- Partnership Grants – $65,000 given to 8 core organizations
- Rapid Response Grants – $31,231 to fund 41 projects
- Project Grants – $221,565 to fund 50 projects
- Humanities Camp Grants – $74,000 supported 17 camps
- Fall Festival Grants – $12,500 awarded to 5 organizations
- Vermont Reads Grants – $10,075 supported 13 community projects
We do not use federal funding for Partnership, Rapid Response, or Project Grants.
2024 Partnership Grants
Abenaki Circle of Courage
Organization Location: Swanton, VT
Awarded $10,000 to support the re-establishment of their annual Memorial Day weekend Abenaki Heritage Celebration.
Burlington History & Culture Center
Organization Location: Burlington, VT
Awarded $10,000 annually to support the development of a center aimed at capturing, sharing, and celebrating the diverse cultural history of the city of Burlington.
Clemmons Family Farm
Organization Location: Charlotte, VT
Awarded $10,000 annually to support their Windows to a Multicultural World initiative which aims to develop curriculum modules which incorporate art and teach history focused on the multicultural diaspora of Black people.
Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival: One Strings
Organization Location: Burlington, VT
Awarded $5,000 annually to support the One Strings program which provides violins and music lessons to school children from predominately immigrant and refugee families. The program fosters community and belonging among the students and families, who come from varying ethnic backgrounds and speak different languages.
Retreat Farm
Organization Location: Brattleboro, VT
Awarded $7,500 annually to support the farms partnership with the Atowi Project to develop place based programming centering Abenaki history and the natural landscape.
Rutland Pride
Organization Location: Rutland, VT
Awarded $7,500 for this emerging organization’s public programming supporting Rutland County’s LGBTQ+ community.
Vets Town Hall
Organization Location: Richmond, VT
Awarded $7,500 to support annual statewide Vet Town Halls that offer veterans a platform to share their experiences both in and out of the military, fostering understanding and acceptance amongst veterans and civilians.
Windham World Affairs Council
Organization Location: Brattleboro, VT
Awarded $7,500 to support their America250: Examining America’s Identity and Leadership in a Changing World project which aims to provide opportunities to pause and learn from our nation’s past, empower youth and marginalized groups whose rights are currently under attack, and build understanding and support across divides.
Rapid Response Grants
Brownell Library
Underdog
Organization Location: Essex Junction, VT
$500 to support the library hosting a film screening of “Underdog” in connection with their Vermont Reads project.
BTV CopWatch
#NoCopAcademy Documentary Screening & Discussion
Organization Location: Burlington, VT
$1,000 to support a #NoCopAcademy Documentary Screening & Discussion in Burlington, Vermont on July 28. Following the screening a panel discussion will be held featuring the filmmaker & youth featured in film. Other grassroots groups will table and or speak at the event too.
Burlington City Arts
Between the Covers: A Conversation with Jane Kent & Major Jackson
Organization Location: Burlington, VT
$1,000 to support Burlington City Arts to host nationally recognized artists Jane Kent and Major Jackson for an exciting conversation in conjunction with Kent’s BCA Center exhibition “Between the Covers.” The artist and poet will discuss their upcoming project, Why I Write Poetry.
Cabot Public Library
Just Getting By
Organization Location: Cabot, VT
$500 to support the library’s film screening of “Just Getting By” followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker Bess O’Brien in connection with their Vermont Reads project.
Charlotte Library/Town of Charlotte
Film Showing & Kick-Off: Gather for “Just Getting By”
Organization Location: Charlotte, VT
$500 for film screening of “Just Getting By” which will Kick-Off the community’s Vermont Reads project for Gather.
The Creative heART, Inc.
Children’s Art History Day Camp Series
Organization Location: Swanton, VT
$1,000 to support the Art History Day Camp Series which offers children exciting opportunities regarding artists, art movements, and works of art through hands-on learning (puzzles, stories, films and creations). Each month will focus on 2-3 artists/movements.
