Ithaca Freebay

...is a website where you can donate goods and services to the Ithaca City School District and where school employees can request needed items.

If an item has been on freebay for a couple of weeks and you would like it for personal use, or to offer to an ICSD family, please feel free to do so!

To make a donation, click on "offer" and let us know what you have to give.

School employees may click "request" to tell the community what services or goods they may want.

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To receive tax deductible contribution confirmation, please fill out this Donation Form.

How It Works

If a school employee wants an item listed on Freebay, he/she should email the business/community member directly.
Any community member may make an "offer" and any school employee can make a "request".
"Offers" may include sinks, appliances, science equipment,clay for art projects, a VCR or books for the library!
Teachers are masters of "Trash to Treasure" so within reason most items are acceptable.
Items will stay on the website for three weeks and will be removed automatically, three weeks from the day the request was made.
You may list offers and requests as often as you like!
If the item is very large or heavy or you need other assistance, All of Us may be able to help. Email Randi Beckmann (rb229@cornell.edu) with questions.

Exchange Made
Once the exchange is made fill in the Donation Form and All of Us/Social Ventures Inc. will send a letter confirming your donation for your tax records. Because we are a non-profit organization it is important for us to keep track of goods and services that have been exchanged over Freebay, and to let the ICSD know what it has acquired.

For information on computer donations, please read this.

Thanks to the following people who helped make Freebayforus a reality:
Randi Beckmann, for developing the project
Bill Carini and Randi, for building this site
Cheryl Cism, for making the "All of Us" website
Homer Smith at lightlink,for webspace
Ellen Morris-Knower, coordinator for "All of Us"
Jeff Furman, executive director, "All of Us"

Freebayforus is a project of "All ofUs", the educational arm of the non-profit "Social Ventures" a 501(C)(3) organization.

All of Us is a campaign begun in the Spring of 2003 to raise community awareness about the responsibility we all have for the next generation. We have taken on the task of briniging new human and financial resources into the Ithaca public schools.