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A thriving downtown and safe community are goals we all share. The path to achieving these aims runs directly through addressing the root causes of homelessness and poverty—not around them. When we all have stable housing, access to services, and our basic needs met with dignity, we are better positioned to thrive as members of our community. Our work at Groundworks isn’t just about providing immediate assistance—it’s about creating lasting positive change that benefits everyone who calls Brattleboro home.

Groundworks is planning to replace the 30-bed Morningside House with a new 40-bed shelter designed for an enhanced, refined, and safer shelter program.

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.

Josh Davis, Executive Director of Groundworks Collaborative for the past 11+ years, has announced that he will be leaving the organization in the coming weeks to become the Executive Director of SEVCA—Southeastern Vermont Community Action—at the start of the new year. 

The ArtLords, known for painting their war-torn capital of Kabul with Taliban-censored messages of human rights and social justice, have created their first permanent mural in the Green Mountain State on Groundworks Collaborative’s Foodworks building.
By Kevin O’Connor  |  VTDigger  |  August 16, 2023