May 14, 2007
The Boys & Girls Club of Burlington was the recent recipient of a $1,000 DRM Community Fund grant. DRM Attorney Ben King, who serves on the Boys and Girls Club's board of directors, sponsored the grant request. The grant will help fund a dynamic wellness program that seeks to improve club members. knowledge of healthy habits, increase the number of hours per day they participate in physical activity, and strengthen their ability to engage in positive relationships and interact positively with others.
The Community Fund also gave $1,000 to help sponsor Nobel Peace Prize Recipient and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel.s recent visit to UVM. Debra Schoenberg, a director at DRM, sponsored the grant application. Wiesel.s speech, which was free and open to the public, was the culminating event of Holocaust Remembrance Week.
DRM Attorney Kathy Davis was the sponsoring director for another April grant recipient, HomeShare Vermont (HSV), an organization that helps elders and people with disabilities to remain at home by bringing them together with people seeking housing and/or caregiving opportunities. The $1,000 grant will support the HSV.s capital campaign to build a new office that they will share with Cathedral Square, United Way and the Visiting Nurse Association.
The DRM Community Fund was begun in 2000 as part of the firm's celebration of 50 years of service. Since then the firm has awarded nearly $150,000 in small grants for innovative grass-roots initiatives in the arts, education, economic development and historic preservation. Currently, the Fund supports organizations that DRM directors support and in which they are directly and personally involved.
