Welcome to Groundworks Collaborative | Groundworks Collaborative

General Donate

Sustainer Slide

Subscribe Newsletter

Subscribe to our newsletter

Subscribe to receive our occasional e-Newsletters! We no longer send out a print newsletter by mail—saving numerous resources—and we promise not to flood your inbox!

Morningside House

April 20, 2024

Morningside House has been sitting vacant since the tragic loss of our friend and colleague, Shelter Coordinator Leah Rosin-Pritchard on April 3, 2023. In a move to bring these vital shelter beds and services back to our community, Groundworks is planning to replace this old and fraught 30-bed farmhouse with a new 40-bed shelter designed for an enhanced, refined, and safer shelter program.

» Learn more

Groundworks’ Outreach Team Launched in February

April 19, 2024

Groundworks' Outreach Team launched in February and is engaging with unsheltered people in the community; facilitating service connections related to housing, and specialized health care needs, obtaining identification, and providing support with basic needs such as critical camping gear, food, and clothing, etc.

» Learn more

Groundworks promotes Libby Bennett to be new Executive Director

March 13, 2024

The Board of Directors of Groundworks Collaborative has announced that Libby Bennett, formerly the agency’s Director of Development & Communications, has accepted the offer to lead the organization as its new Executive Director.

» Learn more

About Groundworks Collaborative

Groundworks Collaborative works with people and systems creating solutions to end hunger and homelessness for all people in our region. We envision a community in which everyone has their basic needs met, including a safe and dignified place to call home. Learn more about our programs:

Get help Support us

Our Programs

For homeless people, a human connection — The Commons

July 19, 2023

By Joyce Marcel | Wednesday, July 19, 2023 Photo by Randolph T. Holhut/THE COMMONS— Issue 723 BRATTLEBORO — Brooks Memorial Library is on the front line of the town's and region's homelessness conundrum. With the exception of Groundworks Collaborative, the library is the one place in town where people who are unhoused can find shelter from the weather, have access to the internet, write a letter to a family member, get help finding the services they need, get a few books to take out, use a clean bathroom, drink some cool, clean water, and find a kind word when they really need one. "We try to know everybody by name," said Library Director Starr LaTronica. "There's some people that don't want to tell us their name, and that's fine. But we try and sort of keep an eye on people." The library prides itself on offering homeless people a human connection.

» Read more

Food shelves experience shortages, more need – Brattleboro Reformer

June 28, 2023

Reporting by Chris Mays, Brattleboro Reformer | June 28, 2023 Photos by Kristopher Radder BRATTLEBORO — Lately, on a day before receiving an order from the Vermont Foodbank, Foodworks on Canal Street can look pretty bare. “There is a natural ebb and flow to our inventory,” said Andrew Courtney, director of Foodworks. However, the Brattleboro-based Groundworks Collaborative’s food shelf program and other partners in the Vermont Foodbank network are getting less food.

» Read more

The Tragic Loss of Leah Rosin-Pritchard

April 13, 2023

Groundworks Collaborative lost a beloved staff member—the Coordinator of Morningside House—in the tragic events of April 3rd at that shelter. Leah Rosin-Pritchard is irreplaceable. She was a wonderfully strong, positive, beautiful and compassionate person who gave generously of her spirit and skills in support of all Morningside House residents and her professional colleagues. There are no words to express the depth of loss felt by her Groundworks teammates and our hearts go out to her family and friends. We can unequivocally say that Groundworks will not be the same without Leah. Our staff and our program participants are grieving. We are, at the same time, personally and organizationally impacted, and we are focused on supporting each other while continuing to provide food, shelter, and supportive services to people who need us.

» Read more

Subscribe to our newsletter to learn more about what Groundworks Collaborative is doing in our community.

Donate

Groundworks Collaborative is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization
(tax ID/EIN: 03-0267404).

All donations are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law. Thank you for your support!

Groundworks Collaborative
PO Box 370
Brattleboro, VT 05302

Ways to Give

About Groundworks

Groundworks Collaborative was established in 2015 following the merger of the Brattleboro Area Drop-In Center and Morningside Shelter. We work with people and systems creating solutions to end hunger and homelessness for all people in our region. We envision a community in which all people have their basic needs met, including a safe and dignified place to call home.

Donate Today!