Every year we create an online Annual Report that includes highlights from each year, as well as a list of donors. In this section you can also download reports on our Covid-19 relief and recovery efforts with the Vermont Arts Council, as well as detailed IRS returns.
2020 was, for many of us, the most unusual year of our lifetimes. When Vermont Humanities closed our office on March 12 we did not expect the pandemic to last over a year. But we immediately did everything we could to help Vermont’s cultural sector survive.
In 2021, many Vermonters felt the grip of the pandemic loosen, but also faced unique challenges of our “new normal.” We began to convene together to share stories and experiences, yet all through the lens of a changed world.
Along with the Vermont Arts Council, we distributed almost $1.2 million in Covid-19 Cultural Recovery Grants in 2021, and over $780,000 in Covid-19 Emergency Relief Grants in 2020. Download our reports of these efforts.
2020 IRS form 990, available as a PDF download.
Poet Sarah Audsley joined us at the Taconic Mountains Ramble State Park for Words in the Woods.
Humanities Camps are filled with reading and writing projects, field trips, and outdoor activities.
We won a 2020 Schwartz Prize for best public humanities programming in the U.S. for Vermont Reads 2019: “March: Book One.”
We supported Historic New England’s “More than a Market” project that explored the experiences of new Americans through food markets.
Our free public events help bring the power of the humanities to communities across Vermont.
