Ithaca Public Education Initiative

Engagement Matters!

2012-2013 Annual Report A s I look back Thank you to all of IPEI’s supporters and partners for on this past year and joining us in our mission to connect our community to students ahead to the next, I am so and teachers of the Ithaca City School District. Initiatives grateful to all of you in our funded by IPEI’s grants deepen engagement in learning and community who believe enrich each student’s learning experiences. IPEI was founded in public education and by an incredibly dedicated and inspired group of community IPEI’s role. Strong public leaders who led and operated the organization for more than 17 schools are so important years. I am very energized by the hard work of IPEI’s founders for our kids, our families, and look forward to working with all of you to carry that legacy our businesses, and our forward into the future. whole community. Community support through IPEI’s capital campaign has enabled us to hire our first ever director and open an Christine Sanchirico office! Christine Sanchirico, Executive Director, joins Julie Executive Director, IPEI Langenbacher, Administrative and Program Associate. The addition of staff helps us build a sustainable structure for the future including much needed support for our many volunteers. Annual Fund gifts to IPEI ensure a broad range of grants, programs, and other initiatives that engage students in WHO do we learning and awaken their imaginations. In fact, working with teachers and others who received grants last year, we undertook an evaluation of “student engagement” that ENGAGE and showed measurable differences after the funded activity. In addition to our successful grants programs and Kids HOW Discover the Trail! collaboration, IPEI welcomes a new affiliate and a new special fund. IthacaSTEM Advocates has the mission to promote science, technology, engineering, and mathematics opportunities for our Pre-K-12 students, and the Josh Endo Memorial for Continuing Support of Music Contents Education will increase music education opportunities especially for those who might not otherwise have access. ? You can read more about these new initiatives and other IPEI Teachers and Students activities in this report and by following our website, blog Engagement 2 and social media accounts. Grants 4 I hope this report will encourage you to support IPEI’s Kids Discover the Trail! 10 efforts as there are many opportunities for us to make a Community and Families difference together. Affiliates 12 Awards 16

Thank you! Supporters Giving Opportunities 18 Donors 20 Terry Byrnes Financials 27 President, IPEI Board of Directors Board and Volunteers 29 Who? TEACHERS AN D STUDENTS

Rocket-Making at Cayuga Heights Elementary a diverse range of exceptional “Rocket-launching is a great way to community resources into the district’s enhance math and science skills, in a IPEIclassrooms brings that enhance the educational ... hands-on, tangible way. Students experience for all students. We support teachers can experience the joys of invention, who have innovative ideas on how to energize creation, experimentation, and discovery. Thank you to IPEI, for their curriculum and make it even more relevant. helping our young minds soar.” This inspires our mission: connecting students —ICSD Principal and teachers with the world outside the classroom. Red and Gold Grants up to $500 each Students tell us these experiences help relate what 73 grants were made totaling $32,000 they study with what they may do in the future,

thus broadening their horizons. IPEI Grants Programs Impact Student Engagement IPEI grants programs strongly impact student engagement according to data collected and analyzed from teachers and others who received grants in 2012-13. IPEI Teacher Grants, through grants Red and Gold Grants and Community Collaboration Grants recipients were asked to observe and report their students’ engagement levels before and after grant-funded activities. According to these reports, student engagement—as measured Teacher Grants up to $1500 each by body language, verbal participation, physical participation, 29 grants totaling $40,000 independence and excitement—increased significantly after participating in a classroom project funded by IPEI grants. The graph below shows the results for all students, as well as the population of students identified by teachers as performing below grade level expectations. The bars show engagement levels of 1 to 5, with 5 being the greatest level of engagement.

Student Engagement Before and After IPEI Grant-Funded Activities 90 = 78 =

5 5 64 = 4 4 44 = 3 3 Community Collaboration Grants up to $3000 each 2 2 After After activity activity 2 grants were made totaling $5,000 1 1 e e 0 Befor 0 Befor activity activity

All Students Students Below Grade Level

2 3 Teacher Grants

Teacher Grants are an excellent way to introduce students Barry Deutsch Author Visit to our community’s many wonderful resources. Teachers Mihal Ronen/Fall Creek, Barry Deutsch, Author apply with their creative classroom project ideas that involve High School Classroom Book Flood a community partner and link with NYS Standards and/or Rebecca Gergely/Ithaca High, Gary Weissbrot, Buffalo Street Books Common Core Standards. Powerful Puppet Presentations II A Community Partner is any individual, business, Victoria Benson/Boynton, Open Hand Theater organization, or college department interested in working The Artful Garden with a teacher on a classroom project or activity. We welcome Jackie Richardson, Carol Spence/Ithaca High, potential community partners with ideas of how to work Damon Brangman, Gardens 4 Humanity with teachers and students. Corelli’s Last Night Aaron Buck/DeWitt, Music Department Rhythm, Rhyme and Reading Grants for 2012-13 Sarah Hubberman/Cayuga Heights, Judy Stock, musician Learning How to be a Professional Musician in Middle School Guest Artist and Sculpture Garden Installation Project at Ithaca High School* Diana Geiger/Boynton, Dr. James Mick, Jocelyn Lutter/Ithaca High, Durand Van Doren, sculptor Breathe, Jump, Slide into Wellness Journey West Susan Eschbach/Boynton, Lisa Tsetse, choreographer Jennifer Anissi Kivisild/DeWitt, Kim Haines-Eitzen, Cornell Department of LACS Fall Retreat: Fostering Citizenship in the Outdoor World Near-Eastern Studies Joe Greenberg/ Lehman Alternative, Earth Arts, Primitive Pursuits Me on the Map, Visiting Places in Our Community with Friends Introducing Kindergarteners to Architecture* Kelly Craft/Northeast, Carol Hockett, Johnson Museum of Art Beth Wixson/South Hill, Noah Demarest, Stream Collaborative Make Better Stuff: the Advantages of Rapid Prototyping Espanol Para Todos! Sheila Kissiloff/Fall Creek, Xanthe Matychak Pam Merola/Cayuga Heights, John Walker, Spanish Instructor Speak to Succeed in Science! Music and Feelings Victoria Benson/Boynton, Nancy Siegele/Beverly J Martin, David Plaine and Mark Sammo, Fun Bus Band Let’s Get Moving: The Photography of Dance *Selected to be funded by the Charles E. Treman Jr. Teacher Grant Endowment Judy Cogan/Ithaca High, Nana Anim, Wassa PanAfrika Dance Ensemble of the Tompkins Charitable Gift Fund in memory of the former president of the Tompkins Trust Company. Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) Traditions Are Alive Today Andrea Volckmar/DeWitt , Carol Hockett, Johnson Museum of Art; Mike Tarbell Ellis Island Immigration Experience* Andrea Volckmar/DeWitt, Thamora Fischel, Southeast Asia Program at Cornell; Steve Yale-Loehr The Magic Paintbrush: The Art and Culture of Kari Krakow/Northeast, Carol Hockett, Johnson Museum of Art; Jim Hardesty The Garden in My Classroom Allison Andersen/Fall Creek, Leigh MacDonald-Rizzo, Ithaca Children’s Garden E-Book Pilot: Electronic Reading Easily on E-Readers Roz Guterman/Boynton, Lindsey Reed Kids Discover the Creek: Creek Study Jennifer Emerson/Fall Creek, Jed Jordan, Primitive Pursuits What’s the Big Idea?? Exploring Genre & Theme through Literature & Film Allison Andersen/Fall Creek, Scott Bliss, Cinemapolis What’s the Big Idea?? Exploring Genre & Theme through Literature & Film Kathleen Lee/South Hill, Scott Bliss, Cinemapolis The Power of My Voice Ahrayna Zakos/Beverly J Martin, Sarah Wolff, Poet Sewing for Hangar Theatre: Artist in Residence-The Skills of Public Speaking Social Studies Christopher Carey/Boynton, The Hangar Theatre Using Scientific Illustration to Learn about Trout Fourth-graders sew rucksacks Jen Wilkie/South Hill, Camille Doucet, Artist as part of Revolutionary War Artful Math Mural grant project funded in memory Christine Finnigan/Enfield, Jay Stooks, GIAC of Chuck Brodhead.

