HOPE
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HOPE looks to jolly up the holidays for those in need
The non-profit Helping Overcome Poverty’s Effects (HOPE) wants to make sure everyone can share a spot at the dinner table and Christmas tree.
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HOPE stops textile and shoe recycling
It’s a move that could significantly add to the local waste stream and create issues for some of the area’s other clothing resale shops.
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New mobile refrigerator key to local food supply
Thanks to a grant-funded refrigerator on wheels, HOPE will increasingly be able to bring food to hungry, transportation-challenged people — especially those in the rural fringes of the…
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HOPE Holiday Shop readies for kids in need
Helping Overcome Poverty’s Effects (HOPE) will reopen its Holiday Shop to in-person browsing next week after a two-year hiatus forced by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Human food shelf to serve pets, too
Beginning Monday, Nov. 15, Middlebury’s Helping Overcome Poverty’s Effects’s (HOPE) food shelf will be open not only to humans, but also their four-legged friends.
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VUHS seniors walk for HOPE
The annual Vergennes Union High School senior class walkathon went on as scheduled on Monday despite rainy, cold weather.
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Swamped resale shops are limiting donations
Addison County’s two largest nonprofit resale shops are swimming in donated clothing, accessories, furniture and other items — so much so that they’ve had to limit intake due…
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Bradburn bids farewell to HOPE
MIDDLEBURY — The nonprofit Helping Overcome Poverty’s Effects (HOPE) is bidding farewell to its first-ever local food access coordinator, Lily Bradburn, who’s been instrumental in the success of…
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HOPE gets college quarantine snacks
MIDDLEBURY — Officials at the organization Helping Overcome Poverty’s Effects, or HOPE, are giving thanks for literally a ton of food. As Middlebury College welcomed students back to…
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Holiday Jukebox raised $2,690 for food shelf
Holiday Jukebox raised $2,690 for Addison County Food Shelf at HOPE Everyone faced challenges in 2020, and Middlebury’s Town Hall Theater is no exception. Closed to the public…
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Holiday Jukebox helps HOPE this season
Christmas means music — choirs in churches, carolers on the street, performances in theaters. But due to the pandemic, we’re facing a season in which musicians, and their…
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Faith Gong: An invitation to mourn — and hope
On Monday, Nov. 25, 1963, all federal agencies and departments in the United States were closed. For four days, all of the commercial television networks suspended their regular…
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COVID won’t stop HOPE’s holiday gifts
MIDDLEBURY — Just when it appeared that COVID-19 might play the role of the Grinch that stole Christmas from low-income families, Helping Overcome Poverty’s Effects (HOPE) has creatively…
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Pandemic forces HOPE to alter donation strategies
MIDDLEBURY — COVID-19 will try to impersonate the Grinch during the upcoming holiday season, but the nonprofit organization Helping Overcome Poverty’s Effects (HOPE) is committed to providing free…
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HOPE wants to return misplaced cash
MIDDLEBURY — Folks at Helping Overcome Poverty’s Effects (HOPE), the Middlebury nonprofit social services agency, are searching for a person who made a bigger donation than was intended.…
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HOPE boosts benefits
MIDDLEBURY — Helping Overcome Poverty’s Effects (HOPE) has temporarily relaxed the eligibility standards for its free food and other charitable services, in recognition of the economic pain many…