Program Histories

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Our grantmaking began in the field of developmental disabilities in 1970 and culminated in a 10-year spendout focused on that issue area and three others: climate and clean energy; farm and food; and health and environment.

Please click on the links below to learn about the work of our grantees in these and four other fields we addressed in the course of our 50-year history.

Elizabeth Brannon photographed in her lab in the LSRC. Release for child is on file.

Developmental Disabilities

Wind power turbine off Block Island, Rhode Island Credit: Creative Commons/Chris Bentley

Climate and Clean Energy

Southwestern Vermont’s Mettowee Valley, a longstanding focus of JMF’s farm and food systems grantmaking Credit: Vermont Land Trust

Farm and Food

Healthy Babies Cropped

Health and Environment

Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies Director Randall Forsberg speaks at a nuclear freeze rally in the 1980s. Credit: Lionel Delevingne

Disarmament

Argentines have continued to demand justice for those who were kidnapped and killed during the “dirty war” conducted under their country’s military dictatorship of 1976–83. Credit: Maria Rocío de la Torre/Shutterstock

Human Rights

Participants in Vermont Works for Women’s trade-skills training program learn house framing. Credit: Vermont Works for Women

Job Opportunities

Abortion-rights advocates protest in Texas after the U.S. Supreme Court in 2022 overturned Roe v. Wade. Credit: @ Alicia Armijo/ZUMA Press Wire

Reproductive Rights