GREEN BAY — The Greater Green Bay Community Foundation now has $750,000 to fight poverty in Brown, Kewaunee and Oconto counties.

Appleton-based oil distributor U.S. Venture announced the grant today at a breakfast ceremony for the Basic Needs Giving Partnership at the Oneida Golf & Country Club. About 35 donors and sponsor representatives attended the breakfast.

“This is a long-term investment in the community,” said Martha Ahrendt, foundation vice president of programs for the Greater Green Bay Community Foundation.

Ten percent of the grant money will go to area nonprofits. That 10 percent will be matched by funds provided by the J.J. Keller Foundation.

The Basic Needs Giving Partnership helps provide health care, job training and financial assistance with the goal of lifting families out of poverty, Ahrendt said.

“If a child has a toothache and they can’t concentrate in school, they aren’t going to learn,” she said.

Officials said funds, which were raised at the U.S. Venture Open charity golf outing earlier this year, would be distributed as grants in the spring.

The Basic Needs Giving Partnership is a collaboration that started in 2007 between the Greater Green Bay Community Foundation, U.S. Venture and the J.J. Keller Foundation.