Donate
Your help at this time is critical.
In order to respond to the July 2023 flooding, Upper Valley Strong needs your financial support!
Upper Valley Strong will distribute contributed funds to organizations working to address the impacts of the extreme flooding. These include food, family supports, childcare, services for seniors, housing and other needs that that are not being met. Upper Valley Strong works through a coalition of organizations, local governments and regional planning groups focused on the Upper Valley and its health and well-being.
The Upper Valley Haven is acting as the fiscal agent for Upper Valley Strong.
Donate Online
Thank you so much to all who have donated to UV Strong in response to the July 2023 flooding. At this time, we have decided that we at UV Strong have the funds we need to support our neighbors and we invite you to make contributions to the Vermont community foundation flood response and recovery fund to help others in Vermont.
Donate By Mail
Send a check made payable to Upper Valley Haven with “UV Strong” in the subject line to:
Upper Valley Haven
Attn: Michael Redmond
713 Hartford Avenue
White River Junction, VT 05001
Frequently Asked Questions
Funds donated to Upper Valley Strong support the work of local organizations meeting the needs of vulnerable populations. Assessments of the gaps and needs are ongoing, and UV Strong is able to move very quickly once a funding opportunity is identified.
The overwhelming majority of these funds go to direct services, but some of the funding will also go to keeping these local direct service non-profits financially strong so that they can continue to serve the Upper Valley.
Upper Valley Strong committees are made up of members of local non-profits who are experts on each facet of this unfolding crisis. These committees make funding recommendations to the finance committee.
The finance committee makes the final funding decisions. This is a group of local folks with very high credibility who are tracking where the gaps are in the local system.
Learn more about Upper Valley Strong committees here.
COVID-19 Funding Allocations
Upper Valley Community Nursing Project
For the purchase of thermometers for community nurses to use during home visits
$1,820
Willing Hands and NH Food Bank
To help supply food to food shelves across the Upper Valley and Greater Sullivan County regions.
$30,000
Grafton County Senior Citizens Council
To help vulnerable seniors stay home safely, via home delivered meals, pet food deliveries, safe food packaging, and support for volunteers.
$9,900
Valley Court Diversion
To pay for tools to enable tele-delivery of court diversion services.
$990
Bugbee Senior Center
To help vulnerable seniors stay home safely, via home delivered meals, pet food deliveries, safe food packaging, and support for volunteers.
$8,640
Thompson Senior Center
To help vulnerable seniors stay home safely, via home delivered meals, pet food deliveries, safe food packaging, and support for volunteers.
$4,480
Early Childhood Educators Association via Good Beginnings
To help support operation of the Child Care Navigator role to link essential workers to childcare.
$5,901
West Fairlee Food Shelf
To pay for additional refrigeration equipment to enable increased storage of perishable foods and meet increased demand.
$1,000
LISTEN Community Services
To help meet increased needs for food-related services (especially community dinners to-go) while LISTEN is re-creating its business model to adapt to loss of thrift-store revenue.
$17,873.60
Springfield Family Center
Purchased a new refrigeration unit for the Springfield Family Center's food service program to help meet increased demand.
$3,518
Friends of Mascoma Food Shelf
To help with a facility renovation to enable socially distanced food shelf operations in winter/cold weather
$2,052
Upper Valley Haven
To pay for a larger tent so that the Haven can continue to meet the increased demand for outdoor food shelf visits.
$45,200
West Central Behavioral Health
To help staff and patients transition to virtual care
$7,642
COVER Home Repair
To help meet increased demand for urgent home repair requests
$6,560
Good Neighbor Health Clinic/Red Logan Dental
Purchased air filtration equipment to increase COVID-19 prevention efforts & enable dental services to continue.
$4,400
Upper Valley Mask Makers
To pay for elastic and other supplies to be used by volunteer mask makers.