4 5 Red and Gold Grants

Red and Gold Grants are designed to address the need for modest amounts of funding that fall outside the parameters of IPEI’s Teacher Grants program. Teachers, staff, students or community members may apply for one-time grants that strengthen and enrich the curriculum and have a positive impact on students.

IPEI Red and Gold Grants supported five student Boynton Middle School Science Olympiad Club Stephen Kirsch/Boynton projects as part of Ithaca High School’s Engineering Felt Board Story Retelling for Oral Language Enhancement Sue Sandritter/South Hill, Beverly J. Martin Design and Development class, a nine-month capstone Reading IS Information Judith H Blood/Enfield course in which they 5th Grade Community Service Robert Graham/Caroline apply the principles WildFire CNC Plasma Engineering Design and Development they’ve learned in four (EDD) Project James Eddlestone, Istvan Burbank/Ithaca High preceding engineer- Yoga, Meditation, Pilates, Oh My! Sheila Kissiloff/Fall Creek Ready to Read Denise A. Place with Lisa Kwortnik/Belle Sherman ing classes. Projects Creating a Website for the ICSD Arts Department: The Photographic sought to solve Requirements David M. Brown/ICSD Director of Visual and Performing Arts real-world engineer- Viewfinder Composition Caitlyn VanderMaas/DeWitt ing challenges and DeWitt Library has the Whole Series Joanne Church/DeWitt La Cuisine Française (French Cuisine) Rebecca Stevenson/DeWitt included a personality- Student Created Visuals Victoria Benson/Boynton profiling website, a The Art of Making Marvelous Mosaics Jacqueline Richardson/Ithaca High hull inspection submarine, a 3D scanner, a Wildfire Hyperion 3D scanner Simon Bohn with Ian Krywe/Ithaca High CNC Plasma Cutter; and an I.H.S. ID Card System. Creation of an Up-to-Date Atlas Collection for BJM Library Students presented their work at an open house in Paula Long/Beverly J. Martin Authors as Mentors -Patricia Polacco Melissa Fowler/Beverly J. Martin June. “Without the IPEI grants, the groups wouldn’t Children’s Literature Targeting Speech Language Goals have been able to build their solutions. IPEI’s grants Nicole M. Schiller/South Hill supplement and support the things these students Art All Around! Displaying Student Artwork Amanda Reppi/ Fall Creek have learned in their three previous years.” Proboat Hull Inspections Daniel Schultz/Ithaca High — IHS technology teacher Ian Krywe When a Dragon Moves In: Building a Sand Castle is Like Writing a Story Sharon Nelson/Beverly J. Martin Touching Math Deb Jordan, Julie Humble,Caty Hart/ Fall Creek Sing for Dr. King! Vitamin L Songs for a Beloved Community Grants for 2012-13 Janice Nigro/Lovable Creature Music Artful Math Number Line Christine Finnigan/Enfield Ready to Focus – Helping Kindergarten Learners be Successful Electric Wheel for Ceramic Studio Jocelyn Lutter/Ithaca High Therese Zadi/South Hill Corning Museum of Glass Field Trip Angela Affronti/Ithaca High DeWitt Middle School Career Day Andrea Volckmar/DeWitt A Picture’s Worth a Thousand Words Sheila Bowman/Belle Sherman Safe Haven Beth Hardesty/Ithaca High WAM and FAB Videos Enhanced to Presentation Quality Sports Literature Independent Novel Amalie Gorbold/Ithaca High Celia Clement/Northeast and LACS Boynton Children’s Book Project Erik Frank/Boynton Navigating Non-Fiction Brian Goodman/Enfield IHS Goes to Ghana Lauren McKown/Ithaca High Gentle Giant Squad Leann Young/DeWitt Alternative Darkroom Techniques Judy Cogan/Ithaca High DASA Training for Students and Families Marilyn Reitenbach/Ithaca High Sizzling Science Reads! Victoria Benson/Boynton Fall Creek First Grade Marathon Abigail Bokaer/Fall Creek Art workshop in Treacy Ziegler’s studio Gary Bercow/LACS Engineering Exploration Neill Morris-Knower, Phoebe Patwell/Ithaca High Parenting Project Marie Sadusky/Ithaca High 7th Grade Field Trip to the Johnson Museum of Art Paula Berman/Boynton Supplies for Locavores and Foodies programs at LACS Super Sports Audiobooks for Ithaca High School Nan Bell/Ithaca High Celia Clement, Dan Flerlage/LACS Digital Recorder for BJM Music Program Dorothy Preston/Beverly J. Martin First Grade Readers (3 Grants) Patricia Levine, Nancy Marino, Eco-Art Mural Rebecca Ryba/Boynton, Corinne Morton/Boynton Kathleen White/South Hill Food Matters Maggie Dalton/Boynton Listening to Learn Lydia Dolch/Fall Creek

6 7 Balance Balls for Better Focus Paula Kilts/Northeast Listening for Engagement Caitlin Baxter/Fall Creek DeWitt School Store Trisha Porcheddu-Ion/DeWitt Common Space Murals Caitlyn VanderMaas/DeWitt Co-curricular Thematic Unit for Revolutionary War John Brooks/Enfield Enlistment Day Judith Blood/Enfield

Community Collaboration Grants

In recognition of the role that our community can play in supporting public education, Community Collaboration Grants are awarded to not-for-profit organizations initiating curricular-enhancing programs in partnership with ICSD. The organization applies although a school staff member should be involved and school administrators must approve the plan. Community Collaboration Grants have funded pilot programs, and they have been used for school-wide, multiple-classroom or multiple-school programs.

The LACS Archery Project Jason Zorn/LACS Going Graphic! Kluane Snyder/Caroline Environmental Education Through Touring Arts Programs 4-H Urban Outreach Extended Gerry Monaghan/LACS Learning Summer Program Designing, Constructing and Launching Model Rockets (3 Grants) Emily Graber, Spencer Hill, Kimberly Snow/Cayuga Heights “We really help students to avoid that learning From Pippi to Ripley: The Workshop Day for Middle and loss that happens over the summer,” said 4-H Urban Outreach High School Students and Teachers Elizabeth Bleicher/Ithaca College Coordinator Suzie Schlough. Jamila Simon, 4-H Urban Outreach Swim Lap Counter Paul Stover, Katherine Schrader, Program Manager, added, “The cultural immersion is powerful. Ned Przezdziecki/Ithaca High It’s a wonderful socialization opportunity for both our programs.” Reading with Danny Stephanie Nisbet/Cayuga Heights —Community Partners Enriching Understanding through Texts Tanya Kszystyniak/Fall Creek Tree Travels Allison Trdan/all Kindergartens Learning Never Stops Judith Blood/Enfield Grants for 2012-13 Exploring Ithaca’s Water Resources Yvette de Boer/DeWitt Cornell Cooperative Extension: Increased Literacy through 4-H Urban Outreach Extended Learning Summer Program digital Technology Approximately 45 4-H youth from the SIFE (those with interrupted formal Georgette Alfred-Graham/Enfield education, mostly Burmese refugees) and West Village after school programs DeWitt 7/8 Choir Music in the came together for a daily 5-week summer enrichment program following Parks Festival summer school, strengthening reading/language skills, social and life skills, Jennifer Anissi Kivisild/DeWitt and preparing for school in the fall. The K-5th graders attend Belle Sherman Elementary and Cayuga Heights Elementary.

Native American Studies Program, Ithaca College: The Two Row Wampum Campaign: Community Outreach and Collaboration in Native American Education. This project engaged educators, community members and Native Americans from local Haudenosaunee Nations to foster education and mutual collabora- tion about Native American history and contemporary issues. Approximately 300 students in grades 7th, 8th, 11th and 12th were reached. 8 9 Kids discover the trail!

