Grantees

To provide home visiting and support to new parents in the Bradford area of Vermont.

To maintain and expand the scope of services of Lund's Home Visitng program to strengthen famlies and reduce the risk of abuse/neglect among at risk rural Chittenden County families.

All ages are invited to play, create and tinker in the Henry Sheldon Museum’s new kids’ makerspace. This space is designed to support and nurture museum visitors across various disciplines, from history to the arts & humanities to the world of technology. This Makerspace fosters community and family connections and provides a platform for creativity and innovation. From painting fun 3D animal pets to woodworking your own pixel art to learning to stitch a sampler, this VCTF grant supports hands-on learning and creative expression in the makerspace. The Henry Sheldon Museum aims to inspire kids, families and communities to engage, create, and connect right in the heart of Middlebury!

To provide equipment for their garden and video programs.

Vermont Humanities Camps are week-long summer day programs that engage at-risk middle school students in fun, rewarding educational activities. Held at approximately 14 middle schools each summer, they are run by two teachers at each school who recruit students that may struggle with reading or learning in a traditional classroom. Students rave about the camps; they are, for some students, their first positive interaction with reading, school, and perhaps with learning itself. Not only do the camps strengthen reading and self-expression, they also change students’ attitudes dramatically about reading, learning, school, and self-identification as learners. The camps are free for parents and provide food for students.

Fund training, rescoure gathering and coordination with other agencies to allow the Winooski Famil Center to plan, develop and implement culturally sensitive & relevant practice and programs for immigrant and refugee children and families that live in Win

They are implementing the Creative Curriculum Assessment System so that they may partner with area school districts to unify and report early childhood outcomes on the children who attend their prekindergarten programs.

Fund the start-up costs associated with launching an in-house food program for their early education programs, which operates one preschool and one toddler classroom. The program would provide nutritionally balanced lunches and snacks to all children and