*Original publication date: October 17, 2025*

Give your YWCA a chance to win a $10,000 prize in the Philanthropy Day Contest!

When you support YWCA during Philanthropy Day, you support the people we serve in all four of our core programs. Clockwise from top left: Aid to Victims of Violence, Mentoring, Child Care, and Health & Fitness.

People like you make our work possible, and we could not do what we do without your generosity.

So, if you wish to make a gift to YWCA Cortland this year, please do so through the Cortland Community Foundation’s National Philanthropy Day Contest to give us a chance to win $10,000!

*To participate in the Contest, gifts of $100 – $5,000 (stocks accepted) must be made online or postmarked no later than November 15, 2025.  We sincerely appreciate every gift no matter the size!

Please follow the directions below exactly to ensure Cortland Community Foundation (CCF) sends your donation to YWCA Cortland.

Online Donations

  1. Go to CortlandCF.org/philanthropy-day; scroll down
  2. Click Give now with Givelify button; choosean amount (gifts of $100 – $5,000 are entered in the Contest)*
  3. Click Donate In Memory, To Honor, or Just Give to Us.
  4. Click Add a message button; put “for YWCA Cortland” in text box that says Send a message with your gift…
  5. Click the orange GIVE NOW button, sign up or sign in, enter card info, click the orange GIVE NOW button again to send gift

Mailed Donations

  1. Make check out to Cortland Community Foundation for any amount (gifts of $100 – $5,000 are entered in the Contest)*
  2. Enter YWCA Cortland in the check memo area
  3. Mail check to the Cortland Community Foundation: P.O. Box 466, Cortland, NY 13045
  4. See sample check below

 

*To participate in the Contest, gifts of $100 – $5,000 (stocks accepted) must be made online or postmarked no later than November 15, 2025.  We sincerely appreciate every gift no matter the size!

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