Scholarships are vital to student success and helping them achieve their future goals. Equally important, however, is providing teachers—who play a critical role in that success—with opportunities to grow and enhance their own skills. The Kirkland Fellowship program was created to fulfill the fund’s mission by providing teachers with learning opportunities that improve student success. Each year, Clinton Central School District teachers can apply for funding for professional development that helps them to implement meaningful projects and lessons in their classrooms. 

One important way that those who give back to the community create a legacy is planned giving, the practice of donors making arrangements for a gift that will benefit a nonprofit organization in the future. While many choose to make gifts of cash or stock, bequests, or even gifts of real estate, a charitable remainder unitrust can provide unique advantages.

The Cornhill Revitalization Project is a collaborative endeavor with multi-faceted initiatives led by Community Foundation, which includes partnerships with People First, Mid-Utica Neighborhood Preservation Corporation (MUNPC), Collective Impact Network, Oneida County, and City of Utica.

Generous, caring, and compassionate.

That’s how those in the community who know them describe Rabbi Henry Bamberger and his wife, Sheila, whose professional and philanthropic impact has been profound over the last four decades. 

For the past 25 years, the Mohawk Valley Institute for Learning in Retirement (MVILR) has provided opportunities for local seniors to “learn, live, grow, move, think, socialize and create” as they transition from years of hard work to productive retirement.

For the Griffith family, it’s all about giving back to the community—from generation to generation.

A vital piece to this community’s puzzle, the YMCA of the Greater Tri-Valley (“the Y”) has served this area for 150 years. 

In many ways Charles A. “Chuck” Gaetano’s story is Utica’s story. This fund spotlight features how Charles A. Gaetano built a living legacy. 

Evelyn’s House provides a more homelike, less institutional setting for our community’s young mothers and moms-to-be facing extraordinary challenges.