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A $272,142 grant from the Basic Needs Giving Partnership will help Riverview Gardens expand its ServiceWorks program to employ homeless people doing additional cleanup work in downtown Appleton beyond what city crews normally do. Working with Appleton Downtown Inc. and the City of Appleton, Riverview Gardens, a job training program and urban farm on a former Appleton […]

Against a backdrop of thousands of tiny individual lettuce plants joining to form a carpet of leafy green at Riverview Gardens’ new hydroponic greenhouse, U.S Venture announced the $1.2 million in grants that stemmed from a group of businesses and charitable organizations working together for the benefit of the community. The money — raised from […]

Joe Duff is one of a handful of people in the history of the world to fly an open-cockpit aircraft arm’s length away from the 7-foot wingspan of endangered whooping cranes.  As you might expect, he had some good stories to tell when he spoke at the Navarino Nature Center near Clintonville June 17 as […]

The youth of the Fox Cities and concerns about poverty top the list of priorities for community action determined by about 200 local residents who came together to hear key data from the new 2016 LIFE (Leading Indicators for Excellence) Study. During the Fox Cities LIFE Study Dive-In Day on June 20, attendees reviewed data […]

A total of 50 faith leaders from the Fox Valley gathered May 26, 2016, to learn how trauma affects mental health well into adulthood, and how they can minister effectively to those affected by trauma. Beth Clay of the N.E.W. Mental Health Connection, Paula Verrett of NAMI Fox Valley, and Doug Bisbee of Samaritan Counseling Center […]

An anonymous donor who read about American Legion Post 38’s difficulty in meeting a nearly $115,000 road assessment in Grand Chute has offered $10,000 from his Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region charitable fund to raise matching gifts. The fund will match dollar-for-dollar, up to $10,000, gifts received by Appleton American Legion Post 38 […]

Welcome to the redesigned cffoxvalley.org. Our website not only has a new look, it has a new purpose. It will bring you more, and more compelling, news of how our grants — made possible by contributions by our donors — are Making a Difference. We will bring you prominently displayed Stories of Giving and stories about […]

BRILLION, Wis. – Robert and Patricia Endries of Brillion have turned business success into successful philanthropy. Their charitable foundation has awarded more than $8 million in its 30-year existence, $3 million of that since joining with Community Foundation in 2005. The Robert & Patricia Endries Family Foundation concentrates its giving on the needs of the […]

Walk into the new exhibit on homelessness at the History Museum at the Castle in downtown Appleton and the large photo you see is by a man named Del. Turn the corner, and Del stares back at you in a larger-than-life portrait, his face painted and topped by a fuzzy red and black hat that […]

Nearly 600 people gathered in the grand ballroom of the Radisson Paper Valley Hotel April 19 to honor volunteers in eight award categories at the Celebrating Our Volunteers gala. Here are some of the highlights of the things they heard. Leah Witthuhn, Youth Volunteer honoree, on her nonprofit Music Mission: “To be able to have […]