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a publication of the central new york community foundation
Breaking the Cycle: Grants Addressing Poverty in this issue
Our Building Turns 100 page 3
Houses built by A Tiny Home for Good provide affordable shelter for Syracuse’s homeless.
Riester Leaves a Legacy of Creative Inspiration page 5
Connecting Families to Read Together page 9
In the City of Syracuse, nearly 50,000 residents – and one out of two children – live below the poverty line. These statistics point to a startling narrative: the realization of the American dream for many is simply that – a dream. That is why the Community Foundation is committed to supporting vital programs that are working to turn this trend around. We recently awarded numerous grants to organizations that are assisting local residents in pursuing selfsufficiency. Some organizations are addressing inadequate and unsafe housing and neighborhood violence, both of which can lead to poor physical and mental health, as well as children struggling in school. Others seek to make job opportunities and career pathways available to increase employment. Grants were also awarded to programs that help increase educational attainment and open doors for residents who crave the opportunity to learn and grow. A Tiny Home for Good received $20,000 to build and manage affordable housing for individuals facing homelessness. The Street Addiction Institute will use a $50,000 grant to conduct interventions that decrease distress, grief and loss as a result of street and gang violence. The residual impact of unaddressed trauma includes greater risk of substance abuse, criminality and mental health problems, all of which can perpetuate poverty. The Good Life Youth Foundation received more than $56,000 to launch a social-entrepreneurship program that will help at-risk youth develop financial literacy skills while also connecting real life experience with the value of education. Additionally, grants were awarded to the Women’s Opportunity Center, Image Initiative, Hopeprint and Boys & Girls Clubs of Syracuse to help women, refugees and youth develop reading, writing and job skills that will assist them in pulling themselves out of poverty.
Grants Help Charities Measure Progress page 10
In addition to these grants, our Performance Management Learning Community recently welcomed several organizations seeking to measure the impact of their work on poverty-related outcomes. You can read more about them on page 10. Going forward, we will continue our support of community-led programs to reduce the prevalence and ramifications of poverty in our neighborhoods.
Point of View Ninety years ago, the silent movie “It” was released to great success, furthering the 1920’s cultural phenomenon of the Flapper Girl. Fast forward to this fall and the Stephen King horror movie “It”, featuring the misadventures of a creepy clown, has been quite a success. There is a certain elegant irony to this when you consider how much change has occurred as time has passed.
by Peter A. Dunn President & CEO our mission To foster a thriving Central New York community, inspire greater giving, celebrate legacy and steward charitable resources for today and tomorrow.
our vision
We envision Central New York as a vibrant community with opportunity for everyone. Future generations of Central New Yorkers will proudly inherit a hopeful, prosperous region where generosity and collaboration abound to create lasting improvement.
our pledge
We pledge to be an enduring and compassionate partner in philanthropy, investing in the people and potential of Central New York. We commit to collaborative relationships with the individuals and organizations that are the heartbeat of our region. We support our fellow community members in becoming authors of opportunity and agents of change. We open our doors to everyone and anyone who aspires to build upon the contributions of the past and present to shape our community’s shared future.
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Also in 1927, a group of 30 men and women came together to create the Syracuse Foundation – the forerunner of what is now the Central New York Community Foundation. Our founders were part of a nationwide movement in the early part of the last century to harness and promote locally focused philanthropy. Clearly, much has changed around us over time, but we have remained firmly rooted in our mission. The Community Foundation has grown significantly in scale, impact, and ambition, yet we are still the advocate for place-based philanthropy and community impact that our founders envisioned. In anticipation of our 90th anniversary, we engaged in a period of discernment, conversation and feedback to create a new, five-year strategic plan. These are some of the highlights of the plan that our board of directors adopted this summer:
• We will motivate local giving, capture stories of our donors’ charitable aspirations and inspire legacies that create new permanent charitable capital for the benefit of Central New York;
• We will serve as a broad-based, locally focused foundation that is nimble and responsive in the face of changing needs;
• We will embrace collaboration to spread the reach of our focused initiatives, leverage additional resources and engage partners who share our values and goals;
• We will expand our potential to create positive change by deploying our resources in new ways; and
• We commit to operational excellence and fostering the effective and efficient use of the resources entrusted to us. With our board members’ encouragement, we took a very deliberate path to reach this outcome. Our planning process also resulted in an updated mission, vision, and a pledge to our community, which you can check out along with numerous stories from our history at www.cnycf90.org. The themes, aspirations and goals we have set for ourselves, and for the community at large, are woven throughout. As our pledge promises, “We open our doors to everyone and anyone who aspires to build upon the contributions of the past and present to shape our community’s shared future.”
