[ShareTompkins] Fwd: Ithaca Alternative Gift Fair December 3

[Shira Golding]

> From: Liz Field <lizfield at cornell.edu>
> Date: November 8, 2011 4:14:27 PM EST
> To: TC-HSC-L <TC-HSC-L at list.cornell.edu>
> Subject: Ithaca Alternative Gift Fair December 3
> Reply-To: Liz Field <lizfield at cornell.edu>
>
> Please Save the Date for the Eighth Annual Ithaca Alternative Gift  
> Fair
> Saturday, December 3, 2011
> 10:00am – 6:00pm at two adjacent locations in Dewitt Park:
> The First Presbyterian Church, 315 N. Cayuga St, and the First  
> Baptist Church, 309 N. Cayuga St.
>
> The Ithaca Alternative Gift Fair offers holiday shoppers a choice of  
> gifts to honor family and friends while supporting charities and non- 
> profit organizations in a festive atmosphere. Holiday shoppers  
> browse displays and tables from over sixty local non-profit and  
> social service agencies to donate to in a loved one’s name.
>
> The Ithaca Alternative Gift Fair is a fun way to bypass the annual  
> stress of holiday shopping and “stuff” accumulation while honoring  
> friends and relatives with donations to causes that fit their  
> values. What’s more, the Ithaca Alternative Gift Fair provides  
> critical support for a diverse collection of community organizations  
> whose work has local, national, and international reach.
> How Does It Work?
>
> Each organization that participates in the fair offers variously  
> priced gifts that have a specific purpose. Gifts in the past have  
> ranged from $5 to give a compact fluorescent light bulb to a local,  
> rural household; $10 for a week of school, clothing and two meals a  
> day for an orphan in Zambia; to $100 for a“Golden Opportunity”  
> scholarship fund to help students remain successful in area schools.  
> This year there will be over 300 offerings to choose from. For each  
> donation, the giver receives a holiday card with a description of  
> the organization and gift, and the organization to which your  
> contribution is made gets 100% of your donation.
>
> ~~~
>
> The Ithaca Alternative Gift Fair is sponsored by the Center for  
> Transformative Action with generous support from Tompkins Community  
> Action, Alternatives Federal Credit Union, Lightlink, Tompkins  
> County Public Library, and Acorn Designs.
> For more information, please contact CTA at 607-255-9985 or email ithacaalternativegiftfair at gmail.com 
> .
>
> Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=242257589165606
>
> This year’s participating organizations are: Advocacy Center of  
> Tompkins County; Akwesasne Freedom School (LACS); Ashraya Initiative  
> for Children; Biosecience Resource Project; BJM Enrichment Program;  
> Bob Fund, Brooktondale Community Center; Cancer Resource Center of  
> the Finger Lakes; Catholic Charities, Cayuga Dog Rescue; Cayuga Lake  
> Watershed Network; Cayuga Nature Center; Community Dispute  
> Resolution Center; Child Development Council; Clean and Healthy New  
> York; Coddington Road Community Center; Community School of Music  
> and Arts (CSMA); DAP of Family & Children’s Services; Dorothy Cotton  
> Institute; Dream Factory of CNY; Durland Alternatives Library;  
> Educate The Children; Finger Lakes Independence Center; Finger Lakes  
> Reuse; Foodnet Meals on Wheels; Friends of the Ithaca Youth Bureau;  
> Friendship Donations Network; Greater Ithaca Activities Center  
> (GIAC); Golden Opportunity; Green Resource Hub; Growing Hope  
> Together; Habitat for Humanity; Hangar Theatre; Heart’s Cry; Ithaca  
> Public Education Initiative (IPEI); Ithaca Children’s Garden; Ithaca  
> Health Alliance; Ithaca Kitchen Cupboard; Janet L. Swanson Wildlife  
> Health Center; Learning Web; Loaves and Fishes; Love Knows No  
> Bounds; Mental Health Association in Tompkins County; Mira’s  
> Movement; Multicultural Resource Center; NAMI of the Finger Lakes;  
> Opportunities, Alternatives and Resources (OAR); An Open Window;  
> Partnership for African and Lansing Schools (PALS); Pet the Pet  
> Program; Shared Journeys; Southside Community Center; SPCA of  
> Tompkins County; Sustainable Tompkins; Tompkins Learning Partners;  
> Village at Ithaca; Wild Things Sanctuary; and the Women’s  
> Opportunity Center.
>
> -- 
> Elizabeth Field, Communications Manager
> Center for Transformative Action
> 119 Anabel Taylor Hall
> Cornell University
> Ithaca, NY 14850
> mobile: 607-280-1960
> http://www.centerfortransformativeaction.org
> http://www.facebook.com/centerfortransformativeaction
> http://www.twitter.com/transformaction
>
>

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