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Riverflow is an Intentional Community

Riverflow aspires to create wholeness in life for everyone who is part of and connected to the community. United by meaningful work, community members with and without intellectual and developmental disabilities form friendships, gain vocational skills, and pursue dignified, self-directed lives. Riverflow is grounded in social forms that allow people of different abilities, needs, nationalities, and worldviews to live together, support each other, and contribute to the community as a whole.

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"A healthy social life is found only when, in the mirror of each soul, the whole community finds its reflection, and when, in the whole community, the virtue of each one is living."

-Rudolf Steiner

Support Us

We need your help! Building an initiative like Riverflow takes courage, commitment, and community. All donations given in 2024 are memorialized as Founding Gifts - become a Founding Donor and part of our extended community. With our first home open, we are turning our fundraising efforts to infrastructure for programming and the site planning for four additional community homes. See how you can help!

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Support Riverflow Community in Vermont

"One alone can do little, but if one joins others at the right time, much can be done."

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Join Riverflow Community as Volunteer

Join as a Volunteer

If you are looking for a deep and meaningful experience living and learning with adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities in a warm and supportive community located just outside of Burlington, Vermont, then Riverflow is the place for you. Help us get this amazing community launched by joining our first home as a volunteer.

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"The farthest star and the mud at our feet are a family; and there is no decency or sense in honoring one thing, or a few things, and then closing the list. The pine tree, the leopard, the Platte River, and ourselves - we are at risk together, or we are on our way to a sustainable world together, we are each other's destiny."

-Mary Oliver

Admissions

Riverflow Community is an inclusive lifesharing model. We opened our first therapeutic home in October 2024 and are designing a community that will include 3-5 houses in the future. If you are curious about intentional community life for yourself or a family member, please explore our Admissions page.

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Riverflow Community Admissions

"We have all known the long loneliness, and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community."

-Dorothy Day

Meet Riverflow Community's Founding Friends'

Meet the Founding Friends

It is with great enthusiasm that we introduce Riverflow's four founding Friends. Riverflow is a rich and joyful lifesharing community where people develop lifelong relationships with their peers, engage in meaningful work, and join in social and cultural activities within and beyond Riverflow. Riverflow provides stable and supported housing for adults with high support needs.

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"When we succeed in kindling our enthusiasm and our love for the work we do every day, we shall gain freedom, for true freedom can only be experienced when we devote our labors in love to a higher meaning."

-Karl König

How We’re Connected to Camphill

"Camphill communities defy categorization and description. Camphill is a home for children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities; it is a radical experiment in shared living; it is a template for environmental sustainability; it is a historically-grounded and innovative project that in many ways turns the norms and the expectations of our society’s measures of ability, value and productivity on their head."
-Zoe Brennan-Krohn

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Riverflow Community is Connected to Camphill

"Only someone who is ready for everything, who doesn't exclude any experience, even the most incomprehensible, will live the relationship with another person as something alive and will themselves sound the depths of their own being."

-Rainer Maria Rilke

Riverflow Community Events

Events

Stay tuned for our official event announcements! Join our mailing list or follow us on social media to be the first to receive updates and secure your spot at these eagerly anticipated events. Be part of unforgettable moments, and connect with a vibrant community of like-minded individuals.

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Our Quarterly Newsletter

We are open and our Fall 2024 Newsletter is online and ready to read.

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