24 Main Street Limited
A nonprofit community center. A community group transformed a church building in Saxtons River, and it's used for gatherings, coffee klatsches, a preschool/child care/play group. – A true community resource.

Ashokan Center
Inspiring learning and building community through shared experiences in nature, history, music and art. – Run by Jay Ungar and Molly Mason, they do great things, from Music and Dance to outdoor education programs. They consistently get matching grants so the donations are doubled or even tripled.

BF Community Bike Project
Provide the Greater Falls community a space for all to access bicycles, learn bike repair and safe riding skills. – A tiny outfit in Bellows Falls, they were raising money to purchase their building, an old laundromat.

Brattleboro Museum & Art Center
BMAC is a vibrant non-collecting contemporary art museum focused on the work of living artists. – I particularly like BMAC's annual Artful Ice Shanties Exhibit. It's a hoot.

Brattleboro Music Center
Offering people of all ages the chance to not only appreciate music, but to learn, play and express themselves. – This year I donated in memory of my wonderful violin teacher, Peggy Spencer.

Broad Brook Community Center
Preserve and care for Guilford’s historic Grange Hall by revitalizing it as a gathering place for activities that foster community spirit, honor our rural heritage, and spark creative ways to enhance the well-being of, and serve, the people of Guilford. – Another building saved by the community and given new life.

Brooklyn Conservatory
The Brooklyn Conservatory of Music aims to transform lives and build community through the expressive, educational and therapeutic powers of music. – This was one of my 'Friends and Family' donations, wherein I solicit ideas from the people in my life, and the people in their lives, for giving.

Bull Creek Common Lands
A local land trust engaging in community-based land conservation in southern Vermont. – See the Letter for a gorgeous map Andy made showing the Common Lands.

Carpe Diem Arts
Inspiring creative self-expression that empowers individuals, strengthens communities, and builds better futures, while also supporting the livelihoods of master teaching and performing artists who reflect the diversity of the communities we serve. – My gifts go straight to work, buying ukuleles for kids and funding their participation at summer camps. This is the organization that created the Daily Antidote of Song.

Clemmons Family Farm
Preserving a historic African-American owned farm in Vermont and empowering a growing network of artists; building community around African-American/African diaspora history, arts and culture. – I was inspired by a radio article about this farm. I say YES to more diversity in Vermont.

Community Cooks
Nourishing community, one dish at a time, Community Cooks mobilizes volunteers to provide home-prepared meals for our neighbors in need throughout Greater Boston. – Food for everybody! A friends & family donation (F+F).

Decoda Inc.
Decoda seeks to create a more compassionate and connected world through music—thoughtfully curating outstanding performances of live chamber music, facilitating creative community projects, and training the next generation of musical artists to rethink and re-imagine their role in society. – I was inspired by the work of Claire Bryant, guiding incarcerated mothers to write and record lullabies for their children.

Fabric of Life
Helping traditional skills flourish in our modern world. – A program that works not only to preserve traditional arts and skills, including traditional music, but also bolsters diversity in rural New England.

Feed the Thousands
The largest annual food drive in southeastern Vermont and southwestern New Hampshire. – Feed the people!

Friends of St. Lawrence-Watts Youth Center
Empowers the children and families of Watts through educational, advocacy, and enrichment programs. – Another of my F&F gifts, for friends in Southern California, where I grew up in privilege, for those who have less.

Grace Cottage Foundation
To secure the present and future of Grace Cottage through fundraising, communication, and participation. – Our local health care providers. We need them to be here for us!

Grafton Rescue Squad
The Rescue Squad is comprised of dedicated volunteers who have made a personal commitment to assist their community during a time of need. – These are the people that will rescue us, should we need it.

Guest House Chicago
Providing cozy, affordable lodging for medical patients and families in Chicago. – F+F, for cousins in Chicago.

Haitian Community Help & Support Center
Making sure that everyone has a place to come for the services they are looking for. The refugees and immigrants residing in the Clark County must experience a sense of belonging. – I gave after the idiotic eating cats and dogs remarks brought out the bozos and made a vulnerable community even less safe.

Heart of Dinner
Delivering Love & Joy to Asian Elders throughout NYC. Addressing food insecurity and loneliness among Asian American older adults living in significantly under-resourced and under-invested communities. – F+F donation for a friend of Asian descent. I didn't know anything about this one before it was suggested.

Home Healthcare, Hospice, and Community Services Inc.
HCS delivers “Five Star” care for all ages and at all stages of life – wherever in southwestern NH you call home! – These are the people easing a family member's last days, and they are fantastic.

Hope Works
We provide crisis counseling and advocacy for those whose lives have been affected by sexual violence. – I was inspired by an interview on Vermont Edition (Vermont Public), and I made a donation in memory of my mother, who would have supported this effort.

International Rescue Committee
Helping people affected by humanitarian crises to survive, recover, and rebuild their lives. – F+F. It may be a drop in the bucket, but they save lives.

Keene Pride
Promoting the visibility of LGBTQ+ people in the Monadnock Region, creating community-building programming, and developing a coalition of services, organizations and businesses that embrace and serve the LGBTQ+ population. – F+F, and good work they do.

KlezCalifornia
A living resource that connects people and communities with Yiddish culture. – They occasionally have online Zoom programs with teachers I admire.

