Grants keep steel pans popping
Wisconsin, USA - For 80 years, the La Crosse Community Foundation has given money to local groups to make La Crosse a better place. This year, the foundation designated $80,000 from its general fund to be used as Birthday Money grants.
....instead of celebrating with cake and ice cream, they bought washers and dryers for the Salvation Army, contributed to McGilvray Road Bridge restoration, bought a new industrial stove for St. Luke’s Methodist Church’s free Monday meals, and bought steel pans for the Coulee Region Steel Band.
If you don’t know what a steel pan is, Jim Knutson would like to change that.
He’s the one who asked for the money for the steel pans, and with the help of the La Crosse Symphony, which has nonprofit status, he got them.
Don’t worry. Even though he doesn’t have nonprofit status, Knutson and his Coulee Region Steel Band do not make a profit.
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