Friendship Donations Network

Volunteer Spotlight: Lita Remsen

Written by Jan Nigro, March 2026 Originally from Locust Valley, New York, Lita moved to the area in 1985. During her career in early childhood education, she worked at Ithaca Community Child Care Center, The Child Development Council, Head Start and ICSD. Lita first became aware of FDN while working at South Hill School seeing […]

Prepared Food Pilot Project

There is no reason why good food should go to waste in our community. November 2025: FDN is expanding food rescue efforts to include prepared food! Check out the flier to get involved, and download here

Volunteer Spotlight: Jim Wells

Written by Jan Nigro, November 2025 Jim Wells was born in a small town in Nebraska, grew up in Toronto and eventually settled in Ithaca where he went to high school. He then went to school for tv and radio and got into corporate video production and from there got involved in making training and […]

Volunteer Spotlight: Gretchen Rymarchyk

Written by Jan Nigro, September 2025 Gretchen Rymarchyk is from Lafayette NY and came to Ithaca for grad school. She has a Bachelor’s in Psychology and Master’s in social work and a PhD in policy analysis & planning. She’s also taught, and done a lot of social work in the community here. She retired from […]