Project Grant Awards: Winter 2025

Abenaki Arts & Education Center — Abenaki History in 5 Minutes – A Bite-Sized Journey Through Indigenous Resilience
Vergennes, VT
Awarded $4500 to support the creation of scripts and pilot episodes for a series of videos on Abenaki history and culture as educational resources for middle school students, educators, and the general public in New England and beyond.

Bennington County Multicultural Community Center — Multicultural Film and Food Festival
Bennington, VT
Awarded $4500 to support three film screenings and panel discussions at a downtown venue, showcasing the cultures of Afghanistan, Venezuela, and the Congo. Members of the local refugee community from each county will provide food and lead discussions at each event.

Bethel Pridefest
Bethel, VT
Awarded $2500 to support a multi-day celebration of LGBTQ+ people, their activism and resilience, and their contributions in history.

Burlington History & Culture Center — Vibrant Lives: Discovering Our Roots of Black Vermont
Burlington, VT
Awarded $3250 to support documenting and celebrating the experiences, histories, and contributions of Black Vermonters (in Burlington) through oral histories conducted by youth interviewers, culminating in exhibitions, digital archives, and traveling displays.

Club Action — Race Against Racism
Montpelier, VT
Awarded $4500 to support an in-school assembly and social justice workshops, aimed at elevating BIPOC voices and educating students, staff, and faculty about racism.   

For the Land Publishing, Inc. — Outreach Through Digital Platform: Year One
Corinth, VT
Awarded $4500 to help broaden the organization’s reach to under-served Vermonters with digital and print access to Vermont Almanac’s content.

Gedakina — One-Shelf Book Project
Essex Jct., VT
Awarded $4500 to support a book give away to schools. Books are reviewed, curated and distributed to accepted schools and libraries. Books are historically accurate, culturally appropriate and help children see themselves in a positive light.

Heritage Winooski Mill Museum — Investigating Child Labor Exhibit
Winooski, VT
Awarded $4500 to support fabricating a new exhibition called Investigating Child Labor. The exhibition will include accessible and engaging ways for multi-generations to learn about historical and current child labor issues.

Lamoille Community House — Lives of Lamoille County
Hyde Park, VT
Awarded $4500 to support a podcast about people in Lamoille County, Vermont, who have lived experience of homelessness or housing insecurity. Each episode features a person telling the story of the intersection of their life and homelessness.

Lyndon Institute — Engaging Deeply with Holocaust History
Lyndon Center, VT
Awarded $3750 to support a tour Anne Frank Exhibit & Jewish Heritage Museum in NYC by 9-12th grade students. Students will engage deeply with Holocaust history, making connections to prior learning while analyzing how historical injustices relate to modern issues of intolerance and discrimination.

Otter Creek Music Festival — Toomai String Quintet
Shoreham, VT
Awarded $4500 to support Otter Creek Music Festival welcoming Toomai String Quintet, a Cuban American-founded ensemble dedicated to the performance, preservation, and exploration of traditional and contemporary music, especially from Cuba and Latin America.

The Center For Cartoon Studies — Fascism, A Graphic Guide
White River Junction, VT
In 1945, The U.S. War Department published a “Pocket Guide” entitled, “What Is Fascism?” Awarded $3500 to support the adaptation and expansion of the guide into a 32-page comic book. Topics covered include how fascists seize and maintain power, the role of media, and more.

Theater in the Woods Vermont — Curriculum Development for Training of Teachers, Parents, and other Educators
Middletown Springs, VT
Awarded $4500 to support the development of a training module, a pilot workshop, and support materials for educators in the power of co-creation as an educational tool.

Theatre Adventure — Disability Justice Documentary and Presentation Tour
West Brattleboro, VT
Awarded $4500 to support a tour of a documentary film and Traveling Troupe presentations to HCRS locations in south and central Vermont promoting disability justice.

Threshold Collaborative — Reclaiming Our Stories: Writing as a Bridge to Restorative Justice
North Bennington, VT
Awarded $4500 to support collaborating with Bennington College’s Center for the Advancement of Public Action and Writers For Recovery to present a theatrical reading of works by creative writing workshop participants at the Marble Valley Regional Correctional Facility.

TURNmusic — Grief, Identity, and the Centering of Outsider Voices with pianist and author, Adam Tendler
Waterbury, VT
$1500 to support Adam Tendler, pianist and author, in sharing with Vermont audiences a creative process for grieving the loss of a loved one during a community workshop in November.

Vermont Abenaki Artists Association — Interpreting “Deep Roots, Strong Branches”
Vergennes, VT
$4500 to support sharing recent research findings and oral history from Vermont’s Abenaki community through an interpretive exhibit and related digital content to reach audiences in New England and beyond.

Young Writers Project — The Tomorrow Project
Burlington, VT
$4500 to support a powerful collection of writing and visual art by our teenage community exploring the myriad issues they face and ways to move forward on Climate, Democracy & Ethics, Human Rights, Values, Education, Technology, Community, DEI & Accessibility.