Lift for Life Academy
YouthBridge Community Foundation of Greater St. Louis offers endowment building services to help nonprofit agencies generate income for longer-term initiatives. In addition to delivering access to low-cost, high-quality investment solutions and education on endowments, YouthBridge aids with the entire process – from establishing an endowment fund to financial reporting to create the greatest impact. YouthBridge also provides matching funds each year to child-serving nonprofits that start or add to their endowment!
Organizations with endowment funds at YouthBridge are called Agency Fundholders. To shine more light on these meaningful relationships we spotlight one Agency Fundholder each month. This month we spotlight Lift for Life Academy (LFLA) and Lift for Life Academy Foundation an Agency Fundholder since 2021. We gathered more insight from Claire Deane, LFLA Marketing and Volunteer Manager.
What is Lift for Life Academy?
We are a St. Louis City nonprofit charter school that offers a challenging learning community where all students are empowered to maximize their full potential as students and citizens.
Do you have any exciting updates about Lift for Life Academy?
LFLA is celebrating its 25th academic year, educating almost 850 students in grades K-12 through a wide variety of unique classes, athletics, and extracurricular activities.
Is there anything special we should know about?
We were excited that our Fashion students were recently featured on the local news for sewing and donating items to support the unhoused in our community! See the news story HERE.
Explain your relationship with YouthBridge and what it means to your agency.
LFLA partners with Lift for Life Academy Foundation and YouthBridge to manage its endowment, ensuring that St. Louis City’s oldest charter school continues to provide an excellent learning environment for future generations of St. Louis students.