Vermont Humanities recently awarded $99,137 in Project Grants to 24 different organizations for our Summer Project Grant Round, including $5,000 to All the Rivers to support their music-driven storytelling initiative that celebrates immigrant artists in Vermont through live performances and interactive workshops.
The summer awards included $16,387 to four organizations to commemorate our nation’s 250th anniversary, using funds from the Vermont 250th Commission and private donors.
They will open the application form for our Fall 2026 Project Grants in early August, with an application deadline of Wednesday, September 9.
Summer 2026 Project Grant Awards
In July 2026, VH awarded $99,137 in Project Grants to 24 different organizations for our Summer Project Grant Round. $16,387 of these awards (to 4 organizations) were awarded to commemorate our nation’s 250th anniversary, using funds from the Vermont 250th Commission and private donors.
All the Rivers — All the Rivers
Burlington
$5000 to support a music-driven storytelling initiative that will celebrate immigrant artists in Vermont through accessible live performances and interactive workshops statewide.
Barre Opera House — Storyteller David Gonzalez Student Matinee Event
Barre
$3150 for a student matinee performance with Broadway writer/actor/producer David Gonzalez, who will illuminate the creative process through stories.
Borderline Players Theatre Company — Murder on the Orient Express
Newport
$1000 for a theatrical production at the historic Haskell Opera House in Derby Line.
Chandler Center for the Arts — Peasant of El Salvador: Educational Matinee programming
Randolph
$5000 to help the Chandler Players present four performances of A Peasant of El Salvador in cooperation with the playwrights, including two student matinees in Randolph and Winooski.
Chinese Program, Department of Global Humanities, Norwich University — Belonging Across Languages
Northfield
$5000 to support a public humanities project that brings Chinese and Chinese-speaking youth and families in Vermont together to explore identity and belonging while building connections with the community.
Clemmons Family Farm — Books and Arts at the Reading Room
Charlotte
$5000 to assist the Clemmons Family Farm and five members of the Vermont African American/African Diaspora Artists’ Network (VAAADAN) in developing and leading a creative series of community engagements inspired by African American/African diaspora history and culture books.
The Corner School Resource Center of Granville — Summer Happenings
Granville
$1400 to support humanities-oriented workshops and refreshments at informational sessions for seniors, an art show featuring local artists, and an autumn plant exchange.
Education Justice Coalition of Vermont — Summer Social Justice Camps
St Albans
$5000 for a summer camp where youth develop their leadership skills, networks, and knowledge of social justice topics of their choice to make transformative changes in their schools and communities.
Friends of the Fletcher Free Library — Fletcher Free Library Book Discussions
Burlington
$4000 to aid free community book discussion groups, including the North Enders Book Club, Food for Talk, Vegan in Vermont, Queer Reads, and Bake Club.
Gedakina — SSS Sisters share skills
Essex Jct.
$5000 to support a multigenerational endeavor to strengthen and revitalize the cultural knowledge and identity of Native American women and their families from across New England, with focus in this project on staff writing books.
Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival — Migrations: Two Vermont Towns, Two Vermont Families, Two Magnets of Humanities Discourse
Winooski
$5000 for a series of talks and discussions on the journeys of two Vermont families: Nobel laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s journey from the gulags of the USSR to Cavendish; and the Serkins’ journey from Nazi Germany to creative freedom in Marlboro.
Mountain Communities Supporting Education Inc, dba ACT Bennington — YourSpace: Sparking Joy & Connection
Bennington
$5000 to support an event series for LGBTQ+ and Allied youth that centers joy, connection, and community.
The Nature Museum at Grafton — Place-Based Environmental Education
Grafton
$5000 to enhance the Nature Museum’s programs and services by creating a place-based educational guide in print, online, and physical signage formats, reflecting the culture, natural history, and ecology of the region.
Northern Stage Company — Theater Education Program for Students with Disabilities
White River Junction
$5000 for a collaboration with the Special Needs Support Center in WRJ to host a workshop for students with disabilities. Students will engage in acting exercises, create original stories, build puppets and paint sets, and make a final presentation.
Rockingham Free Public Library — Teen Takeover: Summer at the Library
Bellows Falls
$3800 to support a seven-week program for teenagers to explore identity, history, and voice through humanities activities, including a teen-led book group and Teen Advisory Group leadership.
Royalton Memorial Library — Eat Run Read
South Royalton
$4700 to connect wellness, literacy, and local food culture through a five-month library program organized in partnership with key civic and cultural institutions, featuring cooking classes, book discussions, speakers, and training for a community 5k run.
Turning Point Windham County — Encouraging Recovery Through Community
Brattleboro
$5000 for peer-supported recovery programming, including activities like writing, collages/scrapbooking, painting, and outdoor activities.
Vermont Folklife Center — Proud Little State — Graphic Histories of LGBTQ+ Experience in Vermont
Burlington
$5000 to support publishing the second volume of a comic book series on LGBTQ+ experiences in Vermont. This edition will explore civil unions, and is a collaboration between Vermont Folklife; UVM Center for Research on Vermont; Vermont Queer Archives; and UVM Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies.
Vermont Village School — The Village Curriculum: A Collective Vision for School (Phase Two)
Bellows Falls
$4700 to develop lessons gleaned from community sessions to reimagine school curriculum. What skills, knowledge, and ways of being do we need to build an equitable and just future?
VT Queer Crafts — Queer Arts Festival and Queer Craft Fair
Montpelier
$5000 to support an event held in Barre that celebrates rural queer joy and creativity with dozens of craft and food vendors, performances by queer artists, and community-led activities.
Vermont Humanities 250th Project Grant Awards
$16,387 was awarded to commemorate our nation’s 250th anniversary, using funds from the Vermont 250th Commission and private donors.
Cutler Memorial Library — Tad Stoermer: A Resistance History of the United States
Plainfield
$1987 for an in-person event with a virtual author visit by historian Tad Stoermer featuring a live Q&A about his book A Resistance History of the United States, which examines revolution and resistance as lived historical forces, then and now.
Friends of Historic Memorial Hall — 1776: A Community Musical
Wilmington
$4400 to support a community production that explores the founding of the United States through the lens of compromise, moral failure, and hard-won consensus.
Woodstock Union High/Middle School Library — How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
Woodstock
$5000 for educators to develop curriculum for middle school and high school students and to purchase class sets of How the Word is Passed by Clint Smith for high school students and its young reader version for middle school students.
Young Writers Project — My America
Burlington
$5000 for Vermont teen writers and artists to respond to the prompt, “This is what my America looks like,” describing the nation they want to live in now and in the future.
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