Current Grantees
A sampling of Permanent Fund initiatives and grantees
- Vermont Community Preschool Collaborative
- www.permanentfund.org/collaborations/vcpc.php
- The Permanent Fund is passionate about achieving our vision of universally-accessible, publicly-funded, high-quality preschool for three and four year-olds. To that end, we are proud to dedicate significant financial and human resources to the funders' collaborative that shares that goal: Vermont Community Preschool Collaborative.
- 2009 Grant: $125,000
- Partners: A.D. Henderson Foundation, Anonymous, Arnold and Ginny Golodetz, Vermont Children's Trust Foundation, Turrell Fund.
- Vermont Mentoring Collaborative
- http://www.permanentfund.org/vmc/
- After dedicating almost 10 years to support of adult to child mentoring, the Permanent Fund decided to accelerate the growth of the mentoring movement in Vermont through the formation of a new funders' collaborative: The Vermont Mentoring Collaborative. We are proud to work with both public and private partners to achieve the shared vision of every child who wants a mentor, having a mentor.
- 2009 Grant: $75,000
- Partners: A.D. Henderson Foundation, the State of Vermont, Vermont Community Foundation.
- Vermont Children's Aid Society, Kids-A-Part Program
- http://www.vtcas.org/
- After visiting the former Windsor women's prison to speak with incarcerated mothers about their children four years ago, the board understood that this was an emerging issue that we had to take on. The Kids-A-Part program of Vermont Children's Aid Society, started a short time later, is Vermont's only program dedicated solely to the children of incarcerated parents. Kids-A-Part uses a child-focused approach to serving children, youth, and caregivers affected by parental incarceration, as well as serving incarcerated mothers.
- 2009 Grant: $65,000
- Partners: Sills Family Foundation, Florence V. Burden Foundation.
- Mentor Connector
- http://www.mentorconnector.com
- After funding a mentoring needs assessment in Rutland County, the Permanent Fund and its philanthropic partner made a three-year commitments to start and sustain the Mentor Connector with the goal of significantly increasing the number of mentor matches. The Mentor Connector is a mentoring network that supports Rutland County mentoring programs with technical assistance, resource development, and mentor recruitment. After just three years, the Mentor Connector has created almost 75 matches between Rutland County children and caring adults.
- Grant: $75,000/ 3 years
- Partners: New Castle Fund
- Mobius, The Mentoring Movement
- http://www.mobiusmentors.org/
- Mobius was founded after the Permanent Fund brought the drop-out and heroin use rates by young people to light in Chittenden County. After convening a diversity of community leaders, everyone agreed that youth lacked positive relationships with caring adults. A strategy for addressing these issues was developed through an in-depth community planning process and, with leadership from the founder of the Permanent Fund, Rick Davis, and the United Way of Chittenden County, Mobius was born to recruit mentors, develop financial resources, conduct regional marketing campaigns and ultimately build a culture of mentoring in Chittenden County.
- Mobius developed relationships with state government officials that led to the appropriation of $250,000 in new funds for mentoring across the state. These funds are being granted to the Permanent Fund to re-grant, and the Permanent Fund will seek on-the-ground guidance from Mobius to structure the grant round.
- Grant: $100,000/ 4 years
- Partners: A.D. Henderson, McClure Supporting Organization of VCF, Turrell Fund