2007 Grants
Amount
AAUW Burlington Branch
$1,000.00
In general support.
Audubon Vermont
$3,000.00
In support of the protection of bird species and habitats.
Birds of Vermont Museum
$500.00
To support the installation of a humidity control system.
Burke Mountain Academy
$2,000.00
Annual support.
The Burlington Emergency Shelter
$200.00
In support of the 2007 Burlington Emergency Shelter Fundraising Banquet.
Cancer Patient Support Program
$500.00
In continued support of Evening Song.
Catamount
$5,000.00
A $25,000 grant paid over a five-year period in unrestricted support.
Center for Progressive Leadership
$2,500.00
In support of the Service Politics Initiative.
Center for Technology Essex
$1,500.00
In continued support of the "Lintilhac Career Challenge Scholarship."
The Center for voting and Democracy
$2,500.00
In support of IRV (instant runoff voting) election reform in Vermont.
Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation
$1,000.00
Annual Fund support.
Cochran's Ski Area
$2,000.00
Capital Campaign to put in a snow making system.
Connecticut River Watershed Council
$2,000.00
To support the protection of the Connecticut River watershed.
Connecticut River Watershed Council
$5,000.00
Expert witness assistance support on the case before the Env. court on Entergy thermal discharge to the Ct River.
Conservation & Research Foundation
$1,000.00
In support of the Caura Futures project.
Conservation Law Foundation
$25,000.00
A grant in the amount of $100,000 payable over a four year period in support of the Lake Champlain Project.
Copley Hospital Foundation
$2,000.00
Unrestricted support.
COTS
$1,000.00
To support the programs and services of COTS.
Death With Dignity Vermont
$1,000.00
In support of the educational campaign.
East Haven River School
$500.00
To support the Ferry Beach Ecology School Program.
Fletcher Allen Health Care
$50,000.00
To support the creation of a new Birthing Center.
Flynn Center for the Performing Arts
$5,000.00
In continued support of the Student Matinee Series.
Good Beginnings of Central Vermont
$500.00
To support the Good Beginnings program.
The Governor's Institutes of Vermont
$1,000.00
In support of the Winter Weekend 2007.
GRACE
$250.00
In general support.
Green Candle Theatre Company
$2,500.00
Support for the production of Keely and Du which supports the Women's Rape Crisis Center in Burlington.
Have Justice-Will Travel
$5,000.00
To support the "Empowerment Assistance Program."
Institute for Social Ecology
$500.00
In support of the youth Media for Sustainable Agriculture project.
International Skiing History Association
$500.00
General support.
Isle La Motte Preservation Trust
$500.00
To support in the purchase and renovation of a farm house to be used as a Visitor and Interpretive Center.
Kelly Brush Foundation
$5,000.00
To provide safer conditions for ski racers as they compete, and to make a difference in the lives of individuals who have suffered a spinal cord injury.
King Street
$4,000.00
In continued support of Kids on the Ball.
Kingdom County Productions
$1,000.00
In continued support of their educational initiatives.
Komen VT-NH Race for the Cure
$300.00
In continued support.
Lake Champlain Maritime Museum
$1,000.00
Annual support.
LEAD International
$250.00
In support of the Marion Gray Memorial Scholarship Fund
Lewis Creek Association
$500.00
In general support.
Maple Leaf Farm
$500.00
General support.
Middlebury College
$5,000.00
In continued support of the Vermont Reptile and Amphibian Atlas
Middlebury College
$50,000.00
To support the Environmental Studies Program.
Middlebury College, Geology Dept.
$15,000.00
A $60,000 grant payable over a four-year period in support of the whole lake side scan project.
Mobius
$1,000.00
In support of the Mentoring Movement.
National Wildlife Federation
$1,000.00
Conference support.
New England Coalition
$15,000.00
A $45,000 grant payable over a period of three years in unrestricted support.
Peace & Justice Center
$500.00
In support of the Recruiting for Peace Campaign.
Peace and Justice Center
$500.00
To support public meetings.
Planned Parenthood of Northern New England
$760.00
Sponsorship of ad in the Vermont Woman to publicize the HPV vaccine for teenage girls.
Project Harmony
$1,000.00
In support of Jan Reynolds project; African Connection.
Recycle North
$2,5000.00
To support Recycle North YouthBuild program - training disadvantaged youth in important job skills, obtain high school degree and become employed.
