The Loop

The Trout Museum of Art is one of five recent recipients receiving grants from the Bright Idea Fund within the Community Foundation, for its Restorative Justice Immersive Arts Program for youth. (Photo courtesy of the Trout Museum of Art.) Five area organizations will receive grants totaling $109,000 from the Community Foundation for the Fox Valley […]

It’s Amazon Prime Day, and if you’re an avid online shopper, you can use our Community Foundation Amazon Smile link. It’s a great opportunity to benefit our communities in the Fox Valley. The Amazon Smile program donates 0.5% of the price of all eligible Amazon Smile purchases to the charitable organization of the shopper’s choice. […]

Walt Zerrenner and his wife, Aline, today and in 1964. When Walt Zerrenner walked through the Community Foundation’s doors in March, he had a love story on his mind. His wife of 54 years, Aline, has been living with Alzheimer’s for the past decade, and Walt wanted to set up a fund to honor her […]

The Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin Foundation has been awarded two grants for a total of $50,000.00 to support staffing for its Child Advocacy Center – Promoting Healing for Child Victims project, to accommodate for a recent upsurge in child abuse referrals and mitigate the risks of secondary traumatic stress on providers. The grants were made […]

Valley Packaging Industries, Inc., has expanded its prevocational skills training program for people with disabilities, thanks to a $54,730 grant from the Bright Idea Fund withing the Community Foundation. The grant enables Valley Packaging to increase clients served, client skills developed, and clients placed in competitive, community-based jobs by incorporating overall wellness, technology skills, and […]

What a fantastic night to tailgate and take in a symphony under the stars! A $10,000 Bright Idea Fund grant from within the Community Foundation supported Friday’s “Brats, Beer & Beethoven” event at Fox Cities Stadium’s Neuroscience Group Field. The annual free, family-friendly evening features a concert by the Fox Valley Symphony Orchestra and guest […]

An exercise in identifying safe ways to get to parks presented by Fox Cities Greenways generated a 10-page primer on how to achieve better recreational trail development. About 35 municipal and regional planners, town leaders and interested residents initially met at Miron Construction’s headquarters in Fox Crossing Nov. 8 to learn what the national Safe […]

The LIFE in Motion Radio series hosted by Josh Dukelow and Hayley Tenpas of radio station WHBY has received an award of excellence from the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association. The series received second place in the category of Best Significant Community Impact. You can listen to a sample of the award-winning series online. Beginning in 2001, three nonprofit […]

Thanks to the generosity of people, businesses and organizations with a passion for education, we award scholarships each year that help hundreds of area students pursue their educational dreams. Our 2019 scholarship recipients are awarded $1.36 million from among 203 scholarship funds with us to help pay for college: Interested in starting a scholarship fund […]

SAM 25, an emergency homeless shelter in Shawano County, recently purchased a “forever home,” a new location with double the space to meet their growing need. A capital campaign kicked off last weekend to fund the renovations, which are expected to be completed by November 2020. The Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region, the […]