Education Justice Coalition of Vermont
Joy not Jails: Arts for Abolition
Organization Location: Burlington, VT
$1,000 to support the Joy not Jails event which will explore what liberation from carceral systems looks and feels like in various forms of creative expression including music, poetry, and visual arts. The project will also center the voices and work of incarcerated folks.
Epsilon Spires
The Film Adaptations of Banned Books Series: The Kite Runner with Afghan Cuisine
Organization Location: Brattleboro, VT
$1,000 for a partnership with Brattleboro Literary Festival and Brooks Memorial Library, to present the Film Adaptations of Banned Books series including Khalad Hosseini’s The Kite Runner with a discussion and Afghan cuisine.
Ethan Allen Homestead Museum
Break-In Recovery
Organization Location: Burlington, VT
$1,000 to support the Museum’s recovery from its recent break-in and vandalism and ensure their ability to continue to offer community programming.
Friends of the Fletcher Free Library
FFL Voices of Home Exhibit
Organization Location: Burlington, VT
$500 to support the library to host Vermont Folklife’s Voices of Home Exhibit during April’s Fair Housing Month. They will host an opening reception and talk with artist Corrine Yonce. This will be part of the library’s Vermont Reads programming.
Friends of Tucker Mountain
Abenaki Day at Tucker Mountain Forest
Organization Location: Newbury, VT
$1,000 for Abenaki Day at Tucker Mountain Forest. This event will celebrate the history and culture of Vermont Abenaki and will include demonstrations, displays, drumming, food, music by Bryan Blanchette, and conversation with tribal leaders.
Groton Free Public Library
Just Getting By
Organization Location: Groton, VT
$500 to support the library’s film screening of “Just Getting By” followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker Bess O’Brien in connection with their Vermont Reads project.
Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History
Archives as Resources for Educators
Organization Location: Middlebury, VT
$1,000 to create open access K-12 curriculum, informed by Common Core Learning Standards that shares the story of Sylvia and Charity, one of the nation’s first on-record Queer couples.
Historic Kent’s Corner, Inc.
Recycling Lies and Plastic Problems: What I learned from a Year with No Garbage, a talk by author Eve Schaub
Organization Location: Calais, VT
$500 to support Historic Kent’s Corner in hosting author Eve Schaub who gave a reading and presentation about single-use plastics as part of Art at the Kent’s 2024 exhibition, “Illuminated Worlds.” Through storytelling and humor, Schaub revealed shocking truths she learned along the way about garbage, plastics, and the recycling industry after she went a Year with No Garbage.
Hitchcock Memorial Museum & Library
Orleans County Cemetery Sleuthing Project
Organization Location: Westfield, VT
$700 for the Orleans County Cemetery Sleuthing Project which will bring genealogist and author Erin Moulton to Orleans County, VT for two presentations about cemetery symbolism and workmanship.
Huntington Public Library
Just Getting By
Organization Location: Huntington, VT
$500 to support the library’s film screening of “Just Getting By” followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker Bess O’Brien in connection with their Vermont Reads project.
Islamic Society of Vermont
Back-to-School books/backpack
Organization Location: South Burlington, VT
$1,000 to support the Islamic Society of Vermont to provide books and backpacks to schoolchildren from refugee families who have newly arrived in the US.
Kingdom East School District
Director of Experiential Learning
Organization Location: Lyndon, VT
$1,000 to support Kingdom East School District’s effort to purchase the new Red Clover books. Teachers will use these as mentor texts throughout the summer to engage students in literacy and allow them to choose one to take home at the end of the summer.
Landmark Trust USA
Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn: Amos Brown House and the Unique Connected Farm Buildings of New England
Organization Location: Dummerston, VT
$520 for an in person and live streamed event with vernacular architecture scholar Thomas Hubka who will discuss the story of New England’s unique connected farmhouses which so many Vermonters still call home.
