You can support the Lyons Community Foundation by donating to the General Fund or to the Scholarship Fund. When you donate to the General Fund, you are helping build community by providing community support grants to local non-profit organizations in the greater Lyons area. The Scholarship Fund directly helps high school graduates attend post-secondary institutions. We accomplish more together than we do alone.
There are many creative ways to give to the Lyons Community Foundation. Our FAQ page will help you navigate all of these options.
The Lyons Community Foundation is a fund managed by the Community Foundation Serving Boulder County, a 501C-3 non-profit organization.
You can support the Lyons Community Foundation by donating to the General Fund. When you donate to the General Fund, you are helping build community by providing community support grants to local non-profit organizations in the greater Lyons area. We accomplish more together than we do alone.
In order to improve the quality of life, build a culture of giving and encourage positive change in our community, LCF has decided to support four focus areas:
CONNECT the community through events, concerts, public art, historical preservation, etc.
PROVIDE human services through LEAF and its programming
INVEST in our youth through extracurricular activities at our schools
SUPPORT local ecology initiatives like the Lyons Food Forest or Weed Identification Booklets
By supporting the Lyons Community Foundation Scholarship Fund, you are providing graduating high school students access to higher education. Every year, LCF awards a scholarship between $500 and $2,000 each to six to eight students. Some scholarships were created in memory of a community member and are still funded by their family through this fund. Many scholarships are entirely funded by LCF's Scholarship Fund.
Over the past ten years, Lyons has had to recover from a 1,000-year flood and a pandemic. We have also had some close calls with wildfires. As a community foundation, LCF has learned that recurring donations make it easier to support immediate local needs, prepare for future challenges and strengthen our work in the community. We call our monthly donors "Community Builders", because building a better community is at the very heart of our mission. For just $1/day or $30/month, you can help local projects get off the ground. At LCF, our monthly donors plant seeds that bloom all year long. Seeds like human services, community connectivity, youth investment and local ecology help grow our community into a bountiful garden of beautiful wildflowers. Please consider becoming a monthly donor by clicking below and changing the donation frequency to monthly.
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