Klezmer Institute
A digital-first organization founded to support Ashkenazic expressive culture through research, teaching, publishing, and programming. – See the Letter for my connection to this wonderful endeavor.

Latin American Workshop
A community-based non-profit arts and education institution established in New York City in 1979 to bridge the gap between Latin and North Americans through the language of art, dance, and music. – To honor a friend in NYC, and support a valuable effort.

League of Women Voters VT
A nonpartisan political organization encouraging the informed and active participation in government. – To honor my mother's memory. She was a long-time member of the League of Women Voters. We showed up on November 5. Did you?

Main Street Arts
Strengthening personal and community well-being through diverse arts experiences and social connection. – Local Arts! String Band! Classes and shows for kids and grown-ups! Tango Dancing! Bringing people together.

Monadnock Folklore Society
To increase the visibility of folk dance and music events in southern New Hampshire, provide new venues for performers, and provide educational services in the folk arts to the community. – They are raising money to recondition the 1890 Chickering grand piano that Bob McQuillen played for 60 years.

Open Hearts, Big Dreams
Inspiring and empowering youth in Ethiopia to re-imagine their futures by providing literacy, STEAM, and leadership opportunities. – F+F, my cousins in Washington State are big supporters of this one.

Parks Place Community Center
Addressing the health, education, and human service needs facing the families in the Greater Falls area. – To honor a local friend, and support a good cause.

Planned Parenthood Northern New England
Planned Parenthood is a trusted source of reliable education and information that allows people to make informed health decisions. – This should be obvious, another F+F.

School of Honk
An opportunity for anybody, at any age, to learn an instrument, or a rhythm, or a dance routine, or otherwise help us make music together. – Music for everybody! Dancing in the street! Blat and Toot, bang on pots and pans in Somerville, MA.

The Children of Ukraine Foundation
Providing Humanitarian Aid and Essential Services to Ukrainian Children. – F+F, another worthy cause.

The Partnership for Inclusive Disaster Strategies
The only U.S. disability-led organization with a focused mission of equity for people with disabilities and people with access and functional needs throughout all planning, programs, services and procedures before, during and after disasters and emergencies. – I had never heard of this one, but a friend who lived many years in Philadelphia suggested it.

Timber Framers Guild
Dedicated to promoting, supporting, honoring, and advancing the craft of timber framing. – F+F. The beautiful work of timber framers surrounds us in New England.

Townshend Public Library
Serves as a cultural and information center of the town, providing ready access to information in a wide variety of formats to suit the interests and needs of the community. – A tiny library, and a force for community, enriching us with books, and stories, and knitting, and yoga.

Translifeline
A grassroots hotline and micro grants organization offering direct emotional and financial support to trans people in crisis – for the trans community, by the trans community. – Suggested by a friend. The complex lives of our some of our neighbors and friends need our love and acceptance.

Upper Valley Music Center
Provides music education and ensemble opportunities for people living in the Upper Valley region of VT and NH and beyond. – A vibrant source of traditional music and dance in the Upper Valley.

Vermont Community Foundation
Researching and tracking community trends across Vermont, identifying gaps, recommending grantees who are making the biggest impact. Putting over $60 million to work in Vermont communities every year. – I gave to support Vermonters impacted by the 2024 floods.

Vermont Foodbank
Vermont’s largest hunger-relief organization and only food bank, providing nourishing food through a network of more than 300 community partners – food shelves, meal sites, senior centers, after-school programs, schools, and hospitals. – Feed the people!

Vermont Public
Independent, community-supported media, serving Vermont with trusted, relevant and essential information. We share stories that bring people together. – Facts I can trust, even when I don't like them.

Village Harmony
Dedicated to the study, performance and celebration of diverse styles of traditional choral music. – Sing Out!

Westminster Cares
Working with seniors and disabled adults in Westminster, Vermont to help them remain healthy and independent in the community. – In memory of a friend, lost recently.

Westside Food Bank
To end hunger in our communities by providing access to free nutritious food through food acquisition and distribution, and by engaging the community and advocating for a strong food assistance network. – My mother gave to this effort year after year, and I give in her memory.

Wikipedia
Benefiting readers by presenting information on all branches of knowledge with of freely editable content and articles that often contain numerous links guiding readers to more information. – I donate once a year, a modest amount, because I use Wikipedia every day.

Windham County Humane Society
Ensuring the safety and well-being of animals and enhance the relationship between individuals and pets through adoption, education, advocacy, compassion, and promotion of animal welfare. – I give in memory of Daffy Doodle.

Windmill Hill Pinnacle Association
Stewarding more than 2,700 conserved acres in Athens, Brookline, Grafton, Rockingham, Townshend, and Westminster, Vermont. – Local land conservation. Beauty all around me.

World Central Kitchen
A not-for-profit, non-governmental organization that provides food relief. – Food for Ukraine; Food for Gaza; Food for everyone.

Yiddish Book Center
The Yiddish Book Center recovers, preserves, teaches, and celebrates Yiddish literature and culture to advance a fuller understanding of Jewish history and identity. – In 1983, I delivered a load of books from my Grandma's Bronx apartment to a seedy garage in Western Mass somewhere. We have supported this organization ever since.

UNICEF USA
For Every Girl: Gender Equality - Much progress has been made in the new millennium towards gender equality, but much more needs to be done to ensure that girls and boys worldwide have the same rights, resources and protections to reach their full potential.