With your help, we can support more programs!
How it works:
Choose a Program: Look at the list below to find a program that inspires you or one with which you share an affinity…geographic, mission, target age… For more information about the programs, click here.
Make a Gift to VCTF Designating that Program: Your gift of $500 or more can fund all or part of the program. Make your donation HERE and contact our office at info@vtchildrenstrust.org to let us know what program you would like to fund.
Be Acknowledged as Someone Who Cares About Kids: On the VCTF website, newsletters, and social media.
2025-2026 Programs
ACORN YOUTH ARTS INC - Acorn Youth Arts Regional Literary Arts Program - $12,000
Arlington Area Childcare Inc - Arlington Area Childcare Inc, - $10,000
Barra School, Inc - OUTReach and OUTings - $12,000
Bonnyvale Environmental Education Center - Hike and Seek - $12,750
Boys & Girls Club of Brattleboro - Expanding BGCB College and Career Support Programming - $12,750
Chandler Center for the Arts - Summer Youth Theater - $15,000
Changing Perspectives - Changing Perspectives in the Northeast Kingdom - $15,000
Child Care Resource - Specialized Child Care - $10,800
Clarina Howard Nichols Center - Healthy Relationships Prevention Program - $12,000
Come Alive Outside - Outdoor Passports for Barre and Beyond - $15,000
Cornerstone Community Center - Potter’s House and After School Program - $12,000
Dad Guild - Dads & Kids - $7,950
DREAM Program - Growing Dreams: DREAM's Guided Mentoring Program - $12,750
Education Justice Coalition of Vermont - Summer Social Justice Camp Statewide Pilot Program - $12,000
Encore After School and Summer Program - NCSU Encore After School and Summer Program - $7,600
Essex CHIPS (Community Health Initiatives & Programs for Students) - Essex CHIPS Teen Center - $12,000
Everybody Wins! Vermont - Everybody Wins! Power Lunch - $10,800
Family Place - Child and Family Therapy Program - $15,000
Franklin Grand Isle Bookmobile - Youth Services Program - $10,800
Good Beginnings of Central Vermont - Expanding Access to Babywearing - $5,225
Greater Burlington YMCA - Black Youth in Action - $12,750
Hatch, Inc. - HatchSpace Youth Design+Build Programs - $12,000
Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History - HSM Imagining the Future Makerspace - $12,000
Junior Milers - Junior Milers - $10,000
King Street Center - King Street Center Family Support Program - $12,750
Lake Champlain Community Sailing Center - Diversity in Lake-Based Recreation - $4,250
Leahy Center for Lake Champlain - Early Education STEM Outreach - $12,000
Lyndon Institute - Early Childhood Career Training & Education - $10,000
Mad River Mentoring - Mad River Mentoring - $10,000
MINT, Rutland's Makerspace - The MINT youth programming - $12,000
MoonRise Therapeutics - Family Support Services and Family Intervention Services - $10,800
Mountain Communities Supporting Education - The Collaborative - $15,000
Mountain Views Supervisory Union - Annual Student Leadership Conference for Regional Schools - $13,540
Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital, Inc. - Community Connections, School-based Program - $12,750
Outright Vermont - Expanding and Innovating Programs for Families of LGBTQ+ Youth - $10,800
Outright Vermont - Expanding Gender Sexuality Alliances into Elementary Schools - $12,750
Prevent Child Abuse Vermont - Project SELFIE (Safe Expression onLine For Internet Empowerment) - $10,800
Prevent Child Abuse Vermont - InsideOut Dad: Parent Education and Support for Fathers Inside and Outside Prison - $12,750
River Gallery School of Art - Art in Schools - $12,750
SafeArt, Inc. - Youth Empowerment Program - $12,000
Sage Mountain Botanical Sanctuary - Afterschool in Nature - $15,000
Safeline, Inc. - Safeline Youth Outreach Prevention Pilot Project - $12,000
Sandglass Theater - Sandglass Theater Elementary School Residency Tour - $9,114
Second Growth, Inc. - Second Growth Summer Camp - $10,800
Southern Vermont Arts Center - Youth Served at the Southern Vermont Arts Center - $15,000
Spectrum Youth & Family Services - Multicultural Youth Program (MYP) - $15,000
Teen Center - ConnecTeen 2: The Sequel - $5,425
Vermont Family Network - Puppets in Education’s new Resiliency Program - $12,000
Vermont Farmers Food Center - Farmacy: Food as Medicine Shares for WIC Identified Families in Rutland County - $12,750
Very Merry Theatre - Afterschool and Summer Programming in Winooski - $12,750
Windsor County Mentors - School Mentoring - $10,000
Young Writers Project Inc - The Tomorrow Project - $10,000
Youth First Mentoring - Youth First Mentoring - $11,475
Youth Services, Inc - Friends For Change - $10,800