Philanthropy Center Home Turns 100 Years Old
All year we have been celebrating the Community Foundation’s 90-year anniversary, but that is not the only milestone we recently reached. On October 1, 2017, our beloved home turned 100 years old. In 1917, the University Club of Syracuse opened the doors of its headquarters on East Fayette Street to serve as the private society’s clubhouse for more than 60 years. The pillared structure provided members with a place to meet in comfortable privacy. The Club was wildly popular when it opened, maintaining a waiting list with hundreds of applicants. When we purchased this local treasure eight years ago, it struck us that the structure remained firmly rooted in Syracuse history, yet seemed to be calling for a new mission to bloom and take shape. Overlooking Fayette Park and situated on the Connective Corridor between Syracuse University and downtown Syracuse, it was set to be a part of downtown’s renaissance. We were thrilled to bring it back to life with a renewed energy and purpose — one that focuses on the development of opportunity, prosperity and inclusion. As the CNY Philanthropy Center, this repurposed landmark has blossomed into a space for collaboration toward a common goal — to help Central New York and its residents succeed and thrive.
Peter Dunn, president & CEO, stands with Paula Miller of the William G. Pomeroy Foundation next to the Philanthropy Center’s new historic marker.
In October we invited friends of the Community Foundation and former University Club members to join us in celebrating this special achievement. Attendees enjoyed a program by the Onondaga Historical Association (OHA) that gave voice to the goings-on of days gone by. OHA’s Gregg Tripoli highlighted the remarkable history that took shape within and beyond the building’s walls.
Further, we continued our celebration with the installation of a curbside historical marker. The marker was made possible through a grant awarded by the William G. Pomeroy Foundation. The Foundation’s Historical Roadside Marker Program sets out to commemorate people, places or things within the time frame of 1740-1917 to educate the public and foster tourism. The Philanthropy Center is a hub of activity and a convenient central meeting place for nonprofits and their partners. We can’t wait to see what the future has in store as our vision for expanded and engaged local philanthropy becomes reality.
go to cnyphilanthropy center.org
to learn more about the CNY Philanthropy Center.
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Greater Giving: Sharing What Matters
Giving Matters
In the nonprofit sector, we use the word “philanthropy” all the time. Aside from being notoriously hard to say, what does it really mean? It most directly translates to love of humanity or love of mankind. At the Community Foundation, we define it more specifically as the sharing of charitable resources for the benefit of our community. How each of us define it for ourselves, however, is unique and deeply personal. At the Community Foundation, we meet people at the point where their own individual connection to a cause or charity intersects with their passion and care for community. Our staff lives by a pledge that drives us to “support our fellow community members in becoming authors of opportunity and agents of change.” Those words are intentional. We believe that our words matter, and so do yours. The spirit of generosity that is common among our donors and nonprofit partners encompasses more than just tangible resources and monetary gifts. When we engage in philanthropy, we are telling the world what is important to us through the causes we support. Sharing your story and giving voice to the life lessons and experiences that have shaped your own generosity is another form of giving back.
by Jan Lane, Development Officer
In addition to preserving your legacy for future generations, telling the story of what motivates your philanthropy can inspire others to take action and effect positive change. Sometimes, shedding light on your most painful memories can help illuminate a path toward hope and comfort for others who have shared a similar experience. Alternatively, you might find that an early act of kindness from your childhood or a long-held family tradition is reflected in your current giving. No matter where you are in your life, telling your story and sharing what matters most is a valuable exercise. Of course, getting started is often the hardest part. Because your story is important to us, we have devised a series of tools and resources designed to help you find your voice.
