Have you heard the big news?

LEAF is raising money to build a Permanent Home in the heart of Lyons!

We are dreaming big and planning our new home so LEAF can provide more human services and behavioral health for our community.

We’ve already raised over one million dollars to make this dream a reality! This new home will provide an accessible, reliable, and secure safety net in the heart of Lyons. 

We’ll open up Lyons Community Food Pantry, expand Mental Wellness & Addiction Recovery services, and create a hub for the entire community. We’ll build a gathering area and community gardens. We can even make a place for a medical provider to work. LEAF will keep serving well, and Lyons will remain the unique, diverse, and caring home that we all love so much.

We are here…for good!

From crises that impact our entire community, to disasters that rock a single household – LEAF Is Here.

LEAF is the only organization working right here in the Greater Lyons area to meet human services needs. Since 2008, we’ve been solving problems and meeting needs. We know and love this community.

Giving levels - Click here to Donate
  • $100,000 – Be Here for our community – Sponsor the New Building
  • $50,000 – Feed our community – Sponsor the Food Pantry
  • $30,000 – ALREADY CLAIMED! – Sponsor Mental Wellness & Addiction Recovery
  • $30,000 – Cook up some community – Sponsor the Kitchen
  • $30,000 – ALREADY CLAIMED! Plant & Grow – Sponsor Planting and Outdoor Community Space
  • $15,000 – Make Connections – Sponsor the Classroom
  • $15,000 – Help People Heal – Sponsor a Mental Wellness & Addiction Recovery Therapy Space (1 of 2)
  • $15,000 – Help People Heal – Sponsor a Mental Wellness & Addiction Recovery Therapy Space (2 of 2)
  • $13,750 – Take a Bite Out of Our Budget – Give 5% of the remaining project cost
  • $8,250 – Take a Bite Out of Our Budget – Give 3% of the remaining project cost
  • $2,750 – Take a Bite Out of Our Budget – Give 1% of the remaining project cost
  • $2,500 – Make a Difference!
  • $1,000 – Sponsor a Patio Paver – Only 100 of These Personalized Pavers Available!
  • $500 – Thank You So much!
  • $ Other

Click here to donate today! 

Giving levels - Click here to Donate
  • $100,000 – Be Here for our community – Sponsor the New Building
  • $50,000 – Feed our community – Sponsor the Food Pantry
  • $30,000 – ALREADY CLAIMED! – Sponsor Mental Wellness & Addiction Recovery
  • $30,000 – Cook up some community – Sponsor the Kitchen
  • $30,000 – ALREADY CLAIMED! Plant & Grow – Sponsor Planting and Outdoor Community Space
  • $15,000 – Make Connections – Sponsor the Classroom
  • $15,000 – Help People Heal – Sponsor a Mental Wellness & Addiction Recovery Therapy Space (1 of 2)
  • $15,000 – Help People Heal – Sponsor a Mental Wellness & Addiction Recovery Therapy Space (2 of 2)
  • $13,750 – Take a Bite Out of Our Budget – Give 5% of the remaining project cost
  • $8,250 – Take a Bite Out of Our Budget – Give 3% of the remaining project cost
  • $2,750 – Take a Bite Out of Our Budget – Give 1% of the remaining project cost
  • $2,500 – Make a Difference!
  • $1,000 – Sponsor a Patio Paver – Only 100 of These Personalized Pavers Available!
  • $500 – Thank You So much!
  • $ Other

Click here to donate today! 

Without LEAF, there would be no one to provide local basic human services in our community:

    • No Food Pantry
    • No Meals on Wheels
    • No Lyons Volunteers
    • No Mental Wellness & Addiction Recovery
    • No Basic Needs & Resource Matching

Serving 22.6% of the local population, LEAF is known and loved.

Why move? Why now? LEAF needs a home with more room and daily access. Our team needs more space to distribute food, provide community-based mental health care, and meet needs. With our own space, we’ll serve more people in more ways, we’ll solve more problems, and we’ll help more neighbors get to stable independence.

