Upper Valley Trails Alliance

“Supporters of the organization may join as members for early notifcation and discounts on events, borrowing privileges from the uvta tool shed, discounts at outdoor retailers and to receive the organization's newsletter.”

“The board has authorized the executive director to review and sign the form 990.”

“Any possible conflict of interest on the part of any member of the board or officer of the alliance shall be disclosed in writing to the board and made a matter of record through an annual procedure and when the interest involves a specific issue before the board.”

“Certain organizational information can be found on www.guidestar.org”

“The upper valley trails alliance advocates for the use, maintenance, and development of trails in the region. Through education, outreach, and stewardship we promote active lifestyles through trail use in all seasons, connect people and places through a regional trail network, and lead a coalition of local trail groups and advocates.”

“Trail projects true to our alliance founding principles, we are working with a large number of upper valley communities and partners providing expertise and technical assistance for trail projects including: in 2024 uvta worked on over 30 trail projects, building and improving over 80 miles of trails in partnership with many towns, businesses, foundations, and organizations in the region. Uvta organized over 230 volunteers totaling over 2,000 hours of work. Uvta partnered with five organizaitons to facilitate the improvement and creation of accessible trails in vermont through the new trail accessibility hub. Uvta staff and volunteers built new trails in the summer falls recreation area and improved the harris trail on moose mtn. Utva also built a wheelchair accessible bridge across trout brook connecting the chaffee wildlife santuary and post pond recreation area and built a new trail with 4 bridges along the waits river in bradford.”

“Education and outreach services 2024 was a year of celebration and reflection as uvta celebrated 25 years with special events throughout the year. The passport to winter fun, uvta's nationally recognized program that promotes physical activity in the winter months had a very successful year, serving 5,600+ students in 29 elementary schools and 33 homeschool groups in 2024. Uvta's trail finder, a free, online trail resource, now provides information on over 950 trails and trail networks. Trail finder also helps boost local economies with the trailside services feature. Upper valley high school trail corps brought 50 students from across the upper valley out on a 5-week trail crew program in 2024. In response to intense storms and floods caused by climate change, 12 bridges were constructed and 50 + miles of trail were improved. Uvta's summer trail stewards crew of 8 interns worked as an on-call crew, assisting with site prep and trail building. In 2024, the stewards provided 160 hours of service and improved over 10 miles of trail, making them a vital part of uvta's success.”

“The beginning of the year balances in column a have been updated to reflect the employee retention credit receivable as reported on the organization's 2021 amended form 990. The erc payment was received in november of 2024.”

“Upper valley trails alliance is requesting permission to change from the cash to the accrual method of accounting under the automatic change procedures. Form 3115 is attached.”