All you need to do is Read, Subscribe, Volunteer, or Donate!
If ever the words “it takes a village” ring true, it is today in Hinesburg. We are a vibrant and diverse community of people, without whom the boundaries defining Hinesburg’s borders would mean nothing.
A not insignificant part of Hinesburg’s history and culture is our humble news organization, The Hinesburg Record (“the Record”).
As the Record nears 37 years of publication, it is rededicating and reinventing itself as a truly local, independent and nonprofit community news organization. Most recently, the Record has garnered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization status, meaning donations to the Record are 100 percent tax-deductible to the donor(s).
Hand-in-hand with becoming a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, the Record has enacted new bylaws, established an all-new, all-volunteer five-person board of directors, re-prescribed officer duties, reorganized functional responsibilities and reprioritized initiatives.
This is where you come in!
The Record is seeking community participation and giving. And we are making it as easy as RSVP (Reading, Subscribing, Volunteering and/or Donating).
Read
Read the Record! Just read!
Your readership is the single most essential thing of all the things that you can do to be involved with the Record.
Readership is our life blood!
Our printed edition is delivered free to all Hinesburg postal addresses, and our free e-newsletter comes out weekly. Discover what’s going on in Hinesburg, learn new things, and enjoy hearing about what your neighbors are doing.
Subscribe
Subscribe to our free weekly e-newsletter. Just go to hinesburgrecord.org/contact/subscribe and sign up. Every Monday you will preview Hinesburg events in the week ahead while at the same time entering a contest to win $25! More importantly, you boost the Record mailing list, generate traffic to our website, and support our e-newsletter sponsors.
Volunteer
Volunteer your time. The Record team can always use more help. Plug in by spending as little as one hour a month simply helping us distribute papers. For the more ambitious, spend an hour or more per week helping with the website and e-newsletter. We are particularly interested in folks volunteering to write stories and/or edit and prepare the stories we already have. Below are some specific tasks. To volunteer in any capacity, call Kevin Lewis at 802-999-2410 or email him at information@hinesburgrecord.org.
- Submit a photo! 2 minutes! Provide date and location.
- Write a story. 30 minutes to whatever! Vet a topic, then write about it. Include photos and captions if possible.
- Submit a story. Fifteen to 45 minutes a week. Take already written stories / photos and publish them at hinesburgrecord.org.
- Review print edition or e-newsletter. Fifteen minutes weekly, or monthly. Do a high-level review of pending print issue and/or e-newsletter electronically.
- Distribute papers. Thirty minutes a month. Grab a pile of papers and bring them to places like Lantman’s and Papa Nick’s.
- Calendar events. Thirty minutes a week. Post events to the Hinesburg Community Calendar (hinesburgrecord.org/calendar).
- Take notes. Three hours per year. Attend our annual meeting in November, take minutes and distribute them via email.
- Edit copy. Four or more hours a month. Learn how to vet press-releases, edit them, and then format them for print.
- Be our sports desk! One hour a week. Every Sunday night, summarize CVU sports.
- Manage Facebook and/or Instagram. Fifteen minutes to as-much-as-you-want every week. Make our social media shine!
- Deploy e-newsletter. One hour per week. Learn email program like MailChimp and help queue up our weekly e-newsletter.
Donate
Donate as little as $1 per issue! Every little bit counts. Go to hinesburgrecord.org/donate to give electronically, or drop a check in the mail to:
The Hinesburg Record
PO Box 304
Hinesburg, VT 05461
All cash donations are 100 percent tax-deductible to the donor.