Program Highlights 2013

Program Highlights 2013

Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County Cover photos: First row, from left: Rachel Cartner with calf at 2013 4-H Fair; solar panels added to the roof of CCE-Tompkins in 2013; Josh Dolan (left) and Damon Brangman of Gardens 4 Humanity with vegetable starts for community gardens (photo by Bob Parlett); bicycles; 2nd row: Winter Kitchen Garden tour; Retired Dean David Call addresses the 2013 CCE-Tompkins Annual Meeting; Alexandra Carpenter with sheep she raised for the 2013 4-H Fair; Consumer Educator Carole Fisher demonstrates how to prepare apples for drying at the Fall Harvest Festival for Kids; 3rd row: local grower Sean Dembrowski gets pots for his nursery business at the Annual Pot Swap; runners at the 4-H Color Splash Run; Way2Go Educator Norma Guiterriez distributes bike helmets at the Fall Harvest Festival for Kids; a youth examines the displays at the 2013 4-H Youth Fair. 2013 ANNUAL REPORT Our Mission: To strengthen youth, adults, families and communities through learning partnerships that put knowledge to work.

CONTENTS 1 Leadership 2 Appropriation & Support 3 Director’s Message A list of our volunteer board of Illustration of annual support for A 2013 update from Ken directors and program committees CCE-Tompkins in 2013 Schlather, Executive Director

4 Table of Impacts 5 Donor Lists Our county appropriation and how Individual and corporate donors it leverages additional funding to our Association in 2013

2013 BOARD OF DIRECTORS & PROGRAM COMMITTEES

Association Officers At-Large Board Members Rebecca Sparrow, President Jeannie Barnaba Jon Bosak Marty Hatch, Vice President Amy Frith Suzanne Gervais Gayle Flinn, Treasurer Carlos Gutierrez Satomi Hill David Rutherford, Secretary Monica Voionmaa John Wertis

Agriculture & Horticulture Nutrition, Health & Safety Don Barber LeGrace Benson Denise Agati Alexi Clinton Mike Griggs Dennis Hartley, Chair Christina Culver Jessica English Dean Koyanagi Larry & Denise Moore Edd Farmer Amy Frith Jeff Piestrak Keith Thomson Suzanne Gervais Lisa Hoyte John Wertis Renė Senne Andrea Smith Ruth Williams Consumer & Financial Education Aaron Buechel Diane Dawson 4-H Youth Development Bonnie Richmond Donna Scott Tom Archibald Susan Barr Patrick Woods, Chair Joyce Muchan Timothy Smith Monica Voionmaa, Chair Jane Wells Environmental Issues Katie Borgella Marion Brown Brian Chabot Diane Cohen Legislative Liaisons Marty Hatch David Keifer Will Burbank, Tompkins County Legislator Margaret McCasland Stefan Minott Dave McKenna, Tompkins County Legislator Tom Shelley

.Family & Community Development Nelly Archibald Eloise Barrett Margaret Firenze Slattery Satomi Hill David Rutherford Marie Sanford

ccetompkins.org 1 TOMPKINS COUNTY APPROPRIATION LEVERAGED THE FOLLOWING SUPPORT IN 2013

Donations & Fees County Appropriation Cooperative Extension uses its unique partnership 12.9% 11.9% State & Federal with federal, state, and local governments, adding Appropriations volunteer involvement, fund raising and in-kind 5.4% contributions to bring an 12-fold return in educational resources for each Tompkins County tax dollar NYS Fringe received. Benefits, 23.8% Direct Support Ratio 1 : 7.4 Other Contracts County/Federal/State County Contracts & Grants 33.7% Pass Through 3.9% 8.4% County Appropriation $661,918 State and Federal Appropriations 290,070 Fringe Benefits, NYS 1,420,890 5,166,116 County Contracts 439,858 County Fed./State Pass Through 142,106 Other Contracts/Grants 1,462,699 Donations & Fees 748,575 661,918 Total $5,492,190

