Winter Solstice $10,000 Match Challenge

You and the Ithaca Free Clinic have been presented with an unexpected opportunity...

A fundraising campaign for Ithaca Free Clinic

Thank You!


With your help, we did it! Together, we successfully met and exceeded our goal for the Winter Solstice Challenge Match!

First, our sincere apologies for the mistake sent out in the special update on December 30. The first $10,000 we raised was matched by an anonymous donor, as was previously announced. All funds raised beyond the $10,000 have been matched by a second generous donor.

We are happy to announce that with all matching donations secured, we have raised a total of $30,220 for the Ithaca Free Clinic!

I wish to thank each and every one of you for the support you have provided to the Ithaca Free Clinic. We are inspired by this outpouring generosity and wish a Happy and Healthy New Year to all.

 
Norbert G. McCloskey
Executive Director





An unexpected opportunity...


Thank you for being part of our Winter Solstice Match Challenge!


A new donor has stepped forward  to offer the Ithaca Free Clinic $10,000 in the form of a challenge match. This generous donor, wishing to remain anonymous, will match dollar for dollar funds raised from until 3 PM, December 31st, up to a matching total of $10,000.


If we reached this goal, together we will have raised a total of $20,000 to support the ongoing health care services provided by the Ithaca Free Clinic, as we begin the new year.


Winter Solstice is here and, along with it, the least amount of daylight hours of the year.


Thankfully, that means after December 21st the days are only going to get brighter. And to help brighten the lives of our entire community, this generous anonymous donor has stepped forward to help out the Ithaca Free Clinic!


Many of you visiting this page have already made generous gifts this year used to support the services provided by the Free Clinic. As this year swiftly draws to an end, I am truly thankful and grateful for the support of donors like you that make it possible for the Free Clinic to help our community members in need. Thank you!


If possible, please consider giving a "stretch gift" so that we can make full advantage of the generous $10,000 match gift that has been offered to us at this late date.


If you have yet to share your gift this year, or you typically make your donation during our Spring Appeal, please consider doing so before 3 PM, December 31st so that you can double the impact of your donation and double the positive, life-saving impact you have in the lives of our community members in need.


Thank you for your support and best wishes for a Happy New Year!



How the gift you make today makes a real difference...

As I was thanking our donor mentioned above for their very generous offer and ending our phone call, there was a knock at the Clinic's front door. I walked from my office to answer the door and found a frantic mother, a very sick toddler, and an exhausted eight-year old.

The mother had been to the ER seeking help for her sick toddler. The ER said the toddler had a severe case of the flu, complicated by an injury that had become infected. They wrote prescriptions for medications that would treat the child's condition, informed the mother that her health insurance coverage had just lapsed, and sent the mother and her children on their way to a local pharmacy.

After reaching the pharmacy, the mother was informed that without insurance coverage, the cost of filling her prescriptions would be $400, a sum far beyond the mother's ability to pay. The mother shared that she began to cry. She said someone standing in line behind her suggested she contact the Ithaca Free Clinic, sharing that the Clinic has been known to help individuals in her situation. So on a late Friday afternoon, with the Christmas holiday just days away, a mother desperate for help, stood in the lobby of the Ithaca Free Clinic.

Working together we set up an appointment for the following Monday to have her health insurance re-activated. A call to the pharmacy resulted in a reduction of prescription costs from $400 to $170. Finally, an emergency payment, made possible by the Clinic's partnership with the Tompkins County United Way supported Urgent Rx program, secured the medications needed to heal this ailing young boy. The exhausted eight-year old had a well deserved twenty minute nap in the Clinic's waiting room while her mother and I worked to help her baby brother get the medicine he needed. 

Later, as I was locking the Clinic doors and heading home, I thought about what might have been if the Ithaca Free Clinic did not exist. What would the following days have been like for this mother and her two children? What would their holiday season have been if they had not found the help they needed before the health of this sick child grew worse?


Please use this online campaign site to make your safe, secure donation that will be counted toward this challenge match. Together we can ensure that we can help everyone knocking on the Free Clinic's front door.


Thank you for all you do to support the Ithaca Free Clinic!


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