We are very excited about our upcoming calendar of events from September through December 2013.  As a community foundation dedicated to serving donors, professional advisors, nonprofits and the greater Tompkins County community we seek to provide the best community needs information, philanthropic advice, and opportunities for your to engage in conversations with others focused on improving our local quality of life. More information about each listing below, as it becomes available, can be found by CLICKING HERE. 

* September 10 at 2pm: Q&A for Fall 2013 Grant Cycle, 2 Year Grants, Magnified Results

* September 19 at 12 noon: Philanthropy Learning Exchange for professional advisors 
* September 19 at 4:30PM: Philanthropy Learning Exchange for donors 
* October 25: Women's Fund Fall Gathering

*November 12-18: National Community Foundations Week
* November 15: National Philanthropy Day Celebration
* December 6: Holiday Open House

* December 9: Fall Grant Cycle Awards Ceremony

As always keep connected by visiting our website at www.cftompkins.org

Philanthropy Magnified every day. 

Chronicle of Philanthropy August 7, 2013

By Pablo Eisenberg

In the last decade or so, nonprofits have stopped caring about the plight of the poor. Back in the 1980s and 1990s, nonprofits joined together when cuts in social-safety-net programs were proposed.

Organizations that represented mostly middle-class people, like the League of Women Voters, professional groups for social workers, and major nonprofit coalitions such as Independent Sector, joined their antipoverty and grass-roots colleagues to fight against threats to the poor.

A wide range of health and education institutions, women's groups, consumer and civic organizations, and charities that aided the elderly made fighting poverty one of their major program priorities. They worked in tandem with organizations that mobilized the poor to fight for their rights­-most of them now gone-in effective partnerships that commanded the attention of political leaders and government agencies. The leaders of all those nonprofit organizations never lost sight of the enormous problems that poverty presented for civil society and democracy.

Today, matters of poverty seem to be off the radar screen of nonprofits. That couldn't be more evident than in the failure of nonprofits to rush to oppose the massive assault on food stamps now working its way through the House of Representatives.

 Robin is past President and current Secretary of the Ithaca Area Collaborative Law Professionals and is on the Board of Directors of the Estate Planning Council of Tompkins County. She has also served on the boards of Planned Parenthood, Neighborhood Legal Services, Ithaca Rape Crisis Service, and the Community Dispute Resolution Center and as a volunteer mediator at C.D.R.C. Robin is an attorney in private practice who is committed to compassionate advocacy for her clients, using the law as a tool to help individuals and businesses solve problems and plan for the future. In recent years, she has shifted the focus of her practice from litigator to facilitator, using modern methods of dispute resolution, such as mediation and Collaborative Law, to help clients resolve conflicts peacefully and respectfully without resort to the courts. She also represents children and serves as a guardian ad litem for incapacitated clients, when appointed by the courts. The majority of her law practice is in the areas of family law, estate planning, elder law, real estate, and meeting the needs of small businesses.

Mickie Sanders-Jauquet