• Hit the books | Our legacy plan workbook includes a series of exercises and writing prompts to help you document your charitable inspirations in your own words. The workbook is available in both digital and print formats.
• Workshop it | The Community Foundation offers workshops for individuals and community groups interested in engaging with fellow civic-minded storytellers in a supportive atmosphere.
• Meet us in the middle | Writing not your thing? We can meet with you
go to 5forCNY.org
to preview storytelling tips and read local donor stories.
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individually, or with your family, to facilitate a conversation about what matters to you most and how we can help preserve your charitable legacy. To learn more about the legacy plan workbook, writing workshops or other ways the Community Foundation can help you document your giving story, please contact Jan Lane at legacy@cnycf.org or (315) 883-5546.
Remembering Dorothy Riester Dorothy Riester was an artist – a fact she first asserted at five years old. As a sculptor, Dorothy applied her artful touch to everything she did, shaping a life and career that were beautiful and inspiring in equal measure. As a trailblazer, Dorothy was accustomed to breaking the mold. “It’s tough to be first at anything,” Dorothy once declared as she mused about lessons learned during her long and impressive career as a pioneer in the art world. “Just as Dorothy Riester at Stone Quarry Hill Art Park society is starting to accept what you are doing, you are on to the next unpopular thing.” In the 1950s and 60s that ‘unpopular thing’ was the creation of an informal sculpture garden and art exhibit venue hosted by Dorothy and Bob Riester on their beloved picnic-spot-turned-home and avant-garden in Cazenovia. Dorothy’s idea eventually went mainstream, garnering accolades from the art world and touted as a crowning jewel of Cazenovia’s community fabric. From that initial concept, Dorothy was the founder of Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, one of the world’s first art-in-nature parks, which sits on the same 100-acre compound she and her late husband Bob called home for many years. Ever the visionary, Dorothy created the Robert & Dorothy Riester Fund for Stone Quarry Hill Art Park Preservation at the Community Foundation in 2003 to ensure the longterm preservation and maintenance of the art park’s grounds and physical property. Dorothy was drawn to the Community Foundation because of its longevity and its unique ability to preserve the voice of the donor through the generations. It was reassuring to Dorothy that we will always stay true to her instructions for the use of the funds under its management no matter what the future holds.
you’ve lived here. you’ve worked here. this community is part of who you are. you can give back with a gift to the region’s future. If you love the community you call home, consider this opportunity to enrich its future by joining other communityminded families and exploring how you can do your part. Learn more at 5forCNY.org.
With the sad news of Dorothy’s passing earlier this year at the age of 100, we will strive to do just that. Dorothy’s charitable legacy will live on through her fund, and her unique vision for her and Bob’s Young Lincoln by Dorothy Riester cherished art park will be preserved in perpetuity. As we remember Dorothy and celebrate her long life, we will draw unending inspiration from the many lessons she taught us about the art of living and giving back.
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Community Impact In June and September, our board of directors approved $1,005,870 in grants to 33 nonprofit organizations through our Community Grantmaking program.
