Donate on Your Vermont Income Tax Form
Vermont taxpayers are donating money for programs for children and families as they pay their taxes. The Vermont Children's Trust Fund (VCT Fund) tax check-off, this year in Section 6, Line 29b, makes it easy for Vermonters to give funds that will benefit such activities as after school programs, literacy programs and mentoring programs.
The tax check- off was established in 1997 by the Vermont Legislature. 100% of the dollars donated through the tax check-off go directly into grants for Vermont programs that serve children from birth to 18 years. The tax check - off is an important source of revenue for the Fund, adding an average of $75,000 each year since its inception.
This year's goal is that every Vermont tax payer donate at least a dollar to the Children's Tax Check-off. If we reach our goal we will quadruple the amount given in previous years through the tax check off and give us the ability to make grants to at least 15 more programs than we were able to help last year.
Section 6, Line 29b
29 Reasons to Donate on Line 29B of your Vermont Tax Return!
Following are 29 of the 66 programs throughout the state that received funding from the Vermont Children's Trust Foundation this year.
1) Sunrise Family Resource Center - Sister's Circle - Bennington
2) Burlington Children's Space - Growing Food Program - Burlington
3) Essex CHIPS, Inc. - Adventure Orientation Program - Essex
4) CY- Connecting Youth - Mentoring Program - Shelburne
5) Fairfax Success by Six - Fairfax
6) Franklin Grand Isle Bookmobile - POISED -Franklin/Swanton
7) Milton Family Community Center - Nourished Teens Build Healthy Adults - Milton
8) Sharon One Planet Program-Sharon
9) Boys and Girls club of the White River Valley - SMART Moves -
Randolph/Northfield
10) Everybody Wins! - Statewide
11) The Dream Program - Mentoring at Willowbrook- Bennington
12) Outright Vermont - Friday Nights OUT - Burlington
13) Committee on Temporary Shelter (COTS)- Early Education Program- Burlington
14) Health Connections of the Upper Valley - North Pomfret
15) NewportCity Out of School Program - Math Literacy Project - Newport
16) The Family Center of Washington County - Dads Playgroup - Montpelier
17) Kids on the Block - CurriculumEnhancement - Statewide
18) KEYS - Acting Out Program - Vergennes
19) Project Against Violent Encounters - Bennington
20) Cobleigh Public Library - Bookmobile - Lyndonville
21) Women Helping Battered Women - Youth Violence Prevention - Burlington
22) Currier AfterschoolResource & Enrichment - Afterschool Program - Danby
23) Prevent Child Abuse Vermont - Technicool - Statewide
24)Visiting Nurse Association - Healthy Start - Chittenden County
25) HowardCenter - Community Friends Mentoring for County-Wide Prevention -
Chittenden County
26) Springfield School District - Get O.U.T. - Springfield
27) SafeArt, Inc - Chelsea
28) Orange County Parent Child Center - Chelsea
29) The Hub Teen Center and Skate Park - Afterschool Program - Bristol
Help us support these organizations - and many others - by donating to the Vermont Children's Trust Foundation. And please pass this on to your Vermont friends!