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When you want to make change for young women, who better to do it than the young women themselves? Girl-Powered Giving, an initiative by the Women’s Fund for the Fox Valley Region, empowers local high school girls to voice the issues affecting them directly and extend a helping hand to fellow girls in the Fox […]

A new Fox Cities and Greater Outagamie County Regional Housing Strategy was developed in 2022 as the result of a study done in our communities. Over the next decade, our region needs roughly 11-thousand to nearly 18 thousand new dwelling units just to keep up with the estimated population growth. In this Voices from the […]

Lori K. Dehlinger Van Alstine sees lightbulbs. Not the physical kind, but the lightbulbs of realization she enjoys seeing in children and grownups who discover something new for the first time. “Literacy along with mentoring and tutoring programs have always been important to me,” says Lori. That’s one reason she has decided to set up […]

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 […]

By Louise Marum, Naturalist Supervisor, Ledge View Nature Center Ledge View Nature Center is a 105 acre park and interpretive center that is part of the Calumet County Parks system. While the park is most famous for the caves, visitors can also enjoy an educational interpretive center, 3 miles of hiking trails, a 60-foot observation […]

The discovery of an unusual new symptom, an inexplicable midnight fever, or simply, your child just isn’t acting like themselves. All of these are and have been the warning signs some of the families that Children’s Cancer Family Foundation of Northeast Wisconsin (CCFF) supports have experienced. When parents receive the news their child has cancer, […]

January is National Mentoring Month, celebrating the positive effect it can have while encouraging individuals to mentor. It started in 2002 as a time to celebrate the power of mentoring and encourage others to explore how mentoring programs can enable organizations to create more productive, engaged and satisfied people. We reached out to leaders in […]

Last month I shared a message of support for our nonprofit partners. Your community foundation and our region are supported by a strong and knowledgeable team that is always paying close attention to evolving community needs. In the coming months, you will hear more from this team as part of our commitment to keep you […]

It is Mike and Amy McGowan’s theory that being able to give back to our community and to causes that are important to each of us allows us to look beyond ourselves and see the bigger picture. Using their gifts to make an impact in others’ lives is important to them. They live by the […]

Did you know that a lack of access to menstrual health products can cause students with periods to miss or be late to class, or feel anxious about period care? Menstrual products are expensive in the U.S., which makes it difficult for people, especially teens, to afford period products. Instead, they may rely on what […]

Written by Stacie Hazlett-Rothe, Communications & Outreach Specialist with the Women’s Fund for the Fox Valley Region In a powerful demonstration of community-driven change, The Monthlies Project has officially distributed 1 million period products across Northeast Wisconsin — a milestone made possible by the collective commitment of volunteers, schools, collaborative partners, and supporters working together […]

When Sherwood residents Marlene and Carl Boucher began asking their grandchildren to choose gifts from Food for the Poor holiday catalog, they saw the spark of philanthropy ignite within the kids.  “They gave so much thought to what they were going to do,” Marlene says.   The Bouchers decided to expand upon the idea, having each grandchild — […]