Tag: youth

When the 2015 Celebrating Our Volunteers awards are given out on Thursday, April 16, the recipients’ families will be there, perhaps their bosses and some co-workers, certainly the people who nominated them, and the sponsors of the awards. But why should you be there? Maybe you’ve been at one or two of these community galas […]

Local artist Irineo Medina and a few at-risk youth from the Art Works program at the Trout Museum of Art worked on a mural across the street. He stands with Education Coordinator Marci Hoffman from the museum. At-risk youth in the Art Works program at the Trout Museum of Art are gaining an opportunity and […]

In the Fox Cities area, 15.2 percent of high school students have experienced bullying online, according to 2019 data updated in the Fox Cities LIFE Study. The study is funded by United Way Fox Cities and the Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region. Data on cyberbullying is relatively new, within the past decade. Given […]

From Brazilian drumming to Hmong dancing to jamming with a funk band, aspiring musicians will find just about anything among the educational offerings at Mile of Music in downtown Appleton. A $7,500 grant from the Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region to Lawrence University will help cover the cost of the educational workshops held […]

The Neenah youth drop-in center YouthGo has done what a lot of families do when they run out of household storage space – they’ve taken over the garage. In YouthGo’s case, first they had to build the garage. They accomplished that with help from the Fox Cities Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s Leadership Fox Cities […]

Rachel Miserlian has a dizzying number of volunteer involvements, but she doesn’t stop there. She also is a dedicated recruiter of volunteers at Neenah High School, encouraging her classmates to join volunteer groups that address social needs, or creating new organizations where none exist. That double dose of volunteer drive earned her the 2018 Youth […]