Ar ts, Culture & Humanities CENTRAL NEW YORK JAZZ ARTS FOUNDATION $6,900
FRIENDS OF BEAVER LAKE - $32,003
Create new exhibits about the complexity of the ecosystem and the decisions that affect it
Purchase and install digital audio visual upgrades including a new projector
ONONDAGA EARTH CORPS - $15,000
THE CORA FOUNDATION/ART RAGE GALLERY $11,625
SKANEATELES LAKE ASSOCIATION - $27,000
Create a photography exhibit featuring portraits of local women who have fought for gender equality EVERSON MUSEUM OF ART - $150,000
Make repairs to its front podium to prevent leaks into the building MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION (MoST) - $59,975
Renovate its traveling exhibit area
ONEIDA COMMUNITY MANSION HOUSE - $31,202
Purchase improved security systems to better monitor and protect collections and improve public safety SOCIETY FOR NEW MUSIC - $19,500
Host an opera performance about Matilda Joslyn Gage’s role in the Women’s Suffrage movement SYMPHORIA - $22,000
Support Canal Concerts, a concert series in celebration of the Erie Canal’s Bicentennial SYRACUSE ACADEMY OF SCIENCE CHARTER SCHOOL - $19,000
Install a library at the Science and Citizenship Charter School SYRACUSE CITY BALLET - $15,000
Equip a new studio space to increase the number of performances it offers and expand youth outreach WAER-FM88 - $25,000
Build a website that promotes civic engagement around the issue of poverty in Syracuse
Education ON POINT FOR COLLEGE - $45,000
Support the relocation of its headquarters to a larger, more efficient facility
Environment & Animals CORNELL COOPERATIVE EXTENSION OF MADISON COUNTY - $6,000
Create an online directory of farms in Madison County
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Create a public input process for maintaining and growing Syracuse’s urban forest Expand its Watershed Stewardship and education programs to help protect lake water quality
Health ACR HEALTH - $47,478
Hire a licensed mental health counselor for its Q Center, a safe space for LGBTQA youth CHRISTIAN HEALTH SERVICE OF SYRACUSE $32,330
Replace computer hardware in its clinic to ensure privacy of patient information FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICES OF CORTLAND COUNTY - $41,355
Purchase office equipment and furnishings for its new behavioral health clinic in Morrisville
Human Services A TINY HOME FOR GOOD - $20,000
Build a four-unit tiny home development to provide housing to individuals facing homelessness AMERICAN RED CROSS OF CENTRAL NEW YORK $25,000
Support Sound the Alarm, Save a Life smoke alarm installation and education program
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SYRACUSE - $35,460
Support the Daily 5 program, which provides students with reading, writing and learning activities BRIDGES - $7,000
Establish a LGBTQA community coalition across Madison County CHADWICK RESIDENCE - $15,000
Renovate common areas to create a more comfortable environment for the resident women and children GOOD LIFE YOUTH FOUNDATION - $56,123
Develop Good Life Enterprises, a social enterprise and job training program for Syracuse youth HOPEPRINT - $20,000
Support the Community Integration Coalition to identify and address needs of refugee families
go to
cnycf.org/grants
to learn more about our grants.
IMAGE INITIATIVE - $15,000
UNITED WAY OF CNY - $50,000
PERSON TO PERSON CITIZEN ADVOCACY ASSOCIATION - $11,637
WOMEN’S OPPORTUNITY CENTER - $55,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF CNY - $24,282
Public & Societal Benefit
Expand the CHOICES afterschool program to provide young women with skill development and education
Expand the Street Addiction Institute, which provides support to those affected by gun and gang violence
Support its Journey to Success program, which Hire a consultant to assist with organizational and fund prepares low income women for employment development Support technology upgrades to manage day-to-day operations of guest services and donor management SKANEATELES EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER $25,000
SYRACUSE CENTER FOR PEACE AND SOCIAL JUSTICE - $25,000
Purchase and install electronic accessible doors
Install a new roof at the childhood center TILLIE’S TOUCH - $15,000
Purchase a 15-passenger van for its youth soccer program
These grants were made possible through the support of the following funds: Anonymous #33 Fund Shirley M. Aubrey Fund Charlotte and Donald Ball Fund The Benji Fund Charles F. Brannock Fund Shirley M. Brennan Fund William L. Broad Fund Elizabeth Salisbury Brooks Fund Kenneth P. & Charlotte C. Buckley Fund Thomas & Mary Cabasino Fund Carriage House Foundation Fund Philip R. & Elizabeth E. Chase Fund Laurie J. and Dr. William R. Clark, Jr. Community Fund Solly & Belle Cohen Community Fund Community Literacy Fund Mary Frances Costello Fund Alfred & Grace DiBella Fund John S. & Julia G. Dietz Fund Mary Louise Dunn Fund Margeret J. Early Fund Harold & Marion Edwards and O.M. Edwards Fund
