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 The Community Foundation of Tompkins County is pleased to announce 12 grants totaling $40,000 of 2009 Helen Thomas Howland Foundation awards to benefit Tompkins and Broome counties. As administrative agent for the Howland Foundation, the Community Foundation of Tompkins County reviews all applications and makes funding recommendations to the Howland Foundation trustees.
During the course of the review process Community Foundation donor advisors are invited to consider nominating grants to meet needs detailed in the Howland applications. This year a record 6 donor advisors nominated an additional 7 community grants totaling nearly $27,000 of new resources to address needs in the current challenging economy.
The Howland Foundation supports grants in aging services, youth services, animal welfare, and the environment. Grants are limited to qualified nonprofit organizations that provide substantial benefit in these areas.
2009 grant recipients for Aging Services
- Challenge for a second year of its Life Options program serving seniors with disabilities
- Human Services Coalition's Health Planning Council for a senior chronic disease wellness program
- Beechtree Care Center for furniture designed to enhance community building in its facility
- An additional Community Foundation grant was approved for Better Housing's home repair program.
2009 grant recipients for Youth Services
- Cornell Cooperative Extension's (Tompkins) Parents Apart program
- Hangar Theatre's Project 4
- Ithaca Health Alliance for family practice needs
- Corning's Science & Discovery Center's science camp
- Additional Community Foundation grants were approved for the Child Development Council's rural transportation project, for Ithaca Health Alliance, and for Running to Places' summer mentoring program.
2009 grant recipient for Animal Welfare
- Broome County Humane Society for special isolation cages
- An additional Community Foundation grant was approved for the SPCA's homeless persons' pet safety project
2009 grant recipient for Environmental Programming
- Finger Lakes Land Trust for its private land stewardship initiative
The Community Foundation was particularly pleased to be able to award a number of grants which creatively combined multiple priority areas, such as youth and the environment, and demonstrated commitment to collaboration and efficiency.
- Village at Ithaca for a fresh foods snack program
- Southern Tier Advocacy & Mitigation Project for its Green Guerrillas
- Tompkins Community Action for its summer jobs build
- Cornell Cooperative Extension (Broome County) for an animal science program
- Pet the Pet canine companions project with MacCormick Center.
Please contact Janet Cotraccia, Program Officer, 272-9333 or jcotraccia@communityfoundationoftc.org for more information about these grants. |
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A Closer Look |
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A Closer Look will launch this fall with two
special afternoons on Friday September 25  and Friday, October 2 from 3-6pm each afternoon.
Would you like to see the results of Community Foundation grants in person? Have you wondered how the Community Foundation follows up on grants? Would you like to spend some time with other philanthropists with shared interests?
All of these questions and more can be answered with our new program:
We are seeking to invite donors and donor advisors to gather and visit grantees.
This year were are planning site visits organized according to grant making area. This fall we have two planned as outline below with the remaining three (Education, Health & Human Services, and Community Building) happening in the first half of 2010.
Environment & Sustainability (these grants are also examples of Community Foundation support for existing programs with proven results)
Friday, September 25 from 3-6pm RSVP Deadline Friday, September 18
(transportation will be provided by the Community Foundation)
Depart from Community Foundation
1st Site: Finger Lakes Land Trust Sweedler Preserve at Lick Brook 3-4:30pm
1st Host: Andy Zepp
2nd Site: Finger Lakes ReUse 5-6pm
2nd Host: Diane Cohen
Refreshments at 2nd Site
Arts & Culture (these grants are also examples of Community Foundation support for capital programs with concrete built environment results)
Friday, October 2 from 3-6pm RSVP Deadline Friday, September 25
(also Gallery Night 5-8pm in downtown Ithaca)
(this Closer Look event will require the ability to travel around the Commons, transportation will NOT be provided)
Meet at:
1st Site: Cinemapolis 3-4pm
1st Host: Lynne Cohen
2nd Site: Ithaca Downtown Alliance, Art in the Heart of the City,
Ithaca Commons 4-5pm
2nd Host: Gary Ferguson
3rd Site: Kitchen Theatre 5-6pm
3rd Host: Stephen Nunley
Refreshments at 3rd Site
Please contact us at 272-9333 or gferrari@communityfoundationoftc.org
to reserve your spot. Spaces are limited and will fill up fast. We hope that you can join us! 
