We were lucky enough to have an announcement out front at GVC this week when the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration (FSPA) announced their grant of $1.1 million dollars to Family & Children’s Center.
Tita had let us know this was coming during one of her Tita Talks on The Depot, but it was still great news when it was announced. Above, Sister Julie Tydrich, a member of FCPA as well as a former FCC board member, is pictured with Tita when the announcement was made on Tuesday.
From the Franciscan Sisters’ website:
Families and children facing physical and substance abuse, mental illness and more are experiencing FSPA’s seeding a legacy of healing through a $1.1 million grant given to Family & Children’s Center of La Crosse, Wisconsin.
The grant, announced on May 11, is part of FSPA’s Seeding a Legacy of Healing mission. Funds will support FCC’s operating costs and endowment to support programs and services for children and families in need and fulfill FSPA’s commitment to nurturing relationships that stretch us to be people of encounter with those suffering in our Earth Community.
“Our goal with Seeding a Legacy of Healing is to invest, or seed, the funds received from the transaction with Mayo Clinic into collaboration and making good things happen with our existing ministry partnerships with nonprofit organizations,” said Sister Julie Tydrich, who also served on the board of directors for FCC from 2014 through December last year.
“We want to help our nonprofit partners become more self-sufficient by supporting areas too often overlooked: operating costs and endowments,” she added.
The announcement even made the headline in the La Crosse Tribune!
And from the Channel 19 WXOW website:
Family & Children’s Center CEO and President Tita Yutuc, said they are beyond grateful for not only for the grant, but for their support for the last decade.
“For as long as we can remember, the FSPA community has been supporting Family & Children’s Center and we are truly grateful,” said Yutuc.
They do this, she explained by providing a continuum of services from prevention programming, to early intervention, to treatment interventions. Programs that many government agencies don’t provide.
“Every year, FCC impacts thousands of individuals in our communities. Non-profit agencies like Family & Children’s Center are dealing with social issues on a massive scale,” said Yutuc. “This endowment support from FSPA seeding a legacy, will help to maintain and grow child abuse and prevention solutions for the Coulee Region.”
Thanks again to the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration!