To donate stock, please give your broker the Sciencenter’s account information at Vanguard:

Account Name: Sciencenter
Account Number: 1943 4141
DTC Number: 0062
Contact Phone: 800-284-7245

In Honor of Charlie Trautmann

Gifts made in honor of Charlie Trautmann will go into a permanent endowment to support free annual field trips to the Sciencenter for the 4,600 second graders in our region.

Annual Fund

The Annual Fund helps us provide exhibits and programs, and keep admission costs low.

Tribute

Your tribute gift is a distinctive way to celebrate someone special in your life while supporting the Sciencenter.

Memorial

Consider a memorial gift to honor the memory of friends or family members while supporting the Sciencenter.

Endowment

Endowment is a gift that keeps on giving, forever! Endowment gifts are invested, with the income supporting museum operations, exhibits, educational programs, and events in perpetuity.

Mail a personal check, made out to the Sciencenter to:

Sciencenter
Office of Advancement
601 1st Street
Ithaca, NY 14850

To make a payment by phone please call:

Christine Bissen, Director of Advancement
(607) 272-0600 ×119

To donate stock, please give your broker the Sciencenter’s account information at Vanguard:

Account Name: Sciencenter
Account Number: 1943 4141
DTC Number: 0062
Contact Phone: 800-284-7245

Please notify Christine Bissen at cbissen@sciencenter.org or by calling her at (607) 272-0600 ×119 so that we can value and acknowledge your gift.​

The Sciencenter subscribes to the following Donor and Member Privacy Policy as it relates to the protection of our donors’ and members’ personal information:

Any information supplied by, or collected from Sciencenter donors and members is confidential. Donor and member information will not be shared outside the Sciencenter for any reason unless permission is granted in writing by the donor/member to share such information.

All requests to remain anonymous will be honored.

The Sciencenter does not share, trade or sell donors’ or members’ personal or contact information with anyone else, nor will the Sciencenter send mailings to donors/members on behalf of other organizations.

Donors and members will be contacted periodically by postal mail, telephone or email for purposes of solicitation, membership renewal, gift acknowledgement and/or to share event information. Donors/members may request in writing to be permanently removed from the Sciencenter mailing list. All requests to be removed from mailing lists shall be honored.

What do Aristotle, Hans Bethe, Carl Sagan, Maria Montessori and Frank Dukepoo have in common? All are members of the Sciencenter’s Wall of Inspiration.

Thanks to the generosity of our donors, the Wall of Inspiration helps to fulfill the museum’s mission to excite visitors about science while also recognizing the community of supporters who make the Sciencenter possible.

To view the Wall of Inspiration, click here