A Rutland Regional Medical Center fundraiser, created with a goal of reaching $150,000 to help with a Rutland Housing Authority project, beat its goal and collected more than $275,000 for the Rutland Area Bridge housing project on Woodstock Avenue.
Traci Moore, senior director of development and community relations, said the Housing for Health campaign got an âoverwhelming responseâ from the community.
âWe have just been so incredibly grateful for the support, the response and really quick turnaround support that we received from the community,â Moore said.
Kevin Loso, executive director of the Rutland Housing Authority said the project had been funded by some of the about $33 million of the CARES Act money received by Vermont from the federal government and channeled it through the Vermont Housing Conservation Board. However, Loso said the funding could not be used for certain development costs which was one of the benefits of the Rutland hospitalâs fund