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Notice of Annual Meeting – January 11, 2026

Please join us January 11, 2026 at 12:30pm for the Annual Meeting of IMMRSF, Inc. – the legal corporate entity of Ithaca Monthly Meeting – and, immediately following that, January Meeting for Worship with Attention to Business which will be held in a hybrid format in person at the Third Street Meetinghouse and online via…

Understanding our Listserv

Ithaca Quakers communicate frequently via email. We use listservs to facilitate this communication. This article explains how our listservs are structured.

A Look Underneath Hector Meetinghouse

For at least 5 decades, the beginning of summer saw Ithaca Monthly Meeting move its Meeting for Worship from Cornell’s Campus to our Hector Meetinghouse on Perry City Road in Jacksonville. For many years, our first day of summer worship at Hector was the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend, no doubt to get away from…

We’re fundraising for Meetinghouse renewal!

Meeting is anticipating some expensive repairs to both of the Meetinghouses that we lovingly steward, including repairing/replacing the stucco siding at Third Street and addressing a rotting subfloor at Hector Meetinghouse. As the estimated costs for these repairs far exceed the existing funds for meetinghouse repairs, Meeting approved the creation of a Fundraising Working Group…

2024 Witness Fund Donations

This is a list of all the causes, organizations, and projects that received donations from the IMM’s Earthcare and Peace & Social Justice committees in 2024.

Dispatch from Earth: Finding the Spirit in Mindful Eating

by Betsy Keokosky IMM Earthcare spent the first half of last year reading and discerning on the food sections of “Regeneration: Ending the climate crisis in one generation” by Paul Hawken. It informed us that 35% of the world’s carbon emissions come from food production and processing and that “today’s food system has become the…

All About Heat Pumps – a Presentation by Earthcare

Ithaca Monthly Meeting’s Earthcare Committee invites you to a presentation on Heat Pumps, on Thursday, February 8 at 7:00pm via Zoom. The speakers will be Anne Rhodes and Leigh Miller from Cornell Cooperative Extension During our October listening session on Earthcare, some people shared that they love their heat pumps. Others asked questions and expressed…

Notice of Annual Meeting – January 14, 2024

Please join us January 14, 2024 at 12:30pm for the Annual Meeting of IMMRSF, Inc. – the legal corporate entity of Ithaca Monthly Meeting – and, immediately following that, January Meeting for Worship with Attention to Business which will be held in a hybrid format in person at the Third Street Meetinghouse and online via…

Communicating Within IMM

IMM uses multiple methods of communicating information. This article lists some of those methods and explains two: the newsletter and the listserv.

Monthly Meeting April 2023

Ithaca Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of FriendsMeeting for Worship with Attention to Business April 9, 2023  Clerk: Barbara Chase Assistant Clerk: Marin Clarkberg Recording Clerks: Marin Clarkberg, Antonia Saxon (The @ signifies that the minute has been read and approved during Meeting. Reports shared during this meeting were emailed before the Meeting, and…

Monthly Meeting March 2023

Ithaca Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of FriendsMeeting for Worship with Attention to Business March 12, 2023  Clerk: Barbara Chase Assistant Clerk: Marin Clarkberg Recording Clerks: Marin Clarkberg, Antonia Saxon (The @ signifies that the minute has been read and approved during Meeting. Copies of all written reports are on file with and available…

Monthly Meeting February 2023

Ithaca Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of FriendsMeeting for Worship with Attention to Business February 12, 2023  Clerk: Barbara Chase Assistant Clerk: Marin Clarkberg Recording Clerks: Marin Clarkberg, Antonia Saxon (The @ signifies that the minute has been read and approved during Meeting. Copies of all written reports are on file with and available…

Monthly Meeting January 2023

Ithaca Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of FriendsMeeting for Worship with Attention to Business January 8, 2023  Clerk: Gina Varrichio (outgoing clerk), Barbara Chase (incoming clerk) Assistant Clerk: Marin Clarkberg Recording Clerks: Marin Clarkberg, Antonia Saxon (The @ signifies that the minute has been read and approved during Meeting. Copies of all written reports…

Burtt House Discussions

The Burtt House Working Group (BHWG) seeks to build upon the broad sharing that emerged in the gatherings held in the Fall, attended by a large number of Ithaca Friends. The Group is proposing a second round of worship sharing meetings for us to hear Friends’ thoughts, feelings, and reflections as we consider the role…

An Update on the Afghan Women’s Fund

Written by Margaret McCasland Ithaca Monthly Meeting has had a long and loving relationship with the Afghan Women’s Fund and its director, Fahima Gaheez (formerly Vorgetts). Fahima used to visit Ithaca regularly to update us on their work and to sell rugs and handcrafts to support AWF’s work. Barbara Barry and Fahima were especially close,…

Notice of Annual Meeting

The Annual Meeting of IMMRSF, Inc. – the legal corporate entity of Ithaca Monthly Meeting – will be Sunday January 8, 2023 at 12:30pm on Zoom, followed by our regular January Meeting for Worship with Attention to Business. All are invited. We do require a certain percentage of the membership to attend the Annual Meeting…

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