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Pomerleau Family Helps Shelburne Farms Meet $500,000 Save America’s Treasures Matching Grant
Shelburne Farms is excited to announce that it has met a Save America’s Treasures challenge grant that will allow the continuing transformation of Shelburne Farms into an educational and community resource through the completion of exterior repairs of the historic Breeding Barn.
In fall 2021, Shelburne Farms was awarded a $500,000 Save America’s Treasures challenge matching grant from the National Park Service, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Institute for Museum and Library Services.
To meet the challenge, Shelburne Farms secured several charitable gifts, including an anonymous pledge and a leadership gift from the Abra Prentice Foundation. Today, Shelburne Farms is excited to announce it has received a capstone gift of $500,000 from the Pomerleau Family Foundation that puts the organization over the top for completing the Save America’s Treasures challenge. The Pomerleau family gift was made in memory of Rita Pomerleau.
“We are exceedingly grateful to board member Ernie Pomerleau and his sisters Patricia and Alice for this generous grant on behalf of the Pomerleau family. It allows us to unlock the Save America’s Treasures funds, and makes possible another major step in the transformation of Shelburne Farms into an inspiring campus for cultivating learning for a sustainable future,” said Shelburne Farms president, Alec Webb. “We see incredible future potential for integrating the Breeding Barn into the Shelburne Farms' education and community program activities as a spectacular and inspirational gathering space.”
The award of $500,000 and the matching funds will be used to preserve the historic Breeding Barn at Shelburne Farms—one of America’s great barns—for educational, agricultural, and community events. A magnificent and architecturally significant building built in 1891 to breed and showcase horses, the Breeding Barn is a primary contributing structure to the 2001 designation of Shelburne Farms as a National Historic Landmark District. The Breeding Barn will serve as a space for reflection and as a seasonal gathering space to advance the nonprofit education mission of Shelburne Farms.
The project is supported through the Save America's Treasures Grants Program, provided by the Historic Preservation Fund, as administered by the National Park Service, Department of Interior.
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CONGRATULATIONS! Being awarded a large grant requires considerable work, time and creativity.
Our daughter, son-in-law and a granddaughter just left to go back home to CA and DC. They always want to visit the Farm, and due to covid this was the first visit in a couple of years. So thank you, since our visit to you helped make their Vermont trip special. Kay Frances Schepp
Every year the Farm grows more vital to Vermont and our global village in which every human being participates to make the World a more livable, equitable, and sustainable place through Education. It is heartening to read that societal funding toward the betterment of Humanity still carries weight in today's turbulent world. Perhaps someday it will outpace the spending on profit and greed, and it will touch, and enrich the lives of every single human being. We all hope for a peaceful, caring, and sustainable planet Earth: every ones entitled home. The power of Education, as expressed at Shelburne Farms, can achieve this goal.
The grant is very special and that picture of the barn is amazing.
As an Ag student at UVM in 1962, I remember my first visit to the farm and the Breeding Barn; I was amazed at the size and construction built so long ago. At that time, there was a huge pen with feeder cattle in it, taking up most of the open area.
I have visited many times since then and I love the peace I always feel when I am at the farm..
Thank you to the Pomerleau family and all the hardworking employees at Shelburne Farms. What an amazing asset for the area. My family has great memories from the activities at Shelburne Farms over many years.
That barn is a national treasure! I’m so heartened but this good news.
Congratulations on this amazing next step in Shelburne’s mission. Our grandson went to camp at Shelburne for many summers and completed his dream of graduating from SUNY Cobleskill in May. His next dream in his journey is to work in Animal Science/Dairy Management at Shelburne. I am praying this will happen!!! Thank you for all you do to enhance agricultural education!!