IPEI encourages kids to explore the arts, literature, culture, and the physical and natural worlds through Kids Discover the Trail!, a collaboration between the Ithaca City School District, the Discovery Trail and IPEI.

KDT! began in 2005 as a once-a-year field trip by ICSD elementary Welcome to the classrooms to their assigned Discovery Trail organization, and has Eight Square Schoolhouse grown into an enriched learning experience for teachers, students, and Discovery Trail educators alike. KDT! gives every district student the opportunity to visit a Discovery Trail site during elementary “This is a great program that school. Each year, 2,900 students take 150 field trips to Discovery exposes elementary students to Trail sites. Two classrooms from different schools participate the local museums and natural together with each student having a “buddy” from the other school. learning environments. The books, Classes often get together later in the year for “Buddy-Up” trips. The goal is for students from different neighborhoods to get to know provided in partnership with the each other before middle school using the shared curricular and Family Reading Partnership, were social experiences. In addition, KDT! Books that correspond with interesting and informative and the curriculum are provided to all students each year at every grade helped link the experiences to the levels year. The program is professionally evaluated each year. KDT! gives every student in the district these same opportunities during Language Arts. I also really like the fact that my elementary school. students were interacting with “buddies” from another school, getting to meet students who would later be in their classrooms in middle school. The Pre-Kindergarten Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell KDT! program is well organized and well thought Kindergarten Tompkins County Public Library out!” –Retired ICSD Teacher First Grade at PRI Second Grade Fossil Search Third Grade Cornell Plantations Museum of the Earth at PRI Fourth Grade The History Center’s Eight Square Schoolhouse Fifth Grade Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology,

Animals in Art Johnson Museum at Cornell

Trail Walk Cornell Lab of Ornithology

10 11 Artful Math Mural at Who? Enfield Elementary School COMMUNITY AND FAMILIES

AFFILIATES IthacaSTEM Advocates An IPEI Teacher Grant brought community partner artist IthacaSTEM Advocates is IPEI’s newest affiliate. Its mission is to Jay Stooks of the Greater Ithaca Activities Center (GIAC) to advocate for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics Enfield Elementary School art teacher Christine Finnigan’s (STEM) activities throughout the Ithaca City School District. They classes. Finnigan’s fourth- and fifth-graders collaborated help raise funds, seek grants, and coordinate sponsorships for STEM activities; as well as work to foster communication and collaboration with students in the GIAC and Enfield afterschool programs among STEM groups and with the community. Goals include: to create an “Artful Math Mural” that inspires students

to solve math-related problems. “The students got to see events, and activities involving science, technology, the whole artistic process, “Finnigan said. “They can look • Students and adults participating in classes, clubs, teams, engineering, and math. at it and see where they took part. They saw how it took everybody to make it happen.” Stooks added: “I really with our kids. • Supporting the teachers, advisors, and mentors who work appreciate every opportunity I get to make art with so many

foster the next generation of innovators and STEM leaders. different people of all ages. For me, it is a humbling feeling • Bringing together community members and companies to that I can teach something that I love and get to share my accept tax-deductible donations. talent and energy with the community. I am thankful for the • Making it possible for all STEM-related groups within ICSD to IthacaSTEM was founded in 2013 by an energetic group of parents, support from the IPEI.” —Grant Recipients teachers, and community members associated with a variety of local STEM-related groups. In a few short months, IthacaSTEM volunteers wrote the organization’s bylaws, formed an executive board, and Code Red Robotics received official affiliate status with IPEI. Meanwhile, the group has Code Red Robotics is an Ithaca High School student club and an been sharing information about STEM activities and opportunities IthacaSTEM Associate. The team participates in the national FIRST on a website (IthacaSTEM.org) and mailing list, ensuring that (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics information about the many STEM-related camps and workshops are program. The FIRST program inspires students through hands-on accessible in a single family-friendly location. real-world experience while providing challenging opportunities to explore engineering and science as well as community service, public relations, finance, leadership, effective communication, and teamwork. Code Red involves 65 high school students who are guided by 20 professional mentors and alumni, and many parent volunteers. In 2013 Code Red participated in the Ultimate Ascent competi- tion, based on the game of Ultimate Frisbee. Teams designed a robot that could successfully shoot Frisbees into targets of three different heights. Code Red’s Red Raptor won the Buckeye Regional in Cleveland, making the team eligible to return to the world championship in St Louis. In its efforts to give back to the community, Code Red’s volunteer efforts include Loaves and Fishes, AIDS Ride for Life, trail work at Taughannock Falls State Park, and robot demonstrations in schools, Code Red Robotics receives support from IPEI, Ithaca public venues and local companies to highlight science and technology High School, the Ithaca City School District and local opportunities available to students in the ICSD. Code Red’s second companies including: , Borg Warner, Cayuga annual Open House highlighted local Jr Lego League teams and Family Medicine, CBORD, BAE Systems, Incodema, introduced an interactive sandbox to 350 community members of Autodesk, Purity Ice Cream, Tompkins Trust Company, all ages. Tetra Tech, U-Haul of Ithaca and Vector Magnetics.

12 13 AFFILIATES Fine Arts Booster Group

The FABG works in partnership with the ICSD to advocate, support strebel community and celebrate all the arts for all the kids, working toward a vision enrichment funD of of increased student access, participation and equity in the arts the foundation of programs. Formed in 2001 and affiliated with IPEI, the group believes tompkins county the arts – music, dance and visual, literary and theater arts – are a grant central part of every child’s public school education. Ithaca High School Drama Club FABG is open to all Pre-K-12 staff, parents, students and community Lee Strebel Award Winner members. The booster volunteers communicate arts news through a Emily Scarpulla listserv, award mini-grants to teachers, repair used instruments and donate them to the district, produce the secondary school concert and rella and barney cohn music scholarship fund play programs, and connect community resources to the schools. Ithaca Youth Bureau, Summer Band and Orchestra Camp six scholarships This year, the FABG awarded 30 arts grants totaling $20,255, drama program fund grants serving 5,960 students through Mini-Grants, the drama program Ithaca High, Lehman Alternative, DeWitt, Boynton funds, and special awards for the DeWitt Middle School Orchestra trip. The arts boosters hosted Area All-State for Junior High, welcoming opportunity fund grants schools from 17 districts, as well as the State Music Kingston Exchange Concert Michael Allen/Boynton Association Competition, with 1,426 students from eight countries. In Teacher’s Recess Week Community Concert Vitamin L addition, the FABG partnered with arts colony Saltonstall Foundation Saltonstall Arts Colony Teacher’s Residency which enabled five local teachers to attend a week-long residency Saltonstall and Fine Arts Booster Group, five teachers program. Through “Play It Again, Ithaca,” the arts boosters recycled Identity: Text and Image with the Ink Shop Carol Spence/Ithaca High and refurbished donated musical instruments, making seven additional instruments and musical equipment available to local students. The FABG welcomed new ICSD Fine Arts Director David Brown as a partner with the arts boosters’ efforts to help maximize resources Ithaca High School Art Teacher and student arts experiences. Brown was a featured speaker at FABG Carol Spence received a FABG Mini- meetings, presenting the district vision and plans for the arts. Grant for “The Memory Project,” a unique initiative in which students created portraits through drawings, paintings and digital art for children FABG Mini-Grants and teens around the world who Mrs. McPuppet Workshops Christine Finnigan/ Enfield have been neglected, orphaned, or Claire DeFelice/Enfield African Drumming and Dance Workshop disadvantaged. “Art students had an Breathe, Dance and Slide into Wellness (two parts) Susan Eschbach/ Boynton opportunity to practice kindness and Recording DeWitt Music Ensembles Ross Mizrahi/DeWitt service to others, and to reach across Corelli’s Last Night Aaron Buck/DeWitt international boundaries through Fiber Arts Enrichment Sara Arnold/Lehman Alternative their artwork,” Spence said. Body Books Gina Kolb/Lehman Alternativel The Memory Project Carol Spence, Ithaca High African Artifacts Eileen Bach/Ithaca High Electric Wheel for Ceramic Studio Jocelyn Lutter/Ithaca High “The Memory Project” Authors as Mentors…Patricia Polacco Susan Newman/Beverly J. Martin Second Grade Animal Research and Art Kerri Burke/Caroline Vitamin L Performance Christine Finnigan/Enfield It Sounds Like A…. Chris Bell/Fall Creek Living History in the Classroom Kalidy McMannis/Lehman Alternative Botanical Garden Art Carol Spence/Ithaca High

special donation grants Josh Endo Memorial for the Contiuing Support of Music Education and two Anonymous Grants DeWitt Orchestra Trip Carol J. Buckley Fund Grant DeWitt Orchestra Trip Courtyard Sculpture

