Grantees

Purchase table for teacher use in video and online documentation of children's development.

Provide equipment for 3-5 year old classrooms that promotes learning and development.

Provide equipment for 3-5 year old classrooms that promotes learning and development.

Equipment

We are starting an afterschool program at Barre Town Middle and Elementary School, therefore, need basic equipment.

To equip the Center's Families Learning Together Infant Care Program with updated furniture in order to model best practrices and mentor in an age appropriate setting for parent participants.

In line with their mission to support, engage, inspire, and empower youth to make healthy decisions and become active community members and leaders, Essex CHIPS will hold bi-monthly Teen Nights. These free, third space Friday events will provide a safe, healthy, and engaging environment for teens. Program offerings will include healthy snacks, supervised games, STEM activities, and special guest speakers covering topics such as healthy living, community engagement, leadership, and career exploration. Additional special events will feature movies, sports, and other interactive activities. The intent is to be an enriching and fun experience for youth seeking productive social time.

The Arts Bus Ever After Kids Program is GROWing & GOing! What we piloted in 2019 with partner OnePlanet & VCTF’s grant has grown to an award-winning, efficient, year-round art enrichment & empowerment program-not just for kids, but for care providers, families, art educators, schools, libraries & communities. The research-supported, needs-based program is based on 2 systemic facts: 1) there will FOREVER be children at-risk in AFTER care programs; and 2) quality art education will ALWAYS be sacrificed from school budgets. It was a steep learning curve to roll out this program just before a pandemic, but that inspired initiatives for art kits & supplies to remote areas in every weather, which together makes magic for heaps of ever after kids!