Childcare

Providing safe childcare to parents and caregivers during this pandemic is vitally important.

These grants from the COVID-19 Community Response Fund are providing the following local nonprofit organizations the resources they need to directly impact residents from Calumet, Outagamie and the Neenah/Menasha area of Winnebago counties who must work during the Covid-19 pandemic.

COVID-19 Community Response Fund Grants as of 4/5/2020

Boys and Girls Clubs of the Fox Valley — A $10,000 grant will be primarily used to support young child and school-age care at its Appleton and Menasha locations for health care workers, public safety personnel and other essential workers, and to provide free meals to kids each weeknight.

YMCA Fox Cities — A grant of $35,000 supports early childhood programming that’s operating at three childcare centers in Appleton and Neenah, serving children of health care and other essential workers during the pandemic crisis.

(This page will be updated regularly as grants are awarded.)