Lyons, we can do this! We’re ready to go! Don’t you want to be part of this positive, exciting, community-changing project? This is your opportunity to position our community for a positive future in a meaningful way.

Giving levels - Click here to Donate
  • $100,000 – Be Here for our community – Sponsor the New Building
  • $50,000 – Feed our community – Sponsor the Food Pantry
  • $30,000 – ALREADY CLAIMED! – Sponsor Mental Wellness & Addiction Recovery
  • $30,000 – Cook up some community – Sponsor the Kitchen
  • $30,000 – ALREADY CLAIMED! Plant & Grow – Sponsor Planting and Outdoor Community Space
  • $15,000 – Make Connections – Sponsor the Classroom
  • $15,000 – Help People Heal – Sponsor a Mental Wellness & Addiction Recovery Therapy Space (1 of 2)
  • $15,000 – Help People Heal – Sponsor a Mental Wellness & Addiction Recovery Therapy Space (2 of 2)
  • $13,750 – Take a Bite Out of Our Budget – Give 5% of the remaining project cost
  • $8,250 – Take a Bite Out of Our Budget – Give 3% of the remaining project cost
  • $2,750 – Take a Bite Out of Our Budget – Give 1% of the remaining project cost
  • $2,500 – Make a Difference!
  • $1,000 – Sponsor a Patio Paver – Only 100 of These Personalized Pavers Available!
  • $500 – Thank You So much!
  • $ Other

Click here to donate today! 

What would Lyons be without our local sandstone? As LEAF makes plans to move to new headquarters, here’s an opportunity for YOU to leave a legacy! Purchase a personalized paver for the outside gathering area at LEAF’s new home! Only 100 are available, at $1000 each. Your paver will make LEAF’s space beautiful and your purchase will make our new headquarters a reality!

Once we purchase the building, we will need to equip the Food Pantry and furnish our Mental Wellness & Addiction Recovery space.

Won’t you partner with us in a meaningfula way to make this dream a reality for our community?

Giving levels - Click here to Donate
  • $100,000 – Be Here for our community – Sponsor the New Building
  • $50,000 – Feed our community – Sponsor the Food Pantry
  • $30,000 – ALREADY CLAIMED! – Sponsor Mental Wellness & Addiction Recovery
  • $30,000 – Cook up some community – Sponsor the Kitchen
  • $30,000 – ALREADY CLAIMED! Plant & Grow – Sponsor Planting and Outdoor Community Space
  • $15,000 – Make Connections – Sponsor the Classroom
  • $15,000 – Help People Heal – Sponsor a Mental Wellness & Addiction Recovery Therapy Space (1 of 2)
  • $15,000 – Help People Heal – Sponsor a Mental Wellness & Addiction Recovery Therapy Space (2 of 2)
  • $13,750 – Take a Bite Out of Our Budget – Give 5% of the remaining project cost
  • $8,250 – Take a Bite Out of Our Budget – Give 3% of the remaining project cost
  • $2,750 – Take a Bite Out of Our Budget – Give 1% of the remaining project cost
  • $2,500 – Make a Difference!
  • $1,000 – Sponsor a Patio Paver – Only 100 of These Personalized Pavers Available!
  • $500 – Thank You So much!
  • $ Other

Click here to donate today! 

More Food

Imagine…a designated space for garden beds, a community kitchen and an accessible food pantry to better feed our community.

More Care

Imagine…private office space for mental wellness, addiction recovery, and health clinic visits.

More Access

Imagine…a reception desk, storage space and increased parking to better serve our community.