Town Of Lunenburg
Gilman Bandstand Restoration Celebration
Organization Location: Lunenberg, VT
$745 to support a community afternoon event at the Gilman Gazebo Park in Lunenburg to celebrate the ongoing restoration of the bandstand that sits in the center of the park, and to help visitors learn more about the structure’s history.
Middlebury College
Middlebury College Clifford Symposium
Organization Location: Middlebury, VT
$500 to support the Clifford Symposium at Middlebury College. The symposium will host a discussion with Ken Cadow and Bess O’Brien on Friday, September 20th and be a part of Vermont Reads programming.
Potash Hill
Works & Process LaunchPad Residency
Organization Location: Marlboro, VT
$1,000 to support Potash Hill’s February residency of 40 artists from four groups through the Guggenheim’s Works & Process LaunchPad. This marks the first time Works & Process will gather so many artists and groups together in one residency.
Race Against Racism
Race Against Racism
Organization Location: Montpelier, VT
$1,000 for The Race Against Racism, a state-wide annual anti-racist event, organized by youth from several Vermont high schools, featuring a public rally, with BIPOC speakers, musicians, and performers.
Richard Kemp Center
Richard Kemp Center’s 2nd Annual Trip to the National Museum of African American History and Culture
Organization Location: Burlington, VT
$1,000 to support the annual trip to the National Museum of African American History and Culture and follow-up programming. Follow-up programs provide the opportunity for attendees to share highlights and learning experiences with other community members.
Rutland NAACP
Juneteenth Book Giveaway
Organization Location: Rutland, VT
$1,000 to purchase culturally relevant books to give out during two Juneteenth celebrations this summer.
Sustainable Woodstock
“Just Getting By” Screening and Panel
Organization Location: Woodstock, VT
$500 to cover the costs of a screening of “Just Getting By,” followed by a panel including director Bess O’Brien and representatives from Willing Hands, Listen, and the Haven. This is part of Vermont Reads programming
Sustainable Woodstock
Earth Day Film Screening & Q&A
Organization Location: Woodstock, VT
$1,000 for Sustainable Woodstock and Pentangle Arts to host a Climate Change & Sustainability Film screening for Earth Day followed by a Q&A with Director David Abel.
South Burlington Public Library
Cooking Up Vermont Reads in SB
Organization Location: South Burlington, VT
$950 to support the library hosting the Vermont Chinese School which led a cooking class for their Vermont Reads 2023-2024 project. The library will give away 20 copies of the graphic novel Messy Roots and enhance their collection of books with similar themes as Malinda Lo’s Last Night at the Telegraph Club.
Southern Vermont Arts Center
Voices and Portrait in Red Exhibition Panel
Organization Location: Bennington, VT
$1,000 to help Southern Vermont Arts Centers’ plans to offer a virtual panel discussion on the power of art in creating awareness about domestic violence, aiming to promoting a sense of community, and highlighting anti-violence work in Vermont.
Springfield Town Library
Underdog
Organization Location: Springfield, VT
$500 to support the library hosting a film screening of “Underdog” in connection with their Vermont Reads project.
Tunbridge Public Library
Generation Connect – Community Wide Read
Organization Location: Tunbridge, VT
$1,000 to fund Generation Connect, a multi age book club. Participants from 7 through adulthood read the same book, engage in discussion, generating connecting activities and a coordinating art project.
Unitarian Universalist Church of St. Johnsbury
African American Spirituals: Songs of Survival
Organization Location: St. Johnsbury, VT
$950 to support the Church in partnership with Catamount Arts and the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum to host Francois Clemmons for a performance of African American spirituals on Feb. 17 from 4-5 pm at St. Johnsbury Academy’s South Church Hall.
Warren Public Library
Mad River Valley Libraries’ Juneteenth Celebration Events
Organization Location: Warren, VT
$625 to support the Mad River Valley libraries host Juneteenth educational and celebratory activities on Saturday, Jun 15, 2024. The intent is to educate the community about the newest federal holiday.
