A New Model for Rural Vitality

As small towns across America struggle with loss of gathering spaces, economic instability, and the erosion of community cohesion, the Creative Campus stands as a different kind of possibility: a community-anchored cultural and learning hub that strengthens the local economy, nurtures human connection, and keeps the arts alive. 

Support The Creative Campus

Your donation helps sustain The Creative Campus as a place for creative work, community gatherings, and shared resources. We are building a space at Goddard where people can live, create, and connect, with a focus on housing, the arts, and community life.

Gifts from supporters make this work possible.

Why Your Support Matters

This renaissance is still young. It needs belief, it needs partners who understand what a place like this makes possible, and it needs investment. Your support helps

• Bring exceptional arts and performances to the Haybarn again

• Expand lifelong learning programs for youth, adults, and elders

• Create affordable space for local nonprofits and creative enterprises

• Build a sustainable model that ensures the campus thrives for generations

Places like this don’t just enrich a community — they sustain it. Your support helps bring new life to a historic campus that has long been a cultural and creative heartbeat in Vermont.

At a time when many small towns are losing gathering spaces and cultural anchors, your contribution ensures this campus remains a vibrant, accessible, community-centered resource for Central Vermont and beyond.

Your generosity helps carry forward a legacy of creativity, inquiry, and belonging — shaping a place where community and campus thrive together.

Your gift doesn’t just fund programs, it fuels a renaissance, it keeps the arts alive, and it ensures that this campus remains a home for imagination, inspiration, and community for decades to come.