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 —  including the Vermont History Expo. These organizations offer exciting events.

 

Fall 2007 Awards

· Center for Photographic Studies, Barre Portrait and Oral History Project, $816.

· Focus on Film, 2008 Green Mountain Film Festival, $2,000.

· Henry Sheldon Museum, Let Children Be Children: Lewis Wickes Hine’s Crusade Against Child Labor, $1,750.

· Quechee Library, “Revenge” Book Discussion Series, $1,998.

· Vermont Courage to Teach, Bringing Poetry into the Lives of Public School Educators, $2,500.

· Weston Playhouse, 2008 Teachers Workshop, $1,680.

· Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, “Outsiders: Those Who Fell Outside the Cultural Norm” Book Discussion Series, $2,451.

· Vermont Historical Society, 2008 Vermont History Expo, $7,500.

 

Spring 2007 Awards

· Building a Better Brattleboro, Brattleboro Literary Festival, $3,000.

· Burlington College Institute for Civic Engagement, Urban Nightmares, City Dreams, $3,500.

· Dorset Library, “The Rise of the English Novel” Reading and Discussion Program, $1,386.

· Friends of Robert Frost, Sunday Afternoons with Robert Frost, $1,700.

· Greensboro Wonder & Wisdom, Community Poetry Project, $3,250.

· Opera Theatre of Weston, Storybook Opera Project, $3,259.

· Park-McCullough House Association, Education Program, $1,846.

· South Burlington Community Library, Lifelong Learning Music Series, $600.

· Stern Center for Language and Learning, Burlington Book Festival, $2,500.

· Vermont Peace Academy, Developing New Strategies for the Middle East, $2,000.

· Weston Playhouse Theatre Company, Connections and Contexts Series, $3,580.

 

 

 

 

 

Grant Limit $7,500

 

Deadlines

 

Spring Round

Letter of intent

March 15

Final application

May 1

Decision

June

 

Fall Round

Letter of intent

September 15

Final application

November 1

Decision

December

 

 

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