Month: May 2017

Nearly 500 people gathered in the grand ballroom of the Radisson Paper Valley Hotel in Appleton Tuesday for the community’s 20th year of celebrating volunteerism with the Celebrating Volunteers gala. Volunteers in eight award categories were honored during the event, which has been hosted by the Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region and The […]

“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” A program supported by the Community Foundation will give people an opportunity to explore the latter part of that Winston Churchill quote, when two of the great wartime British prime minister’s great-grandchildren visit Appleton […]

“The Friendly City” has lived up to its nickname, producing a large group of volunteers to help their neighbors for a Habitat for Humanity Rock the Block campaign. The all-out volunteer blitz to clean up and fix up the Fassbender Park neighborhood of Kaukauna launched Monday and continues through Saturday. This is the final year of […]

More than $36,000 in grants from the Chilton Area Community Foundation’s Community Fund were announced April 28 by its Board of Directors during a community celebration “Together we Rise as One.” The grant money comes from the CACF’s Community Fund, an endowment that’s invested to be a permanent source of giving to the community. During […]