The LLCC Foundation is presenting a free seminar on estate planning, “If there’s a will … it’s your way!” on Thursday, Oct. 5 from 9-11:30 a.m. in the Trutter Center.

The event is for people of all ages seeking guidance on how to get estate planning started or adjusted to meet their current needs. The seminar features three local estate planning specialists: Hugh Drake, Jennifer Stice and Ellen Bruce. Read more about the topics these speakers will be addressing.

Reservations for the event are requested but not required. For more information, call 217-786-2785, email LLCCFoundation@llcc.edu or visit www.LLCCFoundation.org.

SteppingSTONES recognition bricks that have been ordered by LLCC faculty, staff, donors, board members. alumni, retirees and friends have been installed surrounding the tree in front of A. Lincoln Commons. It is not too late to purchase a brick! If you wish to do so, please complete the SteppingSTONE brick order form and return with payment to the LLCC Foundation.

In honor of Lincoln Land Community College’s 50^th anniversary in 2017, the LLCC Foundation introduced steppingStones recognition bricks as part of its Grow Beyond endowment campaign. Funds raised for the Grow Beyond endowment fund assist students and help create flexible, state-of-the-art learning environments.

For more information about steppingSTONES engraved bricks, visit the LLCC Foundation website at LLCCFoundation.org or call 786.2785.

More than $53,000 was raised in support of LLCC students and programs through the annual faculty and staff giving campaign known as LEAGUE. Every dollar contributed truly does make a difference. Recently a distraught student came into the Foundation seeking assistance. Thanks to your donations to the Pay It Forward Fund, the student was able to remain in the classroom and finish her summer coursework. Without this emergency fund, the outcome would have been completely different.

Thanks to the more than 41 percent of faculty and staff who donated to the LEAGUE Campaign. It’s never too late to make a contribution. If you would like to donate, please contact the Foundation at 6.2785.

Special thanks to the LEAGUE committee members who help plan and organize LEAGUE activities. Those serving on the 2017 committee were: Shawn Allen, Tiffany Andrews, Andrea DeRosa, Melissa Franzen, Don Kallembach, Paula Luebbert, Christine Marietta, Ashley Miller, Patty Petersen, Tom Spears, Jamie Stout and Anthony Tate.

Do you shop on Amazon? If so, you can shop on Smile.Amazon.com anytime and Amazon will donate 0.5 percent of your purchase to Lincoln Land Community College Foundation. This includes shopping done on Amazon Prime Day, an annual sales event that continues through July 11!

AmazonSmile is the same Amazon you know — same products, same prices, same service — with the added bonus that Amazon donates a portion of the purchase price to a charitable organization. To have your Amazon purchases support the LLCC Foundation, use the following link: smile.amazon.com/ch/37-1360597. Amazon has donated more than $500 to the foundation through purchases made by our supporters. For more information, contact the LLCC Foundation at 6.2785.

The Lincoln Land Charity Championship starts next week! If you plan to watch the up-and-coming professional golfers who will be descending on Springfield’s Panther Creek Country Club for the June 19-25 tournament, please purchase your $10 ticket online, and select Lincoln Land Community College Foundation as the charity beneficiary. Every dollar from your ticket purchase will go to a charity, and we’d like you to choose us!

To purchase tickets go to lincolnlandcharitychampionship.com, and click “Order Your Ticket TODAY” to start the online purchase. In the checkout process you will have the opportunity to select which area charity you would like to help. Choose Lincoln Land Community College Foundation from the drop-down list.

You can support the LLCC Foundation by enjoying great golf. It’s that easy!

The June 2017 issue of “Circle of Friends,” the LLCC Foundation newsletter, is now available. Read about 50 years of generous giving in support of our students and more!

The Foundation has four dugout box seats and a parking pass available for the Tuesday, May 16, 7:15 pm Cardinals game in St. Louis against the Boston Red Sox.  The Foundation is offering these tickets to anyone who wishes to purchase them for a required amount of $455 – as requested by the donor (face value of the tickets is $153 each).

This offer includes:

• 4 Cardinals Dugout Box tickets (section 135, Row H) for Tuesday, May 16, 7:15 pm game in St. Louis against the Boston Red Sox.
• Parking Pass
• $50 in Qik-N-EZ gas cards

Please contact the Foundation at 6.2785 to purchase.

Thanks so much to all who attended and took part in the fun and games at Tuesday’s LEAGUE kickoff!  What a great day for our students with gifts and pledges of support totaling more than $38,000!  On behalf of students like Mary Kate Curtin – a scholarship recipient – who spoke at the luncheon, thank you for all you do for our students and for your very generous support.

Stop by the Foundation by 5 p.m. this Friday for the following:

• Donate to LEAGUE choosing payroll deduction and your name will be entered into a drawing for the first $150 cash giveaway (thanks to members of the Cabinet for donating the prize money)!
  2017 Enrollment Form.
• Purchase 50/50 tickets for a chance to win cash (approximately $150 so far). Tickets are $1 each, $5 for 6, or $10 for 18.
• Vote for your favorite decorated office door in the LEAGUE Door Decorating Contest or email your vote to Barbara.Eades@llcc.edu. The winner will receive a jeans day in May.

Funds from this campaign go directly to support LLCC students through scholarships, grants and more.  As a donor, you choose what you would like your gift to support.  The LLCC Foundation realizes you have choices in philanthropic support and given the ever increasing demands on individual and family budgets, please know how grateful we are that you’ve chosen the students of LLCC to be the recipients of your generous donations.