Woodbury Community Library
Dirt Tracks & Thunder Roads: History and Stories of Auto Racing in Vermont
Organization Location: Washington, VT
$1,000 to support the library’s Dirt Tracks & Thunder Roads project which will highlight auto racing in Vermont and the library’s collaboration with the school for a project-based learning on Literacy, Math, and Science through storytelling in an effort to strengthen the community connections.
Project Grants
Bennington Museum
Teacher’s Institute: Museums as Resources
Organization Location: Bennington, VT
$5,000 for the Teachers’ Institute which empowers teachers to access, understand, and use the primary resources of the Museum’s collection in their lesson plans strengthening our community’s cultural connection.
Borderline Players Theatre Company
Summer Musical at the Haskell Opera House
Organization Location: Newport, VT
$2,000 to support the Borderline Players’ summer musical production at the historic Haskell Opera House in Derby Line.
Bradford Public Library
Spanish Conversation and Humanities
Organization Location: Bradford, VT
$5,000 to support the Spanish Conversation and Humanities program which offers language instruction based on the culture, history, foods, and diversity among Spanish speaking countries. Participants meet weekly with a native speaker, Spanish language teacher, or other guest. The program uses literature, food, music, digital resources and materials to support different learning styles.
CCTV DBA Vermont Language Justice Project
Know Your Rights When Stopped by the Police: A video in 18 languages
Organization Location: Burlington, VT
$5,000 for The Vermont Language Justice Project (VLJP) which will produce a video in 18 languages most spoken in Vermont titled “What to do if you are stopped by the police while driving a car.” The video will be shared widely throughout Vermont & beyond.
Chandler Center for the Arts
Global Connections Youth Outreach
Organization Location: Randolph, VT
$5,000 to support the Chandler’s rich fall season highlighting artists from diverse traditions from around the world. With the goal to forge deeper connections in the community, Chandler will pair concerts with school outreach programs.
City of Montpelier Parks and Trees Department
Hubbard Park Interpretive Trail Project
Organization Location: Montpelier, VT
$4,500 to support the development and installation of a series of interpretive trail signs along the accessible trail in Hubbard Park. It will explore what happens along the trail and bring the Abenaki language into the park.
Corner School Resource Center of Granville, Vermont Inc.
The Corner School: Summer Happenings
Organization Location: Granville, VT
$3,000 for diverse summer cultural programming for youth and adults led by experienced teaching artists and educators including: drama, writing, nature journaling, and more in their beautifully renovated one room schoolhouse.
Derby Historical Society
Derby Historical Society – Preservation, Archiving, and Educational Outreach
Organization Location: Derby, VT
$5,000 to support the historical society’s efforts to network with schools for field trips, educational opportunities & lectures, as well as support to catalogue, archive, & display historic Derby town documents and artifacts while refreshing the museum’s displays.
Easterseals Vermont
The Lifebook Project
Organization Location: Barre, VT
$4,000 to Easterseals’ Life Books project. Life Books let children in foster care reflect on their past, accept their present, and communicate emotions to their birth or adoptive families.
Flynn Center for the Performing Arts
Curriculum Guides for the Flynn Theater’s 2024-25 Student Matinee Series
Organization Location: Burlington, VT
$5,000 to support The Flynn’s creation of curriculum guides for our 2024-25 Student Matinee Series, helping teachers prepare for a trip to the theater, understand performing art forms, and draw connections to social, historical, and literary lessons.
Friends of the Fletcher Free Library
Fletcher Free Library Book Discussions
Organization Location: Burlington, VT
$4,000 to support the library’s menu of book discussion groups, from well-established to ready-to-launch, including: FFL Book Discussion, North Enders Book Club, Food for Talk, Vegan in Vermont, Queer Reads, and Turning Over a New Leaf. The grant was supported through our Reading and Discussion budget.
