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Charitable Chit-Chat with your Financial Advisor
Approaching your charitable giving through a long-term outlook similar to how you plan for retirement or a child’s college education can substantially increase your overall charitable impact. Did you know that your financial advisor is a great resource to help you find solutions to maximize your charitable impact? Your financial advisor should be able to…
Announcing Summer Grant Awards!
La Crosse Community Foundation is pleased to announce the most recent awardees of our competitive grant program! Over $175,000 was awarded in August benefiting 15 nonprofit organizations. City of La Crosse City Vision 2040 Downtown Master Plan $20,000 Community Giving Fund Big Brothers Big Sisters of the 7 Rivers Region Resilience and Developmental Relationships $10,000…
What do we do?
Check out this video to learn all about what a community foundation does and how gifts to La Crosse Community Foundation can benefit the community we love forever. Also, the video is narrated by a cartoon version of Jamie. Enough said 🙂
Top 5 Reasons to Give to La Crosse Community Foundation
Do you ever feel conflicted about where you should donate your hard-earned money? I do! My mailbox is constantly stuffed with solicitations from nonprofits doing great, important work. As a result, I often end up with a pile of gift acknowledgments at year end all representing $20-$100 gifts to a variety of nonprofits. And sometimes…
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…
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…
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…
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…
