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.
“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
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