The Loop

Teaching preschoolers kindness and developing a school-based mental health program in Neenah elementary schools are two of the more innovative approaches to addressing the root causes of poverty included among five grants totaling more than $1.2 million awarded this month by the Basic Needs Giving Partnership. The basic needs grants awarded this fiscal year total […]

Donna Beegle says we need to remember that whether people live in poverty or out, we are from the same species, though we may be living in different realities. Beegle, president of Oregon-based Communication Across Barriers and author of The Opportunity Community Model, was the keynote speaker for  CAP Services‘ annual awards reception Wednesday at UW-Fox […]

Fox Cities residents in need of mental health and substance abuse services for themselves or a loved one now have a path to many resources just a mouse click away. The coalition Northeast Wisconsin Mental Health Connection has brought together providers from Outagamie, Calumet and Winnebago counties to offer information on available services at MyConnectionNEW.org. […]

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 […]

Dr. Donna Beegle grew up in generational poverty and has studied poverty for more than 20 years. She will share her personal insights during a free presentation on May 31 hosted by CAP Services and sponsored by the Community Foundation. The event titled “Fight Poverty, Not The People Who Live It” will be held 3:00-4:30 […]

Ethan Zwiers has a life full of potential to fulfill. Luckily, he’s not alone in that assignment. Ethan, a Stockbridge High School graduate from Hilbert, is this year’s recipient of the Katie Hemauer Memorial Scholarship, with our Chilton Area Community Foundation partner. The scholarship fund was set up by Katie’s family in honor of the […]

The Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass has completed a major digital photography project that allows glass art connoisseurs worldwide to see the detail of 1,000 pieces in the Neenah Museum’s collection. A Capacity Building grant of $43,750 from the Community Foundation helped make the work possible. The Bergstrom-Mahler is one of 460 museums internationally contributing to […]

An in-school mental health screening program that works to save students from suicide was recognized with a special category of Insight Magazine’s Thinc! Innovation Awards after identifying 1,190 Fox Valley students at risk of suicide. Samaritan Counseling of Menasha received the special award for Excellence in Community Response at the sixth annual Technology & Human Innovation Networking […]

Winston Churchill was not shy about taking on an engagement, in a military sense. His parents were quicker with an engagement of another kind. Sir Randolph Churchill and Jennie Jerome had known each other for two days, and were together for only the third time when Randolph, 24, proposed to Jennie, 19. They kept their […]

May is national Mental Health Month, so we’re sharing a few of our donor and grant stories related to improving mental health in the community.  Bob and Char Sigman gave their charitable fund a name – the Mental Health Fund – that also is their wish for the community. It is a wish they tragically […]