Repairing Vermont Necklace- Oxidized Brass (Donating to VT's Long Term Recovery Groups)

I first made these back in 2011 when hurricane Irene tore through Vermont. The devastation that it caused was overwhelming. The only comfort in the wake of the storm was how the Vermont community came together. Everyone was helping out. 

I wanted to create a piece that I could sell to generate some money for the relief effort. I didn't want to just create a generic design though, I yearned to make something meaningful. Then it came to me: my signature "patch" design would work so well here. Vermont had been broken, torn up, but it was being patched together, healed.

The beauty is in the binding.

Now, with that same sentiment in mind, we are offering these necklaces to help raise awareness about our state's long term disaster recovery work, and to recognize all of the mutual aid, the wonderful neighbor-to-neighbor work that these grassroots organizations are doing for Vermont.

100% of the profits after the cost of producing these pendants will be donated to Vermont's Statewide coalition of LTRGs (Long Term Recovery Groups) of which there are currently several active at this time, including recovery groups working with volunteer labor and/or part-time staff. 

Please note that while we are happy to offer our pieces to help raise money, YOU CAN ALWAYS DONATE DIRECTLY TO ANY OR ALL OF THESE GROUPS WITHOUT NEEDING TO BUY OUR JEWELRY! Each group below has their own link to follow, so you can be very specific in how your donations are allocated.

CURRENT ACTIVE LTRGs:

1. KURRVE (Kingdom United Resilience and Recovery Effort)

https://nkhs.app.neoncrm.com/forms/kurrve

2. LEARN (Lamoille Area Recovery Network)

https://uwlamoille.org/learn/learn-links.html

3. CReW Community Resilience Waterbury

https://www.thecrewvt.org/donate

4. Barre Up (covering Barre City)

https://barreup.org/ways-to-support/

5. RAFT (Recovery After Floods Team  (Covering towns in Chittenden county)

https://www.raftvt.org/give-help

6. HOPE - Helping Our People in Emergency  (Covering Worcester, Calais, Cabot, Marshfield, Plainfield, Barre Town, Berlin, East Montpelier, Northfield, Roxbury, Warren, Fayston, Brookfield, Williamstown, Washington, Orange, Topsham and Waitsfield)

https://hopecoalition.net/givehelp

7. MoDRN - Montpelier

https://support.capstonevt.org/give/627080/#!/donation/checkout

8. Mountain Towns LTRG (Covering Andover, Chester, Landgrove, Londonderry, Peru, Windham, Weston, Winhall and Jamaica)

(will include in the distribution of the proceeds)

9. Rutland Regional Disaster Cooperative

(will include in the distribution of the proceeds)

10. Upper Valley Strong  (Covering Corinth, Bradford, Chelsea, Vershire, West Fairlee, Fairlee, Randolph, Tunbridge, Strafford, Thetford, Rochester, Bethel, Royalton, Sharon, Norwich, Pittsfield, Stockbridge, Barnard, Pomfret, Hartford, Bridgewater, Woodstock, Hartland, Reading, West Windsor and Windsor)

https://uvstrong.org/donate/

Your purchase(s) will be so helpful to their efforts! Wearing one of these pendants will enable you to be an ambassador for their great work while showing off your VT pride!

Each pendant has my JK signature on the reverse. This symbol is not only my initials, it's the Chinese symbol for "Forever" (which works really well in this case: "Love Vermont Forever").

Pendant is 1" in length
16-18" adjustable, oxidized brass chain  

Orders typically ship right away, but if our inventory becomes too low too quickly and we need to cast another batch, it might take up to 2~3 weeks to fulfill your order(s).

Thank you so much for helping this coalition! It always feels so good to find ways to give back. Love you Vermont!