Vital Communities is pleased to announce that we will be transferring responsibility for the operations of 38 town-based listservs from Vital Communities to the newly formed nonprofit UVLists per an agreement signed on October 1. The transition will be completed before the end of October.
Current subscribers to the town-based listservs will have the option to opt out of the new listservs if they are not interested in making this transition. Vital Communities and UVLists will share information about how to opt out directly with listserv subscribers. The organizations will work together to make this transition as seamless as possible.
Vital Communities has been honored to have stewarded the Upper Valley town-based listservs for over a decade, and we thank the many volunteer list managers who made that possible. We are glad to help with this transition, allowing subscribers who want to keep participating in the town-based listservs to do so. Although Vital Communities will no longer have an ongoing role in the town-based listservs, we wish UVLists the very best as it stewards these lists into the future.
Stepping back from the town-based listservs allows Vital Communities’ staff to focus on the three Upper Valley-wide listservs (Events, Goods, and Services-Plus), the topic-focused listservs (e.g. Upper Valley Climate Action, Upper Valley Farming, Leadership Upper Valley Alums), and our full program portfolio, including work on housing, transportation, food systems resilience, climate & energy, and civic engagement & leadership. Each of these program areas contributes to advancing Vital Communities’ mission to engage Upper Valley people, organizations, and communities to create equitable solutions to our region’s challenges, with a focus on those disproportionately impacted by them. You can learn more about the great work our team is doing at https://vitalcommunities.org/.
Published10/1/2026