Gedakina
One-Shelf Book Project
Organization Location: Essex, VT
$5,000 to continue support for the One-Shelf Book Project that provides books about and by Indigenous and First Nation Vermonters to Vermont schools.
Good Shepherd Lutheran Church
The Talk, Vermont
Organization Location: Jericho, VT
$5,000 for The Talk, Vermont. This forum addresses issues of interest and concern affecting BIPOC and other marginalized communities.
The Governor’s Institutes of Vermont
2025 Global Issues & Youth Action Institute
Organization Location: Winooski, VT
$5,000 toward tuition support for the Global Issues & Youth Action Institute which gives students a safe environment to explore the social, political, environmental and economic issues impacting our world and to equip them with the skills, confidence and networks to analyze and address the issues in their community and beyond.
Green Mountain Book Festival
Green Mountain Book Festival 2025
Organization Location: Bethel, VT
$5,000 to support the 3rd annual Green Mountain Book Festival, a weekend-long celebration of the literary arts and humanities located in Burlington. The festival supports Vermont authors and brings free programming to the community.
Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History
Henry Sheldon Museum’s Place-Based Community Curriculum Project
Organization Location: Middlebury, VT
$5,000 to support The Sheldon Museum’s collaborative work with educators and curriculum specialists to develop the process for a K-8 museum-to-school curriculum that shares the diverse and intricate historical and contemporary narratives of Addison County.
Inclusive Arts Vermont
Arts Integration Residencies for Students with Disabilities
Organization Location: Essex Junction, VT
$5,000 to support Inclusive Arts Vermont’s Collaborative Arts Integration Residencies work in school settings to incorporate the arts into the curriculum to foster reluctant and reactive learners in finding connection, belonging, self-reflection and self expression.
Islamic Society of Vermont
Learn the Arabic Language
Organization Location: South Burlington, VT
$5,000 to support Arabic language classes at the Islamic Society of Vermont for both children and adults, with the aim to develop language skills and nurture curiosity, as well as foster respect and understanding of other or ancestral cultures. In the long term, learning additional languages can improve overall performance at school and create employment and career opportunities.
Junction Arts and Media
White River Indie Film Festival 2025 and JAM Film Series
Organization Location: White River Junction, VT
$5,000 to support the 20th White River Indie Film Festival in February and to launch the JAM film series in 2025 which will spotlight new films followed by panel-led community discussions on how the media is shaping our lives.
Kellogg-Hubbard Library
PoemCity 2025
Organization Location: Montpelier, VT
$5,000 to support PoemCity 2025, the library’s annual celebration of National Poetry Month each April. Now in its 16th year, it features poems by Vermonters in Montpelier storefronts and hosts a community calendar of poetry events throughout the month.
Lake Champlain Maritime Museum
Collections Corners 2024: Providing Public Access to Humanities
Organization Location: Vergennes, VT
$5,000 to support Collections Corners, an interactive guided program that brings artifacts directly to visitors. Programs feature new archaeological research and stories that are not prevalent in our exhibits.
Main Street Arts
Tales from the Land: An intergenerational storytelling project
Organization Location: Saxtons River, VT
$5,000 to support Tales from the Land. Local community elders with long experience of the land – farmers, foresters, conservationists – will tell their stories to a playwright who will turn the stories into a script that local teens perform for diverse audiences. The process strengthens connections to the land and across human differences.
Manchester Community Library
English Language Learners at MCL
Organization Location: Manchester Center, VT
$2,525 for English Language Learner classes that provide opportunities for non-native speakers to improve language skills, increase ability to achieve better paying jobs and improve quality of life in an English dominant community.
Middlebury Underground
The Strangers’ Case: Theatre-Making & Community Engagement Around Citizenship & Belonging
Organization Location: Middlebury, VT
$5,000 to support The Strangers’ Case. Middlebury Underground will lead community members in a rich exploration of citizenship and belonging through the language of the play Sir Thomas More, and its famous speech ‘the strangers’ case,’ believed to have been penned by William Shakespeare.
