Vsa Vermont Inc Fka Vsa Arts of Vermont Inc

Filing Period

Oct 1, 2010 to Sep 30, 2011

Signed

Mar 14, 2012

Return Version

2010v3.2

Gross Receipts

$427,879

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

Professional Development: VSA Vermont offers professional development workshops for artists who learn inclusive teaching methods, and for educators and social service providers who learn to use the arts as a way to more fully engage their students or those receiving services. As an example, there is a large professional development component in VSAVT's Start With The Arts program described in Arts Education, above. Childcare providers completing professional development in Start With The Arts receive 20 credits useful in achieving Vermont State mandatory Core Competencies for Early Childhood Educators and can apply credits earned to applications for the State's Step Ahead for Recognition System and increased subsidies, and can also apply their credits toward maintaining Specialized Home Care status. Other VSAVT arts education programs also also offer a component of professional development for program partner staff. An additional component of VSAVT's professional development program is assistance to artists with disabilities in furthering career goals in the arts. An example of that work is the ongoing professional development and performance opportunities for members of VSA Vermont's Awareness Theater Company, comprised of adults with developmental disabilities and other community theater artists interested in inclusive programming. VSAVT's professional development programs directly serve 460 adults annually.

Activity 3

Other Programs: VSA Vermont conducts Public Awareness and Outreach programs that include our e-newsletter, public access television broadcasts and special events that promote awareness of the skills and contributions of Vermonters with disabilities as well as awareness of the importance of the arts in providing the means for people of all abilities to use their strongest voices for full community participation. It also includes the public displays and performances of artwork created in VSAVT's education programs (not duplicated in number from Education, above). VSA Vermont offers fiduciary agent services for other programs that do not have their own 501(c)3 status and that fall within the scope of arts and/or disability services. Safe Art's programs focusing on trauma associated with domestic violence and New Boston Film's production on the history of Pilobolus Dance Company are examples of those fiduciary agent services. VSA Vermont directly serves 625 children and 6000 adults as live audience members at performances and exhibits.

Filer

EIN

03-0307529