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Community Vision Fund continues making a difference, awarded $840,800 in grants in 2024

Posted on Apr 8, 2025, by Micah Beck, Community Engagement Coordinator

From cultural events and a watershed clean-up to helping nonprofits build capacity to tackling systemic issues like the housing shortage, the Community Vision Fund within the Community Foundation awarded 71 grants totaling $840,800 during 2024.   About the Fund   The Community Vision Fund seeks to fulfill community needs and advance well-being for people living in the […]

Braving the Cold: Fox Cities Gathers for 34th Annual MLK Celebration

Posted on Feb 7, 2025, by Micah Beck, Community Engagement Coordinator

By Carolyn Desrosiers, Director of Community Engagement Despite it being one of the coldest days so far this winter, on January 20th, the warmth of community, hope, and voices raised in song radiated from the Lawrence Memorial Chapel in Appleton. It was the 34th annual Fox Cities Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration, and more […]

Community Well-being Survey Will Inform Local Health Priorities

Posted on Jan 7, 2025, by Micah Beck, Community Engagement Coordinator

Community health needs assessments are conducted to enable local health care systems and public health departments to learn about the true needs of community members. The assessments typically happen every three years and provide action-oriented plans for health organizations to focus their resources on the greatest needs in communities. A new local assessment process is […]

Building a Collaborative Path to Address Housing Challenges in the Fox Cities

Posted on Dec 23, 2024, by Jenny Krikava, Community Engagement Manager

In Spring 2022, Outagamie County took a critical step forward in addressing our region’s growing housing challenges by convening a diverse group of stakeholders to evaluate the data collected for a Housing Needs Assessment. After months of work, this stakeholder group came together to develop a Regional Housing Strategy, and the formation of a Housing […]

Powerful New Data Platform Launched for Tri-County Region 

Posted on Oct 21, 2024, by Tammy Geenen

A new, centralized data platform is now available to make public and community health facts across Calumet, Outagamie, and Winnebago counties accessible, easy to use, and actionable. This new resource is an evolution of the Fox Cities LIFE Study, created in 2001 and co-led by the Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region and United […]

David L. and Rita E. Nelson Family Fund Provides $2.5 million to Nonprofit Organizations 

Posted on Oct 1, 2024, by Micah Beck, Community Engagement Coordinator

Photo above: Fox Valley Literacy The David L. and Rita E. Nelson Family Fund within the Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region (Nelson Family Fund) awarded 22 grants totaling over $2,500,000, giving nonprofits and local municipalities a much-needed financial boost.  The Nelsons, who lived in De Pere, made provisions during their lifetimes for a […]

Grants and Thanksgiving: Lessons from the Art of Grantwriting Workshop

Posted on Nov 7, 2023, by Annette Look, NPLI Program and Communications Manager

Thanksgiving and grant writing may not seem immediately similar, but after hosting the Art of Grant Writing Workshop for nonprofit leaders, some interesting parallels came to mind. Talking turkey There is no way around it — grant writing comes with the territory when you’re a nonprofit fundraiser, yet very few of us have received formal […]

Focusing a new lens on fundraising

Posted on May 9, 2023, by Annette Look, NPLI Program and Communications Manager

I’m pleased to be part of a team that plans educational events for nonprofit leaders. Our work includes listening to nonprofit staff and board members and providing sessions relevant to the topics they want to learn about. On May 2, we delivered! Our session on Board Engagement & Fundraising Through a Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI) […]

Fox Cities LIFE Study finds population growing, while diversity of the area increasing slowly

Posted on Aug 5, 2022, by

The population of the Fox Cities three core counties grew at a rate faster than Wisconsin but slower than the United States from 2010 to 2020, according to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau that has been updated in the demographics category of the  Fox Cities Leading Indicators for Excellence (LIFE) Study. In addition, […]

Generous Gift Provides Another $6.24 million to Northeast Wisconsin Nonprofit Organizations

Posted on Jul 19, 2022, by

Thirty-two nonprofits throughout northeastern Wisconsin received a much-needed boost when the David L. and Rita E. Nelson Family Fund within the Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region awarded more than $6.24 million in grants. The fund has provided over $21 million in grants since its creation four years ago. The Nelsons, who lived in […]