14 15 When students are engaged, they look Awards from Special Funds IPEI’s designated and memorial funds enhance the future of our forward to coming to school, they listen more schools and preserve the memory of those honored. Donors can work attentively, they ask more questions, they to create funds or add to the following established funds at any time. Each fund has an agreement regarding distribution of grants or work more collaboratively with awards based on the fund’s principal and investment income. their peers, and they are eager to tackle challenging problems. Josh endo memorial for the continuing support These outcomes are exactly of music education (JEMM) The Josh Endo Memorial for the Continuing Support of Music Education will what IPEI programs are enhance Pre-K-12 music education opportunities with particular focus on financial need-based scholarships for elementary student instrument rentals designed to do. —Terry Byrnes and secondary student instrumental music trips. JEMM was created in 2013 by his family and friends because he was an active participant who shined in the district music offerings including Ithaca High School Band and Orchestra and Woodwind Quartet. A 2010 graduate, he also sang in the Young Men’s Chorus of Ithaca; enjoyed playing the guitar and piano as well as French horn; and participated in the student-run Rock the Arts Festival. The first funds granted Ithaca high school senior class fund awards from JEMM assisted students going on the DeWitt Middle School Orchestra’s The New Teacher Award, honoring a new high school teacher who exemplifies trip to the Heritage National Orchestra in Boston. enthusiasm and creativity in teaching, was given to Nicole Sosnoski. The Student Organization Award for a club that makes a significant positive impact on ian alberta memorial fund student life was presented to Strong Women Impacting Society (SWIS). Classmates, family, and friends of Ian Alberta established this fund in his honor to support the Kids Discover the Trail! activities at the Cayuga Nature Center raymond c. loehr awards where Ian volunteered. This year KDT! received $500 to purchase books for To honor his science education career, the family of Raymond Loehr provides fifth-grade students related to the learning experiences at the nature center. an award to an underclass student who shows promise in environmental science as well as another recognizing outstanding and innovative science charles w. and phyllis b. brodhead fund teaching. This year’s student was Erika Uchigasaki; Jenny Emerson received The Phyllis B. Brodhead Library Media Technology grant helps the library media the teaching award. centers keep current with technological advances. This year’s award will fund Catalist Digital Audiobooks for ICSD seconary school libraries. charles e. treman, JR. Teacher Grants This year, two Red and Gold Grants were designated in memory of the late To honor their past chairman and president, the Tompkins Trust Company Chuck Brodhead, IPEI founder and board member. John Brooks at Enfield established an endowment at the Tompkins Charitable Gift Fund in Charles Elementary School received funding for “Co-curricular Thematic Unit about Treman’s name that annually supports Teacher Grants for creative classroom the Revolutionary War” and Elizabeth Bleicher, associate professor of English projects involving community partners. at Ithaca College, received a grant for “From Pippi to Ripley: Workshop Day for Middle and High School Students and Teachers.” More Partners carol j. buckley scholarship for students in the arts Established by Carol’s family and friends desiring to keep her memory alive, the IPEI Roundtable fund provides a scholarship to a talented student pursuing advanced study in IPEI convenes a monthly meeting of representatives of organizations that are the arts; this year’s recipient was Sequoya Lee. The fund also provided support actively supportive of the ICSD. The purpose is to offer time for collaboration, for arts-related educational programs including the DeWitt Orchestra’s national focused discussions on pertinent issues, and sharing district and community competition trip. group news. All are welcome to attend. rella and barney cohn music scholarship fund Adult Spelling Bee ICSD students are encouraged to pursue their instrumental music interest by In addition to being good fun and intellectually stimulating, our 15th annual bee participating in summer music activities with support from these scholarships, raised over $10,000 for IPEI’s grant programs. Individuals, organizations, and especially middle school students at a pivotal time in their musical development. businesses from all parts of the community form three-person teams, pay entry The donor recognizes the exceptional work of Michael Allen, instrumental music fees, study (sometimes!), and meet in the high school gym for two hours to teacher, as inspiration for the Cohn Scholarship in support of the Ithaca Youth enjoy the challenge of spelling. The Fine Arts “Word” Boosters were champions Bureau Summer Band and Orchestra Program. of the 2013 Bee that was sponsored by Chemung Canal Trust Company, Wells Fargo Financial Advisors and Cat’s Pajamas. noreen moore scholarship The late Noreen Moore believed in strengthening families by providing support Transportation for all community members; she fought throughout her life for families in need. IPEI works with the School Success Transportation Coalition that includes current To continue that legacy, this memorial scholarship fund assists a high school and retired teachers and administrators, PTA and school board representatives, senior planning to study social work and/or early childhood education. This and staff from Cornell Cooperative Extension’s Way2Go and the Department year’s awardee was Pre Dee Hser. of Social Services. Transportation Liaisons in every school and RED Drivers also work to remove transportation as an obstacle for student success.

16 17 How? Through Your Support

IPEI’s success in connecting school and community is attributed Giving Opportunities not only to its creative teachers and engaged students but to the engagement of parents, volunteers, and donors. Their responsiveness Annual Fund Appeal and dedication plays an important role in IPEI’s vision and mission to Generous individuals, businesses and foundations support IPEI’s overall mission enhance the education of all students. and programs, and its capacity to meet the growing demand for grants. Special sponsorship opportunities are also available for all programs and affiliates. Parents and Volunteers We accept cash, checks or credit card transactions at any time. Online contributions through our website are secure and convenient. We can also Connie Patterson, IPEI Board Member provide letters acknowledging in-kind contributions. “When I was asked to become a member of Gifts of securities can be used to support IPEI. In addition to the IRS income IPEI’s Board, I was honored to accept; what tax deduction benefits, you may also reduce or eliminate your capital gains tax. better way to stay involved in education!” said Patterson, an ICSD alum and parent of If you are part of the “Greatest Generation,” consider a gift from your two former ICSD students. Before joining IRA to help IPEI support the “next generation”! If you are 70 ½ or older, the IPEI Board, Patterson was a district you can transfer part or all of the Required Minimum Distribution from your IRA teacher for 30 years. “I love the different to IPEI. Such an outright gift can be excluded from your gross income but no grants programs that not only allow teachers additional income-tax deduction can be taken. to try new things, but also encourage educators to develop partnerships with different elements of our community. It has been exciting to watch IPEI gather Our Children * Our Schools * Our Future Campaign momentum. Few groups have been successful in forming an organization that IPEI‘s capital campaign conclusion was celebrated in October 2012 when it could grow and expand. IPEI not only became a sustainable ‘booster,’ but also exceeded the $600,000 goal with more than 230 donors making gifts and found a way to become a change agent.” three-year pledges. Three priorities are funded with this community support: expanding current programs and grants, building organizational capacity, and Illa Burbank, President of IthacaSTEM Advocates growing an endowment for IPEI’s future. “I am excited to be a part of IPEI as they continue their great work, and together with the Fine Arts Booster Group we can Corporate Honor Roll round out the support available to teachers and children in Local businesses and foundations that help strengthen public education by the Ithaca City School District,” said Burbank, an IHS alumna supporting IPEI and its programs are recognized on the “Corporate Honor Roll.” who became involved with Code Red Robotics as a parent Strong local schools are essential for a strong community. volunteer when her sons participated. She also organized a group of middle school girls last year to explore nontraditional activities such as automotive maintenance, making small catapults, whittling, building a bonfire, and using Planned Gifts tools to make a wooden peg game. “I value the opportunity to experience Remembering IPEI in your estate plans is a wonderful way to make a lasting gift and explore topics in a hands-on manner, in real-world situations. I’ve seen to the future of our community’s children, teachers and community. Gifts made firsthand the benefit kids receive in applying what they are learning. By seeing through retirement plans, life insurance, real estate, and bequests are actively the application of theory, they understand the outcome easier when they are encouraged. You can work with your own professional adviser; IPEI’s volunteer taught in class.” with expertise in gift planning can also assist with such transactions. IPEI has established the Founders Circle, our planned Jennifer Engel, IPEI Vice President and Founding Board Member giving society, to thank those “We are so very grateful to the community, the schools, and the Discovery we know have made planned Trail for working together to encourage children to expand their knowledge gifts and to encourage others with hands-on experiences—KDT! makes learning more to make similar legacy gifts. accessible and real,” said Engel, a parent of two IHS graduates. Jennifer created the Spelling Bee tradition of fun and fundraising for Teacher Grants. KDT! has flourished with her support, too. “I invite you to join me and my family and make a donation to inspire our teachers, help create IPEI’s first office is at community partnerships, engage our students, and kick- 1013 W. State St. in start new initiatives!” Ithaca, in the new Just Be Cause Center. 18 19