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Partnering
Preserving  EvenStart in Newfield
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A major grant is the result of a town-gown collaboration between Cornell's Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority and the Community Foundation. Kappa Kappa Gamma has made a designated gift of $25,000 to the Community Foundation's Children & Youth Fund to be used as a grant to preserve the TST BOCES Even Start program in Newfield and Groton.
For the past 16 years, Tompkins Seneca Tioga Even Start Family Literacy Program has provided an integrated program of early childhood and parenting education to low income, low literacy families in our rural communities. The program helps to break the cycle of poverty and illiteracy by guiding adults to set goals and obtain education and employment, at the same time as they take on the crucial role of becoming their own children's first teachers. TST BOCES Even Start has consistently met or exceeded New York State performance indicator targets but was in danger of having to eliminate sites for the 2009-2010 year if new funding was not secured to replace the loss of New York State funding.
This grant is made after Community Foundation consultation with leadership of Cornell's Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority who were seeking opportunities to make a philanthropic investment in the area of literacy and education - a cause akin to their national organization's philanthropy. By linking Kappa Kappa Gamma's interests with a Community Foundation priority, valuable resources are delivered to a proven program to sustain early education results. The Community Foundation's Children & Youth Fund receives gifts from donors interested in building a permanent charitable endowment dedicated to making grants to improve the quality of life for children and youth in Tompkins County.
If you or your organization are seeking to make a charitable gift and would like the most current information about needs and best practice providers in our community, please contact George Ferrari, Executive Director, 309 N. Aurora Street, Ithaca, NY 14850.
gferrari@communityfoundationoftc.org or call 272-9333. |
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The following websites provide a variety of resources and showcase recent news of interest for philanthropists.
3) Community foundations get standards board
August 11, 2009
4) The State Of Charity
July 29 2009, 2:45 pmby Daniel Indiviglio
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George Ferrari
Executive Director |
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As summer winds down our community greets newcomers and welcomes back so many people. As the academic year begins anew our attention turns to new projects and our curiosity leads us to new understandings and exciting discoveries. Your Community Foundation has spent the summer gathering information and taking action to assist you in meeting your philanthropic goals. I hope that you will enjoy reading about these developments in this newsletter. Please contact me with any questions or comments.
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A Community Foundation is a nonprofit organization founded and staffed by people who are dedicated to seeking out what is needed in our community and what is valuable about Tompkins County and to helping those valuable assets grow important results.
We understand our community's needs and help you to turn your charitable passions into results oriented philanthropy. We show donors how to make your gifts go further and accomplish more.
Contact George Ferrari, Executive Director, 272-9333 or gferrari@communityfoundationoftc.org
if you would like to explore ways for the Community Foundation to assist you in making your philanthropic dreams a reality for Tompkins County.
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Board of Directors
Chair
Tommy Bruce
Vice Chair
Mariette Geldenhuys
Secretary
Mary Pat Dolan
Treasurer
Joanne James
Immediate Past Chair
Jean Gortzig
Beverly Baker
Fred Ballantyne
Donald Barber
Priscilla Browning
David Call
Caroline Cox
Jean Gortzig
Howard Hartnett
John Moss Hinchcliff
Nina Miller
George Ridenour
John Rogers
Kim Rothman
Mickie Sanders-Jauquet
Diane Shafer
David Squires
Tom Torello
Incorporating Board
Jeff Furman
Howard Hartnett
Bill Myers
John Semmler
Diane Shafer
Robert Swieringa
Executive Director
George Ferrari, Jr.
Program Officer
Janet Cotraccia
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| Community Foundation of Tompkins County
309 North Aurora Street
Ithaca, New York 14850
PHONE NUMBER 607 272 9333
FAX NUMBER 607 272 3030
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