Fund Tage Line: Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Vermonters and their allies contributing to a better world
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What a great opportunity to demonstrate our community's contributions to Vermont! We're thrilled to direct our Vermont charitable donations through the Gay & Lesbian Fund-- it's a no-brainer.
Beth Robinson, Ferrisburgh, VT

 

Visibility is worth a lot. That's why we donate through the Fund. It's a way of creating community, making its presence known, and giving back, all at the same time.
Jonathan Radigan and Chris Tebbetts, Hinesburg, VT

Since its introduction in May of 2006, the Gay & Lesbian Fund of Vermont has made nearly 300 awards to over 135 different nonprofits around Vermont and across the U.S. Below is a listing of many of the nonprofits that have received funding from the Gay & Lesbian Fund of Vermont:

Health: American Cancer Society, Clara Martin Center, Community Health Center of Burlington, Gifford Medical Center, Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, March of Dimes, MS Society, Shriners Hospital for Children, Vermont Coalition of Clinics for the Uninsured, Visiting Nurse Association, White River Valley Ambulance

Museums/Cultural Centers: Abenaki Tribal Museum & Cultural Center, Cornish Colony Museum, Main Street Museum, Shelburne Farms, Vermont Historical Society, White Pine Association

Arts: Burlington High School Drama Club, Capital City Concerts, Chaffee Arts Center, Chandler Center for the Arts, ELEVA Chamber Players, Friends of Carnegie Hall, Lost Nation Theater, Opera North, Paramount Theater, River Arts, Sounding Joy!, The Commons Group at the Skinner Barn, Town Hall Theater, Vermont Contemporary Music Ensemble, Vermont Public Television, Vermont Symphony Orchestra, Vermont Youth Orchestra Association, VSA Arts of Vermont

Environment: Appalachian Mountain Club, Bike Recycle Vermont, Champlain Islanders Developing Essential Resources, Citizens Awareness Network, Green Mountain Club, Lake Champlain Committee, Lake Champlain Land Trust, Local Motion, Preservation Trust of Vermont, The Nature Conservancy, Vermont Bicycle & Pedestrian Coalition, Vermont Land Trust

Humane Shelters: Addison County Humane Society, Green Mountain Animal Defenders, Humane Society of Chittenden County, Lucy MacKenzie Humane Society, Rutland County Humane Society, The New England Anti-Vivisection Society, Vermont Companion Animal Neutering

Hunger: Addison County Community Action Group, Charlotte Food Shelf, Chittenden Emergency Food Shelf, Friends of the World Food Program, Vermont Campaign to End Childhood Hunger, Vermont Foodbank

AIDS Services: Aid for AIDS, AIDS/LifeCycle, AIDS Project of Southern Vermont, Comprehensive AIDS Project of Palm Beach County, God's Love We Deliver, Vermont CARES

Humanities: Bethel Library, Bixby Memorial Free Library, Everybody Wins! Vermont, Fletcher Free Library, Friends of Kimball Library, Friends of the New Haven Community Library, Guilford Free Library, Mountain Pride Media, Rutland Free Library

Care for the Elderly and Disabled: Addison County Home Health & Hospice, Central Vermont Home Health & Hospice, Charlotte Senior Center, Elderly Services, HomeShare Vermont, Randolph Senior Center, Special Olympics Vermont

Education: Bucknell University, Murray State University, NECI Scholarship Fund, Otterbein College, Phi Beta Kappa Society, University of Nebraska Foundation, University of Vermont, Vermont Bar Foundation, Vermont Fresh Network, Vermont Public Interest Research & Education Fund, Vermont Public Radio, Yestermorrow Design/Build School

Civil Rights: ACLU Foundation of Vermont, African Great Lakes Initiative, Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (GLAD), National Center for Lesbian Rights, Peace & Justice Center, RU12? Queer Community Center, Southern Poverty Law Center, Vermont Freedom to Marry Task Force

Religion: Cathedral Church of St. Paul, First Unitarian Universalist Society of Burlington

Homelessness: Committee on Temporary Shelter (COTS), Green Mountain Habitat for Humanity, Habitat for Humanity, John G. Graham Shelter

Women's Issues: FINCA International, Mama Says, Run, Planned Parenthood of Northern New England, Susan B. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, Vermont Access to Reproductive Freedom, Vermont Works for Women, Women Helping Battered Women, Women's Rape Crisis Center, Womensafe

Relief Agencies: Doctors Without Borders, International Rescue Committee, Kiva Microfunds, Oxfam America, The Carter Center, Vermont Refugee Assistance

Youth: Boys and Girls Club of Burlington, Laraway Youth & Family Services, Makula Fund for Children, Outright Vermont, Spectrum Youth & Family Services, Springfield Family Center

Philanthropies: Jarred Williams Foundation, Samara Foundation of Vermont, The Vermont Women's Fund

Local Community Support: CV Shareheat Fund, Ferrisburgh Community Playground Project, Foxboro Discretionary Fund, Guilford Volunteer Fire Department, Hooks Cemetery Association, Randolph Area Community Development Corporation, United Way, United Way of Rutland County, WARMTH

We did it together!

We bundled your summer gifts to Samara Foundation of Vermont's scholarship program and to Middlebury's Town Hall Theater.

Your individual gifts of $25, $50, and more became:
-- a $1000 scholarship for a deserving LGBTQIA student
-- a sponsorship of THT's 2009-10 season that provides LGBTQIA community visibility

When you donate to your favorite non-profits through the Fund, we combine your gifts and others; they become greater than the sum of their parts.

Next up: Let's renew our VPT sponsorships! In 2008, more than 50 of us pooled our usual gifts to VPT through the Fund. Not only did we give VPT funding it needed, but we obtained sponsorships of Frontline and In the Life, thereby showing thousands of viewers the positive power of the LGBTQIA community.

Want to add your regular donation to the 2009 pool? It's easy! Just make a tax-deductible gift to VPT through the Fund before Sept 1.

(Of course, you're not limited to VPT -- make all your regular charitable gifts through the Fund and make your money do twice as much!)

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Bennett Law, co-founder of the Gay & Lesbian Fund of Vermont featured in April 27, 2008 issue of The Rutland Herald and The Barre-Montpelier Times Argus discussing the origins of the Fund, as part of an on-going series of profiles of Vermonters with local answers to larger questions

Get your Give Back to Vermont bumper sticker from the Gay & Lesbian Fund of Vermont’s online store at Café Press.

 

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The Gay & Lesbian Fund of Vermont underwrites In the Life on Vermont Public Television.

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Gay & Lesbian Fund of Vermont, P.O. Box 42, Randolph, Vermont 05060 info@glfundvt.org
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