Current Grant Projects

“Sharing Our Past — Shaping Our Future” Since 1974

Twice a year, through a competitive grant process, the Council makes awards to museums and libraries, film, music and literary festivals, and local historical societies. These organizations offer exciting events.

Spring 2010 Awards

· Bent Northrop Memorial Library, The Golden Cage: Mexican Migrant Workers and Vermont Dairy Farmers exhibit, $500.

· Building a Better Brattleboro, 9^th Annual Brattleboro Literary Festival, $3,000.

· Johnson State College, Life in Essex County and Life in Caledonia County video history projects, $1,000.

· Opera Theatre of Weston, The Magic Flute Storybook Opera Project, $2,000.

· Pentangle Council on the Arts, 2nd Annual Bookstock: The Green Mountain Festival of Words, $1,600.

· Stern Center for Language and Learning, 6^th Annual Burlington Book Festival, $2,500.

· Yellow Barn Music School & Festival, Musicological Lecture Series, $1,000.

· Vermont Folklife Center, New Vermonters from the Balkans: An Online Resource, $5,000.

· Vital Communities, Colonial Quest, $2,500.

Fall 2009 Awards

· American Precision Museum, Civil War Anniversary Exhibit, $3,400.

· Bennington Free Library and Baker Street Breakfast Club, Victorian Roots of Mysteries Reading Series, $1,200.

· Focus on Film, 13th Annual Green Mountain Film Festival, $2,400.

· Green Mountain Library Consortium, MANGO Online Language Learning, $2,000.

· Vermont Historical Society, 2010 Vermont History Expo, $1,000.

· Vermont Symphony Orchestra, Voices from Terezin, $3,000.

· Weston Playhouse Theatre Company, 2010 Teachers’ Workshop, $3,000.

Office in Montpelier

11 Loomis Street, Montpelier, Vermont 05602

802.262.2626

Fax: 802.262.2620

E-mail: info@vermonthumanities.org

Grant Limit

$5,000

Deadlines

Spring Round

Letter of intent

March 1

Final application

April 2

Decision

May

Fall Round

Letter of intent

September 13

Final application

October 22

Decision

December