ITHACA, N.Y. — The Rotary Club of Ithaca has awarded nearly $16,000 in community grants to 17 local nonprofits, the “largest amount of funding” it has donated through its annual grants program.
The program received 23 proposals requesting $21,000 this year. The grants, which were evaluated by a nine-member committee, were announced at the Rotary Club meeting on Nov. 3.
Rotary Club members raised $15,572 for the grants program by making donations at weekly club meetings. An anonymous donor also made a matching gift for the program. The club’s annual fundraiser, the Little Apple Fall Follies, was postponed this year due to the pandemic, the organization noted.
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“The total amount that was available for the Rotary Community Grants in 2021 was the largest amount ever mainly because of a very generous community and philanthropically minded Rotary Club members,” Alyson Evans, chair of Rotary’s community grants committee, said. “People kept digging into their pockets to add to the pot, and we had a wonderful local challenge donation.”
Ithaca Rotary’s community grants are intended to promote the quality of life in the greater Ithaca area. The grants support organizations that have special projects or needs that are not funded by general funding sources.
2021 grant recipients
- Brooktondale Community Center — $1,000 for an exterior-door replacement
- Coddington Road Community Center — $600 for a diversity, equity, and inclusion curriculum for children
- Enfield Community Council — $1,000 for a winter-themed indoor/outdoor event
- Finger Lakes Toy Library — $1,000 for signage for a new classroom
- Free Science Workshop — $1,000 for repair of a physics bus
- Foodnet Meals on Wheels — $1,000 for purchase of a new hot box
- Hangar Theatre Company — $1,000 for a professional archival project
- Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services — $1,000 for home repairs for low-income families
- Ithaca Community Radio — $899 to purchase a computer for its newsroom
- Lifelong — $990 for lighting conversion to LED in a computer lab
- Love Living at Home — $498 for equipment to support virtual programming
- Northside United Neighborhood Association — $835 to purchase yard signs for block parties to stem neighborhood violence
- Opportunities, Alternatives and Resources (OAR) of Tompkins County — $1,000 for refurbishment of a storage shed
- Salvation Army — $1,000 for a classroom improvement project
- St. John’s Community Services and NY Statewide Senior Action Council — $1,000 to create a free, clean, safe and private location for tele-health visits, virtual job interviews and client meetings
- Women’s Opportunity Center — $1,000 to offset costs of a new front door
- YMCA of Ithaca and Tompkins County — $750 for a storage-shed purchase
