Vassar benefits from the partnership of the Davis United World College Scholars Program, which provides scholarship funding to financial aid-eligible Davis United World College Scholars—graduates of the 18 international UWC high schools attending more than 100 U.S. post-secondary partner institutions.
Jen Rubbo, Director of the Environmental Cooperative, received New York State grant funding to support Vassar’s Exploring Science program. Through this grant, local youth, ages 18–21, will be hired as interns to work alongside Vassar undergraduates and provide summer programming for PreK–12 students, including opportunities to learn about nature, “think like a scientist,” and engage with the Preserve.
The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center has secured a grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation for the conservation of “Lyric,” a 1951 oil on canvas by the late American artist Joan Mitchell (1925–1992).
The Dyson Foundation awarded a grant to the Wimpfheimer’s playground equipment fund drive, which in summer 2025 raised more than $40,000 from Wimpfheimer families and friends.
The National Trust for Historic Preservation’s African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund and the Conserving Black Modernism Program, awarded a grant—one of only five this year—to address the urgent needs of the iconic 2500 New Hackensack building, erected after designs attributed to the late Jeh V. Johnson and his collaborators.
The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation has awarded Vassar’s Archives and Special Collections Library, under the leadership of the Head of Special Collections, Ron Patkus, a grant to preserve the records of Vassar’s Communications Office, which date from 1915.
The United Way of the Dutchess-Orange Region awarded a Community Fund Grant to the Office of Community Engaged Learning (OCEL), led by Elizabeth Cannon, Director of OCEL, to support the Vassar English Language Learners Outreach Program (VELLOP), part of the Vassar Education Collaboration now a core program of OCEL.
Dutchess County Youth Services funded a grant to the Environmental Cooperative, led by Director Jennifer Rubbo, for a new outdoor recreation club for local youth, which in partnership with Poughkeepsie-based Community Matters 2, Inc., will offer guided hikes at the Preserve.
The Preserve at Vassar was awarded a grant through the NYS-funded Zoos, Botanical Gardens and Aquaria (ZBGA) Capital Program in support of the construction of a pavilion to serve as a visible anchor for the site while providing needed shelter for education and outreach programs, including those of the Poughkeepsie Farm Project.