Regatta for Lake Champlain
$500.00
Unrestricted support.
Richard Watts
$150.00
In support of the sponsorship of Energy & Environment Speaker series at the University of Vermont.
The Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth College
$5,000.00
In support of the Policy Research Shop's work on renewable energy and issues of environmental governance.
Shelburne Farms
$1,000.00
Annual support.
Shelburne Fire Department
$1,000.00
Unrestricted support.
Shelburne Museum
$5,000.00
A $10,000 grant payable over a two-year period in support of the exhibit; "Simple Beauty: Paintings by Georgia O'Keeffe."
Shelburne Museum
$2,000.00
Annual support.
Shelburne Rescue Squad
$1,000.00
Unrestricted support.
The Snelling Center
$3,000.00
In support of the Pulbic Fellow and Internship team in Energy Policy.
Spectrum
$500.00
To support the Mentoring Program in the funding of five new mentoring relationships.
Stowe Area Foundation Endowment
$2,000.00
Stowe Weekend of Hope
Stowe Fire Dept.
$500.00
Unrestricted support
Stowe Rescue Squad
$500.00
Unrestricted support.
Sustainable Markets Foundation
$2,000.00
In support of the "Uncommon Man."
Tela Honduras 2007 PT Project
$500.00
In continued support of a physical therapy center for disabled children.
Toxics Action Center
$10,000.00
To support the coordination of statewide grassroots efforts aimed at closing Entergy Nuclear Vermont Yankee.
United Way of Chittenden County
$1,000.00
In support of the Community Campaign.
University of Vermont
$91,868.00
In continued support of Dr. Chungfang Wei's project "Reproductive Differentiation in Plants: A Structural Mathematical Analysis."
University of Vermont
$15,000.00
In support of a research project on assessing and improving on-farm environmental quality through ecological monitoring and landscape design.
University of Vermont Center for Sustainable Agriculture
$500.00
In general support.
The University of Vermont Fleming Museum
$500.00
In support of the Fleming Museum's Exhibitions Fund.
University of Vermont Lane Series
$500.00
Unrestricted support.
University of Vermont, Dept. of Geography
$10,000.00
To support the Mt. Mansfield paired-watershed study.
The University of Vermont
$100,000.00
Part of a $100,000 grant in support of the new Plant Sciences Building.
The University of Vermont
$1,500.00
In support of the Society of Environmental Journalists conference.
The University of Vermont
$100,000.00
A $500,000 grant paid over a period of 5 years in support of the Greening of Aiken project.
The University of Vermont
$5,000.00
In support of the Vermont Flagship Store in the new Davis Student Center.
The University of Vermont
$1,000.00
In support of the Batey Libertad Community in the Dominican Republic
The University of Vermont
$200,000.00
Lintilhac Foundation Scholarship Challenge Matching Gift Program
The University of Vermont
$5,000.00
In continued support of the Vermont "Landscape Change Program."
The University of Vermont
$5,000.00
In support of the PLACE Institute.
The University of Vermont
$5,000.00
Part of a $15,000 three year grant to support of the Dean's Discretionary Fund.
Vermont Access to Reproductive Freedom
$2,000.00
In general support.
Vermont Campaign to End Childhood Hunger
$10,000.00
In support of Cooking for Life project.
Vermont Citizens Campaign for Health
$500.00
In support of the implementation of Catamount Health.
Vermont Democracy Fund
$5,000.00
To support "Equal Time" radio.
Vermont Foodbank
$2,000.00
In support of the Community Kitchen Project.
Vermont Freedom to marry Task Force
$5,000.00
In unrestricted support.
Vermont Humanities Council
$5,000.00
To support the Humanities at the Center Campaign - to purchase, renovate and move into a new building.
Vermont Public Interest Group
$30,000.00
In support of Clean Energy and Environmental Health.
Vermont Public Interest Group
$5,000.00
Annual support.
Vermont Public Radio
$20,000.00
A $100,000 grant payable over a five-year period in support of the Endowment Fund.
The Vermont River Conservancy
$500.00
In general support.
Vermont Ski Museum
$5,000.00
In general support.
Vermont Symphony Orchestra
$2,500.00
Ongoing support of "Made in Vermont Music Festival" and Masterworks series and outreach programs.
Vermont Woman Publishing
$460.00
In support of an ad for the Susan B. Koman Foundation in the annual Race for the Cure.
