BRATTLEBORO — The Brattleboro Music Center recently received a $500 grant from the Dunham-Mason Fund at the Vermont Community Foundation (VCF), which supports endeavors that contribute to the betterment and vitality of the Brattleboro area.
The grant will help further the Brattleboro Music Center's mission of fostering the joy and understanding of music by giving hundreds of school-age children vocal and instrumental instruction. The funding will be used to provide rental instruments and music books to the young players in the programs.
The Brattleboro Music Center offers people of all ages the chance to not only appreciate music, but to learn, play, and express themselves was founded in 1952 by artistic director Blanche Honegger Moyse.
Today, under the artistic advisement of Jaime Laredo and Sharon Robinson, the Brattleboro Music Center consists of numerous performance, participation, and education programs. To learn more about the Brattleboro Music Center and the Music In The Schools Program, visit www.bmcvt.org.
The Vermont Community Foundation is a family of hundreds of funds and foundations established by Vermonters to serve their charitable goals. It provides the advice, investment vehicles, and back-office expertise to make giving easy and effective.
VCF also provides leadership in giving by responding to community needs, mobilizing, and connecting philanthropists to multiply their impact and by keeping Vermont's nonprofit sector vital with grants and other investments in the community.
Visit www.vermontcf.org or call 802-388-3355 for more information