Category: Community Vision Fund

Photo caption: Wesley Hunting with Hunting Studio Glass, Riley Seib, the Museum’s Glass Studio and Program Manager, and Taylor Moeller-Roy, the Museum’s Glass Studio Manager.  By Amy Moorefield, Executive Director, Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass  Ranked in the top five glass museums in the country, Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass in Neenah provides extraordinary glass experiences to […]

The Fox Valley Symphony will repeat its successful experiment of adding graphics to music to help its audience understand the composition, this year combining it with a project involving about 1,000 Appleton Area School District students. For Big Arts in the Little Apple, the students produced artwork to illustrate the score to Route 66 by […]

It’s almost Halloween! While nonprofit leaders won’t be facing werewolves and witches, there are a few spooky things they face: The Invisible Line Item: The professional development line item seems to don an invisibility cloak too often, and it’s scary when nonprofit organizations don’t invest in themselves. Professional development has been shown to enhance job […]

Peggy Cosner has cancer. She’s no longer in remission, and planning for whatever is next has weighed heavy on her mind. “We all think we’re indestructible, but the truth is we just aren’t,” says Cosner, who works as a front entrance receptionist at Goodwill Industries in Menasha. She says playing a game called, “Hello Let’s […]

Libraries in Bloom (LIB) is a grassroots organization whose mission is to cultivate a diverse library workforce by providing professional pathways for young adults of color and elevate innovative and equitable library practices that serve communities more fully. A building block to their mission is their inclusive library apprenticeship initiative. The initiative provides selected young […]

The Building for Kids Children’s Museum is offering free admission for Diversity Discovery Free Day this Sunday, February 10. A $1,500 grant from the Bright Idea Fund within the Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region is helping facilitate educational activities in the museum to increase awareness and understanding of the diversity of our community. […]

Home ownership seems like an impossible dream for many in the Fox Valley, but thanks to a unique partnership and a lot of elbow grease, it’s achievable. Through Almost Home, a program of Goodwill NCW in partnership with Fox Cities Habitat for Humanity, a single mom named Shantelly put in the work necessary to become […]

Do you overuse a word? Maybe you say “awesome” or “obviously” too many times in a day. Lately, for me, it’s been the word “amazing.” “Amazing” pops up in a lot of my social media posts, emails and conversations. It’s a wonderful word, and I feel lucky to be amazed on an almost daily basis […]

Looking to make a difference in the Fox Valley? Grant dollars from the Community Foundation’s Bright Idea Fund are helping United Way Fox Cities quickly mobilize an additional four to eight AmeriCorps members to serve the Fox Valley area by increasing the capacity of local nonprofit organizations engaged in COVID-19 pandemic response. AmeriCorps is a […]

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 […]

By Dave Horst, Donor Services and Environmental Grants Manager What is it about water? Author Wallace J. Nichols brought his message of the calming and healing power of enjoying or viewing bodies of water to Fox-Wolf Watershed Alliance’s 2020 Watershed Celebration last week at Bubolz Nature Center. The conference draws engineers, municipal officials, regulators, researchers […]

By Jaime Kriewaldt, CEO, Big Brothers Big Sisters of East Central Wisconsin January is National Mentoring Month, a time to shine a light on the power of mentoring and the mentors who believed in us. It’s safe to say you’ve been impacted by a mentor at some point in your life. Maybe it was a […]