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— 2010 GRANTS —
Boys & Girls Club of Burlington, Inc.
the Early Promise Program
$100,000
over 2 years
Center for a Bio-based Economy
Feeding Ourselves First
$75,000
over 3 years
Chandler Center for the Arts
Arts Bus
$57,000
over 3 years
Lake Champlain Land Trust
Environment Education
$150,000
over 3 years
Resource
Workforce Development
$40,000
Rural Vermont
Free Enterprise Farming
$21,200
Sustainable Woodstock
education and outreach programs
$40,000
over 2 years
Trout Unlimited
Upper Connecticut Home Rivers Initiative
$100,000
over 2 years
Vermont Campaign to End Childhood Hunger
development of grassroots leadership councils
$30,000
Windham Child Care Association
Evening Child Care
$48,000
over 3 years
— 2009 GRANTS —
Champlain Islands Parent Child Center
bookmaking program
$10,000
Composting Association of Vermont
environmental education projects
$23,000
Connecticut River Watershed Council, Inc.
Vermont Yankee: Six Degrees of Degradation
$150,000
over two years
Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium
The New Explorers Club program
$25,000
Four Winds Nature Institute
statewide environmental literacy programs
$50,000
Friends of Burlington Gardens
Healthy City Youth Farm for 2009-2011
$20,000
New England Grassroots Environment Fund
grassroots environmental groups in Vermont
$50,000
North Branch Nature Center
Youth Birding Program
$55,000
over two years
Sustainable Woodstock
community education and outreach programs
$45,000
The Nature Conservancy
the new horticultural outreach component of Wise On Weeds
$37,000
over two years
Toxics Action Center
'Resources for Clean and Healthy Communities' project
$20,000
Vermont Studio Center
the Learning in Art & Culture Program
$25,000
— 2008 GRANTS —
Center for Bio-based Economy
Hardwick Agro-Eco Industrial Park
$20,000
Change the World Kids
Reaching Out
$90,000
over two years
Food Works at Two Rivers Center
VT Feed
$105,000
over three years
Friends of the Winooski River
Winooski River Sojourn
$25,000
over two years
Highfields Institute
Farm-Fabricated On-Farm Composting Equipment Project
$10,000
Kids on the Block
Breaking the Silence (free school assemblies)
$22,000
Recycle North
Expansion of Apprentice Program
$35,000
Sterling College
Special Topics in Sustainable Systems and Design
$65,000
Stern Center for Language and Learning
African Family Literacy Initiative
$45,000
The DREAM Program
Camp DREAM
$25,000
Vermont Youth Conservation Corps
VermontFutures
$135,000
over three years
Women Helping Battered Women
Children's Advocate for Economic Justice Program
$75,000
over two years
— 2007 GRANTS —
Circus Smirkus
Ringmaster Residencies in the Northeast Kingdom
$20,000
Clean Energy Group
Cow Power Project
$75,000
Conservation Law Foundation, National Wildlife Federation, and the Vermont Natural Resources Council
Protecting the Fabric of Vermont Coalition
$200,000
total
Highfields Institute
Site and Organizational Development
$30,000
Parent to Parent of Vermont
Merger with Vermont Parent Information Center
$25,000
NorthWoods Stewardship Center
Promoting Renewable Energy Solutions in the Northeast Kingdom
$110,000
over three years
Smokey House Center
Update Land Stewardship and Farming
$100,685
over two years
Vermont Institute of Natural Science
Improvement of Environmental Citizenship Teaching Kits
$33,000
Voices for Vermont’s Children
Child Protective Services Improvement Project
$75,000
over two years
Windham Child Care Association
In-depth Training for Early Childhood Educators
$52,711
over two years
— 2006 GRANTS —
Clean Energy Group
Cow Power Project
$75,000
Conservation Law Foundation, National Wildlife Federation, and the Vermont Natural Resources Council
Protecting the Fabric of Vermont Coalition
$200,000
total
Highfields Institute
Various projects
$50,000
Hinesburg Land Trust
LaPlatte Headwaters Initiative
$50,000
Landmark Volunteers
Vermont outreach
$10,000
University of Vermont
Communities Helping Communities
$100,000
over two years
Vermont Campaign to End Childhood Hunger
Cooking for Life
$70,000
over two years
Vermont Children's Forum
Filling the Gap for Kids in Care
$65,000
Vermont Law School
Children First! Legal Clinic
$100,000
over three years
— 2005 GRANTS —
Highfields Institute
Equipment Design and various projects
$62,376
ReCycle North
YouthBuild
$23,000
plus a $20,000
matching grant
Shelburne Farms
PLACE Institute
$185,000
over three years
Southwestern Vermont Health Care
Trim Kids program
$194,000
over two years
Union Arena Community Center
Arena Construction
$25,000
Vermont Youth Conservation Corps
Youth Education programs
$133,680
over two years
Wilderness Society
Saving Vermont's Wilderness
$108,700

These are a partial listing of grants.
In addition to the above, family members make discretionary grants for which unsolicited proposals are not accepted.