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The Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund (VSJF) releases the VSJF Impact Report FY2020-2021. 

In 1995, a group of forward-thinking leaders founded the Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund (VSJF). They understood the importance of helping our human and natural environments thrive together then and for future generations.They saw the 21st century on the horizon and understood the new challenges and opportunities that would come with it.

We’re grateful for their investment in the future.

Over the past 27 years, we’ve developed a level of expertise in assessing and making sense of complex systems that make up the economic sectors in which we work. And our work approaching issues from a systems level remains more important than ever.

Read about our efforts during 2020–2021 to adapt to and address these challenges, and how we’ve capitalized on new opportunities, including:

• Assisting former and current business coaching clients as they navigated rapidly changing circumstances during the early months of the year, and reemerged financially and operationally stronger
• Pivoting our DeltaClimeVT business accelerator to a virtual format, which helped us attract a more diverse cohort of climate technology companies and allowed us to continue running the program through shutdowns
• Assisting forest products businesses with communications and marketing to raise their online profiles so they could attract new customers during the pandemic
• Crafting and launching the 2021–2030 Agriculture & Food System Strategic Plan, and releasing the 2010–2020 Farm to Plate Retrospective, which allowed us to both review the changes that took place over the past 10 years, and look ahead at what still needs to be accomplished
• Addressing supply chain issues and increasing access to local food through the Independent Grocers Project

Click here to read the full report. The above originally appeared as a letter from Ellen Kahler, VSJF Executive Director.