Photo: Brad Christensen

How We Can Help Your Organization

Our individual strengths give us collective strength.

We are committed to strengthening nonprofit groups by helping them to build capacity. We also provide technical assistance and help build partnerships between nonprofits, businesses, the state, and individuals throughout Lander. 

Training For Your Team

We have designed our power hours and workshops to address common pain points in our nonprofit community. Our programs include: fundraising and stewardship, board development, and marketing. Learn how to develop a donor strategy and strategic plan, build your board, and tell your story to gain meaningful donor support.

As a community connector, we facilitate potential nonprofit partnerships in order to help organizations maximize efficiency and impact. We also help our nonprofits build effective business partnerships in an effort to move their programs forward.  

Raise Funds To Meet Your Goals: Challenge for Charities + Competitive Grant Program

We are dedicated to helping you increase fundraising efforts and overall organizational sustainability. We encourage you to raise funds through our annual Challenge for Charities program and by applying to our Competitive Grant Program.

Created to help local nonprofit organizations increase their impact and advance their unique mission and vision, the Lander Community Foundation offers the opportunity to apply for the annual Competitive Grant program.

Since 2012, LCF has issued 128 grants totaling $126,864 to nonprofits or fiscally sponsored organizations.

Photo: Blaire Bancroft

Fiscal Sponsorship

For many years, we have been helping local community projects get off the ground while they await nonprofit status. By providing fiscal and administrative support, LCF helps new organizations pursue their initiatives while they work to develop the infrastructure they need to operate independently as a nonprofit.

Fiscal sponsorship arrangements are not a source of funding from LCF—LCF simply maintains fiscal custody of the project's account and provides disbursement and accounting services for which it assesses a nominal fee. LCF retains 4% of any pass-through donation—donations made out to LCF (earmarked for your organization) for those who want a tax-deductible acknowledgment of their donation. We require an annual $100 fee in order to be sponsored.

We have fiscally sponsored 23 organizations and are currently sponsoring 12. (Photo: Blaire Bancroft)

Find Volunteers For Your Organization

Do you need volunteers for an event, project, or office work? We can connect your organization to volunteers through Lander Connected, a one-stop hub for volunteer opportunities in the Lander community.  

Email Brad Christensen at brad@landercommunityfoundation.org to get an account set up today!

Resources For Hosting a Community Event

Community Stories

  • Lucy Cone, Almost Home Wyoming

    Almost Home Wyoming was started in 2016 under the umbrella of the Lander Community Foundation as a nonprofit. We obtained our own 501C3 in 2017 and began working with the LCF, especially during the Challenge 4 Charities, to build AHW into an active force against homelessness. The matched funds we receive every year make it possible to continue our mission. Almost Home Wyoming’s footprint in the community has grown more than we ever thought possible because of our relationship with the LCF.

  • Ami Vincent, Lander Library Friends Association

    As many in our community know, our library has been struggling for several years. The Lander Library Friends Association has been integral to keeping books on library shelves. It has also helped to keep programs running while supporting extra staff needed to bring Saturday open hours to the community during summer. Without LCF and Challenge for Charities, the support LLFA would be able to give the Lander Library would only be a drop in the bucket—but with their support, we have even grown some of the library offerings.

  • Paula Hunker, Lander Womentum

    As Lander Womentum pursued nonprofit status, LCF functioned as our “parent” and allowed us to participate in Challenge for Charities. Challenge for Charities has broadened our exposure to the community so that people know who we are, what we do, and are willing to support us. I think of the work synergy—meaning, that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. LCF is the whole and Lander Womentum is one of the parts. Clearly, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts—for that, the entire Lander Community should be thankful.

See Our Community in Action

Upcoming Power Hours and Workshops

Free Power Hour Trainings

Always held in the Lander Library conference rooms from 12-1 pm 

Monday, April 15: Challenge for Charities Preparation
(mandatory  for participating C4C nonprofits)

Thursday, April 18: Tips for Writing Solicitation Letters and Emails

Monday, May 6: Board Member Recruitment and Defining Roles