Carlton R. Estey Fund Alice M. Gaylord Trusts Minnie O. Goodman Estate Fund Viola M. Hall Fund Frances E. & John S. Hancock Fund Carroll A. Hennessy Fund Frances Singer Hennessy Fund Flora Mather Hosmer Fund Anthony A. & Susan E. Henninger Memorial Fund Hills Family Fund I.A. Hotze Fund Iaconis, Iaconis & Baum Fund Dorothy Retan Irish Fund Jelly Bean Angel Fund for Innovation Leo & Natalie Jivoff Fund Martha A. & Eugene F. Keppler Fund Marjorie D. Kienzle Fund Faith T. Knapp Memorial Fund George & Luella Krahl Fund Alicia A. & George W. Lee Fund Lewis-Trinity Fund L.C. Maier Community Fund Gay D. Marsellus Fund John F. Marsellus Fund
Martha Fund Helen Hancock McClintock Fund James & Aileen Miller Fund Donald C. & Marion F. Newton Fund Peggy Ogden Community Fund Dorothy M. Olds Fund P-D Family Fund John R. Pelkey Community Fund Theodore & Marjorie B. Pierson Fund Robert & Anne Pietrafesa Fund Robert A. & Winifred S. Pond Family Fund Brian Cole Retan Memorial Fund James A. & McDowell Smith Reynolds Fund Lettie H. Rohrig FOI Fund Lawrence E. Root Fund Rosalind & Seymour Rudolph Fund Donald W. Ryder Fund Robert M. & Dorothy M. Salisbury Fund Durston Sanford & Doris Sanford Fund
Ralph Myron Sayer and Sophrona Davis Sayer Endowment Fund Helene C. Schroeder Fund Daniel & Jeanne Schwartz Fund Frederick B. & Laura B. Scott Fund Shuart Family Fund Winifred and DeVillo Sloan Jr. Family Fund Lee & Alice Smith Fund Spanfelner Fund Syracuse Dispensary Fund Walter A. Thayer Fund Frances M. Thompson Fund William & Mary L. Thorpe Charitable Fund Olga Dietz Turner Fund Carolyn V. West Fund The Witherill Fund Dorothy C. Witherill Fund Forrest H. Witmeyer Fund Arthur W. & Mabel P. Wrieden Memorial Fund To learn more about these funds and many others that make our grantmaking possible, visit the Funds & Donors page at www.cnycf.org.
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Your Application Was Denied. Now What?
Granting Matters
Just over half of all applications the Community Foundation receives each year are awarded grants. While this is great news for those that receive funding, it also means that nearly half of the applications do not. So, what steps should you take if you receive the news that your proposal has been declined? First, it is important to understand that a declination is not a judgment on your organization’s work or the value it adds to the community. Funding decisions are made based on a complex series of factors that include merit, but also include alignment with foundation priorities and the donor intent of the funds we manage. We strongly encourage applicants whose requests were declined to start by contacting us to discuss the reason behind our board’s decision. Sometimes the reason may be that we simply did not have enough available funding in a given round that could be allocated to a project in your focus area. Other times there could be ways to increase the precision with which your application addresses a community need, collaborates with other community partners, assesses impact or pursues sustainability. We often have valuable information to share that can help you decide the best next step among these two options:
by Danielle Gill, Director, Community Grantmaking
1. Resubmit the application in an upcoming grant round Our staff will provide information or feedback about the request so that your organization can strengthen it for resubmission. There are often changes that can be made, additional information that you can provide and specific areas of concern that can be addressed. We are happy to work with you. 2. Find another project that might be a better fit with the Community Foundation’s funding preferences It may be that the project your organization submitted fell outside of our funding guidelines or that there are other issues unlikely to be overcome with a rewrite. In such cases, it is often best to explore other ideas you have for projects on which we could partner. The goal is to find a project where your mission overlaps with the Community Foundation’s priorities. We see each grant application as a potential collaboration. If one request does not get pursued, there will likely be another opportunity to do so in the future. We want to continue the conversation with you about project proposals that you have an interest in sharing with us.
go to cnycf.org/grants
to learn more about grant opportunities.
