Basic Needs Giving Partnership: Getting Results

A good JumpStart

A “Garage for Good” owned by two Fox Valley domestic abuse shelters is not only changing the lives of its customers and employees, it is treading new ground in state law. Read more

STAR Power

A measurable achievement gap between black students and the rest of the Fox Cities’ student population is about to encounter a shining STAR — Students on Target to Achieve Results, a new program of the Boys and Girls Clubs of the Fox Valley and its partner school districts and colleges. Read more

Hub for helping homeless

People dealing with homelessness and advocates offering them help will have their own home base with the expected opening in March of a Day Resource Center in the former St. Matthew Lutheran school building at 129 S. Mason St. in Appleton. Read more

POINT to improved client service

Mary Parsons had a gut feeling about why clients at LEAVEN weren’t getting services where they were being referred. She was shown the way to substantiate that by POINT (Poverty Outcomes and Improvement Network Team).

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