority strategies that will lead to job creation, greater economic output, and increased access for Vermont and regional consumers to healthy, fresh food over the next 10 years.