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Jumpstart Local Creative Economy Development Projects.
Establish the Vermont Creative Community Program. This multi-year project will bring a creative economy perspective to locally-led community planning and build on successful models by offering targeted technical assistance for community development projects. By expanding partnerships between communities and the cultural organizations that serve them, this program will:
a. Make Vermont a model laboratory of the creative economy and build the reputation of the state for culture and innovation.
b. Give communities the tools to develop creative initiatives and provide the resources for them to build identity, momentum, and excitement as creative economy destinations.
c. Provide a framework for the Vermont cultural sector to work together as direct participants in community and economic development.
VCRD
will review applications from communities throughout the state and select
fourteen as initial participants in this VCC program.
Seven would begin in 2005 -06, the other seven in 2006-07.
LEAD: VT Council on Rural Development
PARTNERS: VCCI members, VT Downtown Program, VT Community Foundation, Upper Valley Community Foundation, VT Legislature, Regional Development Corporations, Regional Planning Commissions, private foundations, businesses, and Vermont’s Congressional delegationFollow Links to See What Other States Are Doing