Philanthropy Magnified - monthly impact report
2021 | March Issue
Upcoming Events
See what's happening in March and next month.

P.S. Save June 17, at Noon, for our BIG Annual Celebration (Virtual).
Grant Cycle Spotlight
Because of donors, your Community Foundation has three grant cycles to receive your requests for support.

The intention for the 2021 Resilient Communities Spring Grant Cycle is to provide flexible operating support to organizations meeting community needs, some longstanding, some new, or revealed in the aftermath of the pandemic. 

Take a look at the new Grant Guidelines.
Volunteer Spotlight
Welcome to new Board member, Kristin Dade. Kristin is originally from southern California and always considered herself to be a west coast girl, but when she arrived in New York her loyalty changed. In 2015, she moved to Ithaca with her mother and daughter and began working at Cornell University in the Office of Academic Diversity Initiatives. A link to her full Bio.
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COVID-19 Response Fund
Community Foundation Grants Report:

You provided $359,368, and 100% of your dollars went back into the community-supporting local nonprofits.

The COVID-19 Response Fund with our donor advisors and other local funders allowed 240 grants totaling more than $2 million.

With your support we were able to help people with basic needs brought on by the pandemic. Grants in Technology, Childcare, Theatre, Cancer Services, Food Gaps, Housing and more.

Thanks to the dedicated volunteers who carefully reviewed COVID-19 Response Fund grant applications and ensured donor gifts went toward Tompkins County's greatest needs.

Learn more about these grants and ways donors help solve specific problems in our community. See the List of Grantees.

Read in Tompkins Weekly about one grant to Foodnet.


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A Message from the CEO
Advancing Racial Equity/Social Justice
In March, Southside hosted an Ithaca Black Town Hall on public safety that centered on the perspectives of Black community leaders. Listen link to Youtube.

MLK Commemorative Lecture: A Conversation with Ijeoma Oluo
Ijeoma Oluo talks about her various books, including "So You Want to Talk about Race" and "Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America". One being more of a workbook and the other emerging from a place of frustration, and trying to name an issue/question our assumptions. The conversation also touches on the impacts of social media on activism, as well as the marginalization of queer identities. 58 minute listen
Community Foundation of Tompkins County
www.cftompkins.org