Category: COVID-19

Kimberly-Clark employees help strengthen the community (file photo). Generous businesses, organizations are quickly rallying support for the new COVID-19 Community Response Fund, raising more than $260,000 in two days! Within minutes of the Community Foundation and United Way Fox Cities announcing the creation of the COVID-19 Community Response Fund within the Community Foundation, Kimberly-Clark contributed […]

By Dave Horst, Donor Services & Environmental Grant Manager, Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region  If you were at an area nature center recently and heard a strange sound you couldn’t identify, that wasn’t a rare migrating warbler. It was a sigh of relief from the naturalist. Eight area nature centers were informed recently […]

ThedaCare Family of Foundations has shared a photo along with the great news that they have received a shipment of some much-needed ventilators, thanks to a donor who gave from a fund within the Community Foundation. The five ventilators in the photo above were part of a shipment that arrived Wednesday, four of them made […]

Curt Detjen is President and CEO of Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region. Peter Kelly is President and CEO of United Way Fox Cities. The two organizations created the COVID-19 Community Response Fund. Learn more about the response fund at the Community Foundation or United Way. Now is the time to keep giving: By […]

In 1986, Bill Schmidt, youngest of the Schmidt brothers, started the first golf outing originally called the U.S. Oil Open for Diabetes. The money raised stayed in the community and a fund was set up at the newly formed Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region. It was our very first fund established at the […]

A grant from the Robert and Lilas Dohr Current Community Needs Fund within the Community Foundation is helping to provide a school supply packet to each student and supplies for each school site for active play at YMCA Fox Cities. The organization is operating at three childcare centers in Appleton and Neenah, serving children of […]

By Julie Keller, Executive Director, Women’s Fund for the Fox Valley Region Women’s Fund for the Fox Valley Region and three other Women’s Funds in Northeastern Wisconsin have come together to collaborate on a sweeping regional study that will lend local data to the assertion made nationwide that women have been disproportionately affected by COVID-19 […]

By Kelly Hicks, executive director, Youth Go All of us at Youth Go are beyond grateful for the $5,000 grant from the COVID-19 Community Response Fund.  We started providing “Food Sharing” Baskets to our Youth Go Families on March 26 and as of today we have given out a total of 227 baskets to help […]