Every year, Campaign for Vermont sets an agenda for the work ahead and the issues where we believe nonpartisan advocacy can actually move the needle for everyday Vermonters.

This year we made a deliberate choice: fewer, bigger fights. We lead where we are uniquely positioned to lead, and we support other credible organizations where they are already doing the work. We are a tiny organization, but we can have a big impact if we focus our attention and invite others to do the same.

Vermonters are already well-aware that our state is one of the highest spenders on education. Anyone who has shopped for real estate or an apartment recently knows how astronomical housing prices are. Families shopping on Vermont’s insurance marketplace have realized that our health care premiums are the most expensive in the world (no joke).

Household incomes have not kept up with these skyrocketing costs. While slightly above the national average, 18 other states generate higher household incomes than Vermont’s economy does.

Act 143 replaces Vermont’s former General Assistance hotel and motel emergency-housing approach with the Vermont Homelessness Response Continuum, administered by the Department for Children and Families’ Office of Economic Opportunity.

The act aims to make homelessness rare, brief, and nonrecurring by prioritizing prevention, diversion, shelters, supportive services, and permanent housing over prolonged reliance on hotel and motel placements. It recognizes that, as of December 2025, Vermont’s Homeless Management Information System counted 4,022 people experiencing homelessness, including 863 children.

Act 164 makes a broad set of administrative and policy updates to Vermont’s tax laws and related programs, including property and income taxes, education funding, housing, school-related scholarships, municipal administration, conservation lands, and economic-development tax credits.

Act 138 (which began life as H.211) overhauls Vermont's data broker and personal information protection laws, strengthening consumer privacy protections, data broker registration and enforcement, security breach notification requirements, cybersecurity governance, and educational technology oversight, covering topics such as data privacy, consumer protection, cybersecurity infrastructure, government transparency, and student data protection.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: JULY 8, 2026

BEN KINSLEY
CAMPAIGN FOR VERMONT PROSPERITY, INC.
(802) 210-1271
[email protected]

Pam Mackenzie Named President of Campaign for Vermont Prosperity

Veteran public- and private-sector leader takes the helm of non-profit seeking economic prosperity.

Montpelier, Vermont – Campaign for Vermont Prosperity (CFV), the nonpartisan advocacy organization focused on public policies that support prosperity for all Vermonters, today announced that Pam Mackenzie has been named President of the organization. Mackenzie succeeds Pat McDonald, who led CFV for the past decade and will continue to serve the organization as a member of its Advisory Council.

Mackenzie brings to CFV a rare combination of executive leadership, deep Vermont connections, and a lifelong commitment to strengthening the communities she serves. As President, she will lead CFV's nonpartisan mission to advance data-driven public policy, civil discussion, transparency and accountability in state and local government, and to build an economy in which every Vermonter is secure and able to prosper.

Last month, Pat McDonald closed out her CFV era with characteristic grace, and with the same full heart and tremendous optimism she has brought to Campaign for Vermont over the past decade. I want to begin by thanking Pat for her years of leadership and for the strong, trusted voice she helped build CFV into. I'm grateful she'll stay close to this community as a member of our Advisory Council. The foundation she and so many others laid is exactly what makes this next chapter possible.

It is my honor to introduce myself as CFV's new President.

Are you a candidate running for office? As you connect with voters in your community this campaign season, Campaign for Vermont Prosperity (CFV) wants to be a resource you can rely on.

Non-profit seeking government transparency and accountability releases Chittenden County public safety poll.

Burlington, Vermont – Campaign for Vermont Prosperity (CFV) today released the results of a sweeping public safety poll of 512 likely Chittenden County voters. The survey sheds light on how Vermonters from across the political spectrum feel about the state of public safety in their communities. The findings reveal a county that feels markedly less safe and is demanding stronger accountability from its leaders.