Rebecca Sanborn Stone

Community builder and placemaker. Speaker and writer. Mama and chicken wrangler. Maker and doer. Lover of small towns and big ideas.

[Rebecca Sanborn Stone @rsstone]

Amazing news! Check out this incredible new matching grant program for #vermont #placemaking projects. It's been years in the making, and will kickstart many new #smalltown transformations. #PlacemakingVT

[Vermont Agency of Commerce & Community Development @ACCDVermont]

Join the VT Department of Housing & Community Development on February 10th  for the launch of the Better Places program. To attend the launch webinar or to learn more about this new statewide placemaking grant program visit: https://t.co/oXuGEQyWLj #BetterPlacesVT

[Mike Lydon (mikelydon.bsky.social) @MikeLydon]

“Hostile architecture imagines a model citizen who is expensively caffeinated, constantly perched and poised, never in need of anyone or anything to lean on, forever ready to get up and go earn and spend.” 💯 https://t.co/GUdDwuGjkH

[Rebecca Sanborn Stone @rsstone]

Free for lunch? Love #parks and #trails? Join #communityworkshop and @AARPVT for our monthly #placemaking meet-up and get creative ideas for making recreation sites into more #accessible #engaging #public spaces. RSVP for link. https://t.co/JNGugeDwUS

[Rebecca Sanborn Stone @rsstone]

Amazing #ruralinnovation story of the #moderntimestheater teaming up to reinvent the #grange as a #retro #mod community hub. #vermontlife https://t.co/F9m8OLTEdI

[Rebecca Sanborn Stone @rsstone]

Just love multi-purpose community solutions. Hours of entertainment for my kids + free #OrganicMarketing for #tunbridgeVT #tunbridgeworldsfair #selfies #cobenefits

[Rebecca Sanborn Stone @rsstone]

@placemakingus @PlacemakingX way late on the reply, but we had the very best time wandering #vermont with the #RoadTripForTheRecovery, @placemakingus, @ebkent. Thanks for spending time with us and checking out the amazing things happening in our #smalltowns!

[Rebecca Sanborn Stone @rsstone]

@WooTube thanks so much for the #fridayfollow @WooTube! Love the #placemaking connections all the way across the pond. Here's to our #sacredgeographies

[Rebecca Sanborn Stone @rsstone]

#rural #placemakers! Want to connect? RSVP for our virtual #ruralplacemaking mixer Weds. 9/22 with #communityworkshopllc @RadicallyRural @placemakingus & @mailekeefe at #thehumanconnectionproject https://t.co/h6pS42RVTn

[Rebecca Sanborn Stone @rsstone]

@TeamBetterBlock Love the colors, @TeamBetterBlock ! What are the bases you're using for the barriers - are those concrete?

[Jonathan Berk @berkie1]

I love when public transit systems troll highways;

[Rebecca Sanborn Stone @rsstone]

@placemakingus @CityLab @NextCityOrg @Curbed @CivicCommonsUS @MMLeague @csmott @RuthMottFdn @awalkerinLA @Richard_Florida @RobertaGratz @MMLFoundation @mslaurabliss @cnupublicsquare @NewUrbanism @PPS_Placemaking @MSHDA @knightfdn Looks amazing! So wish #PlacemakingWeekFlint was in my future. Can't wait to hear how it goes, @placemakingus

[AARP Alaska @AARPAlaska]

🎉The grantees are here! @AARPLivable is excited to announce the largest group of #AARPCommunityChallenge grants ever - $3.2 mil to 244 grantees for quick-action projects that will create more livable communities for residents of all ages. Learn more: https://t.co/Lsj66eb7Qo

[Rebecca Sanborn Stone @rsstone]

@Patronicity Exciting #popup and #placemaking work going on in #flint! Love the #infographic snapshot too.

[Rebecca Sanborn Stone @rsstone]

@placemakingus @AARPVT @AARPLivable @PPS_Placemaking @rural_design @TinaGovan1 thanks for sharing! We're jazzed to see some new #RuralPlacemaking faces today. Full event and series details: https://t.co/vLwb3GHweH

[Rebecca Sanborn Stone @rsstone]

Calling #rural placemakers! Join us at noon EDT today for a #RuralPlacemaking Mixer, part of Vermont's monthly #Placemaking Meet-ups. RSVP for link. @placemakingus @aarpvt https://t.co/vLwb3GHweH

[Rebecca Sanborn Stone @rsstone]

Tomorrow! Free #vt #placemaking #meetup for 60min of #creative, inspiring, utterly do-able #placemaking ideas for #economicrecovery & growing #localbusinesses in #smalltowns and #rural places. Join #communityworkshopllc and @AARPVT! https://t.co/o3p89Xm3Cd

[Rebecca Sanborn Stone @rsstone]

Of all places where public meetings are romanticized, #VT is probably tops. Cheers to @BostonGlobe for calling out the need to look honestly at the flaws, though Zoom is not a panacea. What would it look like if we radically rethought #public #involvement in #localdemocracy?

[Jonathan Berk @berkie1]

"In New England’s civic mythology, public meetings are allegedly the building blocks of participatory democracy, where locals hash out zoning, schools, and taxes, with all residents on equal footing.

It’s a pernicious fiction."

@GlobeOpinion
https://t.co/R67ytWa7Fc

[Hazel Borys @hborys]

Want to know how to help serve Black communities? Listen. Be 100% directed by your community. Don't have preconceived notions of what may help. ~ @IfeomaEbo #CNU29 #equity https://t.co/pfAciKjtyO