Donors

Over 700 individuals, businesses, and other organizations made 850 gifts in support of the mission of IPEI with gifts and grants totaling Partners $2,500-$4,999 Vector Magnetics Fund of the Laura and Bob Andolina Community Foundation andabout to $430,000, the multi-year July 1, capital 2012 –campaign. June 30, 2013. These figures include Anonymous Wells Fargo Financial Advisors IPEI’s annual campaign as well as gifts to affiliates and special funds, The CBORD Group, Inc. Chuck and Debbie Whitehead If you would like to join our growing group of loyal donors, please use Ciaschi, Dietershagen, Little, Mickelson Stephanie Wiles and Jeff Rubin the enclosed gift form, or visit ipei.org. & Company ! Charles E. Treman, Jr. Teacher Grant Fund of the Tompkins Charitable IPEI’s Giving Levels include: Inspirers $5,000 and up Gift Fund Chemung Canal Trust Company Partners $1,000–$4,999 Timothy and Mary Ann Knight Colbert Explorers $101–$999 Friends of the Tompkins County Initiators Up to $100 Public Library Peter Lepage and Deborah O’Connor Raymond and Joan Loehr M&T Bank Frank and Susan Piliero HONOR ROLL 2012-13 Martina Sudwikatmono Raymond & Margaret Van Houtte Education Fund of the Tompkins Charitable Gift Fund Explorers *Deceased $1,000-$2,499 $500-$999 ! Inkind 3D Cinemation and Multimedia Company ! Robert Ainslie and Judy Singer Robert H. Abrams Philip and Susan Bartels Inspirers Katherine Anderson and Max Pensky Beth and Peter Brennan Anonymous (3) C.S.P. Management $20,000 and up Anonymous in honor of the IPEI Board Roy and Fran Dexheimer Anonymous Anonymous in honor of William Jerry Dietz in memory of Judy Dietz BorgWarner Morse TEC Van Slyke, Richard Schlenker and Robert Frank and Ellen McCollister Kionix Aaron Buck Scott and Sue Hamilton Baker Foundation Hunt Engineers, Architects & Land $10,000-$19,999 Kathy Bambrick and Belinda Thompson Surveyors, P.C. Anonymous Ann Marie Bleach in memory Local 241 IBEW Brooks Family Foundation of Joseph W. Bleach Ithaca High School Class of 1973 Terry and Jim Byrnes Daniel and Elenor Boutwell Ithaca High School Class of 2009 Thomas and Loren Colbert Calf Audio ! Stephen and Lorianne Johnson Cornell University Ann Caren in memory of John Caren Herbert F. Johnson Art Museum Jennifer Engel and Larry Young Cayuga Family Medicine Ralph and Jane Jones Park Foundation Frances and Dexter Kozen Bryan Danforth and Marina Caillaud L.A.P. Company, Inc. $5,000-$9,999 Cor and Jose Drost Gerry and Viola Monaghan Alpha Delta Phi at Cornell Eddlestone Family Margaret Munchmeyer in memory of Guy Pasquale Anonymous John and Molly Fitzpatrick Connie and Dave Patterson and Cayuga Radio Group ! David Feldshuh and Martha Frommelt in honor of retiring teachers Patterson’s Service Station Clover Drinkwater Art Loomis, Sharon Nelson, Diana Brent Pitzer Memorial Foundation Nicky and Rick Falck Geiger, and Judy Cogan; and in honor of retiring DeWitt Middle Mary and Brad Grainger volunteers Ellie Hobbie and School teachers David Lee and Marjory Rinaldo-Lee Mary Grainger; and in memory Andy and Ro Sciarabba Dorothy W. Rinaldo in memory of Frederick Reimers Harry and Amy Simrell of Peter M. Rinaldo Margaret I. Gibson * David Skorton and Robin Davisson Sarita Warshawsky Noemi Kraut Spinal Wellness Center of Ithaca The Langenbacher Family Paul Steiger Sam and Vera McLafferty on the Katie and Bruce Thompson behalf of Palisade Corporation Charles and Nancy Trautmann Miller Mayer, LLP Carol and Mack Travis NYBDC Charitable Foundation, Inc. Rob Vanderlan and Audrey DeSilva Judy and Chris Pastel in memory Terese Treman and Joseph H. Williams of Thomas R. Creamer Eugene and Jeanne Yarussi Shelley Semmler in honor of Vally Kovary $250-$499 John Siliciano and Rosanne Mayer Bill and Sherry Alberta Judy and Jack Stewart Warren Allmon and Jennifer Tegan Strebel Fund for Community Enrichment of the Community Beth Anderson Foundation Bob and Laura Andolina in Chuck Tauck and Fran Littin honor of Carolyne Call and Randall Zackman Tetra Tech Architects and Engineers Anonymous in memory of Sandy and Jay True Elting H. Wells Vector Magnetics Anonymous (3)

