Ghost of Midnight

Our Commitment to Vermont

November 2024

As we reflect on this year and turn to the holiday season, I am writing to members to offer my thanks for your participation on Front Porch Forum.  With so much vying for your attention, we are grateful that you make time to tune into your community via FPF.

With isolation and loneliness at epidemic proportions, we remain deeply committed to FPF’s mission of helping neighbors connect and build community.  As a Vermont public benefit corporation, this mission is baked right into our legal charter.  And as a family-owned small business, we’re proud to employ 30 Vermonters from across the state.

In these divisive times, please note that FPF is nonpartisan.  We make all of our moderation decisions based on our common sense Terms of Use.

In addition, Front Porch Forum is not publicly funded.  FPF is supported by local advertisers and individual donors, and we will maintain this essential civic service regardless of state or federal government budgets.

FPF currently has 240,000 active members out of the 270,000 households that exist in Vermont, and hundreds more join each week across every town in the state.

Thank you for your participation and everything you do to make this work possible. 

Michael Wood-Lewis, co-founder
Front Porch Forum