Foundation Life Changers
You Can Change a Life!
The KCC Life Changers initiative is a multi-year awareness and fundraising campaign that will ensure the KCC Foundation can meet the varied needs of students into the future.
The goal is to raise $1M by the end of 2025 and then build the Endowment to $3M by 2030. Fundraising for Life Changers will never end. The fund will be central to the scholarship fundraising efforts being done through the Foundation and KCC in perpetuity.
The KCC Life Changers Endowment is the first long-term investment the KCC Foundation will make with the Oregon Community Foundation. The strength of OCF’s investment strategy and fund management will provide significant growth opportunities and excellent guidance from a national leader in non-profit management and philanthropic investment.
Earnings from the life changers endowment will support academic students (degree and certification paths), skills-based programming (job related certifications and licensure, Apprenticeship and Pre-Apprenticeship paths), and emergency support (to keep students on a successful path to completion).
The KCC Foundation will continue to manage a wide range of scholarship fund opportunities, such as, direct contributions to any of our scholarship funds, creation of specific directed funds, and creation of individual endowments that can be directed or not.
Your contribution will change lives, it will have a positive impact on community vitality and economic growth as we prepare students to move into quality careers and jobs here in Klamath and Lake counties, and across Oregon.
As of March 2024, the KCC Life Changers endowment has raised $67,000.
Founding Life Changers
- Jeff Ball
- Roberto & Tesssa Gutierrez
- Jo Ann Hannigan - Transformer
- Kathleen Walker Henderson
- Susie Kaylor
- Kate Marquez
- Carol McKay
- Rayna & Don Larson
- Glenn & Ursula Gailis - Path Builder
- Doug & Shelly Kintzinger
- Dave & Lynne Le Blanc
- George Nitschelm - Transformer
- Sally Ann Palcovich
- Brandon & Rebecca Adams Savage - Path Builder
- Dave Jensen
- Laura Allen
- Theresa Silver
- Jean Pinniger - Path Builder
- Amy & Jim Rooks
- John A. Runyan
- Terry J. Wagstaff
- John & Donna Wetter
- Lisa & Scott Carter
- Rich Touslee
- Larry & Winnie Wagner
- Trish Henderson
Life Changers Contribution Levels
Legacy Architect ($25,000)
You will receive special recognition in the annual State of the Foundation report Life Changers section and mention from the podium at the State of the Foundation event. Your name will be featured on the Wall of Benefactors in KCC’s Founders Hall, and you will receive the “Life Changer” level benefits listed below.
Generational Impactor ($15,000)
You will receive enhanced recognition in the annual State of the Foundation report Life Changers/Generational Impactors and you will receive the “Life Changer” level benefits listed below.
Path Builder ($10,000)
You will receive enhanced recognition in the annual State of the Foundation report Life Changers/Path Builder section and the “Life Changer” level benefits listed below.
Transformer ($5,000)
You will receive recognition in the annual State of the Foundation report Life Changers/Transformer section and the “Life Changer” level benefits listed below.
Life Changer ($1,000)
You will receive personal invitations to KCC Foundation events and be honored on the KCC Foundation web page.