Burlington City Arts

Burlington City Arts (BCA) has served the cultural and artistic needs of the Greater Burlington area for over 30 years. BCA’s mission is to cultivate a dynamic relationship between the arts and the community, to nurture creativity and imagination, and to ignite a passion for learning through the arts. BCA runs a range of arts programs from the BCA Center, BCA Studios and throughout the city and has established the BCA Center as one of the few exhibition spaces in the state dedicated to showcasing contemporary art.

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Founded in 1878, Champlain College is a small, not-for-profit, private college overlooking Lake Champlain and Burlington, Vermont, with additional campuses in Montreal, Canada, and Dublin, Ireland. Its career-driven approach to higher education prepares students for their professional life from their very first semester.

For the fifth year in a row, Champlain was named a "Most Innovative School" in the North by U.S. News & World Report's "America's Best Colleges" 2020 regional rankings and listed among The Princeton Review‘s "The Best 385 Colleges" in 2020. Champlain is also featured in the 2021 Fiske Guide to Colleges as one of the “best and most interesting schools” in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain as well as recognized as a 2020 College of Distinction for its “Engagement, Teaching, Community, and Outcomes.”

If you are interested in supporting Champlain College, read more here.

Dinse

Dinse is a law firm based in Burlington, VT, dedicated to serving businesses, institutions and individuals. In 1917, Dinse was opened near the shores of Lake Champlain by the firm’s founding attorney, Warren R. Austin. Austin set a standard for excellence that carried the firm through the following decades as it grew from two attorneys in 1922 to 30 attorneys today. Dinse’s rich history includes many of Vermont’s most distinguished lawyers who grew to prominence in their respective practice areas and became meaningful contributors to the Vermont philanthropic, business and high education communities. Dinse is committed to achieving the best for their clients and their wide range of practice areas allows them to build the right legal team for any challenge with a dedication to exceed expectations.

The Governor’s Institutes of Vermont

GIV, the Governor’s Institutes of Vermont, provides young people with intensive, hands-on learning experiences in college settings, igniting academic and creative passions, building confidence and leadership, and expanding students’ sense of possibility.

Committed to making world-class, accelerated enrichment programs financially and geographically accessible to every young person throughout Vermont, GIV encourages participation without regard to economic status, gender, religion, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or physical ability.

To make a gift to the Governor’s Institutes of Vermont, follow this link.

Greater Burlington YMCA

Greater Burlington YMCA lives with a mission to build a strong community by involving youth, adults, and families in programs and activities that develop spirit, mind, and body, our impact is felt when an individual makes a healthy choice, when a teacher inspires a child, and when a community comes together for the common good.

To learn how you can support the Greater Burlington YMCA’s work, read more here.

Higher Ground

Higher Ground was established in 1998 and since then has grown into Vermont’s #1 live music and performing arts venue.

To support Higher Ground’s staff fund, make a gift here.

Kids on the Ball

Kids on the Ball was founded in Burlington, VT in 2000 and is an award-winning tennis and mentoring program. After years of helping thousands of under-served, at-risk youth, Kids on the Ball is committed to changing lives – one ball at a time, in other cities. Kids on the Ball’s goal is to play the next ball, literally and figuratively, while being constantly aware of the opportunity to teach much more than tennis. Daily time on a tennis court with youth provides many teachable moments and the resulting relationships are the cornerstone of a happy, healthy and well-balanced life. Kids on the Ball is about relationships and respect and teaches life lessons disguised as tennis.

If you are interesting in supporting Kids on the Ball and its mission, you can make a gift here.

Middlebury College

Middlebury College is a private liberal arts college in Middlebury, VT that was founded in 1800. At Middlebury, students have the opportunity to study literature, the arts, philosophy and religion, history, physical and life sciences, deductive reasoning and analytical processes, social analysis, a foreign language, and world cultures and civilians. Students dig deeply into their major and broadly across the liberal arts in order to gain essential life skills and go on to pursue their future personal and professional goals.

Read more about ways you can support Middlebury here.

ReSOURCE

ReSOURCE is a nonprofit community enterprise that strives to empower individuals and strengthen Vermont Communities through workforce development, poverty relief, and environmental stewardship. In 1991 in Burlington, Vermont, ReSOURCE (then ReCycle North) began an innovative program of repairing and reselling household items that otherwise would have gone to the landfill. Out of that founding vision, ReSOURCE has expanded its services and programming to offer more opportunities to at-risk youth and low-income Vermonters in need. In addition to providing goods and services at an affordable price, ReSOURCE has trained over 1,800 individuals through their Job Skills Training programs and given those individuals a chance to learn valuable technical and professional skills and become gainfully employed. ReSOURCE’s success to date has proven its sustainability and created a replicable model of environmental stewardship, educational training, and economic opportunity in Vermont while being committed to teamwork and collaboration across their programs and departments.

Donations and other forms of support can be issued through this link.

Shelburne Farms

Shelburne Farms is a nonprofit organization as well as a working farm, forest, and National Historic Landmark whose mission is to inspire and cultivate learning for a sustainable future. Shelburne Farms aims to engage youth as well as people of all ages in learning experiences that inspire them to build diverse, resilient, and caring communities as well as a healthy future for the planet. Shelburne Farms collaborates with educators and other local, national, and international partners to advance education for worldwide sustainability.

To make a gift in support of the Farm, follow the link here.

The University of Vermont Medical Center

The University of Vermont Medical Center, formerly Fletcher Allen, is part of the University of Vermont Health Network, a six-hospital network serving patients and their families in Vermont and northern New York. The UVM Medical Center has a strong commitment to community and is dedicated to providing their patients with the best medical care possible. Their nationally recognized health care experts are researchers and teachers, physicians and nurses who offer leading-edge therapies backed by laboratory and clinical research.

Information on how you can help support the UVM Medical Center can be found here.

The Vermont Community Foundation

The Vermont Community Foundation (VCF) was established in 1986 as a permanent source of charitable support for the state of Vermont. VCF’s primary goal is to serve individuals, families, businesses, and organizations whose work strives to improve the quality of life for Vermont’s people and communities. VCF is a family of hundreds of funds and foundations created by Vermonters to serve their charitable goals.

Gifts to help the Vermont Community Foundation serve its state can be made here.

The Vermont Foodbank

The Vermont Foodbank is the largest anti-hunger organization in Vermont. Started in 1986, the Vermont Foodbank provides charitable food to more than 280 food shelves, meal sites, shelters, senior centers and after-school programs throughout Vermont. According to their website, the Foodbank distributed more than 8.2 million pounds of nutritious food to as many as 86,000 hungry Vermonters in 2013.

Gifts of all kinds to help provide food to those who need it can be made online here.

Vermont Works for Women

Vermont Works for Women is a nonprofit organization based in Winooski, VT that helps women and girls recognize their potential and explore, pursue, and excel in work that leads to economic independence. Vermont Works for Women works toward the day when women and girls make confident, deliberate choices about life and work that reflect an expansive grasp of the world’s possibilities, a fearless commitment to pursuing their dreams, and contribute to the vitality of Vermont communities. They strive to address the needs of women in Vermont to earn a livable wage and to succeed despite numerous personal, educational and economic barriers to employment. Vermont Works for Women also helps educate women and girls about the wide array of non-traditional career opportunities available to them, many of which may have never occurred to them to pursue. Their programs offer opportunities to explore different interests, to build confidence through mentoring, coaching and career exposure, and to perfect skills through hands-on training.

To support Vermont Works for Women in its mission, follow this link to the organization’s donation portal.