Donations County State & Federal Cornell & Federal & Fees Appropriation Appropriations In-Kind & Direct Support Resources, 23.2% 7.1% 7.5% 3.4% Ratio 1 : 12 NYS Fringe Benefits, County Appropriation $661,918 15% State and Federal Appropriations 290,070 Fringe Benefits, NYS 1,420,890 Contracts/Grants 439,858 Contracts Volunteer Efforts 1,418,045 & Grants Cornell & Federal Resources 1,984,464 28.9% Donations & Fees 748,575 Total $8,568,625 Vounteer Efforts 14.9% 8,568,625

661,918

2013 Expenses by Type 2013 Employees (FTEs) by Funding Source

Personnel Costs Programming Expenses $4,173,890 Core Funded Positions $1,009,850 80% 14 16%

Building & Property Expenses $189,030 4% County Contracts All Other Contracts/fees Pass 11 54 Through Contracts 6 2 2013 DIRECTOR’S MESSAGE

One hundred is the new forty. In 2013, your Cooperative Extension celebrated 100 years of supporting you and other individuals, families and municipalities in Tompkins County who want to improve your lives, grow your businesses and strengthen your communities. We combined our hundred year old, founding principles -- such as doing all our work in partnership and collaboration--with both new and old ideas and ways of working, much like any wise and very active 80, 90 or 100 year old would do. Together with our partners we’ve achieved results that would make organizations of any age proud. Some examples: sales of locally produced renewable energy replacing $200 • Set up a crowdfunding website, PEAKS! that has Million worth of fossil fuel. We’ve developed an innovative helped dozens of local organizations and programs such partnership between many local businesses including a as the Learning Web and Ithaca Health Alliance) raise over regional wood pellet manufacturer, local propane and heating a quarter million dollars for their own work in the past year oil dealers and local businesses and homeowners. In 2014, this alone (you can visit it on the Web at Peaksmaker.com); partnership will begin bulk delivery and automatic feeding of • Provided education, training and support to retailers wood pellets into commercial and residential furnaces much on the who have experienced reduced like heating oil is delivered and used today. customer traffic due to ongoing construction there; In addition to these examples, CCE-Tompkins continues • Refurbished and opened a large new community to work with hundreds of other partners from throughout meeting space that seats well over a hundred people at the county — in government, schools, businesses (including 4-H Acres in Dryden; farms), nonprofits and churches — to strengthen the local food, green building and energy efficiency economies, • Put the finishing touches on the Meat Locker Pilot, address significant environmental issues like hydrilla and a community freezer designed to provide freezer space climate change, help families and local organizations save rental for folks who lack space in their homes for a freezer. hundreds of thousands of dollars, and support parents, Studies show that community freezers save users money, families and schools in helping their kids to have opportunities increase their access to healthy foods and promote sales to reach their full potential. In all, over 80,000 residents of of local foods; Tompkins County participated in programming efforts of your Cooperative Extension Association, and arguably, every • Provided employment experience to more than county resident – all one hundred thousand of us – benefited 160 high school students throughout the county and from our efforts in 2013. You can see a full breakdown of our internships to more than 80 university students from the 2013 impacts in Tompkins County on page 4 of this report. three colleges in our county; If you haven’t done