Clintonville Area Foundation Awards More Than $13,000 in Grants

The Clintonville Area Foundation, an affiliate partner of the Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region, awarded $13,350 in grants to 10 charitable organizations serving the Clintonville area. Board members of the Foundation, along with city and school officials, donors, grant recipients, and community members gathered on Friday, February 14 at the Living Room Coffee Shop in Clintonville for a distribution celebration.  

“We are proud that the Clintonville Area Foundation will again this year be sharing funding with eleven area nonprofit organizations,” said Dirk Weber, Advisory Board Vice Chair and Secretary of the Clintonville Area Foundation. “These monies will be used for better nutrition, hygiene, clothing, victim services, emergency equipment, playground equipment, children’s beds, area history, and more.” 

Eligible nonprofit organizations submitted grant requests through the Foundation’s annual competitive process. The Foundation’s volunteer grants committee members recommend grant recipients to the advisory board for approval.  

The following grants were approved: 

• Clintonville Area Food Pantry Summer Food Program – $3,000 to help purchase food to support families in need during the summer months when school is not in session and children are not receiving free breakfast and lunch. 
• Clintonville Area Ambulance Service Rad-57 for Patients and First Responders – $1,000 to help purchase the Masimo Rad-57 tool used for rapid and accurate assessments in emergencies such as smoke inhalation, respiratory distress, cardiac arrest, making it easier to provide potentially life-saving rapid treatments.  
• Community Clothes Closet Traveling Closet in Clintonville – $2,000 to help support the 2025 Traveling Closet distribution events, which take place every 60 days, providing clothing to children and adults in Clintonville with a demonstrated financial need. 
• Clintonville Goodfellows Association 2025 Annual Holiday Distribution – $1,000 to help provide age-appropriate gifts for teen recipients of the annual Holiday Distribution where there tends to be a gap in donations. 
• The Compassionate Connection Center Personal Hygiene and Diaper Pantry – $3,000 to help support the growing personal hygiene and diaper pantry which provides individuals and families in need with essential hygiene items once per month and diapers and wipes once a week. 
• Embarrass Volunteer Fireman’s Association Inc. Emergency Medical Responder Startup – $500 to help support startup costs of an Emergency Medical Responder program in Embarrass to get life-saving equipment and personnel to emergencies more quickly.  
• Down with Mylestones Clintonville’s All-Inclusive Park – $435.43 and $564.57 from the Clintonville Education Fund, for a total of $1,000 to help support the construction and installation of Clintonville’s first all-inclusive playground ant Olen Park to ensure children of all abilities, including those with physical, sensory, and cognitive disabilities, can play together. 
• Sleep in Heavenly Peace, Inc. “No Kid Sleeps on the Floor in Our Town!” Waupaca – $600 to help volunteers build twin beds which are delivered fully furnished to children between the ages of 3-17 who do not have a bed.  
• Clintonville Area Historical Society 50th Anniversary Celebration – $250 to help celebrate the historical society’s 50th anniversary with trolley car tours of historical Clintonville businesses and homes as part of a larger event at Pioneer Park.  
• SAM 25 Program Costs – $1,000 to support general expenses of running the SAM25 Emergency Shelter from November 1 – April 30 and the Resource Center year-round to help end the cycle of poverty.  

“Since 2000, the Clintonville Area Foundation has awarded nearly $450,000 in grants from charitable and scholarship funds created within the Foundation by individuals and families,” said David Weiss, Director of Donor Services for the Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region. “We are so grateful for the generosity of all the donors that help to make a tremendous impact on the quality of life for so many people in the Clintonville area.” 

To learn more about the Clintonville Area Foundation, visit www.clintonvillefoundation.org. Established in 1995, the Clintonville Area Foundation’s mission is to enhance and improve the social, cultural, educational, health and general well-being of people in the Clintonville area. In 2000, it became a geographic affiliate of the Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region.  

The Clintonville Area Foundation is one of five geographic affiliates we partner with in the Fox Valley. Our other partners include Brillion Area Family of Funds, Chilton Area Community Foundation, Shawano Area Community Foundation and Waupaca Area Community Foundation.