::: DOWNTOWN RUTLAND, VERMONT :::

Volunteer to be a part of
Downtown Rutland Partnership!

Together we can make our City a great place to live!

The Partnership’s work gets done with the help and support of its committees: marketing, special events & community relations, streetscape, and business development.

Volunteers are an integral and much-appreciated part of the activities of the Partnership. We appreciate your time and dedication. We honor our volunteers on a regular basis through our special program "EVERY DAY HEROES' - which spotlights one of our volunteers in the Rutland Herald and our newsletter.

There is a wide range of volunteer opportunities. There is a variety of ways to become a vital part of the success of Downtown Rutland. Some of the programs we work on include our Summer Sidewalk Sale, Concerts in Depot Park, the Chili Challenge and our Holiday "Starry Nights" program. We can always use an extra pair of hands!

If you have some time to give and would like to make a contribution to the continued success of Downtown Rutland, you are welcome to join any of our committees. Please fill out our form and the staff will help you get involved.

Downtown Rutland's Everyday Heroes
Downtown Rutland Partnership is a people-driven and people-powered organization. Without the many volunteers who move chairs, set up tents, make phone calls, tie ribbons, man craft shows, pick up trash, and whatever else we require of them, the Partnership would not be as successful as we are in implementing the many programs that promote Downtown Rutland as a vibrant, exciting place to shop, dine, work, and play.

Downtown Rutland Partnership salutes individuals, groups, businesses, and organizations that have gone out of their way as volunteers on behalf of Downtown Rutland and the community as a whole.

Carol Macleod, president of Downtown Rutland Partnership, presents the Everyday Hero Award to members of the Rutland High School's Key Club.

Downtown Rutland should soon see the results of the volunteer work of Rutland High School's Key Club. Thanks to their help in planting tulip and daffodil bulbs last fall, an array of spring color should soon blossom upon the streets of downtown. Along with their help in the Christmas craft fair, the Key Club played an instrumental role in promoting Downtown Rutland these last few months. As a result, Downtown Rutland Partnership is pleased to award this month's Everyday Hero Award to Rutland High School's Key Club.

The Rutland High School's Key Club, sponsored by the local Kiwanis Club, has existed for nearly 15 years. Comprised of over 130 participants it currently operates under the direction of Karen McGurl. "With every event there is tremendous response, even when I only need a couple of volunteers, a dozen may show up." boasted Karen McGurl. "I am so proud of them, Rutland High's Key Club is truly a blessing to our community."

"With over 300 bulbs to plant, the Key Club really came through for us last fall." exclaimed Toni Trottier, executive director of Rutland Downtown Partnership, "We needed lots of helpful hands that didn't mind getting dirty -and that's what we they gave us. The job was completed in no time."

Downtown Rutland is not the only benefactor from this group of enthusiast volunteers. The Key Club has helped in an array of projects all around Rutland County. Projects such as a book drive for pediatric units, Stuff a Bus food drive for the Salvation Army, Warm Woolly Clothes Drive, wheelchair square dancing at local nursing homes, Trick or Treat for iodine deficiency disorder, gift wrapping to benefit the Rutland West Housing Project, assisting Kiwanis members with a bicycle safety rodeo, teaching swimming lessons to elementary students at the VAC, to name a few.