so lately, I encourage you to visit our • Helped hundreds of families in the Southern Tier live Education Center at 615 Willow Avenue, attend a board meeting, in homes that are safer, more comfortable and energy acquire a new skill through a class or workshop, or come and efficient; share your expertise as a volunteer. There’s a lot going on at • And we laid the foundation for a renewable energy CCE-Tompkins, and there’s a place for you in what we do! industry (wood pellets) in the region that has the potential to cut heating costs in half for nearly 100,000 homeowners Ken Schlather and thousands of local businesses in the region, create Executive Director hundreds of new jobs and generate over $100 Million in ccetompkins.org 3 5 2 0.4 0.5 1.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.4 0.4 3.75 0.25 0.25 0.25 0.75 21.55 study Work- FTEs September 2013 2 1 7 1.9 6 3 1 0.1 1 3 1 0.1 1 1 5 1.25 3 y # 17 76 Students Workstud 1 4 from local $900 $2,000 $3,480 $3,540 4 1.25 $9,050 $5,697 4 2.25 $2,000 2 $3,500 In-kind $36,160 $22,050 $43,000 $30,340 6 2.75 $18,100 $45,775 $46,725 $22,000 3 $10,100 2 $14,700 Contrib's $449,707 $129,990 3 bus/org's 9 4 8 22 13 20 68 20 38 40 $600 27 20 91 876 # of Partners 3 Local Actors/Local Buy-In of 70 50 65 124 41 175 211 22 1644 51 teers Hours Hours Volun- 64,049 28,206 5 8 7 20 790 10 22110 30 270 34 640 1413 240 41 1810 154 85 2464 77 86 986 385 1475 42 168 5960 320 142 7468 274 2634 82 296 2365 105 1501127 61 2201 # of 2389 teers Volun- 6 7 8 9 11 2 10 13 12 14 169 48 401 799 599 379 366 121 260 # of 6112 2350 7841 82 16592635 16 45 2140 45 1531 4563 2500 1023 1207 3487 4006 5483 9905 pants 4387 1210 76,766 Partici- 3100 4227 10606 Economy Open Space Skills, Family Beautification Waste Reduction Youth workYouth exp'ce Quality of Life of Quality Food quality, safety Reduce health risks Youth with Youth life skills, Env &Water Quality risk red., school perf. Home &Env benefits Community Resource Tourism, Comm. Pride Farmland Preservation Child Safety, Parenting Increased youth opp's, leadership, health gains Reunification & Strength Local Bus, Farm Viability Comm Strength, Diversity Hhd Fin Mmt, Stress Red. 1 Improved Dietary Quality; Leadershp Dev. 300 500 800 # of Jobs 1200 1000 7 2 3 4 5 6 8 9 10 (annual Size of Size value in $) 65 million 60 million 20 million 12 million 36 million 59 million 84 million 72 million 15 million 195 million sales or product Sector 3000 6000 3000 13790 42000 35000 21125 65500 85000 60000 27000 25000 13500 41000 Grants 261000 200000 132000 485000 330000 125000 378000 Outside (in dollars) 2351915 Positive Impact on County Economy County Positive on Impact 1 12 14 13 15 16 17 18 19 es ^ Tax ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ 20 15 k 5 k Add'l 10 k Revenu 1 4 5 7 11 2 8 9 10 3 6 in 2k 5 k 31 k 35 k 10 k 4.2 k 4.5 k 60 k 110 k 120 k 381.7 k Savings Budget Savings to County The Impacts of County Appropriation Through Cooperative Extension (2012) Extension Through Cooperative Appropriation Impacts of The County Youth Markets Consumer Ed Commercial Ag Environment/Green Building Ithaca Garden Children's SafetyFood Rural YouthRural Services Parenting VisitsEd, Family Way2Go Transportation Ed. ManagementFinancial Compost Community Beautification Ag Plan Implementation Youth Environmental Action Urban OutreachUrban & OURS Energy: EfficiencyEnergy: Renewable & Clubs/Teen 4-H Leaders Comm. Support for Families Community Development Primitive Pursuits Ag Awareness Education Ag Awareness NutritionEd/Food Access Home/Comm'l Horticulture Local Food/Agritourism Family & Community Well-Being Community & Family 4-H Youth Development Youth 4-H Program Agriculture & Environment Governance/Admin Totals 4 THANKS TO OUR 2013 DONORS TRIBUTE GIFTS

