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Halting the Opioid Crisis with Alliance to HEAL
La Crosse Community Foundation, Mayo Clinic Health System, Gundersen Health System, and La Crosse County Health Department have joined resources to move the needle on the opioid crisis. The four organizations have committed over $400,000 over the next three years to support the Alliance to HEAL (Halting the Effects of Addiction Locally), which launched in…
Young Instrumentalist Folk Music Outreach
Great River Festival of Arts received a a $5,450 grant to provide folk music lessons to young students from area Boys and Girls Clubs during the August 2018 Great River Folk Festival at Riverside Park in La Crosse. Children played instruments such as guitars and violins with a nationally touring folk performer and participated in…
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…
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…
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…
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…
2018 State of the Nonprofit Sector Survey Results Now Available
The State of the Nonprofit Sector Survey has been administered to thousands of nonprofit leaders across the country by the Nonprofit Finance Fund since 2010. The survey has become a widely cited barometer of the operational and financial health of our country’s nonprofits. The 2018 survey results are now live, and can be found here: https://nff.org/learn/survey#results…
June Kjome Justice and Peace Fund Now Accepting Applications for 2018 Grants
The June Kjome Justice & Peace Fund at La Crosse Community Foundation is currently accepting grant applications for 2018 grant awards. Applications are in our online grant portal, Foundant, and are due no later than EOB May 21, 2018. Decisions will be made and announced early June. There is $5,800 available for 2018 grant awards. The…
The Parenting Place Offers Literacy-Based Playgroup for Young Children at North Community Library
One in three American children will start Kindergarten without the skills they need to learn to read. Children introduced to reading early on tend to read earlier and excel in school compared to children who are not exposed to language and books at an early age. Reading, rhyming, singing and talking – beginning from birth…