20 21 B & W Supply Co., Inc. Howard and Carolyn Rubin Thomas Richardson Barbara Dimock Kenny Berkowitz and Bridget Meeds Laurent and Cathy J. Saloff-Coste Ken Roberts Susan DiNapoli Dorothy Braun in honor of Rabbi Scott Carolyn Sampson Catherine Savage Frank and Barbara DiSalvo Glass and Martha Frommelt Jeff and Suzanne Snedeker Nancy and George Schuler Duane Diviney and Jerald Shing Kevin and Vicki Brew Stewart Howe Alumni Service Six Mile Creek Systems, LLC. ! Peggy Dolan Beverly Baker and Baker Travel Patricia and Joseph Tempesta Strogatz Family Mike and Joan Duesing in memory Belle Sherman PTA Terry Marcus Design ! Lawrence Tomak of John E Duesing The CBORD Group, Inc. in memory Lawrence Tomak True Insurance Linda Duttweiler of Richard Nowogrodzki Tompkins Insurance Agencies Robbert van Renesse and Lesley Greene Murray and Bernice Edelstein Carol Bushberg Real Estate, LLC Tompkins Trust Company Jodi Wadach Lisa and Ted Eisenberg William Caren in memory of John Caren Karen Trible and Erik Westwig Stephen and Amy Yale-Loehr Karen and David Eldredge Cayuga Landscape The UPS Store Miles Epps Code Red Robotics Team Charles and Jane Walcott Judy Epstein Janet and Jon Corson-Rikert Warren Real Estate Initiators Roger and Sue Eslinger Todd Cowen and Lauren Comly Wegmans Food Markets, Inc. Dirk and Wendy Dugan Erna and Ralph Westwig in honor Up to $100 Audrey Edelman & Associates of John Westwig Andrew M.H. Alexander Realty USA Mark and Alicia Wittink Anonymous (5) Wing and Janine Eng WSKG ! Douglas and Lucia Armstrong Craig S. Evans and Dwight S. Myers Joel and Cathy Zumoff Rachel and Ethan Ash David Fernandez and Elizabeth Lawson Cornell’s Asian Studies Department Hilary Todd Fraser $101-$249 BJ’s Warehouse ! Fraternal Order of Eagles Molly and Barry Adams Dr. and Mrs. Robert W. Baker Jr. Barbara Miller Fox Anonymous (2) Joan Barber Reeder and Sally Gates Shivaun and Lynden Archer Joan M. Barnes Denise Gomber Ellen Avril David Barr and Linda Cimakasky GreenStar Cooperative Market Elizabeth Seres Bagnardi Randi Beckmann and John Hoffmann Ann Halpern Frank Bonamie Blanche Beckmann in honor of Harris Beach, LLP Robert Breiman Randi Beckmann Howard P. Hartnett * in honor of Tom and Pat Brenna Duncan and Melanie Bell Mary and Brad Grainger Luvelle and Anjie Brown Mary Berkelman in memory of Robin and John Moss Hinchcliff Sally Burger in honor of Jolan Burger Nancy Tigner David and Barbara Holowka Terry and Jim Byrnes ! Julie and Chris Biehn Dr. and Mrs. Matthew Estill in Hunt Engineers, Architects & Land Michael and Joyce Billing memory of Chuck Brodhead Surveyors, P.C. Dan and Celia Clement Christa Bissell Howard and Erica Evans in honor of Sami and Catherine Husseini G. Walton and Jean S. Cottrell Jennifer Engel, the most dedicated Paul and Suzy Blanchard Irit Huq-Kuruvilla, Rehana Huq, and Roger and Harriet Cramton volunteer they know Sarosh Kuruvilla in honor of Leslie and Cody Danks Burke Alan Blankenstein David Evelyn and Jennifer Weinraub Luvelle Brown, Richard Armstrong, Roy and Fran Dexheimer Pamela Bleiwas and Jeffrey Silber Gregory and Sally Ezra Benjamin Kirk, Keith Harrington, Dave and Peggy Dunlop Susan Blumenthal and David Kreinick Paul Farhi and Vivian Young Sabine O’Dell, Marilyn Sgrecci, Randy and Ron Ehrenberg Joanna and Dave Bock Jocelyn Lutter, Joshua Chase, Paul Feeny and Mary Berens Sean and Nicole Eversley-Bradwell Claire Borch Jeffrey Dumont, Rebecca Gergely, Steve and Elena Flash Matthew and Nancy Braun in honor of Suzanne Nussbaum, Connie Fall Creek PTA Steve Fontana and Carla Galbraith Diana Geiger and Tanya Kszystyniak Patterson, Margaret Philipson, Robert and Shirley Fang Ernie and Masha Fontes Martha Brodhead Frederick Deppe, Steven Weissburg, Finkelstein/Pollack Family Olan and Katie Forker Sharon Gublo, and Maria Torres Percy Browning Barbara Johnson Foote Mark Fowler and Barbara Behrmann Elsa and Chris Hyde Carol Bushberg Real Estate, LLC Olan and Katie Forker The Frame Shop Ithaca College Scott Callan and Anna Forsman Hair, Etc. Sharon French Ithaca Council of PTAs Rita and Joe Calvo Ron and Rebecca Harris-Warrick Karen and John Friedeborn Ithaca Principals and Directors Joan Cappione Hickey Music-Zimet Musical Service ! Bill and Barbara Fry Association Albert and Barbara Cappucci Beth Howard and Russ Charif Charles and Linda Garbo The Jewelbox ! Deborah and James Casey in honor of Ithaca teachers Rob Gearhart and Marybeth Tarzian Ralph and Jane Jones Jackie and Joe Cassaniti Ithaca Agway ! Denise Gelberg and Charles Wilson in Chris Kim and Soyong Lee Bill and Marlene Jewell Clarity Connect ! memory of Ian Alberta Kionix in honor of Joan Doria Susan J. Kaplan Larry and Arlene Chase Andrew Getzin and Karen Laface Bill and Carol Klepack Marsha and Fredric Kardon Thom Chirung Graham Gillespie Jane Koestler and Jim Karpinski Kathy Krafft Charlotte and Ronnie Coffman Ginsparg Family Laurie Linn Beth Kunz and David Flaten Suzanne Cohen and Phil Davis Linda Glaser Everett and Ellen Long in honor Linda and Mitchell Lavine The Colbert-Vrana Family in memory Rabbi Scott and Sharon Glass of Eli Young of Coach Fravil Janet Lowe Edward John Gobrecht III and Elizabeth Sally McConnell-Ginet and Carl Ginet Mansoor Family Fund of the Colleen Colbert Mai in honor of Mary Grainger Ed and Anne McLaughlin Community Foundation Communique D&M, Inc. Susan and Michael Goldberg Milstein-Touesnard Family Mathnasium ! Robert and Eleanor Conti Nick and Vivian Goldsmith Christopher and Melinda Muller in Sally McConnell-Ginet and Carl Ginet Caroline and Ed Cope Steve Gordon and Jamie Wolffe honor of Mary Grainger Carolyn J. McPherson Linda Copman Kurt and Sorel Gottfried Karlis and Pat Musa Emily and Joe Metz in memory of Cotterill Agency, Inc. Mary and Brad Grainger in memory Maureen Newman and Wade Bollinger Chuck and Phyllis Brodhead Susan Currie and Chris McNamara of Frederick Reimers John and Rebecca Norman Alice Moore and Robert Smith in Marion Craig Dagrossa Robert and Eileen Gravani Glen Palmer and Carol True-Palmer honor of Gabrielle Smith Sheila Danko and David Kuckuk The GYM-East Hill in honor of Mary Grainger Tim and Elizabeth Mount Joshua Darfler in honor of Joseph and Sara Haefeli Panera Bread ! Pat and Richie Moran Dorothy Braun Hair Graphics Arthur and Kathryn Pearce Karlis and Pat Musa Peter Davies and Linda DeNoyer Hall Upholstery and Draperies Joyce and Richard Putnam Maureen Newman and Wade Bollinger Benjamin and Bonita Davis Joe and Gale Halpern Richards and McCutcheons DDS Art and Carrie Ostrander Joan De Boer Bill and Kathy Halton Rosa and Frank Rhodes Ann and Greg Poe Joyce and Chekitan Dev Jane Hammond Larry and Marcie Robinson Esther Racoosin and Eric Alani Barbara DeWall

