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April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month

Posted on Apr 23, 2024, by Community Foundation

April marks Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM), a time when Reach Counseling and its partners focus on raising awareness about sexual assault. This year’s theme, “Building Connected Communities,” spearheaded by the National Sexual Violence Resource Center, emphasizes the powerful role of community cohesion in combating sexual violence. Reach Counseling has been a key provider of […]

Documentary’s impact felt a year later

Posted on Feb 1, 2024, by Community Foundation

A year ago in February 2023, I was packing my bags to head up to the Fox Valley Region to share my film, “The Exchange In White America: Kaukauna & King 50 Years Later,” with audiences in Kaukauna, Appleton, Oshkosh, Green Bay, Lawrence University and Fox Valley Technical College. I never expected to show the […]

Documentary’s roots go back to Kaukauna student exchange program

Posted on Jan 31, 2023, by Community Foundation

This is how it all began… One Sunday in early 2016 I was sorting through boxes in the garage. I found a box marked “high school stuff.” It held things that only I would consider treasures. It also held a copy of my high school newspaper, The King’s Page. It had this headline: “King is […]

Doug and Carla Salmon Foundation helps UWO nursing alumna achieve her dreams

Posted on May 10, 2022, by Community Foundation

For years it was Rachel Emshoff’s dream to one day become a registered nurse. Emshoff, a University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh nursing graduate from Larson, clearly remembers the day she made the decision to pursue a degree in nursing. “I was in the hospital having my third baby. I had the same midwife for all three of […]

Traumatic brain injury survivors receive much-needed support

Posted on Jan 20, 2021, by

A new program is providing support for local people affected by traumatic brain injury (TBI), thanks to the generosity of many donors. By Julie Biesterveld, Traumatic Brain Injury Support Program Coordinator, SOAR Fox Cities SOAR Fox Cities received a grant from the Basic Needs Giving Partnership, a fund within the Community Foundation supported by the […]

Native people know climate change, says panel at UW-Oshkosh

Posted on Jun 17, 2019, by Dave Horst, Environmental Grants and Gifts Manager

If you want to know how to remain resilient in the face of climate change, ask native people. That was the advice of Robin Wall Kimmerer, distinguished teaching professor at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment in Syracuse, NY. She was a member […]

Final Four wooden floor shows sustainable practices can compete

Posted on Apr 9, 2019, by Dave Horst, Environmental Grants and Gifts Manager

The Virginia Cavaliers are now the NCAA champions, winning last night in overtime against Texas Tech. But when scientists and researchers from around the world descend on UW-Oshkosh in about a month, they may still be talking about last week’s NCAA Final Four. It’s not that there will be a heavy representation from the University […]

Screening program detects eye disorders in preschoolers

Posted on Mar 2, 2017, by Dave Horst, Environmental Grants and Gifts Manager

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 […]

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