January’s Change-for-Change Recipient is Sojourns Community Health Center, a nonprofit clinic serving rural Vermont and surrounding areas. Sojourns Community Health Clinic embraces integrative medicine as a powerful model of healthcare. Clients receive time with providers from different disciplines who collaborate daily and see each person as whole. Sojourns accepts most insurances, maintains a well-stocked apothecary store with supplements, teas and other health products, and offers sliding scale group acupuncture on Friday mornings.
Our Change for Change Program started in November of 2016. We invite our customers to round-up their change to the next dollar to donate the change to support local community-based organizations. Thanks to the generosity and willingness of our customers to round-up their sales, we have donated over $47,000 (as of November 2021) to local organizations! These organizations include:
All For One
Charlestown NH Food Shelf
All For One After School Program
Union Street School Community Garden
Weathersfield Food Shelf
Meeting Waters YMCA
Share Our Strength’s Cooking Matters
Dream On Curls Therapeutic Riding Center
The Springfield Family Center
Chester-Andover Family Center
The Warming Shelter
Meals-On-Wheels
The Food Shelf at the Riverside Middle School
Community Asylum Seekers Project (CASP)
Senior Solutions
Black River Action Team (BRAT)
Vermont Association of the Blind and Visually Impaired
Springfield Humane Society
Windsor County Partners
Springfield Area Parent Child Center
Sevca
Out in the Open
Springfield Prevention Coalition
Habitat for Humanity
Parks Place
Windsor County Youth Services
Home At Last, Inc.
The Root Social Justice Center
Rural Vermont
Black River Good Neighbor Services
Springfield Supported Housing
Vermont Racial Justice Alliance
BF Community Bike Project
Springfield Equity Scholarship
Chester Community Greenhouse and Gardens
Women’s Freedom Center
Ko’asek (Co’wasuck) Traditional Band of the Sovereign Abenaki Nation
SUSU CommUNITY Farm
Vermont Parks Forever
Do you have an idea for an organization we could support through our Change for Change (round-up at the registers) program? Let us know! Click here to fill out our Expression of Interest form.
The Springfield Area Parent Child Center
The Springfield Warming Shelter
SEVCA
Springfield Family Center
Weathersfield Food Shelf
Meeting Waters YMCA
“We appreciate all of the wonderful shoppers who chose to round up their change and donate. As we saw, that change added up quickly and will provide a positive change and experience for so many children and families in our community!”
Cooking Matters
Dream On Curls
Springfield Supported Housing
“Thank you for including SSHP in your round-up campaign. What you do for the non-profits in Springfield is greatly felt in the families you help.”
The Springfield Warming Shelter
Springfield Family Center
Springfield Area Parent Child Center
Thank you for your support of the SAPCC and for generously collecting round-up money to benefit our programs. We will certainly put these donations to great use building strong communities, one family at a time. Sincerely, Jill Rapanotti, Executive Director.
Black River Action Team (BRAT)
Community Asylum Seekers Project
Thanks so much to the staff and customers of the Springfield Food Co-op for your generous outpouring of support for the Community Asylum Seekers Project! …it’s wonderful to know that there is a community of caring people behind this project. Thank you! ~Steve Crofter
Vermont Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired
On behalf of the Springfield Warming Shelter I write to thank you for your generous gift of $1020. What a truly wonderful thing you did with all of your employees!!! Without contributions such as this, the shelter would not be able to operate as it does, serving a vital need in our community, providing a safe, warm place for our guests to sleep during the cold winter months. Your support is greatly appreciated! Paul Kendall, Treasurer Springfield Warming Shelter
Springfield Family Center