Grantees

The Riverside Middle School "Not Summer School" program is an enrichment program offered to low socioeconomic status students with limited summer opportunities. Throughout the summer Riversides "Not Summer School" program provides a 4-week enrichment program for students going into 6th-8th grade. Additionally, the students we enroll have missed upwards of 30 days of school and can immensely benefit from a summer enrichment program. We call this program “Not Summer School” because our kids associate summer school with hours of endless math and reading while trapped inside on a beautiful day. “Not Summer School” focuses on learning “in real life”. We focus on skills needed every day, and we focus on fun.

Roots & Wings aims to be the staple program of the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Vergennes. The primary pillars of the Roots & Wings program are community outreach, character development and good citizenship. Elementary students will work towards becoming Peer Leaders, middle school students towards Club Leaders, and high school students towards Community Leaders. As a member progresses through each stage, new opportunities become available and additional requirements are added. Pillars will offer increased opportunities for recognition, achievement, and community visibility that will foster stronger, more engaged citizens. We will build strong Roots here in the community so that youth will develop the Wings needed to support great futures.

Provide a three week summer progrma for 24 girls enering the sixth, seventh, and eighth grades as an introduction to non-traditional careers for women with opportunities to develop self-confidence and academic success through experiential learning, writing and leadership development

Rosie's Girls is a program for adolescent girls, designed to build self-esteem, perseverance and leadership through learning and applying basic skills in carpentry and other skilled trades. Girls are challenged to develop a broaader sense of themselves and their capabilities, learn independence and self-reliance, and expand thier skills.

Rosie's Girls is a unique trades exploration camp for girls entering 6th to 8th grades. They focus on attracting an economically, racially and ethnically diverse pool of participants. Through learning and applying basic skills in carpentry and other technical trades, girls are challenged to explore nontradional career interests, develop new areas of physical confidence, and expand their math and science skills thorugh concrete applications.

A summer trades program for middle school girls

To provide inexpensive sailing opportunities and sailing lessons to youth and families in the Newport, VT areas on Lake Memphremagog.

To identiy how our program can better serve the enrichment and childcare needs of students in grades 4-6. To develop and pilot a program for older youth based on the data we collect