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Vermont Mutual Insurance Charitable Giving Fund

Vermont Mutual Insurance Group Charitable Giving Fund

Our Mission

The mission of the Vermont Mutual Charitable Giving Fund is to enhance the quality of life in communities where the Group conducts business, by providing financial support to worthy community organizations.

Where We Give

The Charitable Giving Fund is designed to benefit organizations within the marketing territories of Vermont Mutual Insurance Group that aim to improve the quality of life for individuals, families and communities.

Giving Focus

The Fund provides financial support to organizations that help to build, maintain and enrich healthy lives and strong, vibrant communities. The Fund’s primary focus is to contribute to non-profit organizations that serve communities through any of the following four initiatives:

  • Promote Education: Examples may include traditional and non-traditional opportunities focused on inspiring academic excellence, leadership and community service
  • Foster Youth: Examples may include teaching and modeling positive life skills
  • Community-based: Programs that build better communities in which to live and work
  • Satisfy Basic Needs: Examples may include affordable housing, homelessness and hunger

Past Award Recipients

A partial list of organizations that Vermont Mutual has supported in the past include:

Alzheimer’s Association

American Cancer Society

American Red Cross

Boys and Girls Club of Burlington

Camp Ta-Kum-Ta

Cancer Patient Support Program, Inc.

Central Vermont Adult Basic Education

COTS

Easter Seals

Flynn Center for the Performing Arts

Food Bank Organizations throughout New England

Girl Scouts Council

Green Mountain Boy Scouts

Green Mountain United Way

Green-Up Vermont

Lund Family Center

Make-a-Wish; Vermont

Prevent Child Abuse-Vermont

Professional Firefighters of VT

Vermont Association for the Blind

Vermont Fallen Heroes

Vermont Historical Society

Applications for donation consideration must be submitted through the Fund’s grant application process. The submission must include:

All applications for funding will be reviewed and approved on a quarterly basis by the Fund’s Executive Committee. Grant application deadlines and review meetings are scheduled as follows:

Submission Deadline 

February 15 (Review Meeting in March)
May 15 (Review Meeting in June)
August 15 (Review Meeting in September)
November 15 (Review Meeting in December)

For a Vermont Mutual Charitable Giving Fund Application, click here.