In Honor Of: Janet Edwards Darlene Flinn Frnak Proto

In Memory Of: Zell “Chip” Beeman Elma Canfield Barbara Hall Rob LaHood

INDIVIDUAL DONORS Barry & Molly Adams Deborah Adams Leslie Adelson Suzanne Aigen Lee R. Alexander Phyllis L. Allen Minakshi Amundsen III ANONYMOUS -3 Christopher Gail Anderson Solar panels were added to the roof of the CCE-Tompkins Education Center in January 2013. Cost savings are estimated Susan Anton to total $4000 per year. Shivaun Archer Maja Baarsvik Johanna Brown Michael & Margaret Cook Martha Ferger Allen & Bonnie Baker Marian E. Brown John & Edith Cooper Edward Finegan Jocelyn Baker Ursula Kurman Browning Elizabeth L. Corbett Thamoia Fishel Nathaniel T. Baker Adam Brumberg Marnie Cryer Elizabeth Fisher-York JoAnne Baldini Merry R. Buckley Sara Culotta Donna Fleming & Rick Kaufman Tracey Barlow Elizabeth Bunting Craig C. Cummings David & Mary Quick Flinn Eugenia M. Barnaba Kenneth C. Burr Scott Dawson Gayle Reilly Flinn William E. Barnett Samantha Izzo Buyskes Audrey H. De Silva Emmanuel Flores Susan & John Barr James & Terry Byrnes Elizabeth L. Delaney Anthony J. Fouracre Frank Barry Robert Cairns Anne DeLong Yamila Fournier Emily L. Barth Maureen Callahan-Wing Louis A. Derry Erika Fowler-Decatur Kristin Bartholomew Murillo N. Campello Melissa Dhundale Emily Franco Neal N. Becker Mary Camuto David Dier Carolyn Franklin Jocelyn L. Becraft Mary Anthony Camuto Jerry Dietz Alison Fromme Alicia Beebe Marlo Capoccia Cara Digirolamo Nancy Fuchs Chip Beeman Daniel Carey Barbara Dimock Nancy Gabriel William Begeal Daniel Carpenter Michael Dorf Roger & Tilly Garnett M. Bell Evan & Brenda Carpenter Steve & Joan Doria Robert M. Garrity Debra L. Benson Gabe & Penelope Carpenter Marilyn Downing Johannes Gehrke Mary M. Benson Elizabeth Cassetti Scott D. Doyle Suzanne Gervais Douglas Bilinski Thomas E. Cavataio William J. Drake F. Mark Giles Jennifer Birkett Brian Chabot & Kathleen James Dubovsky Rebecca Golding Jeanne Bishop Rasmussen Kevin Dubovsky Hannah Goodman Glenn R. 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Lawrence Patricia Haines Brian Lazzaro Jennifer Hannah Donald & Janet Lein Henry Hansteen Aija Leiponen Heather Hardcastle Matthew LeRoux Heather Harrick Gilly Leshed Ellen Harrison Diana Levy David Hartino Catherine Ley David & Joyce Heck Ruth Ley W. Riley Hemingway Jr. Chad E. Lieberman James & Nancy Henion Magdalen Lindeberg Kevin Herbig Victoria Lines Mike Herbster Jennifer Livesay Mrs. William Herbster Christine Locklear Phyllis A. Hern Barbara Logan Laurel Hester Jacqueline Lopez Jesse Hill & Craig Higgins Nicholas Hill Gwyneth J. Lymberis Satomi Hill John Lynch Samantha Hillson Laura MacCarald Roger & Suzanne Hinderliter Melissa A. Madden Ethna Hinrichsen Natalie Mahowald Retired Dean David Call (standing) recalls xxxxx during the 2013 Annual Meeting and Breakfast at 4-H Tom Hirasuna & Jean Hunter Joe Mareane Acres. Other panelists, from left, Jean McPheeters, Martha O. Robertson, Scott Peters, Lucinda Noble. Daniel Hittleman Stephen Marschner Jay D. 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