Local 5 Live: Connecting donors to impact, inside the work of the Fox Valley Community Foundation

(WFRV)- The Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region works tirelessly to identify and understand the most pressing needs in the community, and it provides donors with meaningful opportunities to help address those needs.

In this segment, Lindsay Fenlon, the Vice President of Community Engagement for the Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region, shares more about her role and explains why it is so important that the foundation be viewed as a leader in understanding community needs. Lindsay discusses how she works with donors to address those needs and with non-profits that fill service gaps for underserved populations.

“At the Community Foundation, our tag line is ‘Together, We Flourish.’ So, we are really in the business of helping people who are helping people. …It’s about understanding the depth and breadth of need in our community, figuring out how we rise those needs, and help people understand where they can play a role in it.”