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  • Multiple photos in grid formation of grantees from 2024 generous acts

    Adirondack Community Foundation announces 2024 Generous Acts recipients

    Clockwise, from top left: With support from Generous Acts, the Owls Head Mountain View Community Center is strengthening social connections at its new community center; the Clinton-Essex-Franklin Library System received…

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    Philanthropy fuels investment in foreign language education

    Students from Indian Lake Central School visit Montreal with support from the Adirondack Foreign Language Enhancement Fund.

  • Adirondack Foundation, ESD, AEDC partner to establish Adirondack Small Business Opportunity Fund

    Cali Brooks, Adirondack Foundation president and CEO, announces the Adirondack Small Business Opportunity Fund in Saranac Lake Monday morning. Behind her, left to right, are: Lee Keet, chair of Cloudsplitter…

  • A Place to Start: Adirondack Housing Resources

    This resource, created in partnership with Northern Forest Center, is a compilation existing best practices and resources to address our communities’ housing needs.  This resource provides a starting point to…

  • A Comprehensive Fiscal Analysis of the Prenatal to Five System in the Adirondack Region of New York State

    This Fiscal Analysis focuses on multiple services and elements of financing the prenatal to five system, including understanding available service capacity, current funding, the true cost of services and infrastructure,…

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    Pathways to Civic Engagement

    “I grew up singing in choirs. I have always appreciated being one voice in a larger chorus, contributing to something bigger than ourselves.”

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    Pathways to Understanding

    Bill and Lisa Powers considered establishing a private foundation, but recognized that a donor advised fund was a great vehicle for achieving their philanthropic goals.

  • Couple stands together on a screened-in porch

    Doing Well and Doing Good

    From the ease of making grants to the foundation’s knowledgeable staff, Dave and Holly Wolff say a DAF is the best way to carry out their philanthropy.

  • Retirement Benefits

    Bill and Dale Creighton knew giving back to their home in Lake George and the broader Adirondack region would be a key part of their retirement. Learn how Bill is…

  • Portrait of Cali Brooks

    Foundation CEO appointed to NY Federal Reserve Bank Community Advisory Group

      LAKE PLACID — Adirondack Foundation President & CEO Cali Brooks has been appointed to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Community Advisory Group. The New York Fed oversees…

  • Tupper Lake at night

    Economic Impact of Adirondack Nonprofits

    Read an economic impact study, which combines financial information from 36 nonprofit organizations to demonstrate how nonprofits help to drive the regional economy.  You can also view an interactive summary of…

  • COVID-19 Impacts on Nonprofits in the Adirondacks

    Two surveys, completed in partnership with the Cloudsplitter Foundation, are helping us track the impacts of COVID-19 on nonprofits in the region. Read our latest findings from fall 2020 here.…

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