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The Root Social Justice Center is a Vermont-based, POC-led nonprofit organization focused on racial justice organizing, community advocacy, and relationship-building programming. We are led by our Root Collective and our Collaborative Directorship team who help the organization maintain the integrity of our beliefs, purpose, and vision.

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Central Vermont Showing Up for Racial Justice

SURJ is a national network of groups and individuals working to undermine white supremacy and to work toward racial justice. Through community organizing, mobilizing, and education, SURJ moves white people to act as part of a multi-racial majority for justice with passion and accountability.

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Showing Up Racial Justice Middlebury

SURJ moves white people to act as part of a multi-racial majority for justice with passion and accountability.

Vermont Racial Justice Alliance

The Vermont Racial Justice Alliance advocates for the implementation of State and local policy with of our collective strength, voice and leadership. We also provide a variety of community forums, panels and lectures to enable community members to gain an understanding of the issues and provide input and perspective on important related policies.

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Planting a LiLi

The LiLi—a new kind of HTST (high-temperature, short-time) pasteurizer from Bob-White Systems—could lead to a better day for dairy farm families, allowing them to sell non-homogenized, gently pasteurized milk to consumers who want farm-fresh milk but don’t necessarily want raw milk.

Our Meat, Made Visible

Uber-transparency is the norm at Vermont Packinghouse because the owners are serving customers of the 21st century local food movement, who expect openness about all facets of food production.

Solar Energy on a Dairy Barn

The vision of Vermont Creamery co-founders, Bob Reese and Allison Hooper, is for the new Ayers Brook Goat Dairy to serve as a catalyst for growing Vermont’s goat dairy industry.

Understanding the Vermont Food Consumer

The Vermont Consumer Profiles provide a framework for the Farm to Plate Network and organizations/businesses within the Network to inform marketing and communication efforts directed towards different types of Vermont food consumers/target audiences.