Announcing a 3-session nonprofit training on financial oversight for board members
On a mission to bring affordable nonprofit training to local organizations A key priority in our current strategic plan at La Crosse Community Foundation is to invest in the strength and sustainability of our local nonprofits beyond our grantmaking. Over the last couple of years, we’ve accomplished this by offering professional development opportunities like partnering […]
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La Crosse Community Foundation announces first fund aimed at Black equity
Announcing the Black Empowerment Fund Well, friends, this inspiring news has been a secret hard to keep! We are elated to announced the formation of a new fund designed to support nonprofit organizations and activities in La Crosse County that, with guidance from members of the Black community, work to advance racial justice. Established by […]
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La Crosse Area Emergency Response Fund – Grants Awarded!
Complete list of grants awarded: The Hunger Task Force was awarded $10,439 to help support their increase in demand from the 91 local pantries, meal sites, and youth programs they supply. Their local partners together serve 7,200 individuals per month, and need to adapt to providing more “to-go” and delivered meals with more distributions than […]
More »90 reasons to support your community foundation
We are keeping our birthday celebration going because we thought of another way to recognize our 90 years of doing good! Giving to your community foundation is a smart thing to do for so many reasons, but for our 90th birthday, we put together a list of just the top 90. So without further adieu, […]
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Celebrating 90 years with an additional $90,000 for area nonprofits
Hello friends! Yesterday we braved the weather to do something very important; thank our fund holder family in celebration of our 90th birthday. (Did you know LCF is one of the oldest community foundations in the country?!) The truth is, without our fund holders and donors, we wouldn’t have much good to do. So we […]
More »Guest blog: 100 years of women’s suffrage (yes, that’s good)
Hello friends! The year 2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment, guaranteeing and protecting women’s constitutional right to vote. Women’s suffrage is the largest expansion of democracy in the history of our country. Please read with us the following contributed piece by Mary Nugent, president of the local League of […]
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2020: The year of the helper
Yeah, yeah, I know. The year is not going well. 2020 is only four months from being over, and no one will be sad to see it go. Hopefully our dreams for a dramatically improved 2021 will transpire and 2020 will soon be a smudgy blur in our rear view mirrors. But here’s one thing […]
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The role of donor advised funds in meeting pandemic needs
Partnering for a strategic pandemic response Each year, the donor advised funds at LCF infuse over half a million dollars into the revenue streams of local nonprofits. And the nonprofits that benefit are entirely up to each fund holder. But in this incredibly challenging pandemic year, many donor advisors are reaching out to see how […]
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Summer Grant Award Announcement 2020
Our third quarter grant competition was the first ever to host the new Emergency Survival Grant program. This grant program was created to provide nonprofits at risk of not surviving the pandemic with unrestricted funding to help cover their fixed expenses. Many local nonprofits have lost a significant amount of expected revenue because of the […]
More »Cheers to 90 years!
Your La Crosse Community Foundation turned 90 years old in July, making us one of the oldest in the nation. LCF was founded in 1930, when a streetcar still ran down Main Street and the Cass Street bridge was only a plan. Although La Crosse County has changed dramatically in the 90 years since, […]
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