Category: Grants Making a Difference

The following reprinted article from The Post-Crescent describes the success Neighborhood Partners is having working with Columbus School. The program, initiated by Sustainable Fox Valley and supported by three Environmental Sustainability grants totaling $95,000 over four years, is now a program of Goodwill Industries. APPLETON — Students at Columbus Elementary School and Appleton Bilingual School may not […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

$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 […]

A new pedestrian bridge to be built just downstream of this old railroad trestle will be named after David and Rita Nelson to recognize their lead gift of $500,000. A $500,000 grant from a charitable fund established with the largest gift in the history of the Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region will help […]

The Tim and Joy Neuville Family Fund within the Waupaca Area Community Foundation (WACF) has awarded its $50,000 Forward Together Grant to Catalpa Health to open a mental health clinic for young people in Waupaca this fall. “We were just blown away by the support of the Neuvilles and the community as a whole,” Lisa […]

A Not So Lonely Journey is a new resource for caregivers of people with Alzheimer’s, thanks to the Aline Zerrenner Dementia-Friendly Fund within the Community Foundation. After Aline Zerrenner was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in 2009, her husband Walt began caring for her on a nearly full-time basis. But finding resources for help, or even insight, […]

When a row of ceremonial shovels cut into the clay of the Center Swamp last Thursday morning, they were clearing the way for a new chapter in the 38-year-old Gordon Bubolz Nature Preserve’s history. The bunker-like 1960s-era earth-sheltered building is gone. In its place an 18,000-square-foot, glass-encased center for nature education, energy independence, corporate and […]

The new Tri-County Community Dental Clinic mobile bus is an amazing example of community need being supported by many generous donors in the community including two donor funds within the Community Foundation. The entire cost of the $650,000 mobile clinic was completely covered before the bus was even delivered two days before last Christmas! Just […]