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 new winter coats, jackets, and boots
$5,000
Robert and Eleanor Franke Charitable Fund

La Crosse Jazz Orchestra
Jazz in the Park guest artist
$5,000
Community Giving Fund

Shelter Development
theExchange
$6,500
Johns Flaherty Collins – Michael Stoker Memorial and Norman L. Gillette, Sr. Family funds

Girl Scouts of WI – Badgerland
New Girl Scout troop at La Crosse Boys & Girls Club
$3,000
Norman L. Gillette, Sr. Family Fund

Onalaska School District
World Arts Through K/Cultural Engagement (WAKE) Event
$1,875
Maureen L. Kinney and Community Giving funds

Couleecap, Inc.
New Hope Permanent Supportive Housing
$7,500
Johns Flaherty Collins – Michael Stoker Memorial Fund

Rotary Works Foundation
Riverside Bandshell Project
$25,000
Community Giving Fund

WisCorps, Inc.
Critter Mobile
$17,380
Community Giving Fund

Marine Credit Union Foundation
Finding HOME
$5,000
Robert & Eleanor Franke Charitable Fund

GROW La Crosse, Inc. 
Edible Schoolyard at Hamilton/SOTA I Elementary School
$8,100
Community Giving Fund

Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of La Crosse
“Creating a Healthier Multicultural Community (CHMC): From Good Will to Good Work”
$35,845
Robert & Eleanor Franke Charitable Fund

Boys & Girls Club of Greater La Crosse
Powell/Poage/Hamilton/Washburn Neighborhood Programming
$10,000
Norman L. Gillette, Sr. Family Fund

Wisconsin Badger Camp
Campership program (provides camp scholarships to La Crosse area adults and children with different abilities)
$2,500
Alice ). Gordon & Viola M. Forshler and Community Giving funds