The Loop

A coalition of veteran support groups that is mobilizing friends, family and comrades of veterans considering suicide will display the many available community tools at the Connect to Courage: Keeping Our Veterans Alive awareness- building event 1 p.m.-8:30 p.m. March 28 at the Fox Cities Performing Arts Center. The event, supported by a Community Education […]

Brillion Iron Works’ 65-year tradition of charitable giving in the community will continue with the Board of Directors of the Brillion Foundation Inc. deciding to transfer its giving to a charitable fund within the Community Foundation’s Brillion Area Family of Funds. The Brillion Iron Works Fund will support the community giving started in 1953 by the late […]

A film produced by local teens about confronting the crisis in the use of heroin and other opiates will be one of the highlights of the Wildwood Film Festival, this Saturday, March 11, at the Fox Cities Performing Arts Center. The short film Heroes Rising will be presented at 1-2:15 p.m. in the Kimberly-Clark Theater. Tickets […]

Finding a vision problem in more pre-school students may seem an odd measure of success, but a recent partnership between Prevent Blindness Wisconsin and eight UW-Oshkosh Head Start programs operating in the Fox Cities area are celebrating that accomplishment. With support from a $15,750 three-year Basic Needs Giving Partnership grant, Prevent Blindness was able to train Head […]

The Tim and Joy Neuville Family Fund within the Waupaca Area Community Foundation is offering a Forward Together Grant of up to $50,000 to encourage nonprofit organizations serving communities in Waupaca County to think big and propose visionary projects that will make a significant, long-term difference. Applications are due May 1. “We are doing this both […]

See more photos. The Clintonville Area Foundation awarded $10,699 in Community Fund grants to local schools and three nonprofit organizations during a presentation today. Following a competitive application process, the grants were made from the Clintonville Area Community Fund, an endowment that’s invested to generate annual grant dollars to benefit nonprofit organizations serving the Clintonville […]

Nearly 300 ninth-graders, accompanied by 50 adult chaperones from 19 Fox Valley-area high schools, worked on improving their leadership skills at Teen Symposium 2017, a day-long leadership conference at the Radisson Paper Valley hotel on Tuesday, Feb. 21. The event was presented by United Way Fox Cities. The Community Foundation is one of the sponsors, having awarded […]

The Community Foundation staff and some of its donors had the opportunity to tour what went on at the Asylum, out of the public view. The History Museum at the Castle invited us to tour the exhibit “Asylum: Out of the Shadows” on Monday, a day when the museum is closed to the public. The exhibit […]

When you have more than $1 million in scholarships available, with the qualifications determined largely by the donors who establish the endowment funds that are the source of the money, the result is a diverse list of opportunities. That can mean good things for students who fit the very specific guidelines requiring that the money go […]

 “We get more out of it than they do.” Marian and Joe Walsh have shared their love of music with generations of Kaukauna students in third, fourth and fifth grades.  Read more.    “My disability gives me potential to share with the world a story that is unique.” Hannah Fitton paid the love forward with her […]