Auction of Bernie-style mittens raises nearly $20,000 for LGBTQ+ youth
Local Vermont donor steps forward with a new, time-limited fundraising match Vermont Business Magazine In just six days, people from across the country raised nearly $20,000 for LGBTQ+ youth. It started when now world-famous Bernie-mitten-maker Jen Ellis gifted Outright Vermont 1 of 3 pairs of newly made mitts in a ‘coming out of hiatus’ moment. In a recent NBC article, Ellis reflected on what LGBTQ+ youth are experiencing during the pandemic: “This hard for them. I just wanted to give them a shoutout, you know, like, ‘Hang in there. This is not going to last forever, and when it'...