The Change Your Pace Challenge has now closed. Thank you to everyone who donated during this record-breaking 10th annual campaign for community giving.
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Come see the totals revealed at the CYP Wrap Up on Friday June 13th!
We will post totals, photos of groups receiving their checks, and the list of everyone who gave through CYP on this page soon.
CYP 2025 will run from Thursday May 1, 2025 - Friday May 30, 2025
*This year we are shifting the name of the ‘CYP Match Fund’ to ‘CYP Challenge Fund’. We hope this change will cut down on confusion for donors. The CYP Challenge Fund will work the same way as the CYP Match Fund did in prior years.
Thank you to these CYP Challenge Fund major business sponsors:
Lake Country Builders
Lindey’s Prime Steak House
Cory’s Valley Market
Charlie’s Helping Hands
Pop’s Restaurant
The Change Your Pace Challenge
Since 2016, the annual Change Your Pace Challenge (“CYP”) month of summer giving has raised over $749,000 for local groups!
How it works
The Change Your Pace Challenge runs the month of May.
Donate to your favorite local causes, and/or the CYP Challenge Fund to support all participating organizations.
All donations go through the SLCF, allowing you to use one donor form and write one check, supporting as many organizations as you wish (or donate online easily on this webpage).
After the fundraising period closes, organizations receive the money raised on their behalf plus dollars allocated from the CYP Challenge Fund, multiplying your impact!
The CYP Challenge Fund
The CYP Challenge Fund multiplies gifts to your favorite nonprofits!
The first $5,000 donated to each organization will receive a portion of the CYP Challenge Fund, calculated after the fundraising period ends. Donations over $5,000 go directly to the organization, but without matching dollars. This threshold ensures a more level playing field for our smaller organizations.
After the donation period ends, the SLCF tallies up each organization’s totals and calculates the challenge percentage based on how big the CYP Challenge Fund grows.
By giving to the CYP Challenge Fund, your gift will help all participating organizations.
Applications now closed for area organizations to apply to participate in the 2025 Change Your Pace Challenge. Hope to receive your application next year for the 2026 event! Apps will be due April 1, 2026.
Check out the 2025 CYP Rules and Policies for Participating Organizations here
CYP 2024 Totals
$126,210 raised through CYP 2024 - new record!
including $41,105 in the 2024 CYP Match Fund - new record!
multiplying your impact by 61 cents on the dollar.
20 local groups participated in the 2024 change your pace challenge - a record-breaking year with the most dollars, donors, organizations, and highest match fund ever!
Great Wrap-up celebration! thank you to energy partners for lunch.
Here’s the math. First column ($85k donated to groups) + fourth column ($41k Match Fund = last column ($126k all the groups received through CYP). This year, the match percentage is 61 cents on the dollar for all eligible gifts. This means that for every eligible dollar donated, it was like giving $1.61!
Download the Excel file here if you want to see how the formulas work. We cap donations to $5k per group to make sure our smallest groups benefit the most, and to preserve the power of the CYP Match Fund!
CYP 2023 RAISED $95,050 FOR OUR COMMUNITY!
THE MATCH FUND GREW TO OVER $37,000 - THE HIGHEST EVER!!!
The match percentage was the strongest ever - 82 cents on the dollar. This means that for every eligible dollar donated, it was like giving $1.82!
CYP 2023 Organizations - we briefly thought we broke $100,000, but later learned it was $95,000 that we broke. still amazing :)
THE 2022 CHANGE YOUR PACE CHALLENGE RAISED $103,591.61!
Over $76,000 was donated to 17 local nonprofits, and the CYP Match Fund grew to $26,633.42.
About the 2022 Change Your Pace Challenge
During the Change Your Pace Challenge (CYP), the Seeley Lake Community Foundation raised $103,591.61 for 17 local organizations, including $26,633 for the CYP Match Fund. This was 28% higher than the $80,818 total raised through CYP in 2021. The highest number of individual donors gave since the program started in 2016 with 209 households making a gift. The match percentage ended at 40 cents on the dollar for eligible donations.
This was an exciting Change Your Pace Challenge. Halfway through the campaign, we tipped over half a million dollars total raised through CYP since 2016. The donation that tipped the total over the edge was $15! It was from a woman who made 3 five-dollar gifts to her favorite local groups, excited to have her donation multiply with money from the CYP Match Fund. That is exactly what the Change Your Pace Challenge is all about – creating a mountain of community support that allows us all to accomplish more together than we could alone.
Then the excitement continued: With only days left, the Match Fund was $700 shy of $20,000. The community smashed through that goal. Then, when we started calculating all the totals on July 1st, we realized we were $500 short of breaking the $100,000 mark! We put a CYP Match Fund donation button back on our website, and told everyone on our e-newsletter list how close we were. So many people pitched in to help, and the CYP Match Fund ended up at over $26,000, pushing the total over $103,000!”
2021 cyp organizations celebrate raising over $80,000 for projects across our valleys! photo credit: seeley-swan Pathfinder
CYP 2021 raised $80,000 for our community! Thank you!
Over $57,000 in donations to 14 organizations came in the month of June, and the CYP Match Fund grew to over $23,000, stretching the impact of all those gifts!
Alpine Artisans: $10,982.15; BBCTU: $5,985.31; Blackfoot Challenge: $3,463.23; Clearwater Resource Council: $1,785.52; Missoula Aging Services: $3,266.02; Seeley Lake Community Foundation: $8,274.67; Seeley Lake Historical Museum and Visitor's Center: $5,403.33; SLE Community Park: $1,659.05; Seeley Lake ROCKS: $3,287.65; Sela Senci: $6,421.82; Sparrow's Vine: $9,470.60; Swan Valley Connections: $9,868.34; Upper Swan Valley Historical Society: $8,309.79; Veterans & Families of Seeley Lake: $2,641.08 FOR A GRAND TOTAL OF $80,818.56 RAISED THROUGH CYP 2021!!
CYP 2020 raised $65,743.25 for our community! THANK YOU!
Over $51,000 in donations came in to the 15 participating organizations, and the CYP Match Fund grew bigger than last year, to over $14,000!
CYP 2020 Organization totals: Alpine Artisans $8,595.15; BBCTU $1,116.50; Blackfoot Challenge $2,106.31; Clearwater Resource Council $937.03; Missoula Aging Services $2,426.02; Seeley Lake Community Foundation $4,437.09; Seeley Lake Historical Museum and Visitor's Center $7,300.18; SLE Community Park $959.80; Seeley Lake ROCKS $6,310.10; Seeley Lake Senior Center (Sela Senci) $4,959.61; SSHS Destinations for Education $810.84; Sparrow's Vine $6,543.29; Swan Valley Connections $8,369.17; Upper Swan Valley Historical Society $6,837.11; Veterans & Families of Seeley Lake $4,035.07. FOR A TOTAL OF $65,743.25 RAISED THROUGH 2020 CYP
Congratulations to these great local groups, and thanks for all you do to make this community stronger!
