Featured Grant Stories

Blueprints for the Future The Coulee Region offers a unique opportunity each year for aspiring engineers, thanks to the partnership between the Western Chapter of the Wisconsin Society of Professional Engineers and La Crosse Community Foundation. The Coulee Region Engineering Scholarship helps make it possible for students who want to shape the future through engineering. […]

Grant helps facilitate robotics program expansion It was nerd nirvana today at the La Crosse Center. As 54 teams from five states gathered for the Seven Rivers Regional Robotics Competition, La Crosse Community Foundation announced a grant to Holmen’s FIRST Lego League team, Nerds On A Mission, to expand its program to a younger cohort. […]

La Crosse Community Foundation is jumping into spring with a HUGE list of grant announcements! This year is unique because we are in the middle of revamping our grant making process to align with our new strategic plan. Please know, we’re not throwing out the entire grant process. We’re evolving to better meet the needs […]

ATC Welcomes Four-Legged Staff Member With a grant from La Crosse Community Foundation, Adult & Teen Challenge of Western Wisconsin is integrating a therapy dog program to support individuals in recovery. Ozzie, an Australian Labradoodle, has been training for his new post since August. He’ll become certified this June and enter full-time service. For now, […]

$75,000 grant a game-changer The Coulee Region Humane Society recently received a game-changing, unrestricted $75,000 grant from La Crosse Community Foundation. And it’s not just the animals who are winning. The grant comes at a pivotal time for CRHS as it nears its capital campaign goal of $3.5 million to renovate and expand its facility […]

As the temperatures get colder, we have the opportunity to welcome autumn and a season of gratitude. The end of 2023 is near, and we are excited to share La Crosse Community Foundation awarded $293,268 in quarter four. When you review the full list of grants below, we know you will agree with us that […]

Grant from La Crosse Community Foundation helps bring Mexican folk art to Pump House In a focused effort to bring cultural understanding and exchange to the Coulee Region, La Crosse Community Foundation has granted $7,500 to the Pump House Regional Arts Center to support its Mexican Folk Art Collective exhibition and open corresponding special events […]

Vision screenings key to academic success The American Optometric Association estimates that as many as one in four children have a vision problem that affects learning. These vision problems often go undetected, especially as children may naturally assume that how things look to them is the same way they look to others. But vision problems […]

GearUp Inc. fills void in education funding When Unity Vang starts classes at the University of Wisconsin–Stout next week, she’ll represent the first generation in her family to attend college. It’s an entirely new experience for all of them — so many preparations and so many unknowns. But with help from GearUp Inc., she’ll be […]

The Homeless Outreach Team at Independent Living Resources offers a low barrier connection between unsheltered individuals and supports necessary to find housing and community resources. Independent Living Resources (ILR) is a nonprofit organization that helps people with disabilities achieve or maintain more self-sufficient and productive lives. This makes ILR a natural fit for the Homeless […]