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The Community Foundation strives to ensure that its relationships with nonprofit partners are long-term and mutually beneficial. We cannot achieve our mission without you and the work that you do. We are committed to joining with you to foster a thriving Central New York community.
Read, Learn & Grow
Helping Families
Within the walls of Jamesville Correctional Facility, inmates participating in the Family Literacy Project are happily reading books to their children and helping them with learning activities they made themselves. Based on successful national models, the program at Jamesville Correctional is aimed at increasing literacy rates of children with incarcerated parents. It is a joint effort between OCM-BOCES and Onondaga County Public Library, and is designed to teach inmates ways to help improve their children’s reading skills and engage in their schooling. Amy Thorna, literacy coordinator at the Onondaga County Public Library, believes strides can be made in alleviating poverty by first addressing education and literacy. “Our community has pretty low literacy levels,” she said. “It goes hand-in-hand with the poverty that exists.” Thorna leads one class each week, teaching attendees the “how-tos” of reading and interacting with their children and the importance of engaging in their education. Six inmates participate in each seven-week session, alternating between male and female groups. A $10,000 grant from the Community Foundation provided seed money to the project, which will continue for as long as funding is available.
Above and Left: Inmates at Jamesville Correctional Facility read books to their children through the Family Literacy Project.
The program is modeled after, and expands upon, the American Library Association’s Every Child Ready to Read (ECRR) program. ECRR concentrates on talking, reading, singing, playing and writing as key skills needed to develop a child’s early success. The inmates create fun activities for their children, based on one of the five ECRR skills, to send home to them. They also choose three children’s books: one to read on the recording of a video sent home, one to read to their child when they visit on the project’s final day and one to take home to their child when they are released. All participating inmates have reported wanting to spend more time reading to their children and taking them to the library when they get home. After the inmates are released, they will later receive a postcard reminding them of the goals they stated for themselves and their children at the beginning of the project.
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“We say to the inmates, ‘In 10 years or 15 years where do you see your kids? What do you see them doing?’” explained Thorna. “The parents of course want their child to be successful, so we remind them that this is how they can start them down the road to success now.”
and choose Nonprofit Stories to read more stories of impact.
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Measuring Efforts to Decrease Poverty Last year, 47 percent of Syracuse children under the age of 18 were reported to be living in poverty, a startling statistic that has been increasing at an alarming rate over the past few years. If we are to change this trend, it is crucial that local nonprofit organizations coordinate their efforts to achieve measurable results. The Community Foundation recently awarded its sixth round of Performance Management grants, totaling $169,999, to help charities – many of which work to assist residents living in poverty – to measure, evaluate and communicate their effectiveness.
Participants in the Journey To Success Program learn Microsoft Office skills in the Women’s Opportunity Center’s computer lab.
Data can have a profound effect on a nonprofit organization’s ability to share the story of its impact on the community. These organizations will utilize grant support to measure how effectively their work is stabilizing refugee housing, reducing incarceration rates, providing counseling and, ultimately, reducing poverty rates. All recipients are now members of a new learning community that will meet over the course of the next year and enable them to hone their data management skills and share successes and challenges with one another. CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ALTERNATIVES - $20,000
Strengthen its programming that aims to reduce youth incarceration by gathering data for planning, quality assurance and improvement GOOD LIFE YOUTH FOUNDATION - $20,000
Increase use of metrics and data to evaluate how to effectively reduce the recidivism rates of youth in Central New York INTERFAITH WORKS OF CENTRAL NEW YORK - $19,956
Identify triggers that contribute to homelessness and work towards stabilizing refugee housing SYRACUSE NORTHEAST COMMUNITY CENTER - $19,887
Evaluate how its database and crisis matrix tools can effectively measure paths toward client self-sufficiency THE NORTH SIDE LEARNING CENTER - $12,212
Develop a data collection system to analyze how their programming is addressing neighborhood needs WOMEN’S OPPORTUNITY CENTER - $20,000
Develop a data collection system to evaluate its programming YWCA OF SYRACUSE & ONONDAGA COUNTY - $18,624
Measure and increase success in its Women’s Residence and Youth Leadership Development programs that provide women with support to improve their quality of life
Additional grantees include: LEARNING DISABILITIES ASSOCIATION OF CNY - $20,000
go to cnycf.org/ measure
to learn more about Performance Management.
