2008/08 - Aug 2008 - Best Practices

Healthy Choices, Healthy Workplace GMP

Green Mountain Power makes it easy for employees to make healthy choices. After removing the candy machines from its café, Green Mountain Power began offering fruit, nuts, yogurt and other healthy options for employees to snack on. Keeping employees healthy is important for our customers – it keeps our costs down and ensures that we are there to keep the power on!

Jen Cortez

Jenn Cortez, Manager of Compensation and Benefits, Human Resources Shopping for healthy food is only one of the ways Jenn stays healthy. An avid biker and kayaker, she also is on the Board of Run Vermont and encourages her whole family to stay healthy.

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Vermont Business Roundtable Hosted Fiscal Wakeup Tour with Robert Bixby and Peter Welch (December 18, 2008)

Concord Coalition executive director Robert L. Bixby sounded “A Wake-Up to America’s Fiscal Future” during a Dec. 18 presentation and panel discussion with Rep. Peter Welch and Vermont business leaders at the Hilton Burlington Hotel. “In this era of economic instability, there is no better time than now to engage Vermont’s business community with an expert in fiscal responsibility,” Welch said. “The Concord Coalition brings a non-partisan view of the nation’s financial health to Washington at a critical time in our nation’s history.”

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Business Roundtable Releases Fourth Quarter CEO Economic Outlook Survey

(So. Burlington, Vt.) The chief executives of Vermont’s leading businesses are less optimistic about sales prospects, capital outlays, and employment levels for the winter and spring, compared to third quarter forecasts. The mood of the statewide business community was assessed in the middle of the fourth quarter and released today by Vermont Business Roundtable Chairman Tim Volk and President Lisa Ventriss.

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Educators Gather for Pre-K Conference: Local Experts React

(Burlington) A panel of Vermont educators and business leaders will provide local perspective to a nationwide program focusing on pre-kindergarten education during a Pre-K Now National Conference Broadcast on “Breaking Down the Barriers to Quality Pre-K” on Dec. 10 from 1-4 p.m. The national broadcast will originate from Washington, DC. Local participation is planned for the Fireplace Lounge at the University of Vermont’s Living-Learning Center in Burlington.

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Vermont Business Roundtable to host Fiscal Wakeup Tour with Robert Bixby and Peter Welch

Burlington, Vt. – Concord Coalition executive director Robert L. Bixby will sound “A Wake-Up to America’s Fiscal Future” during a Dec. 18 presentation and panel discussion with Rep. Peter Welch and Vermont business leaders at the Hilton Burlington Hotel. “In this era of economic instability, there is no better time than now to engage Vermont’s business community with an expert in fiscal responsibility,” Welch said. “The Concord Coalition brings a non-partisan view of the nation’s financial health to Washington at a critical time in our nation’s history.”

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Vermont Business Roundtable Commends Welch and Leahy for Votes on Rescue Package (October 3, 2008)

(So. Burlington, Vt.) Vermont Business Roundtable President Lisa Ventriss today praised the actions of U.S. Representative Peter Welch and U.S. Senator Patrick J. Leahy, who voted to support the proposed H.R. 3997, the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008.

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