WDEV
$12,750.00
In continued support of Democracy Now.  
William Penn Charter School
$2,000.00
Unrestricted support.
Women's Rape Crisis Center
$500.00
General support.
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
$5,000.00
Annual support.
World Media Foundation
$5,000.00
In support of "Living on Earth" a environmental news radio program distributed by NPR and heard on Vermont Public Radio - 50 minutes of Vermont-focused environmental news.
YMCA
$1,000.00
Strong Kids, Strong Communities campaign
   
Total 2007 Grants
$925,488.00


2006 Grants
Amount
American Association of University Women
$1,000.00
In general support.
American Cancer Society
$1,000.00
To support the construction of a new Hope Lodge - a residential facility providing homelike lodging to cancer patients and their families.
Association of Vermont Recyclers
$100.00
In support of the 2006 youth Environmental Summit.
Audubon Vermont
$3,000.00
In support of the protection of bird species and habitats.
Black Warrior Riverkeeper, Inc.
$2,000.00
In support of the purchase of a boat.
Burke Mountain Academy
$10,000.00
In support of the Annual Fund.
Burlington City Arts
$1,000.00
In support of exhibition at the Firehouse Gallery highlighting 30 years of New Year Graphics for the Jewish Museum.
The Burlington Emergency Shelter
$250.00
In support of the fundraising banquet.
Burlington Supportive Housing Initiatives, Inc.
$1,000.00
In support of the DREAM (Directing through Recreation, Education, Adventure, and Mentoring) Program for needy children at Franklin Square, a low-income housing development in Burlington.
Camp Exclamation Point, Inc.
$500.00
In general support.
Cancer Patient Support Programs
$500.00
In support of "Evening Song."
Caura Futures
$2,000.00
To support a tropical rain forest conservation project in the Caura River Basin in Venezuela.
Center for Technology Essex
$1,500.00
In continued support of the Lintilhac Career Challenge Scholarship.
Charlotte-Shelburne Rotary Club Honduras Project
$500.00
In support the building of a center for disabled children in Tela, Honduras.
Choate Rosemary Hall
$10,000.00
Annual support.
Coevolution Institute
$3,000.00
In support of the conservation of pollinators.
Conservation Law Foundation
$2,000.00
In support of the Vermont Yankee issue.
Conservation Law Foundation
$25,000.00
A grant in the amount of $100,000 payable over a four year period in support of the Lake Champlain Project.
Copley Hospital Foundation
$2,000.00
Unrestricted support.
FairVote:the Center for Voting and Democracy
$5,000.00
In support of the voter education campaign.
Fletcher Allen Health Care
$50,000.00
To support the creation of a new Birthing Center.
Fletcher Allen Health Care, Dept. of Dermatology
$2,000.00
To support the residency education fund in the division of dermatology at FAHC.
Flynn Center for the Performing Arts
$6,000
Performance support, and continued support of the Student Matinee Series.
Friends of the Fletcher Free Library
$1,000.00
In support of the New North End outreach site.
Friends of the Winooski River
$1,000.00
Protection of water quality, wildlife habitat & recreational opportunities in the Winooski Watershed.
The Governor's Institutes of Vermont
$5,000.00
In continued support of the Governor's Institute on Science & Technology.
Have Justice-Will Travel
$5,000.00
To support the "Empowerment Assistance Program."
Home Share of Central Vermont
$1,000.00
Seed Funding
Institute for Sustainable Communities
$1,000.00
In unrestricted support.
Institute for Sustainable Communities
$2,500.00
To support the Madeleine M. Kunin Special Opportunities Fund. - working with local partners to develop innovative and long lasting solutions to environmental, social, and economic problems.
Intervale Foundation
$5,000.00
In support of the Intervale Conservation Nursery program.
Keeping Track
$1,500.00
In unrestricted support.
Kellogg-Hubbard Library
$1,000.00
Unrestricted support.
King Street
$4,000.00
Continued support of Kids on the Ball.
Komen Vermont-New Hampshire Race for the Cure
$300.00
In continued support.
Lake Champlain Land Trust
$750.00
In support of a conference held at Oxford University.
Lake Champlain Maritime Museum
$1,000.00
In general support.
Lamoille County Court Diversion Restorative Justice Programs, Inc.
$500.00
In general support.