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Trade Design Build is supporting the Chill Challenge again this year, and helped support Match Day.  On Match Day, your contribution to DIP or DODGE your friends and frenemies is matched by sponsor contributions.    As you are watching the DIPPERS while drinking hot cocoa, think fondly of Trade Design Build.  They help us make it happen! 

Will YOU Dip or Dodge on New Year's Day? 

Thank you to Maguire for their generous Chill Champion Sponsor donation!  We appreciate their continued support!  

Feirman Builders, Inc. has been a supporter of the Chill Challenge for years.  We use their support to fund Match Day, where your donation is matched to DIP or DODGE twice as much!   

If you are considering a renovation or construction project, Feirman Builders are the experts we turn towards.  If you are considering DIPPING, or DODGING, we are the experts on New Year's Day. 

Will you DIP or DODGE on New Year's Day? 

Civil Advocacy Project is a nonprofit legal services offices, and a supporter of the Chill Challenge!  Thank you to Civil Advocacy Project!! 

We are giving a big, heartfelt thank you to Beck Equipment!!  They are supporters of the Chill Challenge, and we use their support to fund Match Day.    They have helped for years to make this event the fun, incredible event that it is!   

Will you DIP or DODGE on New Year's Day? 

On New Year's Day at the Yacht Club, you may find yourself munching on some delicious grapes, some delectible cheese, or some fantastic cake.  You may wonder, where do they get all this great stuff? 

It's from Wegmans!  Every year, Wegman's contributes to our party so that you can eat, drink hot cocoa and be merry at the Yacht Club while you watch the DIPPERs get cold and wet. 

Thank your local Wegmans workers when you see them -- they are supporting us while we DIP or DODGE! 

Will you DIP or DODGE on New Year's Day? 

A big THANK YOU to Silo Food Truck!! Not only are they offering delicious and nutritious food at various locations around Ithaca... they support the Chill Challenge!!  So if you wear a zany costume and raise money for a great cause, you might win a meal at the Silo Food Truck!! 

Will you DIP or DODGE on New Year's Day? 

Let's give a huge THANK YOU to the Kitchen Theatre!  Every year, the Kitchen Theatre donates wonderful prizes.  We use these prizes to reward fundraising efforts, teams that top the lists, and impressive constumes. 

Have you planned your costume yet?

Will you DIP or DODGE on New Year's Day?   

Thank you to RASA SPA!   After a fun party on New Year's Day at the Yacht Club, what would be better than a facial or massage to get ready for 2023?   
 

Will you DIP or DODGE on New Year's Day? 

We won't need Guthrie after we DIP at the Yacht Club on New Year's Day... but if we did, Guthrie would be there to help us with all our healthcare needs.  We are so grateful for the support to our community!!  Guthrie's generous donation allows us to do MATCH DAY, where your DIP or DODGE donation will be matched by a sponsor donation. 

Will you DIP or DODGE on New Year's Day? 

An enormous thank you to CFCU Federal Credit Union!  They are helping us fund MATCH DAY, where your donations (up to $100) are matched by sponsor funding.   So if you donate to DIP, CFCU will be right there to match it.  If you donate to DODGE, CFCU is right there to match that as well.

Will you DIP or DODGE on New Year’s Day?

As we shop for our wet suits, our snorkels, our holiday goodies and pre-DIP hot drinks... we appreciate doing it at the Triphammer Marketplace, a shopping center that also supports us!!    

Will you DIP or DODGE on New Year's Day?

We are so happy to have a fantastic prize from Grassroots!   Imagine, you could be getting the true finger lakes experience -- first, you DIP in the waters of Cayuga Lake on January 1st, then you party with the summer crew at Grassroots Festival.   

Will you DIP or DODGE on New Year's Day? 

Just imagine the pleasure and refreshing feeling that a DIP in the lake will bring you on New Year's Day... or how secure and happy you will feel when you DODGE, and get to watch your friends laugh and chill in the water?  It's the same pleasure and refreshing feeling you get when you open a secure and well-managed account at Tompkins Trust Company.  

We are so grateful to the Tompkins Trust Company! 

Will you DIP or DODGE on New Year's Day? 

We are so grateful for the coffee on the way to the party at the Yacht Club on New Year's Day.  Gimme! coffee has supported the Chill Challenge for years, and we support them too!! 

Will you DIP or DODGE? 

Thank you to the Council for supporting the CHILL CHALLENGE!!     The Council exists to help those suffering from addiction.   

The Chill Challenge helps people DIP or DODGE on New Year's Day.  Will you DIP or will you DODGE?  

15 Steps has been a regular supporter of the Chill Challenge EVERY YEAR!!!   Starting in 2016, they dedicated their thoughts towards our community.   They kept supporting us through the pandemic, and we can't wait to pick up some unique gifts there while we consider what kind of quirky costumes we might wear on New Year's Day. 

Will you DIP or DODGE on New Year's Day?

New Delhi Diamond's has been a staple in Ithaca fine cuisine, and now they are a Sponsor of the DIP or DODGE Chill Challenge!   Thank you to Diamond's!!   New Delhi Diamond's is supporting us, and we can't thank them enough. 

Their support will help us do a Match Day, where donations up to $100 are matched, so if you really want to make an impact... Match Day is for you.   

Will you DIP, or DODGE on New Year's Day? 

Schickel Construction is a reliable supporter of the Chill Challenge.  With this support, we get to do Match Day, where you can double your impact to DIP or DODGE a lucky participant.   Are you ready to party on New Year's Day? 

Show your support for Schickel Construction!

Every year we puzzle the Yacht Club enthusiasts by going into the water rather than sailing above it.   Still, they host us and let us turn on the heat in their winterized building so that we can have our party and warm up too.   We are so grateful for the kindness and support of the Ithaca Yacht Club!! 

Will you DIP or DODGE on New Year's Day?