More Community

Imagine…artwork and landscaping to beautify and complement what’s becoming a civic center of Lyons amid our library and town hall.
Giving levels - Click here to Donate
  • $100,000 – Be Here for our community – Sponsor the New Building
  • $50,000 – Feed our community – Sponsor the Food Pantry
  • $30,000 – ALREADY CLAIMED! – Sponsor Mental Wellness & Addiction Recovery
  • $30,000 – Cook up some community – Sponsor the Kitchen
  • $30,000 – ALREADY CLAIMED! Plant & Grow – Sponsor Planting and Outdoor Community Space
  • $15,000 – Make Connections – Sponsor the Classroom
  • $15,000 – Help People Heal – Sponsor a Mental Wellness & Addiction Recovery Therapy Space (1 of 2)
  • $15,000 – Help People Heal – Sponsor a Mental Wellness & Addiction Recovery Therapy Space (2 of 2)
  • $13,750 – Take a Bite Out of Our Budget – Give 5% of the remaining project cost
  • $8,250 – Take a Bite Out of Our Budget – Give 3% of the remaining project cost
  • $2,750 – Take a Bite Out of Our Budget – Give 1% of the remaining project cost
  • $2,500 – Make a Difference!
  • $1,000 – Sponsor a Patio Paver – Only 100 of These Personalized Pavers Available!
  • $500 – Thank You So much!
  • $ Other

Click here to donate today! 

Did you know LEAF served 22.6% of our local population in 2022?

Without LEAF, there would be no basic human services in the Greater Lyons area. No Food Pantry. No Mental Wellness & Addiction Recovery. No Meals on Wheels. No Basic Needs & Resource Matching. No Lyons Volunteers. Aren’t you glad We Are Here?

With your help, we’ll open up Lyons Community Food Pantry, expand Mental Wellness & Addiction Recovery services, and create a hub for the entire community when we move into our new space. We’ll build a gathering area and community gardens. We can even make a place for a medical provider to work. LEAF will keep serving well, and Lyons will remain the unique, diverse, and caring home that we all love so much.

YOU can help us achieve the last 30% of our total project budget of $1,350,000. Will you spread the word about this opportunity to change the future for Lyons? Here are just a few ways to give:

  • Online – click here
  • Considering a stock or other investment gift? Reach out! (lory@leaflyons.org)
  • Naming opportunities are available. Let’s talk!
  • Pledge your gift? No problem!
  • Local business? Partner with us!

From crises that impact our entire community, to disasters that rock a single household, LEAF Is Here. Since 2008, we’ve been solving problems and meeting needs. We know and love this community, and we are dreaming big and planning our permanent home so we can continue providing an accessible, reliable, and secure human services safety net for our community.

We intend to move to our space this fall. And all of this good work is happening because of you. LEAF is here – for GOOD! Thank you for making it possible.

With very best regards,

Lory Barton, Executive Director

Giving levels - Click here to Donate
  • $100,000 – Be Here for our community – Sponsor the New Building
  • $50,000 – Feed our community – Sponsor the Food Pantry
  • $30,000 – ALREADY CLAIMED! – Sponsor Mental Wellness & Addiction Recovery
  • $30,000 – Cook up some community – Sponsor the Kitchen
  • $30,000 – ALREADY CLAIMED! Plant & Grow – Sponsor Planting and Outdoor Community Space
  • $15,000 – Make Connections – Sponsor the Classroom
  • $15,000 – Help People Heal – Sponsor a Mental Wellness & Addiction Recovery Therapy Space (1 of 2)
  • $15,000 – Help People Heal – Sponsor a Mental Wellness & Addiction Recovery Therapy Space (2 of 2)
  • $13,750 – Take a Bite Out of Our Budget – Give 5% of the remaining project cost
  • $8,250 – Take a Bite Out of Our Budget – Give 3% of the remaining project cost
  • $2,750 – Take a Bite Out of Our Budget – Give 1% of the remaining project cost
  • $2,500 – Make a Difference!
  • $1,000 – Sponsor a Patio Paver – Only 100 of These Personalized Pavers Available!
  • $500 – Thank You So much!
  • $ Other

Click here to donate today! 

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