VLITE

ReSOURCE is using a $175,000 VLITE grant to train youth in construction skills and help restore flood-affected homes for income-qualified homeowners. 

VLITE funded the Energy Coordinator for the state’s Municipal Energy Resilience Program (MERP). Shown here is a blower door test in a municipal building in Reading VT during an energy assessment.  

Community Rides VT and its service Gopher offers electric vehicle-based on-demand ride services for rural Vermonters.

The Vermont Council on Rural Development uses its VLITE funding for the Climate Catalyst Innovation Fund in which grants are awarded to community groups to do their own projects. The photo shows a Window Dressers build in Bennington County. A $3,000 Innovation Fund grant supported about 300 insulating window inserts to dozens of families. 

Vermont Adult Learning used a VLITE grant towards training programs in Weatherization and other green energy trades. “Learning about weatherization wasn’t my first idea for a career. Gaining this education persuaded my thoughts and gave me confidence that I am a great candidate for this career!” --Vermont Adult Learning Weatherization Training Participant. 

WheelPad L3C in Wilmington, VT builds accessible accessory home attachments with a focus on wheelchair accessibility. A $100,000 VLITE grant helped WheelPad renovate an open air pole barn to move manufacturing indoors in an energy efficient comfortable space.

Agritech Institute used a $65,000 grant to test goat grazing using radio collars and “virtual fencing” on electric utility rights of way. The concept is to provide a more cost effective and sustainable (pesticide-free) technique  for right of way maintenance.