The mission of The Limb Preservation Foundation is to support the prevention and treatment of limb-threatening conditions.

The goal of The Foundation is to enhance the quality of life for those individuals facing limb-threatening conditions due to trauma, tumor, or infection through research, patient assistance, and educational programs.

Source: Nonprofit submitted responses

Goal One: LPF plans to provide $90,000 in patient assistance grants for the year. LPF plans to continue growing relationships with new healthcare providers/expand diversity of health organizations we serve.

Goal Type: Grow, expand, scale or increase access to the existing programs and services.

Goal Two: Grow peer support program by exhibiting at health fairs and participate in large employer health fairs in Denver market. Host event for peers meet each other, share ideas and gather input.

Goal Type: Grow, expand, scale or increase access to the existing programs and services.

Goal Three: Achieve 20 percent more symposium attendees, primarily patient caregiver attendees. Subsidize patient/caregiver registrations to provide approximately 25 attendee symposium scholarships.

Goal Type: New program(s) based on observed changes in needs among our constituencies/communities served.

Describe an investment in leadership

We have hosted two board retreats. We are investing in educational programming and active mentorship of staff. Our board leadership, in particular our nominations committee, is playing an active role in creating grow pathways for board members as well as volunteers to become more involved and grow with the organization.

This organization mobilizes for mission in the following ways:

• Strategic Partnerships

• Thought Leadership

• Raising Awareness

What are this organization’s external mobilizaton efforts?

We actively work with other nonprofit organizations that serve patients with similar disabilities. We help to promote their programs. We partner with them at their events and we have them at our events. Many of our board members are thought leaders in our medical specialty. They present research internationally. We host many different thought leaders through our educational programming. We offer all of our educational programming to the larger community at no cost.

Just as COVID was taking place, our founder, who had been the primary source of generating revenue and reputation, retired from the organization. Those two events combined to create significant challenges for the organization. We were close at certain points to closing our doors. We were extremely fortunate to have several new board members who demonstrated powerful leadership. We received two PPP loans. We sought out help from nonprofit consultants who helped with serious board conversations about how the organization would move forward. We made some hard decisions about programs we needed to pause and suspend in order to focus on the most important and relevant work that we do. We borrowed money from our reserves to get the professional consulting/outside perspectives we needed. We worked with a nonprofit consultant as well as a public relations firm. We changed some of our regular fundraising events. We replaced two events with an educational symposium to help provided needed education and resources for our community. We raised money through the symposium, but did so while providing content. The symposium was very well received. We received outstanding feedback on it. We offered many additional online educational programs. Our organization experienced a total financial turnaround. We have paid back most of the money we borrowed from reserves. After four to five consecutive years of losing money, we began making money. We had to be conservative at times with the funding directed to our programming. This year, we were able to double our allocation for our patient financial assistance. The Limb Preservation Foundation came out of some dark times...they were heading in the wrong direction prior to COVID and then that situation made it worse. The board's exceptional leaders helped with all major decisions that brought us to profitability and, most importantly, to a place where we were able to serve and reach more patients.