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Record Year of Charitable Giving for Vermont Community Foundation
Foundation: Vermont Community Foundation
The Vermont Community Foundation, its fundholders, and charitable partners made $31.9 million in grants, more than 90 percent of which went directly into Vermont communities.
This represents a 24 percent increase from 2019 and more than a 70 percent increase from 2018 grantmaking.
Vermont Community Foundation grants in 2020 also represent nearly a quarter of all annual philanthropic grantmaking in the state in a typical year according to data from the Foundation Center.
Grantmaking from the Community Foundation’s donor advised fundholders also increased, contributing more than $6 million to the VT COVID-19 Response Fund to support a coordinated pandemic response as well as giving directly to nonprofit organizations who are the backbone of Vermont’s communities.
Selected Grant News Headlines
A customized collection of grant news from foundations and the federal government from around the Web.
The chief of Colorado's Regional Transportation District Police Department has been elected president of the FBI Law Enforcement Executive Development Association, KDVR reports. "I am truly...more
synagogues, Jewish community centers, mosques, and other "at-risk faith-based and other nonprofit institutions" in urban, suburban, and rural America are in need of extra security, and a group of...more
The Houston Independent School District has been without a bond since 2012, and that's left it with more than $10 billion in projects that need to be completed. Now, in the wake of Hurricane...more
The TEGNA Foundation, the charitable arm of media company TEGNA, is now accepting grant proposals for projects that "focus on improving the mental health of the communities they serve," according to...more
The Public Interest Law Foundation at Boston College Law School has been awarded a $225,000 three-year grant from the Cummings Foundation to help students provide pro bono legal services in...more
The Otto Schoitz Foundation has given more than $1.5 million to groups that help people of color, veterans, and those facing poverty in Iowa. The Des Moines Register reports the WATERLOO,...more
Foundation: North Texas Community Foundation
If disaster strikes in Arlington, Texas, the first thing the city will do is set up a fund to solicit donations and distribute them more quickly, the Dallas Morning News reports. "I'd rather have...more
Foundation: Tulsa Community Foundation
Thirteen Oklahoma teachers have been awarded fellowships that will allow them to travel to Italy, Costa Rica, England, South Africa, and more this summer. The Oklahoma Foundation for Excellence,...more
"Children deserve the same medicines and care as adults," says Carlo Giaquinto, a paediatrician in Italy who noticed during the HIV epidemic of the 1980s that kids weren't included in clinical...more
The UN's first-ever International Day of Play will be held on June 11, 2024, and it's being hailed as a way to raise awareness of the importance of play in a changing world. A press release...more
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