22 23 Peter Harriott in memory of Peter and Enid Littman Mihal Ronen Marty and Mary Waisbrot Mary Lou Harriott June Locke Beatrice Rosenberg in memory Kevin and Ellen Walsh Ellen and Rick Harrison Chantal Loechi and David Flannelly of David Roseberg Robert Walters Gregory and Beverly Hartz Raylene Ludgate Ellen and Art Rosten Zenon and Pat Wasyliw Susan and Carl Haynes Roy Luft and Nancy Emerson Robin Rosoff Janet Waterman Jim and Betta Hedlund Charles and Beth Goelzer Lyons Mary Royer and Nelson Burdick Susan and David Watkins Mildred Hochman in memory of C. Cheri Magin Laurie Rubin Mitch Weiss and Martha Hamilton Ian Alberta Mary Major-Waisbrot in honor of John and Doreen Rudan in Susan and Joseph Williams celebration of Hayden and Brian Heltsley and Ann Hoffman Emily Behrmann-Fowler Paula Winner and Jay Russo Chris Frank’s birthdays Heron Creek Cards and Gifts ! Christopher and Johara Malcolm Lisa Wood and David St. George John Rudd and Beverly Chin Margaret Hill Jamie Nicole Maple Eileen Yagoda and Ross Brann Antonia Ruppel Nicolai and Ethna Hinrichsen Terry and Randy Marcus Andrew and Brenda Yale Scott and Jan Russell Hirasuna-Hunter Family Paul and Nancy Marino Louise Yavelow Ahren and Barbara Sadoff Richard Holtz and Carol Ornstein Heidi and John Marschner Theresa and John Youngman Gail and Jim Salk Edward and Susan Hooks Peter and Ann Martin Karen and Geoffrey Yearwood John and Sue Sammis Brigid Hubberman Mary and Alan Mathios Mark and Ingrid Zabel Joe Sammons and Mary Schiavone Ithaca Coffee Company ! Bill and Judith Maxwell Ellen and Neal Zaslow Cheryl Santos Ithaca Teachers Association Saorise McClory and Larry Hirschberger Lynne Saulsbury Lucia and Georg Jander Chrissie Schelhas-Miller and Jim Miller Charles W. and Phyllis B. Abigal Scaduto and John and Susan Jaquette Kevin and Elizabeth McMahon Matthew Considine Brodhead Fund Lori Bruce Jawo Phillip and Mary Lu McPheron Rich Schlenker Jan and Charlie Brodhead Karen Jewett Marilyn Migiel in honor of Emily Long Schlom Family Polly and Charlie Weidhas John. C. Lowery, Inc. Nina Miller Darrell Schlom and Michael Jones Jeanette Miller Wendy Hanson Schlom Carol Buckley Judd Falls Wines and Spirits Jim and Barbara Mingle Fred Schneider and Mimi Bussan Scholarship Fund Robert and Nan Julian Ginny Mistry Ynte Schukken and Hetty Krol Ted and Janet Buckley Andrea Kabcenell and John Kuder Kelly Morris and David Shalloway Shankar and Mala Sen Joan D. Lee Mary Kane Everett and June Morse Dorothy Shaffer Glen and Christine Williamson White Jane Kaplan Roberta Mourdry and Christian Otto * Jan and Mike Shay Marc and Phyllis Kaplan in memory Ian Alberta Fund Jane Mt. Pleasant and Jennifer Shea and Peter Bruns of Jay Kaplan Darol Chamberlain Miaoqing Shen Rebecca Abraham in honor of William Kay Jim Murphy Kate Moss Hinchcliff in memory Michael and Karen Shuler Holly and Michael Kazarinoff Museum of the Earth in honor of of Ian Alberta Arthur and Charlotte Shull Kathy Kelly and Jim Jenkins volunteers Walter Gates, Coleen Eileen Bach and Roy Ellerbrock David and Roberta Sibley Irene Kiely Keifer, Sasha Paris, Don Wilson, Mark and Susan Birnbaum Fogel Roger and Carole Sibley Janice Kilburn and Steve Kresovich Lenore Durkee and Larry Jensen Kate Hinchcliff Kenneth Simpson and Mia Slotnick Christine and Mike Kimball in memory Brad and Julie Newhouse Leni Hochman and Tim Joseph of Margie Beem-Miller Merilee and Timothy Nord Patricia and John Sipple in honor Mildred Hochman in memory of Melissa Tesoriero Tanya Kinsley Deb Novelli of Ian Alberta Elliott and Alison Smith Barbara Knuth and Kurt Jirka Richard * and Barbara Nowogrodzki Kluane and Philip Snyder Judith Komor John Oakley and Margaret Hammond Senior Class Fund Paul Soper Michael Kotlikoff and Carolyn McDaniel Brandon O’Brien and Sachiko Funaba Bob and Laura Andolina John and Carol Spence Dylan Kuckes and Jeffra Ruesink Cornell’s ORIA staff in honor of Randall and Amy Bach Steven and Mary Stein Meredith Kusch and John Guckenheimer Amita Verma Wendy Bakal and Augie Stagliano Margaret and Rich Steinacher Marisa and Tom LaFalce Orthodontics Group of the Patricia Bergman Bill and Joyce Paleen in honor of the Family Reading Joseph and Kathleen Lamarre Partnership Tom and Pat Brenna Anthony Pane Rachel Lampert and David Squires Virginia Stephen in memory of Ladeen and Jim Case Seth Peacock Chuck and Phyllis Brodhead Jodi Deman Keith Perry Robert and Naomi Strichartz Karen and David Eldredge Alphonse Pieper and Elizabeth Shrier Gregory Subtelny Mary Ann and Bill Erickson The Piggery ! John Suter Frank and Maura Fetsko Laura Poppendeck in memory of Joan Tardif and Jeffrey Janowsky I.H.S. Class of 2009 Chuck Brodhead Eric and Kara Taylor Bob and Linda Harris Patty Porter John and Betty Thomas Cynthia Kaufman Catherine Porter and Phillip Lewis Matt and Nancy Thompson David Kraskow and Liz Hess Karen Powers and Jim Dennis Adam Thompson Lynn and Bill Miller Marc and Audrey Powers Jay and Lynn Thompson Ann and Greg Poe George and Dorothy Preston Gloria and William Thompson in David Vernon and Erla Heyns Purity Ice Cream ! honor of Hannah Thompson Vicky Williamson Leslie and Jim Quest TidBITS Publishing Priscilla Quirk Tops ! Josh Endo Memorial for Don and Sue Rakow Dawn and Gabriel Tornusciolo Support of Music Education Leia Raphaelidis and Steven Vanek Diane Traina and Bill Schulze Rebecca, Lynn , Avi Alpert Phyllis Rappaport and Martin Ginsburg and Christie Balka Karen Trible and Erik Westwig Ann Reichlin and Nels Bohn Anonymous (2) Troy Family Ellen Reuben Kat Aymeloglu Jason and Christine Trumble Sandy and Joan Reuning Eileen Bach and Family Joanne Trutko and Christopher Carey Scott Reynolds Jackie and Kevin Bangs Lisa Tsetse and Sox Sperry Susan Robey Cathy Bargar Yohko Tsuji Martha and Steve Robertson Barry Bayus and Anna Chao Matthew Landahl Ann Tucker Margaret and Frank Robinson Roberto and Lynn Bertoia Brent and Alison Lemberg Christina Van Buskirk Margeret and Eric Robinson Mark Bianconi Daniel Lepage and Annie Swafford in Margaret Van Houtte Richard Robinson and Drs. Nicholas Biondi, honor of Deborah O’Connor Liz and Michael Vance Catheryn Obern-Robinson LynnCunningham, Anthony Deborah Levin John Vandenberg and Alice Churchill diGiovanna, Patrick Hayes, Diana Levy and Bruce Fabens Courtney Roby and Luis Aguirre-Torres Teresa Vossen and Gary Bucci Matt Noble and Staff 24 25 Ilene Block and Harris Rabinovich Alexandra and David Lipsky Anne Bove Janet Lowe Dave and Caleb Bove and Dr. and Mrs. Lodewijk Magre Financials Gail Monaghan Stephanie Masline Martha Brodhead Jonathan and Ivy Mauser Buttermilk Falls Pediatrics Mariah and Jacob McNamara Thanks to the generosity of our community and your Tim and Beckie Cardina Nader and Judith Mehravari commitment to strengthening our schools, IPEI provides Judy and Peter Carroll Shawn Meyer Booker-Cassano Family Marilyn Migiel, Michael Migiel-Schwartz, financial support to the teachers and students of the Ithaca City Cayuga Landscape Joseph Schwartz School District through our grants, programs, affiliates, and

Cayuga Medical Associates Joyce, Albert, and Susan Mineta special funds including donor-designated endowments. We are Cayuga Medical Center Mari Mineta and Steve Clapp Medical Staff at May Mineta proud to present the financial results for the fiscal year July 1,

