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READ THE POST-CRESCENT’S COVERAGE Our Fox Valley Region has a well-earned reputation for quality of life and community pride. We have the responsibility to build on that, and making a good thing even better takes creative thinking and fresh perspectives. That’s why the Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region sponsored the recent consulting visit […]

The recent Celebrating Our Volunteers event reminded me once again why some communities thrive and prosper while others stagnate and decline. The answer is simple: It’s the people. People who act beyond their own self-interests to be kind to a neighbor, volunteer their time and talents to a non-profit organization or take their passion for […]

Do you want Earth Day to extend beyond April 22? Here is a list of Earth Day-related activities supported by the Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region that will make Earth Day Every Day, a least for a couple more weeks. The Fox Cities Book Festival will feature several environmental authors, with support from […]

Linda Sue Park, the author of “A Long Walk to Water,” stood in front of a full auditorium at Roosevelt Middle School Tuesday, April 14, and asked for a show of hands of first-born girls in the audience. With hands waving all over the room, Park told them that if they had been born in the […]

When the 2015 Celebrating Our Volunteers awards are given out on Thursday, April 16, the recipients’ families will be there, perhaps their bosses and some co-workers, certainly the people who nominated them, and the sponsors of the awards. But why should you be there? Maybe you’ve been at one or two of these community galas […]

Imagine someone launching a teaching career in the late 1930s and still being in the classroom as the 21st century drew near. That was Violet Laack. She taught in various Calumet County school districts for 49 years, and then spent the next 10 as a substitute teacher. And her commitment to education didn’t end there. […]

The League of Women Voters of Appleton offered a forum on sex trafficking in February. More than 100 people came to Fox Valley Technical College’s Bordini Center and most were probably shocked to hear how big of a problem this is locally. Appleton Police Lt. Steve Elliot gave a powerful talk on the how this type […]

I attended NAMI Fox Valley’s Report to the Community with over 100 other community members a few weeks ago.  I think it’s safe to say NAMI is exploding with new staff, projects and programs. They are serving up a record number of programs to a record number of participants. Beth Clay, executive director of NAMI, held up […]

As part of the It Gets Better project in the Fox Cities this week, community members, including sponsors of the project, were asked to record a short video about why it gets better for LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) and other young people who are bullied. The Community Foundation is helping to make project activities […]

Even presidents and NFL coaches have to take time to evaluate how their team is performing, and we recently did exactly that at the Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region. Our job is to manage, invest and grant out to nonprofits the charitable gifts people and organizations entrust to us, helping them make a […]