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- EIN 51-0187809
- (802) 262-2626
- 11 Loomis St Montpelier VT 05602-3021 USA
- www.vermont humanities.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Adult Education, Arts & Culture, Community Improvement & Capacity Building, Education, Humanities
Mission: Vermont humanities council has organized its activities around a mission statement which stresses that the humanities are critically important to the lives of individual vermonters and to society as a whole. The council strives to make vermont a state in which every individual reads, participates in public affairs, and continues to learn throughout life.
Programs: Lecture and discussion programs (speakers & grants) - these programs bring humanities lectures, presentation, and conferences to individuals across the state. Every year, speakers make more than 150 appearances at local libraries, historical societies, senior centers, and other places in the community.
humanities-based literacy programs - variety of programs to promote literacy in vermont. "never too early" is a professional, development opportunity offering early literacy workshops for childcare providers, as well as family literacy trainings for parents. "connections": is a school of vermont, the vermont department of corrections, and community organizations. Humanities camps are week-long summer day camps for at-risk middle-school students. The camps aim to strengthen literacy skills and build positive peer groups and a love of reading. "voices" is a professional development program for adult education and literacy (ael) staff to facilitate book discussions. The council also awards mini-grants annually to support literacy projects.
first wednesdays - the first wednesdays program offers free public talks the first wednesday of the month october through may. These are hosted at 9 different locations throughout vermont including brattleboro, essex junction, manchester, middlebury, montpelier, newport, norwich, rutland and st. Johnsbury. The speakers are nationally and regionally renowned authors, artists, scholars and public figures speaking about many different topics such as national security agency, poetry, war and religion.
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