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Employee Giving

2025 Partners in Education, Employee+ Giving, LCCC Foundation

Creating Opportunity For Our Students

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Employee+ Giving allows our community to give back and impact students side by side our Laramie County Community College faculty and staff. 

Through LCCC Employee+ Giving, partners may choose the area in which they directly support our students, including:

  • Pathway Endowments- Make a gift to a Pathway Endowment to support students long-term by providing class materials, student stipends and scholarships, and implementing Student Experiential Learning.
  • Existing Scholarship Support - The LCCC Foundation manages over 450 donor-funded scholarships, named in honor of families, in the memory of loved ones or for an inspirational cause. These scholarships benefit all demographics across various programs and educational goals.   
  • General Support - The LCCC Excellence Fund exists to provide the Foundation the flexibility to direct funds to an area of greatest need. Whether it is scholarships, program needs or equipment, the versatility of this fund provides broad support for LCCC and the LCCC Foundation.

Creating Opportunity

Community members that give will be allowed the option to show support in honor of a faculty or staff member that inspires them to further themselves. These messages will be shared with the honoree anonymously.

 

 

 

 

The mission of Laramie County Community College is to transform our students’ lives through the power of inspired learning.

We are all bound by a basic understanding that our students, regardless of how they arrive at LCCC, yearn for a better life by engaging in the process of acquiring knowledge. Thus, we are compelled to aid this transformation by offering diverse educational experiences designed to be inspirational for all those involved in the learning process. 

Laramie County Community College needs the support of its employees, in addition to its friends, corporations and foundations to continue its mission and achieve its strategic goals. When LCCC’s faculty and staff support the College through employee giving, it sends a powerful message to our community as well as current and potential donors that its employees believe in the college’s vision and mission.

LCCC faculty and staff can choose the amount they wish to give and the area in which they wish to have a direct impact. Through past and present employee giving campaigns, employees’ gifts have significantly benefited student scholarships, academic and cultural programs and a wide variety of college initiatives.

Participation in the Employee Giving Campaign ensures that you have a direct impact on the lives of Laramie County Community College students. No matter the size, your gift counts!

All gifts make a difference, we ask that you consider a recurring gift of an amount that is appropriate to you. 

  • Payroll Deduction Request – Use this fillable form to begin or change your payroll deduction options. Choose a monthly payroll deduction amount; for example $10 per month totals $120 per year. Then electronically sign and submit the form or return by email to the LCCC Foundation Office.
  • Credit Card Online
  • Check, payable to:

    LCCC Foundation
    1400 E. College Drive
    Cheyenne, WY 82007

The 2025 Employee Giving Campaign kicks off Mar. 27. You will have until May 1 to fill out and return your payroll deduction form to the Foundation Office.

Payroll deductions run through the fiscal year, beginning on July 1, 2025 and ending on June 30, 2026.

Each year, the LCCC Foundation acknowledges donors in the Talon Magazine. We also host a Holiday Tea in December for all employees who have made gifts to the Foundation.

 

 

Donor Challenege

Funds have been secured to offer a Total Donor Challenge. The challenege is broken into two goals:

50% Goal: If 50% of full-time employees participate in Employee+ Giving, it will unlock $1,000 for each Pathway Endowment!

Stretch Goal: If 75% of full-time employees participate in giving, an additioanl $1,000 will be released to each Pathway Endowment.

Pooled Pledges

Employee groups can pool their pledges together to get recognition on a Pathway Donor Wall. In order for the group to get recognition, the following must occur:

  1. The combined gift is equal to or greater than $2,500 for fiscal year 25-26.
  2. There are at least 10 members or 51% of the department staff participating in the pool.
  3. Each participant must give or pledge at least $120 total ($10/month).

Recognition on the donor wall will be listed as a group (i.e. the wall will say "CCA Faculty" or "IA Staff" for example).

Contact David James if you wish to create a pooled pledge.

 

 

 

  • "I give because I was an LCCC student who benefited from scholarships. So it makes sense that I can pay it forward by giving back.."

    – Renee Nelson, English Faculty

  • "LCCC does a great job positively impacting students, which I am passionate about. Giving really does directly impact students, and it allows us to impact more students, so it’s a high return for such a small investment. And if I want, I can also choose the scholarship I give to."

    – Allan Price, Academic Advisorier

  • "The Palmquist Family established two scholarships for a couple of reasons.  One, to financially assist the non-traditional student complete their college education (as I did). The second scholarship is in memory of our son who graduated from LCCC and was so proud and appreciative of the scholarship he received. We continue to give knowing only a few dollars from a paycheck goes a long way!!!"

    – Erin Palmquist, School of Math & Sciences

  • "I created a scholarship here in my mother's memory, and I contribute to it to create opportunities for students that may not otherwise have the opportunities."

    - Jeff Shmidl, Program Director

  • "I could not have achieved my dream of obtaining a college degree without scholarships. I give to give back, or pay it forward, in my small way to help others achieve their educational goals."

    - Melissa Dishman, Human Resources

 

 

DONOR SPOTLIGHT

 

Ian Caldon

Ian Caldon, a long-time faculty member, helped establish the Pastora San Juan-Cafferty Memorial Scholarship in his grandmother’s honor. As a first-generation college student who benefited from financial aid in scholarships in his own academic journey, Caldon said he knows the value of helping students with their financial concerns.


What makes you feel like it’s an important initiative to contribute to students’ academic journeys by making an employee contribution at LCCC? Plain and simple...the students! When you read the personal statements and the needs and challenges each and every recipient has every year, it’s amazing to see how much any contribution helps them in their pursuit of a degree here at LCCC.


How does the Employee Giving Campaign contribute to the overall sense of community at LCCC? It recognizes the needs students have, as well as employees’ ability to help out. It doesn’t have to be much, but anything and everything can help these students in need, and this is evident in their testimonies.


What advice would you give to colleagues or peers who are considering participating in the Employee Giving Campaign? You don’t even necessarily need to start up a memorial scholarship as I did. There are several meaningful scholarships that already exist and, no doubt, in an area of your interest and passion — start there! The smallest donation will make a huge difference!

 

 

Lori Arnold

As the program director for the developing Respiratory Therapy Program at LCCC, Lori Arnold is newer to LCCC than Caldon. But, like her colleague, she is a first-generation student whose personal experiences inform how she views Employee Giving at the college.


Did you or anyone you care about benefit from scholarships and financial aid while attending college? My eldest son received a full-ride scholarship for first-generation bachelor’s degree students. At the time of his scholarship, neither my husband nor myself had a bachelor’s degree. He was able to complete his undergraduate program completely financed through scholarships. This opportunity enabled him to move forward and become a doctor of chiropractic medicine. Along with the undergraduate scholarship, he received scholarships to attend chiropractic school. Without the first-generation scholarship offered by that institution, my son would not have been able to achieve his dream of becoming a chiropractor.


How do your life experiences inform your understanding of how important financial support is for students going to college? So often students feel like they cannot accomplish their career dreams without financial assistance. I wish someone would have explained to me the financial opportunities that are available to further education and career opportunities when I was a new graduate out of high school. I know that without financial assistance, I would not be where I am today. After my son received his opportunity to attend college, I decided to pursue my education further and was able to secure aid. I am so grateful for the assistance that I received and that my sons have received.