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A Community Foundation grant helped to get Neighborhood Partners established in 2013, and additional grants have sustained it through the years. So, with that history, we are highly interested in a competition that could win the nonprofit neighborhood-building group one of two $50,000 Encore prizes for ideas that engage older people in helping young people […]

Rock the Block volunteers make a huge impact in New London. By Eric Cernjar, Director of Communications and Marketing, Greater Fox Cities Area Habitat for Humanity The Greater Fox Cities Area Habitat for Humanity kicked off our Rock the Block event in New London September 16-18. Rock the Block is a neighborhood revitalization project helping […]

The best way to get a neighborhood to grow together, might be for them to grow things together. A project that attempts to help a central Appleton neighborhood work toward a better quality of life – from the dirt up – geared up this week with volunteers from the Fox Cities Kiwanis Club delivering wooden garden […]

Speaking at this year’s Fox Cities Book Festival, author Richard Louv said you shouldn’t wait for government, or even foundations, to arrange programs that expose your kids to nature. You have that power.

Residents of a central city Appleton neighborhood will have resources available to grow their own food, reduce their energy usage and renew their neighborhood through a partnership of nonprofits, funded by a $55,000 grant from the Environmental Sustainability Fund within the Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region. 

The long-awaited Nelson Family Heritage Crossing is officially open! The crossing is a 1,100-foot bicycle and pedestrian bridge between Heesakker Park in the Village of Little Chute and a new rail trail connection to Downtown Kaukauna. This crossing offers a unique perspective in the middle of the Fox River and serves as a new gateway […]

On February 5, the David L. & Rita E. Nelson Family Fund within the Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region, was awarded the Wisconsin Park and Recreation (WPRA’s) “Partnership Award,” the state association’s highest award given to a community organization in recognition for their outstanding work and service in promoting and providing quality recreational […]

Twenty-three nonprofits throughout northeastern Wisconsin got a boost at a time it was most needed from an extra $1 million in grants awarded from the David L. and Rita E. Nelson Family Fund within the Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region. The additional grants, recommended at a special virtual meeting of the fund’s Advisory […]

The newest thing at the NEW Zoo and Adventure Park north of Suamico takes the long view. A canopy walk measuring nearly a third of a mile takes visitors as much as 22 feet above the zoo grounds on slat bridges right out of the Adventures of Tarzan. The zoo received help in achieving this […]

Of the eight grants awarded from the new David L. and Rita E. Nelson Family Fund within the Community Foundation, the largest was most clearly something David would have supported. The Community Foundation announced Tuesday that it had received an estate gift of more than $100 million to create a donor advised fund that will benefit causes important […]

The David L. and Rita E. Nelson Family Fund within the Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region provided 24 nonprofits with a much-needed financial boost with grant awards totaling more than $2.5 million.  The fund made two $500,000 grants:  To support the Door County Historical Society’s project to restore the Eagle’s Bluff Lighthouse in Peninsula […]

$24 million in trails planned by 2025 LATEST PLAN REPORT – High Cliff Connection Report from the Fox Cities Trail Summit Take video ride on the Loop the Locks trail One of the highest-priority trails for area hikers and bikers will tie the Fox Cities to High Cliff State Park in the coming year – at least […]