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Newsletters

Thoughtful Giving

Newsletter of the Northern New York Community Foundation

Holiday/Year-End 2025
Annual donors help deliver essential needs

Fall 2025
Foundation donors strengthen the arts across our region

Friends Supporters 2025
Donors help provide opportunities for youth development

Holiday/Year-End 2024
Foundation donors help strengthen our region’s health care

Summer 2024
Foundation donors have broad impact across the region

Friends Supporters 2024
Annual donors help develop critical skills in the next generation

Holiday/Year-End 2023
Donors strengthen our community for children and families

Summer 2023
Giving better together: Potsdam couple partners to maximize impact

Friends Supporters 2023
Annual donors help create opportunities for the region’s future

Holiday/Year-End 2022
Donors help foster love for the arts in the next generation

Summer 2022
Foundation donors invest in changing lives across generations

Friends Supporters 2022
Annual donors support our community in the broadest ways possible

Holiday/Year-End 2021
Foundation donors help nurture, grow a culture of community commitment

Summer 2021
Community Foundation legacy forever impacts St. Lawrence County

Friends Supporters / Spring 2021
Annual donors grow the region’s future leaders

Holiday/Year-End 2020
Developing future generations of community leaders

Summer 2020
Partnering to forever preserve places we love

Spring 2020
A legacy for St. Lawrence County, forever

2020 Special Update
Generous donors fill the hearts of our communities

Holiday/Year-End 2019
Donors help strengthen our region

Summer 2019
Legacy continues in next generation

Spring 2019
An advocate for lasting success

Year-End/Holiday 2018
Community Spirit Youth Giving Challenge

Fall/Holiday 2017
Thoughtful Giving

Winter 2011
A Season for Counting Blessings

Holiday 2010

The Joy of Giving

Fall 2010

It All Began with Two Quarters

Summer 2010

Why a Community Foundation?

Spring 2010

Foundation Launches Youth Philanthropy Partnership

Fall 2009

2009 Focus: Basic Human Needs

Nonprofit Link

A Northern New York Community Foundation Publication Connecting the Region’s Nonprofit Organizations

2021 Edition
Preserving our past while preparing for the future

Winter 2020
Connecting nonprofits with opportunities

Giving Together

A Northern New York Community Foundation Publication for Donor Advisors

Year-End 2021
A legacy of helping made possible

Autumn 2020
Wilcox Family Fund ‘brings great joy’

Summer 2020
A legacy for St. Lawrence County

Autumn 2019
Legacies closest to home

Spring 2019
Donor-advised fund a valuable tool

Canton Community Fund

Together we honor our past and imagine our future while strengthening quality of life in the Town and Village of Canton.

Spring 2022
Your gifts help strengthen Canton: Matching grant continues to build Community Fund

Clifton-Fine Community Fund

Connecting our communities of Fine, Oswegatchie, Star Lake, Newton Falls, Wanakena and Cranberry Lake to enhance quality of life for all

Summer 2025
Forever Clifton-Fine

Summer 2024
Donors strengthen quality of life across region through annual giving, grantmaking

Summer 2023
Caldwell Family Fund helps strengthen region

Summer 2019
Library brings joy to children

Summer 2018
Community Philanthropy Inspires Meaningful Change in Clifton-Fine Region

Legacy Matters

Your source for planned giving with the Northern New York Community Foundation

Year-End 2025
Give where you live: A better way to support your favorite charities and community, forever

River Legacies
Love the River, For Good … For a River legacy that endures

Spring 2025
Honoring a life through education

Year-End 2024
Your legacy can begin now with a Community Foundation fund

Spring 2024
A love for community continues

Year-End 2023
Her legacy will give in perpetuity

Autumn 2022
Love for community endures

Six Town Community Fund

Linking our communities of Adams, Ellisburg, Henderson, Lorraine, Rodman and Worth to enhance quality of life for all

Autumn 2024
Community Fund grant support helps redevelop playground in village of Adams

Summer 2021
‘Pay It Forward’ comes full circle

Summer 2019
A legacy of giving continues

Summer 2018
Community Fund grants $5,000 to nine projects

2016 Edition
A lasting legacy for Six Town

Building Our Future

Newsletter of the Thousand Islands Foundation, a Northern New York Community Foundation affiliate

Autumn 2020
Scholarships build confidence

 

Annual Reports

2009-2010
Leading by Example

2007-08
A Sense of Place A Passion for Northern New York

2006-07
Supplement: Growing Community Assets

2005-06
Growing Community Assets

2004
Making an Investment in People

2003
A Community Presence, 1929-2004

2002
Opportunities for Children

2001
Meeting Basic Needs

Northern New York Community Foundation

131 Washington Street
Watertown, NY 13601

Phone: 315-782-7110
Fax: 315-782-0047

info@nnycf.org

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DEADLINE THIS FRIDAY — Jefferson, Lewis, and St. Lawrence county students: There is still time to participate in the Community Spirit Youth Giving Challenge and help us award $10,000!

Complete your application by 11:59 p.m. Friday, February 13.

Seventh, eighth, and ninth graders, how would YOU award $10,000? Dont miss your chance to support your favorite charity!

Complete details, including how to enter: nnycf.org/challenge-deadline

#NNYCF #CommunitySpirit #YouthGivingChallenge #Leadership #Nonprofits

DEADLINE THIS FRIDAY — Jefferson, Lewis, and St. Lawrence county students: There is still time to participate in the Community Spirit Youth Giving Challenge and help us award $10,000!