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Measure and evaluate the reading levels of children after participating in its Summer Adventures in Learning program WCNY TV/24 - PUBLIC BROADCASTING COUNCIL OF CNY SYRACUSE - $19,320
Increase organizational capacity and the ability to demonstrate program outcomes and impact
These grants were made possible through the support of the Carriage House, Community, M. Harold & Frances M. Dwyer, John M. & Mary L. Gallinger, John H. & Mary P. Hughes and John F. Marsellus Funds.
Calendar: Upcoming Events & Deadlines Join us for some of our exciting events and workshops this year! Visit cnycf.org/events to register. December
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DECEMBER 11, 2017: N.E.W.S.: ADVANCED GRANTWRITING
Featuring Melissa Whipps, Syracuse University & Kelly Fumarola, SUNY Binghamton 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Sharpen your existing grantwriting skills with this upcoming training designed for nonprofit staff members who have previous basic grant proposal knowledge.
Fundholder Checklist for Year-End Giving The last quarter of the calendar year is when many people make charitable gifts to take advantage of the year-end tax deductions – and also because so many nonprofits ask them to this time of year! If you are planning to replenish your donor-advised fund, or contribute to other charities from your fund before December 31, here are some helpful reminders:
upcoming grant deadlines Community Grants March 30, 2018 July 13, 2018 October 12, 2018 Cayuga Fund Grants April 15, 2018 Pulaski Fund Grants May 15, 2018 Women’s Fund Grants June 15, 2018 Oswego Fund Grants July 15, 2018
Earlier is better. The volume of transactions increases significantly during December. Beat the year-end rush by adding to or disbursing from your fund in October or November. Notify us when transferring stock. It is important to contact us when donating securities to a fund at the Community Foundation so that we can credit your gift appropriately. Also, ask your broker to disclose your name when transferring the shares to avoid delays in your acknowledgement letter. Use our online resources. You can access information about your fund through MyGiving, our online tool for fundholders. Your MyGiving account offers a menu of options to make grant suggestions, obtain fund summary information or past grants, and much more. You can also find grant suggestion forms and stock transfer forms at cnycf. org/DonorDocs. Our website offers instant access to a wealth of information and tools that will help you fulfill your year-end charitable giving objectives. Any questions? Visit cnycf.org or contact Thomas Griffith at (315) 883-5544.
90 Years
Here for Good
This year we’re celebrating 90 years of compassionate philanthropy, civic partnership and conscientious growth. Visit our special anniversary website at cnycf90.org to see how your collective generosity is making change happen throughout Central New York.
go to cnycf.org/events
to view all of our important dates.
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finance & administration
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This summer we lost a dear friend and staff member with the passing of David Kilpatrick. Dave was a valued member of our team since 2010. During his tenure with the Community Foundation, Dave worked his way up from Grants Associate to Program Officer for Community Grantmaking. An integral part of the Community Investment team, Dave assisted in the community grantmaking process and special grant initiatives and programs. Dave’s wholehearted commitment to helping nonprofits shone in the extensive relationships he built within and beyond his immediate network. His dedication, expertise, and unfailing approachability garnered instant respect from peers, leaders, and volunteers alike. Dave was a force for good – in his community and life in general. His passion for family, friends, and community was perhaps only rivaled by his love of pop culture and the Oxford comma. We will miss his wit, his kindness, his infectious laugh, his impeccable grammar, and his uncanny trivia knowledge. Most of all, we will miss our friend Dave.