The Ithaca Alternative Gift Fair is back for its fourth year. Thirty-one organizations are participating in the event, which offers shoppers an opportunity to give charitable donations as holiday gifts for friends and relatives.
The Fair will be held from 10 am to 4 pm, Saturday, December 1, at the First Presbyterian Church, 315 North Cayuga Street, Ithaca. Free parking is available in the nearby County lots behind the main courthouse and the Old Jail building, and the church is easily accessible to the ADA community. All of the money collected at the Fair goes directly to the participating organizations. Among this year's 150 gift offerings are hot meals for the homeless, help for at-risk youth and special-needs children, support for community talking circles on racism, help for injured or lost animals, and many gifts that support families in impoverished countries around the world. Gifts at the Fair start at $5, and every gift comes with a free greeting card and an insert with information about the gift and the organization, each of which has a proven track record of helping people and the environment. The Fair has grown in popularity and earned more money for the organizations each year and has the additional benefit of reducing the impact on the environment of conventional gift-giving. This year's Gift Fair organizations are: the Advocacy Center, Better Housing for Tompkins County, Catholic Charities of Tompkins County, Cayuga Lake Watershed Network, Compos Mentis, CRESP Center for Transformative Action, Educate the Children, Family and Children's Services, Family Reading Partnership, Finger Lakes Independence Center, Foodnet Meals on Wheels, Franziska Racker Centers, Greater Ithaca Activities Center, Hearts' Cry Inc, Ithaca Alternative Gift Fair, Ithaca Children's Garden, Ithaca Kitchen Cupboard, Ithaca Youth Bureau, Learning Web, Loaves and Fishes, Mental Health Association in Tompkins County, Multicultural Resource Center, Musicians for World Harmony, Partnership for African and Lansing Schools, Planned Parenthood of the Southern Finger Lakes, Social Justice Council of First Unitarian Church, Tompkins County SPCA, Sustainable Tompkins, Tompkins Community Action, Village at Ithaca, Wildlife Health Center, and the Women's Opportunity Center. Descriptions of the organizations and the gifts can be found on the Ithaca Alternative Gift Fair website at www.ithacaaltgiftfair.org. The Ithaca Alternative Gift Fair is sponsored by the CRESP Center for Transformative Action and Tompkins Community Action. Contact: Anke Wessels, CRESP Center for Transformative Action, 607-255-5027, [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: [email protected] http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org
