Grantees

The Mentor Connector is expanding early mentoring in Rutland County, Vermont with a special focus on matching children ages 7 to 10, when habits around learning, relationships, and behavior are rapidly forming. The program connects youth with trained adult mentors who meet weekly to build trusting relationships, strengthen social and emotional skills, and support positive decision making. By ensuring children have a consistent caring adult before challenges escalate, the initiative strengthens families, supports healthy development, and helps prevent future truancy, substance use, and school disengagement.

To launch a pilot year for Power Breakfast, a reading and mentoring program modeled after the power lunch program.

CSC strives to ensure access to Lake Champlain by all community members. Mission-based programs eliminate barriers to access based on gender, ability, income, age, and now, with our latest program, race, culture & ethnicity. Now in our 29th year, we continue to find new ways to provide lake access and life lessons for all. This educational program will be piloted to determine format, design, registration methods, and effective outreach methods. Held on Saturday mornings throughout the summer, this program will engage parents/guardians and their preschool-aged children in Early STEM activities, with funds supporting the design and implementation of the program, keeping it affordable for children from low-income families.

A program for pregnant and parenting teens so they can get their high school diploma or GED, along with job skills.

Funds used to support the continuation of the preschool program at St. Pauls's Catholic School in Derby Line, VT.

Provide support and resources th allow Vermont communities to establish, strengthen and sustain high quality preschool experiences for 3 and 4 year olds that qualify for public educaton funding and ensures collaborative planning and design making involving families with young children, the public schools, child care providers and other early educaton services providers.

Purchase equipment for infant/toddler and preschool room

Funds used to expand their existing preschool program to include more children.