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2023 Scholarship applications now available!

Posted on Dec 13, 2022, by Iida Berg, Scholarship Manager

For 2023, the Community Foundation has more than $1 million in scholarships for students pursuing higher education! The Community Foundation’s new Scholarship Portal is open for students to create accounts, sign in, and apply for scholarships. This new platform is easier to navigate, which means applications are easier to fill out. However, creating successful scholarship […]

Thankful for the gift of learning

Posted on Nov 8, 2022, by Community Foundation

The Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region awards hundreds of scholarships annually to high school graduates and college students. Lucie Spanbauer, a 2021 high school graduate, received the Jackie Johnson Fox Communities Credit Union Scholarship and recently shared her gratitude: Dear Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region, I was this year’s recipient of […]

$1 million fund means Gresham grads can get a $3,250 scholarship

Posted on Apr 13, 2021, by Community Foundation FV

When the Gresham Scholarship Fund was founded 20 years ago, who would have dreamed a small tight-knit community of 565 very generous souls could grow that fund to $1 million to help their youngest pay for secondary education? These caring, hardworking folks did it along with help from friends, graduates, the surrounding community and the […]

Salmon Foundation scholarships change lives for families 1,000 times over

Posted on Mar 18, 2021, by Dave Horst, Environmental Grants and Gifts Manager

Not only is Jacki Maxwell the 1,000th student to receive a scholarship from the Doug & Carla Salmon Foundation, she is the very picture of the type of student the supporting organization within the Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region helps to achieve brighter prospects. She is a single mom working a job in […]

March 1 scholarship application deadline approaches!

Posted on Feb 18, 2021, by Community Foundation

Rather than perform in person, students are once again applying for a competitive music scholarship via video. Chloe Sawall from Appleton East High School records a YouTube audition for a scholarship through the Community Foundation. She is one of two Miller Music Education Scholarship awardees in 2020. Each year the Community Foundation awards hundreds of […]

Clintonville community flourishes in time of change

Posted on Nov 30, 2020, by Community Foundation

By Jill Cassiani, Clintonville Area Foundation Board Chair  Having been a resident of Clintonville for over 45 years, I’m proud to serve as the Clintonville Area Foundation Board Chair. The Clintonville Area Foundation to date has $1,096,848 in assets. This is because of the generosity of the many people, businesses and organizations over the past […]

Screen time? Make it Scholarship Time!

Posted on Dec 30, 2019, by Community Foundation

Winter vacation is ending soon, and while high school seniors may not be filling out college applications quite yet, you can bet their parents are already pondering the “T” word – tuition – and wondering how to afford those fees. We can help! This is the perfect time to get a jump on available scholarships, […]

Scholarships: A picture is worth $1.36 million words of gratitude

Posted on Jul 1, 2019, by Community Foundation

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 […]

Parents: It’s scholarship time!

Posted on Dec 19, 2018, by Community Foundation

Winter is here, and while high school seniors may not be filling out college applications quite yet, you can bet their parents are already pondering the “T” word – tuition – and wondering how to afford those fees. We can help! This is the perfect time to start getting a jump on available scholarships, and […]

Scholarship helps to tell Kodye’s story

Posted on Oct 4, 2018, by

Kodye Fassbender was the kid his friends would go to seeking help with relationship problems or other difficulties that surface in the lives of high schoolers. The extent of his role as his classmates’ counselor surprised his family. Finding out he was so unable to do the same for himself that he took his own […]