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LEAVEN breaks ground on Community Resource Center

LEAVEN Fox Cities broke ground Wednesday on its new Community Resource Center, an expansion expected to bring numerous nonprofits together to offer a wider range of services to the needy at the Opportunity Way nonprofit campus in Menasha. Executive Director Mary Parsons thanked the donors for helping them meet their $1 million goal, McMahon for donating […]

Neenah elementary schools offer mental health help

From the Neenah Joint School District   Elementary school students in the Neenah Joint School District will benefit from a school-based mental health program with a $300,000 grant through the Basic Needs Giving Partnership of the Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region. Neenah students in kindergarten through fifth grade will have access to mental […]

Basic Needs grants top old record by $1 million

Teaching preschoolers kindness and developing a school-based mental health program in Neenah elementary schools are two of the more innovative approaches to addressing the root causes of poverty included among five grants totaling more than $1.2 million awarded this month by the Basic Needs Giving Partnership. The basic needs grants awarded this fiscal year total […]

Screening program detects eye disorders in preschoolers

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 […]

Hortonville confronts mental health with open conversation

Hortonville schools saw a dark period when the suicide of children devastated the community. A commitment to addressing mental health has led to statewide attention, not for the problem, but for the solution. A recently released video — produced by the state Department of Public Instruction — tells about collaboration among the Hortonville Area School District […]

Basic Needs Giving Partnership awards $1.2 million in grants

Students returning from in-patient mental health treatment to three Fox Cities high schools will be able to attend an alternative school as a transition to their regular classes, thanks to a $300,000 grant over three years from the Basic Needs Giving Partnership, part of a $1.2 million awarded to four nonprofit organizations last month. Family […]

STEP Industries learned its own lessons by adding a job coach

A Community Foundation grant helped STEP Industries add a position for training its clients who are dealing with opiate addictions but, in the end, the organization may have learned the greatest lessons. A $45,000 grant over three years from the Basic Needs Giving Partnership supported a new recovery coach position to help with the job […]

Mental health screening may have saved teens’ lives

Mental health wellness screening conducted by a partnership of five school districts under the leadership of the Samaritan Counseling Center of the Fox Valley likely accomplished nothing less than saving the lives of teenagers. “We are incredibly grateful to the community members who, through their support of the Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region, have […]

Waupaca Eco Park brings together students, businesses, community

Despite threatening weather, the community turned out the morning of Sept. 10 to dedicate Waupaca’s new Eco-Park — a partnership including CAP Services, the City of Waupaca, the Waupaca Foundry and other businesses, with funding from the Basic Needs Giving Partnership and Environmental Sustainability Fund at the Community Foundation and the Waupaca Area Community Foundation. The Basic […]