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WRFI Receives Community Empowerment Grant from Ithaca Pride Alliance to create local LGBTQ history radio episodes
Learn More About Recent Grants(opens in new tab) WRFI has received it’s first ever Community Empowerment Grant from the Ithaca Pride Alliance! WRFI Community Radio is the recipient of a micro-grant from the Ithaca Pride Alliance to record and broadcast a series of local history audio “mini-sodes” highlighting queer artists, musicians, and queer community spaces…
Read MoreWRFI Receives Downtown Events & Activations Grant to host collaborative arts & music event on July 10th
Learn More About Recent Grants(opens in new tab) WRFI has received it’s first ever Downtown Ithaca Activations & Events Grant! WRFI Community Radio and new downtown clothing shop and punk community hub Seed Bomb have received a micro grant to co-host a interactive DIY art, music, and community building event on the Ithaca Commons on…
Read MoreWRFI Featured “Partners for Change” at all GreenStar Locations – May 2026
FUNDS RAISED THROUGH OUR 2026 PARTNERS FOR CHANGE COLLABORATION: $630.94 Thank you to all our listeners, and to all the GreenStar shoppers who voted for WRFI throughout the spring, and chose to round up their shopping trips in May to support the station. Our station thrives through the support of our listeners. You can support…
Read MoreWRFI Offers 10% Discount on Underwriting to all Downtown Ithaca Businesses & Events through DIA Appreciation Program
Learn More About Underwriting(opens in new tab) WRFI is excited to join the Downtown Employee Appreciation Program stewarded by the Downtown Ithaca Alliance! WRFI is now offering a 10% discount on any underwriting package booked by a business within the downtown Business Improvement District (BID) and a 10% discount for any Event Blast underwriting packages…
Read More‘The Undiscovered Country’ Guest Quentin Lewis Featured on the New York Times
Poet Quentin Lewis featured on WRFI’s limited series The Undiscovered Country in March 2025 is the focus of a recent New York Times article. Quentin Lewis is fighting his conviction while locked up at Wende Correctional in Western New York. Hear his poems. And listen as he joins Michael in conversation about writing in prison, Quentin’s…
Read MoreWRFI Receives Grant from Sustainable Finger Lakes for Community Announcements
We are excited to announce that WRFI Community Radio is a recipient of a Neighborhood Mini-Grant from Sustainable Finger Lakes! WRFI submitted a first-time application to Sustainable Finger Lakes this fall to expand our on-air Public Service Announcements to include a series on sustainable resources, programs, funding, and services offered across our listening area. Our…
Read MoreIthaca Planned Parenthood Public Meeting | Wednesday, May 14
Ithaca Planned Parenthood Meeting will hold a public meeting Wednesday, May 14, 6pm at Tompkins County Public Library. Come learn about how to engage in upcoming Pride events in the region, how to get involved in advocacy efforts for the sexual and reproductive health movement and meet other volunteers! Registration is required. https://www.weareplannedparenthoodaction.org/a/ithaca-ppgny-may-community-meeting
Read More2025 Spring Writes Festival
The 2025 Spring Writes Festival is May 7-22. 100 Writers and 40 Free Events Live in downtown Ithaca and on Zoom. Locations include Tompkins County Public Library, Buffalo Street Books, Lot 10, and (mostly) the Ithaca Conference Center. Visit SpringWrites.org for full schedule, artist bios, registration links.
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