Spring Grant Award Announcement!
La Crosse Community Foundation is proud to present the second cohort of grantees for 2019! The board of directors recently approved second quarter grant awards totaling $139,700 to benefit 14 local nonprofits. Here’s the list: The Good Fight Community Center Transportation for Student Success $7,000 NYSP and Community Giving funds The Children’s Clothes Closet Purchase […]
More »Announcing Quarter 1 Grant Awards!
La Crosse Community Foundation is proud to present the first cohort of grantees for 2019! The board of directors recently approved first quarter grant awards totaling $220,459 to benefit 24 local nonprofits. Included in that total is $19,500 approved from the Corinne Zielke Fund to support eight area baseball programs. Here’s the list: Mississippi Valley […]
More »La Crosse Center 2.0: Hear the Latest Plan for Expanding the La Crosse Center
The La Crosse Center expansion plan is revised and circulating in La Crosse’s City Hall. It details the direct economic benefit of this massive project from the contractors it will employ in the project to the tourists it will attract to fill downtown and beyond (some conventions fill every hotel room) to the businesses it […]
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Friends of LCF Honored at La Crosse Public Education Foundation Banquet
Sue Christopherson (representing Fowler & Hammer) and Carol Taebel each received awards for their contributions and service to La Crosse Public Education Foundation last Friday, January 18th. LCF staff was there to watch proudly as these women accepted this well-deserved recognition. The La Crosse area is ridiculously fortunate to have these women serving as fierce […]
More »Veterans Memorial Pool Preview Event
The City of La Crosse Parks, Recreation, and Forestry Department in partnership with the Veterans Memorial Pool Campaign (VMPC), proudly presents: The Veterans Memorial Pool Preview. On Tuesday, January 29th from 5-6:30pm at the La Crosse Public Library Main Auditorium the public is invited to “dive-in” to see, hear and talk about the new pool opening this summer. Updated […]
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LCF and La Crosse SOUP Announces New Partnership
La Crosse Community Foundation and La Crosse SOUP announced last week a new partnership where La Crosse SOUP and its volunteers will continue its ongoing activities under the oversight and administration of the newly created La Crosse SOUP Fund at La Crosse Community Foundation. Discussions around a potential partnership were initiated months ago as both […]
More »Most ever awarded grants in one quarter!
Our Board approved over $322,000 in grant awards!! We’re pretty sure this is the most money ever awarded through competitive grants in one quarter in our history. Stay tuned for more details about the 15 INCREDIBLE projects that received funding. Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater La Crosse Coulee Council on Addictions Children’s Museum of […]
More »Giving in the Time of Tax Reform
The greater La Crosse area has consistently proven to be a caring and compassionate community that is willing to share and give time, talent and treasure to make this a stronger and more vibrant community for each of its citizens. This community values and supports the extraordinary works of our nonprofits and knows how important […]
More »Couleecap, Inc. releases its latest Community Concerns Paper – Claiming an Education: An Act of Courage, Hope and Tenacity for Low-Income Students
The last Couleecap Community Concerns paper focused on the presentation of childhood poverty in our area schools. To build on that discussion, Couleecap asked Andrea Hansen from the Self-Sufficiency Program at UWL to share her experience working with low-income, single parents who have a dream of attending college. Most Self-Sufficiency Program participants are women and […]
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