Out In The Mountains : News - Final Unity Grant Update

       Middlebury – The Unity Project has officially announced its grants in a press release received after OITM's October issue went to press. Some numbers are different from those cited by a source on the Unity Project Grants committee.
        The press release announced four grants of up to $7,000 each to be used in Bennington, Rutland, and Windham counties, and in the Northeast Kingdom (which includes Orleans, Essex and Caledonia counties), for activities that "reduce homophobia, increase understanding of LGBT individuals, and reduce the isolation of LGBT community members." Our unofficial source had listed two grants of up to $8500 to the Bennington and Windham County projects.
      Additional grants cited in the official press release:
$3,000 to the Turning Point Club of Bennington to expand its addiction recovery services to the LGBT community and to build bridges with LGBT organizations and individuals.

$500 to the Champlain Valley Union High School GSA for the 2005-2006 school year.

$1,000 to the Queer and Allied Anti-Racism Collaborative to reserve five seats for low-income LGBT youth at an Undoing Racism Training with the People's Institute.

$500 to Otter Valley Union High School to send six students and two advisors from the Otter Teen Network Players to the Youth Institute of Tolerance-at Castleton State College.

$500 to Bellows Falls Union High School to support a Dance for Diversity sponsored by the Gay/Straight Alliance.

$500 to the Moore Free Library to strengthen the library's collection by purchasing DVDs and videos dealing with LGBT themes.

$750 to Youth Services, Inc. to support an LGBT Alliance at Leland & Gray Union School.

$423.19 to the Fletcher Memorial Library to enhance LGBT resources for youth and adults.

$350 to the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Upper Valley to hire guest speakers to raise awareness of LGBT issues within the greater community.