WITH NEW EXPANDED HOURS!

2008 Participating Organizations Listed Below

Ithaca Alternative Gift Fair 2008 will be held

Saturday, December 6, 2008
11:00am - 7:00pm
at the First Presbyterian Church
315 North Cayuga Street, Ithaca, NY

WHAT IS AN ALTERNATIVE GIFT FAIR?

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 31 local, national and international organizations with established track records of helping people and the environment. Last year's gift fair earned more than $50,000 for the participating organizations.

HOW DOES IT WORK? Each organization that participates in the fair offers variously priced gifts that have a specific purpose. Last year, the Ithaca Alternative Gift Fair raised over $50,000, all of which went to the participating organizations. 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. There were 160 offerings to choose from. For each donation, the giver received a holiday card with a description of the organization and gift.

Here Are the 2008 Participating Organizations
  • Cancer Resource Center
  • Catholic Charities
  • Center for Transformative Action
  • Challenge Industries
  • Community Building Works
  • Dispositional Alternatives Program
  • Dream Factory
  • Finger Lakes Independence Center
  • Foodnet Meals on Wheels
  • Franziska Racker Centers
  • Greater Ithaca Activities Center (GIAC)
  • Human Services Coalition of Tompkins County
  • Ithaca Health Alliance
  • Ithaca Public Education Initiative (IPEI)
  • Ithaca Youth Bureau
  • Learning Web
  • Lehman Alternative Community School/Akwesasne Freedom School
  • Loaves and Fishes
  • Multicultural Resource Center
  • Natural Leaders Initiative
  • New York Coalition for Healthy School Food
  • Opportunities, Alternatives and Resources (OAR)
  • Planned Parenthood
  • S.P.C.A. Tompkins County
  • SewGreen
  • Southern Tier Advocacy & Mitigation Project (S.T.A.M.P)
  • Sustainable Tompkins
  • TCAction
  • Tompkins County Public Library Foundation
  • Women's Opportunity Center
For Information Email us at:
akw7@cornell.edu

For information write to:
Ithaca Alternative Gift Fair
c/o CRESP Center for Transformative Action
117 Anabel Taylor Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca , NY 14853
Fax: 607-255-9985