where dreams take flight - Community Foundation of Tompkins County

2005 community grants
Southside Community Center
$7,800 Community Unity Project Grant
This program provides music instruction and support to children and youth who are most at risk
for dropping out of school-based music programs. Located at one of the area’s oldest community
centers, it offers individualized and group learning opportunities as well as culturally relevant music.
Both vocal and instrumental music is included. The Community Foundation’s grant was specifically
earmarked for staffing support of the 2005 summer program, which is an intensive and somewhat
more elaborate offering that complements the year-long afterschool program. The Community
Unity Project fosters relationships around music within families and across the community.
DeWitt Middle School
$956 Project Veggie Power Grant
This project links students to cutting edge concerns in technology development, energy use, and
the expansion of renewable energy markets. This collaboration between Ithaca High School and
DeWitt Middle School will use student teams to design a one-person vehicle that adapts a diesel
engine to burn vegetable oil instead of conventional diesel fuel. Upon completion of this project,
the design teams will research the possibility that the Ithaca City School District might incorporate
the use of bio-diesel fuel (a mixture of diesel and vegetable oil) in all of its school buses, potentially
saving thousands of dollars in fuel costs as well as becoming more environmentally friendly.
Through philanthropy we can achieve together
what we cannot achieve alone.
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