Rally for Change

How It Works

Anytime you check out at City Market, you can choose to round up your total to the nearest dollar. Each month, we support Feeding Chittenden and other organizations working to strengthen our community. With roughly 4,000 transactions each day across both stores, we all have the opportunity to rally for community-wide change.

Six people in winter coats stand in a row in front of a painted mural. The mural features a mountain on the left and a lake on the right. The second and fourth people from the left each hold an oversized check. The leftmost check is made out to COTS. The rightmost check is made out to the Intervale Center.

You Make a Difference

July's Donation Totals

$6,333.00 went to Co-op Seedling Grants (50%)
$5,066.39 went to Feeding Champlain Valley (40%)
$1,266.60 went to UP for Learning (10%)

Total Raised Since 2014

$1,866,827.69

This Month's Rally for Change Partners

September's 50% PARTNER

Feeding Champlain Valley

Feeding Champlain Valley has pivoted from a congregate meal site to curbside pickup of pre-bagged and boxed groceries, as well as increased deliveries to older adults, people who have a disability, are sick or injured, or are unable to leave their homes. Additionally, a hotline for emergency deliveries was created to get immediate hunger relief to households who could not visit our location and had nowhere else to turn for help. 

September's 40% PARTNER

Vermont Garden Network

Vermont Garden Network teaches Vermonters how to grow food.  Through a hands-on, immersive, six-month growing season, students learn how to grow nutrient-dense and culturally significant vegetables that sustain their access to food.  We teach residents to garden like a farmer with organic, environmentally sound methods to ensure we model the best land stewardship. We operate across the state at affordable housing sites, schools and in underserved communities where access to land is a barrier. Our garden programs improve lives and strengthen the local food system. 

September's 10% PARTNER

Out in the Open

Out in the Open connects rural LGBTQ+ people to build community, visibility, knowledge and power. We are a multiracial, majority working class, grassroots, movement and capacity building organization based in Wabanaki territory throughout the states of Vermont and Maine.
We envision a resilient community of communities that works toward the transformation of our economic, social, and political relationships. We are building a multi-issue multiracial social justice movement of rural LGBTQ+ people.