Migrant Justice
Building Connections with Vermont Farmworkers
Organization Location: Burlington, VT
$5,000 to Migrant Justice who will develop and disseminate educational materials — including through community events — to share results from a new farmworker-to-farmworker survey on labor and housing conditions in Vermont’s dairy industry
New Vermont International Cinema
Thetford Arthouse Cinema
Organization Location: Thetford Center, VT
$2,500 to support a series of free arthouse film screenings followed by community discussion in the Upper Valley.
Next Stage Arts Project
Feast & Film Series
Organization Location: Putney, VT
$4,000 for The Feast & Film Series which will draw together a cross section of community members and organizations from Windham County’s rich culinary and creative landscape to explore and celebrate the interconnectedness of place, cultural expression, and belonging.
Opera Company of Middlebury
The Dido and Aeneas Project: Addison County
Organization Location: Middlebury, VT
$5,000 for The Dido and Aeneas Project: Addison County. This education and outreach program of the Opera Company of Middlebury is a unique collaboration with local high school choral programs to study, discuss, rehearse and perform Purcell’s iconic opera.
Orwell Historical Society Inc.
Preserving our Heritage: Oral History Program
Organization Location: Orwell, VT
$2,000 to support the Orwell Historical Society’s effort to preserve the stories of the town’s senior residents through an Oral History Program. The Historical Society will record, archive, and share these histories with the public via events and online access preserving our town’s heritage.
Out in the Open Inc.
Warlé: A Multimedia Event Exploring LGBTQ+ Caregiving and Community
Organization Location: Brattleboro, VT
$5,000 for Warlé which is a mixed-media dance-theater performance and workshop that conjures the lives of two remarkable rural VT residents, sparks ancestral wonder, and starts conversations about care for LGBTQ+ elders.
Paran Recreations Inc.
Me N’ U Weekly Community Meals
Organization Location: North Bennington, VT
$5,000 for the ME N’ U Meals, where guest chefs cook in Lake Paran’s space and share a food that they value with the community free of charge, providing an opportunity for community conversations.
Pride Center of Vermont
Thrive Ball 2024
Organization Location: Burlington, VT
$5,000 to support The Thrive Ball, an event bringing QTPOC together and to show this community does exist here in VT. Thrive Ball is a place where they can engage and learn about a part of their culture that has impacted their lives and the nation.
Richard Kemp Center
Open Mic & Youth Talent Showcase
Organization Location: Burlington, VT
$5,000 to support the center’s Open Mic & Youth Talent Showcase that offers youth and adults an opportunity to share their stories and develop their talents in an environment that is free from cultural appropriation and exploitation.
River Gallery School
Avalokiteshvara, the Sand Mandala of Compassion
Organization Location: Brattleboro, VT
$5,000 in support of River Gallery School hosting Lama Tenzin Yignyen to create Avalokiteshvara, the Sand Mandala of Compassion May 6th – 10th in Brattleboro. The mandala symbolizes Impermanence, joy and how we are all interconnected.
Rural Arts Collaborative
Reclaim the Rain
Organization Location: Greensboro, VT
$3,000 to support Rural Arts Collaborative’s Reclaim the Rain project. The project aims to reconnect children with the positive aspects of rain and to aid in emotional healing following last year’s floods. Curated, age-appropriate books will serve as the foundation of discussion, learning, and the building of sculptural community rain gardens.
Shakespeare in the Woods
Shakespeare in the Woods 2024 Summer Season
Organization Location: Pawlet, VT
$5,000 to fund Shakespeare in the Woods’ 2024 season which will feature 3-week repertory performances of “Twelfth Night” and “Macbeth.”.
Social Tinkering: A Human Connection Project
Connection Conversations Program
Organization Location: Rutland, VT
$5,000 to support Social Tinkering’s monthly program which establishes a welcoming and inclusive, multigenerational space for people to learn about social connection, how it impacts us, and how we can intentionally grow meaningful connection to foster sustainable and thriving communities.
