Grantees

Support their pilot program started last year in the Deerfield Valley to expand their mentoring program matching adults with children. They hope to increase matches from 10 to 16 in one year.

The In-Sight Photography Project began in 1992 as a free summer course for Brattleboro’s teenagers. In-Sight’s mission is to empower youth through the photographic arts to find their own creative voices and communicate their unique personal visions. Over the last 25 years, In-Sight has expanded into a national youth arts organization with year-round programming. Today, In-Sight offers accessible photography education programming to underserved youth in Windham County, Vermont. Having reached the milestone of a quarter century of operations, In-Sight is launching a 25th Anniversary Campaign to move to a larger facility.

To provide assistance to enable them to provide direct services programming.

Lake Champlain Community Sailing Center was founded to ensure access to lake-based education and recreation for all community members regardless of gender, ability, income, age, race, culture & ethnicity. Now in their 30th year, theyy continue to seek new ways to ensure lake access and life lessons for all. The Diversity Access Initiative (DAI) has been designed to mitigate historic, social, and economic barriers to outdoor, water-based recreation experienced by children who identify as BIPOC: free summer camp and afterschool activities, with a pathway to employment.

Southern Vermont Arts Center employs one person in the Education Department as Education Manager. She manages all educational programming for all ages. In 2023-24, SVAC is proud to report that attendance grew three-fold and served over 4,500 youth. SVAC can reach many more youth with an additional full-time staff member. Their community has asked for more programming. With another person, SVAC will offer extended days to support working families; increase outreach to schools for more school visits and field trips to SVAC; provide a greater presence at partners' events; add additional programs for children and adults with special needs; and create more programming at SVAC for single-day holidays when school is closed and for teachers' professional development days.

Summer camp for children involved in DREAM's nine mentoring program sites throughout Vermont.

To pare college mentors from Castleton State College with children living in the Forest Park Apartments in Rutland, VT. Forest Park is a low-income affordable housing community operation by the Rutland Housing Authority.