$860,000 in grants from J. J. Keller Foundation and U.S. Oil golf event will go to poverty progams in northeastern Wisconsin

Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region grants

• Fox Cities Community Health Center: $15,000 for Diabetes Self-Management Program to add a diabetic nurse care manager and two diabetic educators who will establish a diabetes prevention and education program for uninsured or underinsured patients. This is year one of a three-year grant totaling $45,000.
  
  
• Fox Cities Community Health Center: $25,000 to provide bridge funding to help the 93 percent of patients at this clinic who are uninsured or underinsured.
  
  
• CAP Services Inc./Delta Dental/St. Michael's Hospital: $35,000 Ministry Dental Center collaboration for a long-term collaborative effort to provide dental care for low-income clients in Waupaca County.
  
  
• Goodwill Industries of North Central Wisconsin, Fox Cities Area Habitat for Humanity: $53,120 to hire a case manager and provide other services for families who are not yet eligible for a Habitat home, or Habitat families who are struggling with financial issues that might threaten their ability to stay in their homes.
  
  
• Goodwill Industries of North Central Wisconsin: $5,000 Community Gardens Partnership to support the development of a low-cost, small scale home gardening system and provide training in gardening, nutrition and food preservation for 30 food-insecure households.
  
  
• Goodwill Industries of North Central Wisconsin FISC: $15,000 to add a full-time financial counselor to reduce the waiting period and meet the increasing need from the newly unemployed and military families. This is year one of a three-year grant totaling $45,000.
  
  
• LEAVEN Inc.: $15,000 to supply financial assistance to meet the basic needs of families with children.
  
  
• LEAVEN Inc.: $25,000 to meet the needs of increasing numbers of clients in crisis due to recent unemployment, and to offset decreased revenue from government grants.
  
  
• Outagamie County, Brewster Village and St. Paul Home: $76,986 to provide systematic psychosocial interventions to elderly residents on Medical Assistance who suffer from dementia and/or chronic pain.
  
  
• Sexual Assault Crisis Center: $5,000 to provide strategic planning support for the programs focused on children and teens who have been sexually abused.
  
  
• Wisconsin Interfaith Needs Response Inc.: $15,000 to provide funding for vehicle repairs to allow needy employed clients who are on the waiting list a way to continue to get to work.
  
  
• Neenah-Menasha Emergency Society: $15,000 to provide funding for emergency financial assistance to clients struggling to meet basic needs.
  
  
• Emergency Shelter of the Fox Valley, Inc.: $25,000 for emergency funding to help provide shelter and appropriate support for increasing numbers of "hard-to-serve" homeless families and individuals.
  
  
• Community Clothes Closet: $5,000 to support strategic planning for this agency which provides clothing to people in need.
  
  
• St. Joseph Food Program: $25,000 for milk purchases for an increasing number of clients served by this Fox Valley food program.
  
  
• Rebuilding Together-Fox Valley: $21,800 to provide emergency funding for critical home repairs needed due to a decrease in contributions and increase in demand.
  
  
• Rebuilding Together-Fox Valley: $15,000 operating support for this organization that repairs and updates homes to help aging or disabled homeowners live independently and safely. This is year one of a three-year grant totaling $45,000.
  
  
• Housing Partnership of the Fox Cities: $25,000 to help the increasing numbers of families in need obtain residential stability, increase skills or income, and develop greater self-sufficiency.
  
  
• Housing Partnership of the Fox Cities: $5,000 for strategic planning support.
  
  
• Domestic Abuse Support Center of Shawano County: $18,000 to fund the increased need of families and individuals in crisis due to domestic violence and/or sexual assault for emergency shelter, advocacy and support.
  
  
• COTS Inc.: $15,000 to add intensive case management services for transitional housing residents. This is year one of a two-year grant totaling $30,000.
  
  
• COTS Inc.: $2,650 for strategic planning support.
  
  
• Christine Ann Domestic Abuse Services: $5,000 for operating support for this program that provides temporary shelter and meets basic needs of victims of domestic violence and their children.
  
  
• CHAPS Academy: $15,000 for Striving for Excellence program expansion which uses equine-based therapy for children with behavioral or academic challenges.
  
  
• Best Friends of Neenah-Menasha: $10,000 for After School Mentoring operating support for the program which matches adult and teenage mentors with children referred by a teacher, social worker or guidance counselor.
  
  
• Appleton Library Foundation: $31,402 for Prime Time Family Reading Program which uses reading out loud, storytelling, and reading strategies to promote higher-order thinking and help the children from low-income families better succeed in school. This is year one of a two-year grant totaling $36,902.
  
  
• Healthy Beginnings Waupaca County: $30,080 for Project Bridge program collaboration to expand library program for low-income children to all Waupaca library sites.