Can we count on you?

• to unite with the IYB and FIYB

• to ensure that our community’s children and youth have access to safe and healthy recreational and youth development opportunities!

Your Support Impacts Ithaca Youth

On May 23, we hosted a community event to introduce new IYB Director Gregg Houck! He’s pictured with the most recent IYB directors Liz Vance Klohmann and Allen Green.

There was great energy on the evening of May 23 as the Friends of the Ithaca Youth Bureau hosted community members and IYB staff who gathered to welcome new IYB director Gregg Houck!

We are sending you these images and videos so that you learn about Gregg’s goals for the IYB as it offers participants from all backgrounds, walks of life, identities, abilities and lived experiences a broad range of recreation and youth development services, supports, and opportunities to enable them to thrive.

Jeff Love welcomes guests and Gregg: WATCH HERE

Gregg Houck introduces self and his goals: WATCH HERE

Gregg expressed to the Friends: “I want to thank all of you for organizing my welcoming event! It was so nice to have such a great cross section of our community represented and I had many wonderful conversations throughout the evening.”

In addition, FIYB is appreciative of CRN Events and Ba Li Catering for refreshments and event support.

FIYB’s mission connects the community with the IYB by receiving charitable donations that are allocated to the IYB for general needs or specific designations, and by raising visibility of the agency’s people, programs and facilities. 

Your generous support is important to our work and we seek volunteers to help with this mission! Let us know.

Jeff Love, Mary Grainger, Allen Green, Eric Nichols