Cargill Supports Franziska Racker Centers' "Making Room" Capital Campaign with a Generous Gift
June 2011
Franziska Racker Centers is pleased to announce that Cargill has stepped forward to become a Cornerstone Donor for their “Making Room” Capital Campaign. This generous $100,000 gift brings the agency that serves individuals with disabilities and their families throughout Cortland, Tompkins and Tioga counties closer to their Campaign goal. The project will fund renovations to their Tompkins County special education preschool facility on Wilkins Road and develop a Learning Center.
Roger Sibley states, “We are so excited that Cargill has chosen to support this project and the work of our agency. It’s wonderful that this International Company supports the local communities where their employees live and work. This gift will place Cargill with other top donors in the new front entryway to our agency. We are thrilled to have their support.”
Cargill is an international producer and marketer of food, agricultural, financial and industrial products and services. Founded in 1865, the privately held company employs 131,000 people in 66 countries. Cargill helps customers succeed through collaboration and innovation, and is committed to applying its global knowledge and experience to help meet economic, environmental and social challenges wherever it does business. Cargill operates a deicing plant locally in Lansing, New York.
Franziska Racker Centers served over 2,800 people in 2010 and this number is increasing on an annual basis. As needs within the community continue to grow, Racker Centers, one of the largest agencies in our region with a mission of helping people with special needs and their families have good lives, has set out to ensure that they are able to do that well into the future.
The “Making Room” Capital Campaign will fund three main goals: Creation of a Learning Center dedicated to developing and sharing best practices for serving people with disabilities throughout our community, renovation of the Margaret Gibson special education preschool including asbestos removal, and expansion of space for community based programs. The agency has currently reached $2.7 of their $3.5 million dollar goal for the project.
For more information on Franziska Racker Centers “Making Room” campaign and to get involved, visit www.Rackercenters.org
Franziska Racker Centers began serving the Finger Lakes region in 1948 as the Cerebral Palsy Association by offering some of the first support of its kind outside of an institutional setting. The organization has grown in size and scope from the Cerebral Palsy Association, to The Special Children’s Center to the Franziska Racker Centers in honor and memory of Dr Franziska Racker. The agency has evolved to include over 26 sites, employ more than 700 people and serves over 2,800 individuals and their families throughout Tompkins, Cortland and Tioga counties annually. We are inspired by the vision of our founding families: that all people with disabilities will be valued members of a welcoming and supportive community.
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