Swanton Arts Council
Celebrating Swanee
Organization Location: Swanton, VT
$1,500 to support free public screenings of more than five Swanee films to showcase the local creators and provide a discussion on the pastiche of each film, the growth in talent of our film-making community, and increase awareness of these community-generated short films.
Telling My Story
Telling My Story of Hidden Illness
Organization Location: Wilder, VT
$5,000 to support a two-day storytelling gathering around lived experiences of hidden illness, followed by a third day featuring a performance that is open to the public.
Those Who Were Harmed Podcast
Those Who Were Harmed
Organization Location: Burlington, VT
$5,000 to fund investigative journalism podcast to uncover the history of eugenics in Vermont, humanize the victims through storytelling, and spark conversations that confront historical injustices.
Threshold Collaborative
A Pilot Project: From Where We Are
Organization Location: North Bennington, VT
$5,000 to support a pilot run of From Where We Are. This will be a series of creative writing workshops with inmates at the Marble Valley Correctional Facility in Rutland and a free participatory public reading of their work presented by members of the Bennington recovery and greater community.
Vermont Abenaki Artists Association
Bridging Perspectives: Indigenous Narratives, Identity, & Healing speaker series
Organization Location: Vergennes, VT
$5,000 toward Bridging Perspectives: Indigenous Narratives, Identity, & Healing program which explores the context and complexities of contemporary Indigenous experiences, presenting vital topics that reflect challenges faced by Indigenous communities across North America.
Vermont Council on Rural Development
Community Visit Program
Organization Location: Montpelier, VT
$5,000 to support Vermont Council on Rural Development’s on-going grassroots strategic visioning process conducted in 3-5 communities each year. Community members attend three facilitated meetings, reach consensus on two to three key priorities, and form local teams to implement them.
Vermont International Film Festival
More Than Movies: The Screening Room @ VTIFF
Organization Location: Burlington, VT
$4,000 to Vermont International Film Festival’s The Screening Room — a new 35-seat cinema with top-tier sound, projection and seating — a place for immersion into all elements of cinema, with guest-curated film series, introductions, notes and post-show conversations.
Vermont Museum of Natural History Inc.
Exploring Sensory DEI
Organization Location: Wilmington, VT
$5,000 to create a curriculum designed to integrate and promote “Sensory DEI” in the Museum programming that will focus on the senses and the natural world.
Vermont Sampler Initiative
Vermont Sampler ID Days 2024
Organization Location: Middlebury, VT
$3,000 to support cataloguing another 300 Vermont schoolgirl samplers to the national Sampler Archive using multiple strategies to increase knowledge of women’s education.
Vermont Symphony Orchestra
VSO & American Musical Excellence
Organization Location: Burlington, VT
$5,000 to fund in part Vermont Symphony Orchestra’s hosting banjoist Bela Fleck, composer Adolphus Hailstork, and a local spoken word artist for concerts in Burlington and Rutland with free, public educational events and the commencement of a new partnership with the Clemmons Family Farm.
Vermont Village School
The Village Curriculum: A Collective Vision for School
Organization Location: Bellows Falls, VT
$4,840 to support the Vermont Village Curriculum project which will invite the community to reimagine school curriculum through a collective brainstorm process. What skills, knowledge, and ways of being do we need to build an equitable and just future? At the end of the project the curriculum will be widely shared.
Walden Community Library
Arts Outdoors: Summer Humanities Programs at the Walden Library
Organization Location: West Danville, VT
$4,700 for a series of outdoor summer programs hosted by the library to engage diverse groups. Programs will include a community mural project, local puppet show, arts and music programs, and a mobile planetarium show.
Woodstock Poetry Festival
Bookstock 2024
Organization Location: Woodstock, VT
$2,000 to support the 2024 Woodstock Poetry Festival, a smaller event organized by the Bookstock Literary Festival in place of its cancelled 2024 festival.