Cayuga Medical Center Susan Mineta and Michael Hearney 2012 – June 30, 2013. Chip and Diana Chamberlain Margaret Munchmeyer Alexa Ciciretti George and Jennifer Myers Lewis Clark and Alice Wu = +69 + + 16 3 Ben and Maria Negley 12 George and Diane Conneman Jan and Janice Nigro John, Susan and Jeffrey Cook The Nord Family Lisa Cotton Jerome and Barbara Nosanchuk Betsy and Richard Darlington Ob-Gyn Associates of Ithaca, L.L.P. Sources of Funds Korey Doll and Anne Compagna-Doll David Pacun and Tokiko Nobusawa Severin and Pamela Drix David Palmer Susan Dunlop Pilar Para Individual Gifts $ 339,235 Murray and Bernice Edelstein Frank and Susan Piliero Corporate Gifts $ 77,196 Karen, David, Kailey and Stephen and Anne Plescia Emma Eldredge Foundation Grants $ 13,500 Bob and Marnee Pochily 3% 69% 12% James Elrod Stephen and Linda Pope Miscellaneous and 16% Deborah and Keith Endo Russell and Sarah Posegate Investment Income $ 58,218 Lawrence Endo and Caron Bove Mary Prosperi te Gifts Sarah Endo and Alex Bilsky Radiology Associates of Ithaca tion Grants Sasha Endo and Caroline Rober Total Sources of Funds $ 488,149 Nick, Jane and Melissa Reggio Individual Gifts Corpora Drs. Ferrer and Monaghan Physicians Robin Reilly Founda

Paula Flaherty Becky Richards

Mark Fowler and Barbara Behrmann Craig Rimmerman Zsofia Franck Bob Riter

David Feldshuh and Martha Frommelt Suzanne Robson

Charles and Linda Garbo Ann Rodzai and Doug Hanauer Miscellaneous and Investment Income Betty and Harold Getz Jodi Roseman and Joel Alpert Ethan and Linda Getz Rick Rubin and Wendy Potash = + 47 +28 12 Cora Lee Foster and Richard Glick Roberta and David Rubin + 13 Bill and Maggie* Goldsmith Elliot Rubinstein Lillian Golovin and Bertram Hoffman The Saul Family Brad and Mary Grainger The Schwed Family USES of Funds Hairy Canary Clip Joint, Denny Grout Leslie Shakespeare The Halpern Family Jeff, Daniel, and Suzanne Snedeker Maddie Halpert Donna Staffer Grants Awarded $ 231,394 Sam Halpert Paul and Patricia Stfek Designated Funds $ 135,571 The Hand Family Pamela Sweeney Administration $ 59,378 Bill and Janet Hansen David and Claire Teeter Elizabeth Holmes Paul Testa Development and PR $ 61,806 47% 28% 12% 13% Sondra and Melissa Hull William and Melissa Thibault tion Sami and Catherine Husseini arded Sarah Thomson w Total Use of Funds $ 488,149 ted Funds Cynthia Jones Edith Tougas

Janice Kilburn and Steve Kresovich Administra William and Kathleen Tyler Grants A Judson and Suzanne Kilgore Designa Norman and Marguerite Uphoff Development and PR Jane Koestler and Jim Karpinski Kevin and Ellen Walsh Anna Krieger Carl and Barbara West Beth LaLonde and Tim Huffaker Jerry and Rosalie Wilcox Martin Lacey and Ruth Snyder-Lacey Betty Windstein Carol Laborie Spector-Zabusky Family Daniel Lepage and Annie Swafford Madeline, Calvin, Alan and Jeffrey and Kristin lewis Susan Zehnder

IPEI is a community-based, not-for-profit 501(c)3 organization that Thank You! develops supportive community and private sector relationships with the Ithaca City School District.

26 27 We invite you to join us in advancing IPEI’s mission. Your gift will positively impact our community’s future.

I / We have enclosed a tax deductible gift of $______Board & Volunteers You may designate your gift for one or more IPEI priorities: Ithaca Public Education Initiative Board of Directors $______Wherever the need is greatest Terry R. Byrnes, President * Jennifer Engel, Vice President, Executive Committee Chair** $______Grants (Teacher Grants, Red & Gold Grants, Mary M. Grainger, Vice President, Development Committee Chair* Ann Caren, Secretary, Awards Committee Chair Community Collaboration Grants) Kevin Brew, Treasurer, Finance Committee Chair Judy Stewart, Public Relations Committee Chair $______Kids Discover the Trail! David R. Lee, Nominating and Board Development Committee Chair Pat Tempesta, Grants Committee Chair $______Fine Arts Booster Group

$______IthacaSTEM Advocates______Katherine Anderson Christopher Kim** Julie Biehn Fran Kozen** (Fill in IthacaSTEM Associates including Code Red Robotics) Matthew Braun* Deborah O’Connor** Craig S. Evans Connie Patterson NAME(S) AS WILL APPEAR IN THE ANNUAL REPORT Martha Frommelt Susan Piliero Denise Gomber** Karen Yearwood STREET Board Liaisons CITY STATE ZIP Sandy True, Teacher Grants Illa Burbank, Ithaca STEM Advocates PHONE E-MAIL Pat Musa, Code Red Robotics*** Janine Eng and Alice Wu, Fine Arts Booster Group Payment method: Brad Grainger, ICSD Board of Education ❑ Online contribution: www.ipei.org/index.php?page=contribute Lauren Loiacono, PTA Council ❑ Check enclosed for $ ______IPEI Committee Members ❑ Credit card (Non-board members involved with program coordination, grants review, events, and public relations) ❑ MasterCard ❑ Visa AMOUNT $______Trish Armstrong Kathleen O’Neil Randi Beckmann Sarah O’Shea CARD NUMBER EXP. DATE Augusta Christensen Rochelle Proujansky Janie Clark Joyce Putnam NAME AS IT APPEARS ON CARD Anne DiGiacomo Margaret Robinson Bridget Duthie Jeff Rubin SIGNATURE Jon Epps Steve Ryan ❑ Please contact me about donating securities. Miles Epps Matt Sacco Vivian Fields Zoya Segelbacher ❑ I would like to remain anonymous. Nancy Grossman Diane Shafer ❑ I would like to discuss gift planning. Brigid Hubberman Nora Shang Liz Hudson Mya Thompson ❑ Donation in honor / memory of Holly Kazarinoff Kay Tien Design: Karen Keller Charles Trautmann Terry Marcus Design Raylene Ludgate Gary Weissbrot Please contact me about: Paul Marino Marcie Wyant Writing/Editing: ❑ Volunteering with IPEI Sharon Nelson Heather Zimar Mary Grainger, ❑ Grants Heather Zimar ❑ Serving on the IPEI board ❑ Collaborations Printing: ❑ Volunteering with the Ithaca schools ❑ Endowments Arnolds Printing *Kids Discover the Trail! Steering ❑ Other: Committee Photography sources: 3D Cinemation, Dave **Through September 2013 Please make checks payable to IPEI. Gifts to IPEI are tax deductible. Burbank, Augusta ***Through July 2013 Christensen, Alexandra Return this form to IPEI, PO Box 4268, Ithaca, NY, 14852-4268 Evans, Mary-Elizabeth 607 256-IPEI (4734). Executive Director Eddlestone, Martha Christine A. Sanchirico Frommelt, Julie Langenbacher, Zoya Administrative and Program Associate Segelbacher, Carol Thank You! Julie C. Langenbacher Spence, Heather Zimar 28 Vision & Mission

IPEI believes the education of every student in the ICSD is enhanced through community connections and support that IPEI facilitates for students and teachers through engagement, collaboration, gifts, and grants.

www.ipei.org IPEI, P.O. Box 4268, Ithaca,NY 14852 Phone: 607-256-4734 (IPEI) Email: [email protected]