Beautify Bennington greatness!

Beautify Bennington was a great success! Thank you to all 113 volunteers who gave their time to beautify Bennington at yesterday's event! These volunteers were community members, area high school, middle school, and elementary students representing different extracurricular groups, and…

Youth Making a Difference in Bennington and BEYOND!

Come help clean up our community on Global Youth Service Day - April 27th!!! Beautify Bennington is special community project coordinated by the ACT Youth Ambassadors, Better Bennington Corporation and local AmeriCorps VISTA volunteers!

“Everybody Knows Somebody” National Eating Disorders Awareness Week

“We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.” –Gloria Steinem Nicole Rau, AmeriCorps VISTA Volunteer ...My time as a sociology major was filled with late nights spent…

Abuse is not love.

February is Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month.   8% of local teens say they have experienced physical violence by a boyfriend or girlfriend in the past year- Seniors reporting the highest numbers*   5% of local teens say they have…