Category: Events We Sponsor

I’m pleased to be part of a team that plans educational events for nonprofit leaders. Our work includes listening to nonprofit staff and board members and providing sessions relevant to the topics they want to learn about. On May 2, we delivered! Our session on Board Engagement & Fundraising Through a Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI) […]

More than 5,600 students from 39 area high schools will witness the harsh realities of drinking and driving at the 18th annual PARTY at the PAC today and Friday, with support from a Community Foundation Community Education grant and grants from several other funds. Students attending the Prevent Alcohol and Risk-related Trauma in Youth presentation hosted by ThedaCare and […]

The staff at the Community Foundation is skilled at responsibly and effectively handing out grants, but we also can get our hands dirty. Two crews from the Foundation have signed up for morning and afternoon duty at Habitat for Humanity of the Greater Fox Cities Area’s Rock the Block in the Jefferson Park neighborhood of […]

By Linda Drezdzon, Development Director at Fox Valley Symphony Orchestra Music is for everyone! That’s the mission behind Brats, Beer and Beethoven, a free, family-friendly concert event on Saturday, July 14. Join the Fox Valley Symphony Orchestra and the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers for this fourth annual evening of music and fireworks at the Neuroscience Group […]

Three seventh-graders form Maplewood Middle School in Menasha ended the mystery by announcing this year’s book for Fox Cities Reads as Sharon Draper’s “Stella By Starlight.” The book is the story of a girl in a small South Carolina town who battles prejudice when the Ku Klux Klan comes to town. Libraries across the Fox […]

Luminaria bags will light up a trail on Loop the Little Lake this month, each one representing a life touched by cancer. By Heather Krawinkel, senior development manager, American Cancer Society in Northeast Wisconsin The American Cancer Society Relay For Life movement is the world’s largest fundraising event to fight every cancer in every community. […]

Each year we celebrate the people in the Fox Valley who go above and beyond to help make the community a better place with their gifts of time. The volunteer spirit and service of Fox Valley volunteers were recognized during National Volunteer Week April 19 by announcing the 24th annual Celebrating Volunteers awardees. The Community […]

More than 3,000 residents of the Fox Valley area braved the hot and humid weather on Saturday, June 21, 2025, for the 5th annual Fox Valley Pride Event. Sponsored by the Community Vision Fund, a fund within the Community Foundation, this year’s event saw an increase in both vendors and attendance and introduced its first-ever […]

Each fall we typically host a Celebration of Giving event to thank people, businesses and organizations that have given generous donations of time and money to the Community Foundation to help maintain and improve the quality of life in the Fox Valley region. However, the pandemic has forced us to remain socially distant for the […]

The annual Waupaca County Conservation Field Day was held online Sept. 25, for about 300 Waupaca County fif​th​-grade students. The event, coordinated by Golden Sands Resource Conservation and Development Council Inc., included students from Waupaca Middle School, Marion Elementary School, Manawa Elementary School, Christ Lutheran School and Chain O’ Lakes Elementary School . The Community […]

Looking for something to do with children this month? Building for Kids in downtown Appleton is spending December exploring celebrations from around the world by offering four different small group programs as well as a take-home family activity kit that allows families to travel the world without leaving the Fox Valley. The unique program is […]

The appearance by best-selling author Richard Louv at the grand opening of the new Bubolz Nature Preserve nature center building was not the only Earth Day Event backed by a Community Foundation grant. At the Sustainable Development Institute on the campus of the College of the Menominee Nation, more than 300 young people learned nature […]