by Andee Bingham
May 2012

Windham & Windsor Housing Trust (WWHT) has worked for the past 25 years to provide something so vital and basic to Brattleboro and our surrounding communities – affordable housing and accessible home ownership opportunities. Executive Director Connie Snow has been with WWHT since the beginning, when it was simply a community rallying to preserve 14 affordable apartments on Canal Street that were to be torn down to make room for a convenience store. “They were largely affordable by virtue of their dilapidated condition,” Connie remembers. “But they were affordable apartments where people could pay the rent. [We] felt like we couldn’t afford to lose that housing.” The hard work paid off, the buildings were spared, and a seedling of WWHT (then called Brattleboro Area Community Land Trust) was born. Their first project was to buy and renovate those 14 apartments, which still stand today, only blocks from the Co-op.

by Harriet Tepfer
May 2012

Behind the scenes of every incorporated institution is a very important group of people – the Board of Directors. The board members of the Brattleboro Food Co-op, elected by the shareholders, are entrusted with ultimate responsibility for the success of our Co-op. Success for a co-op means that the business thrives both financially and, equally importantly, that the purpose, mission and principles of the co-op are properly implemented by staff and shareholders.