Complete your application by 11:59 p.m. Friday, February 13.

Seventh, eighth, and ninth graders, how would YOU award $10,000? Don't miss your chance to support your favorite charity!

Complete details, including how to enter: nnycf.org/challenge-deadl#NNYCFN#CommunitySpiritp#YouthGivingChallengel#leadershipr#nonprofitsofits
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Meet Watertown High School freshman Blake Sweet.

For Blake, a community is strong when “people help others stay on track and make sure they get help they need with food or even shelter.”

Blake is a Northern New York Community Foundation Community Spirit Youth Giving Challenge winner. He chose the Salvation Army of Watertown to receive a $1,000 grant for its work and mission to help others. 

“The Salvation Army helps people get warm in the winter and feeds them. If you can’t eat, you can get a good hot meal,” Blake wrote in his winning essay. “That is what community is — helping others in need.”

Blake recently met with Salvation Army Capt. Josh Morales and Corps Ministry Assistant Lisa Safford and presented a $1,000 Youth Giving Challenge grant that will help the Corps continue its work and mission. 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.

We are grateful to Blake 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. Blake is the son of Shermen Sweet Jr., Watertown. 

To current tri-county 7th- 8th- 9th- grade students, parents, and teachers: Dont miss the chance to enter this year’s $10,000 Youth Giving Challenge competition!

You could be like Blake and award a $1,000 grant to your favorite tri-county nonprofit organization. Apply by Friday, Feb. 13, at www.nnycf.org/givingchallenge

Pictured, from left: Lisa Safford, Corps Ministry Assistant, Blake Sweet, Youth Giving Challenge winner and Watertown High freshman, and Capt. Josh Morales, Salvation Army Watertown Corps.

#NNYCF #SalvationArmyWatertown #Partners #YouthGivingChallenge #CommunitySpirit #Community

Meet Watertown High School freshman Blake Sweet.

For Blake, a community is strong when “people help others stay on track and make sure they get help they need with food or even shelter.”

Blake is a Northern New York Community Foundation Community Spirit Youth Giving Challenge winner. He chose the Salvation Army of Watertown to receive a $1,000 grant for its work and mission to help others.

“The Salvation Army helps people get warm in the winter and feeds them. If you can’t eat, you can get a good hot meal,” Blake wrote in his winning essay. “That is what community is — helping others in need.”

Blake recently met with Salvation Army Capt. Josh Morales and Corps Ministry Assistant Lisa Safford and presented a $1,000 Youth Giving Challenge grant that will help the Corps continue its work and mission. 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.

We are grateful to Blake 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. Blake is the son of Shermen Sweet Jr., Watertown.

To current tri-county 7th- 8th- 9th- grade students, parents, and teachers: Don't miss the chance to enter this year’s $10,000 Youth Giving Challenge competition!

You could be like Blake and award a $1,000 grant to your favorite tri-county nonprofit organization. Apply by Friday, Feb. 13, at www.nnycf.org/givingchallenge

Pictured, from left: Lisa Safford, Corps Ministry Assistant, Blake Sweet, Youth Giving Challenge winner and Watertown High freshman, and Capt. Josh Morales, Salvation Army Watertown Corps.

#NNYCF #SalvationArmyWatertown #Partners #YouthGivingChallenge #CommunitySpirit #Community
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We are excited to share the Week 2 Scholarship Challenge Leaderboard!

In Jefferson County, LaFargeville Central is still in the lead with 30 percent student participation; In Lewis County, South Lewis Central held onto the lead with 22.54 percent student participation; and in St. Lawrence County, Colton-Pierrepont Central took the lead with 23.08 percent student participation.

All schools have a chance to win Community Foundation grant funding by increasing student participation in the scholarship program to at least 25 percent of the senior class. 

The first round of grants will be determined in a Facebook Live event on Monday, February 23! That means schools have two more weeks to increase student participation to be eligible for the first round of Scholarship Challenge grants. 

Seniors: Do you plan to continue your education in college or trade or technical school? Complete the Community Foundation’s online common application at bit.ly/nnycf-scholarships today and help your school win!

Learn more about this year’s challenge at: nnycf.org/scholarship-challenge-2026

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We are excited to share the Week 2 Scholarship Challenge Leaderboard!

In Jefferson County, LaFargeville Central is still in the lead with 30 percent student participation; In Lewis County, South Lewis Central held onto the lead with 22.54 percent student participation; and in St. Lawrence County, Colton-Pierrepont Central took the lead with 23.08 percent student participation.

All schools have a chance to win Community Foundation grant funding by increasing student participation in the scholarship program to at least 25 percent of the senior class.

The first round of grants will be determined in a Facebook Live event on Monday, February 23! That means schools have two more weeks to increase student participation to be eligible for the first round of Scholarship Challenge grants.

Seniors: Do you plan to continue your education in college or trade or technical school? Complete the Community Foundation’s online common application at bit.ly/nnycf-scholarships today and help your school win!

Learn more about this year’s challenge at: nnycf.org/scholarship-challenge-2026

#NNYCF #ScholarshipChallenge #ClassOf2026 #FundingForYourFuture
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You could win this, St. Lawrence County. Please fill out the application.

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