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Community Foundation Partners with Dyson Foundation to Provide $20,000 to Help With Lewis County Flood Relief

October 1, 2024 By admin

Snow Belt Housing to Manage Applications for Funding from Residents in Need

     LOWVILLE — The Northern New York Community Foundation, in partnership with the Dyson Foundation, is pleased to announce $20,000 in grant support to help Snow Belt Housing provide emergency relief to Lewis County residents impacted by summer flooding.

     The Community Foundation and the Dyson Foundation will each provide $10,000 to aid residents with documented losses.

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Community Foundation Names Class of 2024 Frances Anderson Luck Scholarship Recipient

September 25, 2024 By admin

Scholarship Supports Aspiring Veterinarians, Technicians Who Plan to Work in Northern New York

     WATERTOWN — Liberty L. Dippel is the Class of 2024 recipient of the Northern New York Community Foundation’s Frances Anderson Luck Foundation Scholarship.

     Liberty graduated from Thousand Islands High School in June and recently began her first year at Jefferson Community College where she studies liberal arts. She plans to transfer to SUNY Canton to enroll in the veterinary technician bachelor’s degree program.

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Community Foundation’s Youth Philanthropy Council Names 2024-2025 Class, Announces Executive Committee

September 23, 2024 By admin

Students Welcome New and Returning Council Members from Five Jefferson County High Schools for Yearlong Leadership Program

     WATERTOWN — The Northern New York Community Foundation recently named its 2024-2025 Youth Philanthropy Council class, welcoming eight new and 10 returning students to the leadership program.

     The Youth Philanthropy Council is an advisory committee of the Northern New York Community Foundation. Chartered in 2010, the program promotes positive youth development and engages young people in meaningful activities that build their skills while deepening their understanding of community needs and educating them about community philanthropy and its impact on Northern New York. Council members grow to become informed critical thinkers and philanthropic leaders as they engage in lessons that may never be taught in a traditional classroom.

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Safe Schools Endeavor Seeks Grant Proposals from Jefferson, Lewis Schools for 2024-2025 Funding

September 12, 2024 By admin

Deadline to Submit Proposals for Funding Consideration is Friday, Nov. 1

     WATERTOWN — The Safe Schools Endeavor, in partnership with the Northern New York Community Foundation, is pleased to announce that applications for 2024-2025 funding are now available. All schools in Jefferson and Lewis counties are eligible and encouraged to seek grant funding for projects, programs, and initiatives that seek to strengthen school safety and improve student and campus culture.

     School officials and representatives should complete applications no later than Friday, Nov. 1. All applications must be completed through the Community Foundation’s online Grant Lifecycle Manager, which may be accessed at bit.ly/grant-portal. Grant awards will be determined in December and applicants will be notified with a funding decision no later than early January.

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Community Foundation Launches Eighth Annual $10,000 Community Spirit Youth Giving Challenge

September 10, 2024 By admin

Tri-County Seventh and Eighth Graders Could Win One of Ten $1,000 Grant Awards to Support a Favorite Local Charity

     WATERTOWN — The Northern New York Community Foundation’s 2024-2025 Community Spirit Youth Giving Challenge is now open to tri-county students. The challenge seeks to engage seventh and eighth graders in learning about their communities while they compete for an opportunity to award a $1,000 grant to a local nonprofit organization of their choice.

     This is the eighth year of the program, which is made possible by donors to the Community Foundation’s Friends of the Foundation Annual Community Betterment Fund, corporate support from Community Bank and a major gift from an individual donor.

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Meet South Jefferson High School rising sophomore Breckan Pelton.

For Breckan, “community means having people you can rely on; friends and family all within a close distance.

“Mannsville isn’t just a place to grow up. This community always strives to take care of one another. It may be a small town in size, but it has a large heart,” Breckan wrote in his winning essay.

Breckan is a Northern New York Community Foundation Community Spirit Youth Giving Challenge winner. He chose the Mannsville Free Library to receive a $1,000 grant for its work and mission. 

“In a small village like Mannsville, there aren’t many places for socialization with your friends. When I was younger, my sister and my friends and I would meet at the library, which was always welcoming and featured our book recommendations,” he wrote. “I hope this grant award will provide Mannsville Library the opportuni-ty to purchase new books and host new activities for children so they can have the same memories and expe-riences as I did.”

Breckan recently met with Mannsville Free Library Director Anne Fuller and presented a $1,000 Youth Giving Challenge grant that will help the library continue its work. The grant is made possible by gifts to the Friends of the Foundation Community Betterment Annual Fund, corporate support from Community Bank, N.A. and a major gift from an individual donor.

Pictured, from left: Anne Fuller, Mannsville Library director, and Youth Giving Challenge winner and South Jefferson High School rising sophomore Breckan Pelton.

