03/25/2024
Hey everyone,
I'm writing to share that as of this year, ROC has decided to formally dissolve its nonprofit status. In part, this decision arose from an emerging lack of capacity and time among ROC’s leaders (most of whom are college students or working full time) and a shared sense that other, more established organizations in Vermont are more effectively meeting community needs. While many of ROC's student-run chapters will continue to operate and former ROC volunteers are continuing to organize in other capacities, putting energy toward continuing to sustain this particular nonprofit, we feel, is not the most effective use of resources and time.
Although ROC will no longer exist as an overarching nonprofit organization, members of ROC chapters are continuing to operate in many Vermont schools on a grassroots level, doing awesome work to fundraise and volunteer for local organizations such as USCRI Vermont and Migrant Justice, while educating ourselves and each other about racial (in)justice.
If you would like to get in touch with current student organizers or with the folks who formerly ran ROC’s nonprofit, you can learn how to do so by going to our new website, linked below. This site will serve as a publicly accessible archive of ROC's past work and a home for publicly accessible resources for anyone continuing to organize through ROC chapters or otherwise.
In closing, we donated the remainder of our money to the Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund to support victims of the genocide in Gaza. We encourage anyone who is able to do so as well. Free Palestine.
To everyone who has been involved in supporting ROC in the past, thank you. May the seeds planted through our work together continue to grow toward justice.
“If you have come to help me, you arewasting your time. But if you havecome because your liberation isbound up with mine, then let us worktogether." -Lilla Watson, in response to mission workers ABOUT Rooted Organizing Community ROC is a network of youth working toward social justice in Vermont th...
