Unrestricted and purpose-limited grants to local organizations that operate gathering space, recreation, and historical memory. This is the foundation’s longest-running activity and remains the first line in our budget.
A practical teaching program for residents, job-seekers, small makers, and civic groups. Tracks cover AI for work and career, digital arts, image and video editing, social content and vlogging, websites, simple web apps, and self-hosting.
We scan nonprofit technology offers — software, cloud credits, donation tools, accessibility aids — and match them either to learners or to the foundation’s own operations. The goal is simple: no useful public offer should sit unused because a small organization did not know it existed.
Public filings show recent support flowing to the Shelburne-Buckland Community Center at 53 Main Street, Friends of Buckland Recreation, and the Buckland Historical Society. Those groups remain part of the civic landscape we intend to keep funding as resources allow.
Residents of Shelburne, Buckland, and nearby West County towns. Adults changing work. Young people building a portfolio. Civic volunteers who need to publish without hiring an agency. Small makers who want a storefront that they themselves can update.
We do not require a particular income test to attend an introductory workshop. Advanced cohorts and tool licenses may be reserved for people who could not otherwise afford them.