We are grateful to Breckan for his thoughtful effort. We are even more impressed that he is one of dozens of tri-county youths who looked inside their communities to recognize an organization that works to improve quality of life. Breckan is the son of Shelbie and James Pelton, Mannsville. 

The 2025-2026 Youth Giving Challenge asked seventh, eighth, and ninth-grade students from Jefferson, Lewis, and St. Lawrence counties to explain in an essay what community means to them and to choose a nonprofit that embodies their definition of community. Breckan’s essay is one of 20 chosen from nearly 80 submissions that came from 26 different tri-county schools.

Look for more photos and stories behind the Community Spirit Youth Giving Challenge in the coming weeks.

#NNYCF #MannsvilleFreeLibrary #CommunitySpirit #YouthGivingChallenge

Meet South Jefferson High School rising sophomore Breckan Pelton.

For Breckan, “community means having people you can rely on; friends and family all within a close distance.

“Mannsville isn’t just a place to grow up. This community always strives to take care of one another. It may be a small town in size, but it has a large heart,” Breckan wrote in his winning essay.

Breckan is a Northern New York Community Foundation Community Spirit Youth Giving Challenge winner. He chose the Mannsville Free Library to receive a $1,000 grant for its work and mission.

“In a small village like Mannsville, there aren’t many places for socialization with your friends. When I was younger, my sister and my friends and I would meet at the library, which was always welcoming and featured our book recommendations,” he wrote. “I hope this grant award will provide Mannsville Library the opportuni-ty to purchase new books and host new activities for children so they can have the same memories and expe-riences as I did.”

Breckan recently met with Mannsville Free Library Director Anne Fuller and presented a $1,000 Youth Giving Challenge grant that will help the library continue its work. The grant is made possible by gifts to the Friends of the Foundation Community Betterment Annual Fund, corporate support from Community Bank, N.A. and a major gift from an individual donor.

Pictured, from left: Anne Fuller, Mannsville Library director, and Youth Giving Challenge winner and South Jefferson High School rising sophomore Breckan Pelton.

We are grateful to Breckan for his thoughtful effort. We are even more impressed that he is one of dozens of tri-county youths who looked inside their communities to recognize an organization that works to improve quality of life. Breckan is the son of Shelbie and James Pelton, Mannsville.

The 2025-2026 Youth Giving Challenge asked seventh, eighth, and ninth-grade students from Jefferson, Lewis, and St. Lawrence counties to explain in an essay what community means to them and to choose a nonprofit that embodies their definition of community. Breckan’s essay is one of 20 chosen from nearly 80 submissions that came from 26 different tri-county schools.

Look for more photos and stories behind the Community Spirit Youth Giving Challenge in the coming weeks.

#NNYCF #MannsvilleFreeLibrary #CommunitySpirit #YouthGivingChallenge
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So thoughtful

Congratulations, Breckan! We love the Mannsville Library, too.

I love this! Breckan is a kind, caring, intelligent young man and we are so fortunate to have him as part of our community.

Congratulations.

Congratulations Breckan! 👏👏

Congratulations Breckan! Such a great feeling.

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We are proud to introduce the Class of 2026 Shaw Harbor Foundation scholars.

Nine members of the class of 2026 were awarded scholarships from the Shaw Harbor Foundation, a Northern New York Community Foundation charitable fund, during the Seventh Annual Appreciation & Recognition Dinner at The Barracks Inn, Sackets Harbor, last month. 

Class of 2023 Shaw Harbor Scholar Kevin Bou-Abdallah, Clarkson University; Class of 2024 Shaw Harbor Scholar Rebecca M. Leonard, Rochester Institute of Technology; and Class of 2025 Shaw Harbor Scholar Henry B. Goss; St. Lawrence University, were also named 2026 recipients of the Shaw Harbor Distinguished Undergraduate Award ($1,000).

Class of 2026 Shaw Harbor Leadership scholars: 

Luxi A. Liston, World-Changer Award ($5,000); Parishville-Hopkinton Central School; University of Rochester, pre-med-neuroscience

Mackenzie A. Salisbury, Perseverance Award ($3,000); Belleville Henderson Central School, Jefferson Community College, criminal justice

Garett J. Nier, Harmony & Humanity Award ($3,000); Carthage Central School; SUNY Oswego, communications

Porter Lonsbery, Intellectual Curiosity Award ($2,000); Thousand Islands Central School; Jefferson Community College, social sciences & Spanish

Chris-Dre McIntosh, Advocacy Award ($2,000); Watertown High School; University at Buffalo, political science

Aveline M. Hellings, Community Impact Award ($1,000); LaFargeville Central School, SUNY Oswego, business administration/global & international studies

Class of 2026 Shaw Harbor Scholars ($1,000): Audrey I. Jareo, Watertown High School; East Carolina University, biomedical engineering; Sarah B. Storrin, Parishville-Hopkinton Central School; SUNY Potsdam, adolescence education: social studies; and Easton J. Willard, Morristown Central School, St. Lawrence University, biochemistry

Top photo, from left: Class of 2026 Shaw Harbor Scholars Easton J. Willard, Chris-Dre McIntosh, Shaw Harbor Foundation founder John Shaw McNeely, Garett J. Nier, and Porter Lonsbery. Front row, from left: Audrey J. Jareo, Mackenzie A. Salisbury, Luxi A. Liston, Sarah B. Storrin, and Aveline M. Hellings.

