Dave Horst, Environmental Grants and Gifts Manager
Community Foundation President and CEO Curt Detjen is among the speakers for Fox Cities Greenway’s annual meeting on January 23. Detjen will talk about work the Community Foundation is doing in cooperation with Fox Cities Greenways and East Central Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission for better coordination among area municipalities in expanding and promoting recreation trails […]
Watch out invasive weeds, there’s a new posse in town. About 30 people gathered at Mosquito Hill Nature Center in New London Dec. 12 for the organizational meeting to create a Fox Valley Cooperative Invasive Management Area (CISMA). The crowd included foresters, woodlot owners, nature center staff members, conservation advisors, DNR employees and gardeners. The […]
“Attending the Nobel Conference this year was an eye-opening experience. The conference inspired me to want to change my community, and tell what I learned about the global climate crisis.” — Vivian Coenen, Appleton West student Nobel 55 deepened my understanding of climate change and its proposed solutions, but it exposed the complex relationship with […]
Stand on the overlook at Wequiock Falls north of Green Bay and you will see a fence loaded with padlocks, some inscribed with initials. An international craze called “love locks” has found this remote Brown County Park along Highway 57. Lovers have clipped the locks on the chain link fence as testimony to the permanence […]
Kaukauna will receive a $1.76 million state grant to repair the Veterans Memorial Bridge lift mechanism by May 1, 2021. The Wisconsin Department of Transportation’s newly formed $75 million Multimodal Local Supplement grant program will pay for 80 percent of the project, or $1.76 million, while Kaukauna taxpayers will be responsible for 20 percent, or […]
If you need to know how many cardinals are in your neighborhood and whether their population is rising or crashing, there’s a book that can help you. The Wisconsin Breeding Bird Atlas – researched and published every five years – uses informed volunteers to track the mix of birds across the state and how the […]
The Fox Cities said good-bye to Jim Eagon Saturday. It took a hall with 342 seats to handle the crowd that wanted to memorialize him, in the communications building at the University of Wisconsin – Fox Valley that Jim helped make happen. Jim was a long-time board member for the Community Foundation, United Way Fox […]
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 […]
By David Horst – Donor Services and Environmental Grants Manager There’s no limit to how far the Community Foundation will go to explore a charitable interest of its donors. How else do you explain a swarm of honeybees settling into a tree in front of the office just days after Dick and Karen Gosse expressed […]
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 […]
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