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The Vermont Community Foundation has awarded $670,500 in grants to help people, businesses, farms, and downtowns recover from July's devastating floods.
"Through the incredible generosity of everyone who has contributed to the flood fund, we are helping people around the state with the mammoth task of recovering from this disaster," the foundation's CEO tells the Barre-Montpelier Times Argus.
The money will cover emergency home repairs and transitional housing, as well as help farmers who lost an entire season of corn, berries, cut flowers, and other products, and businesses whose spaces and inventories were destroyed.
The fund was created immediately following the torrential rains that turned large parts of the state into a mud-drenched disaster zone.
Since the requests for donations were announced on July 11, the foundation has received $4.4 million in gifts and pledges, including $2.8 million in gifts and $1.6 million in pledges.
The latest grants will support area nonprofits in Caledonia, Chittenden, Lamoille, Rutland, Washington, Windham, and Windsor counties.
Officials in those seven counties are helping residents of flooded mobile home parks and assisting towns as they rent dumpsters to haul away immense piles of flood-related trash and debris.
The money will also cover emergency home repairs and transitional housing.
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