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Published - Sunday, August 24, 2008

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Community Foundation awards grants


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The La Crosse Community Foundation awarded $107,427 to community agencies during the third quarter.

Junior Achievement: $5,000, including $3,200 from the Rehfuss Fund for Program Expansion and a Titan Competition.
Learning Together Family Literacy: $8,000 for the HAVEN Project.

University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Foundation: $3,040 for Hmong ACT Together program with parental components.

Salvation Army: $60,600, including $4,369 from the Johns, Flaherty, Collins Housing Fund, for housing needs for people who are homeless and a mental health program.

Boys & Girls Club: $6,170 from the NYSP Fund as a 1:1 matching challenge grant for the proposed new Holmen Youth Center.

La Crosse Community Theatre: $14,617 for hearing assistance devices and sound system.

Seven Rivers LGBT Resource Center: $5,000, including $2,280 from the Bridge Builders Fund toward the executive director position.

Wisconsin Badger Camp: $5,000, including $3,360 from the Isenman Fund for children with disabilities for “camperships” for La Crosse County youth with developmental disabilities.

The Foundation also recently updated its Web site and added the “Supported Agency” page, which provides a list of community needs and issues. Each category includes links to the agencies that work with those needs and allow users to access those agencies Web sites. Go online to the new site or learn more about the area’s nonprofit agencies at www.laxcommfoundation.com.
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Myturn wrote on Aug 24, 2008 12:32 PM:

" Here is a question that is never asked, What is the cost to Administer those funds down there? Simple, top the point, and an easily understandable question. Hey!!! BTW, whatever happened to the impending 'Sports Commission'? Tribune??? "


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