Category: General

What is your greatest strength? Many of us have been asked that question in an interview setting. Today, you’re invited to think about your strengths differently – How could you use your strengths to make a difference in the community? Our community is lucky. Nonprofits are already making a difference – whether they’re serving meals, […]

To all the high school seniors with a college acceptance letter – congratulations! There is one more thing to consider: How will you pay for the next stage of your education? While financial aid and the money you or your parents might have saved up is a good start, there is another key opportunity out […]

Fox Valley Technical College had 837 students sign on for its promise of a free education by the Dec. 15 deadline, putting it well on its way to the 3,000 Promise Scholars the school hopes to have by 2023. Under the FVTC Promise scholarship program, every eligible incoming high school student in the Fox Valley Technical […]

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. […]

We celebrated 30 years of Helping Donors Share Nov. 19 at the Fox Cities Performing Arts Center. The Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region was created in 1986 with a $5,000 gift from Walter L. Rugland, the cash prize he received as the first Aid Association for Lutherans (now Thrivent Financial) Community Service Award […]

During pride month last year in The Loop, I discussed my journey and the struggles I faced being gay. I shared that this struggle is the reason I personally have volunteered so much of my time to coordinate N.E.W. Pride Alive for the past eight years. Rainbow Over Wisconsin, a grassroots nonprofit organization for which […]

The Community Foundation awards hundreds of scholarships each year to students from 60 high schools in the Fox Valley. We frequently receive letters and phone calls of gratitude from students and from their parents. We are incredibly thankful to share the stories we hear, like this one from a Carl Mleziva, a father of a […]

The Women’s Fund for the Fox Valley Region, in partnership with the Community Foundation,  is encouraging teens to do something charitable and is helping them figure out what their “thing” is. Up to 16 Fox Cities students from grades 8-10 will explore a range of charities for Do Something Day on June 12, 8 a.m. to […]

Future philanthropists: (Back Row) Ella, 13; Sam, 15; Jack, 12; (front row) Graden, 6; Calvin, 1; Norah, 4; Lily, 4 When Gary Gunderson and his wife Judy wanted to help their grandchildren create a legacy of giving, Gary decided to look back a generation first. “My father loved children and loved the Fox Valley. He […]

One generous individual’s matching gift along with community support can help carry the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Fox Valley across the finish line to provide even more youth with great futures. A $250,000 matching gift is being provided by a longtime community supporter and philanthropist, Mary Beth Nienhaus. This match will help fund the remainder of the Great Futures Campaign, the organization’s multi-faceted push to meet the developmental […]

We saw an incredible year for charitable giving in the Fox Valley region, as highlighted in our 2014 Report to the Community for the year ending June 30, 2014. Grants awarded: a record $15.9 million granted to nearly 900 nonprofits. Contributions: second-most in our 28-year history with more than $31 million given by 1,900 generous individuals, […]

Mary Lamers Grist passed away in August. She was part of the Community Foundation’s Himebaugh Legacy Circle, recognizing those who have made future plans for their favorite charitable causes through a bequest or similar deferred gift to the Foundation. For 91 years, Mary Lamers Grist poured her love for making an impact into the Fox […]