Become a Founding Member

Thanks to our partnership with Cornell Cooperative Extension Tompkins County, you can now be a part of history and join The Liberty Hyde Bailey Center as a Founding Member with any donation of $100 or more.

Founding Members don’t just help us reach our goal to save the Bailey properties in Ithaca and launch the Bailey Center’s work—they also demonstrate a proof of concept, showing major donors that there is a community of support behind this effort. Moreover, your gift today, however large or small, helps establish something permanent and lasting for the public good: it is an investment in a long future for our democracy and our planet, not to mention upstate New York. (To read about some of our dreams for our first ten years, click here.)

Read more about becoming a Founding Member here, or donate now.

Photograph of the faculty and students of the Nature-Study Summer School at Cornell University, ca. 1898, with Bailey seated in roughly the second row, center, hat in hand. Courtesy of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.