Bottom photo, from left: Luxi A. Liston, Class of 2026 World-Changer Award recipient, and John Shaw McNeely, Shaw Harbor Foundation founder.

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We are proud to introduce the Class of 2026 Shaw Harbor Foundation scholars.

Nine members of the class of 2026 were awarded scholarships from the Shaw Harbor Foundation, a Northern New York Community Foundation charitable fund, during the Seventh Annual Appreciation & Recognition Dinner at The Barracks Inn, Sackets Harbor, last month.

Class of 2023 Shaw Harbor Scholar Kevin Bou-Abdallah, Clarkson University; Class of 2024 Shaw Harbor Scholar Rebecca M. Leonard, Rochester Institute of Technology; and Class of 2025 Shaw Harbor Scholar Henry B. Goss; St. Lawrence University, were also named 2026 recipients of the Shaw Harbor Distinguished Undergraduate Award ($1,000).

Class of 2026 Shaw Harbor Leadership scholars:

Luxi A. Liston, World-Changer Award ($5,000); Parishville-Hopkinton Central School; University of Rochester, pre-med-neuroscience

Mackenzie A. Salisbury, Perseverance Award ($3,000); Belleville Henderson Central School, Jefferson Community College, criminal justice

Garett J. Nier, Harmony & Humanity Award ($3,000); Carthage Central School; SUNY Oswego, communications

Porter Lonsbery, Intellectual Curiosity Award ($2,000); Thousand Islands Central School; Jefferson Community College, social sciences & Spanish

Chris-Dre McIntosh, Advocacy Award ($2,000); Watertown High School; University at Buffalo, political science

Aveline M. Hellings, Community Impact Award ($1,000); LaFargeville Central School, SUNY Oswego, business administration/global & international studies

Class of 2026 Shaw Harbor Scholars ($1,000): Audrey I. Jareo, Watertown High School; East Carolina University, biomedical engineering; Sarah B. Storrin, Parishville-Hopkinton Central School; SUNY Potsdam, adolescence education: social studies; and Easton J. Willard, Morristown Central School, St. Lawrence University, biochemistry

Top photo, from left: Class of 2026 Shaw Harbor Scholars Easton J. Willard, Chris-Dre McIntosh, Shaw Harbor Foundation founder John Shaw McNeely, Garett J. Nier, and Porter Lonsbery. Front row, from left: Audrey J. Jareo, Mackenzie A. Salisbury, Luxi A. Liston, Sarah B. Storrin, and Aveline M. Hellings.

Bottom photo, from left: Luxi A. Liston, Class of 2026 World-Changer Award recipient, and John Shaw McNeely, Shaw Harbor Foundation founder.

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Congratulations!

Yas Mac!!!!

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Parents, teachers, and youth leaders: The Community Foundation’s first summer Youth Philanthropy Experience kicks off Monday, July 27, and it’s not too late for students to secure a seat!

Do you know a Jefferson County student who will be a high school freshman this fall? This FREE weeklong summer experience is exclusively for students who live in Jefferson County and are entering ninth grade this fall. 

Participants will learn about giving back to their community through volunteerism, leadership, grantmaking, and other ways they can help nonprofit organizations working to strengthen our communities. 

Students who complete the program are also eligible to earn volunteer service hours while learning!

Interested students should visit nnycf.org/summer-ype to obtain an application and apply today. 

#NNYCF #Leadership #YouthDevelopment #SummerExperience #YPE #YPC

Parents, teachers, and youth leaders: The Community Foundation’s first summer Youth Philanthropy Experience kicks off Monday, July 27, and it’s not too late for students to secure a seat!

Do you know a Jefferson County student who will be a high school freshman this fall? This FREE weeklong summer experience is exclusively for students who live in Jefferson County and are entering ninth grade this fall.

Participants will learn about giving back to their community through volunteerism, leadership, grantmaking, and other ways they can help nonprofit organizations working to strengthen our communities.

Students who complete the program are also eligible to earn volunteer service hours while learning!

Interested students should visit nnycf.org/summer-ype to obtain an application and apply today.

#NNYCF #Leadership #YouthDevelopment #SummerExperience #YPE #YPC
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