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Foundation
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United States
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Description
ABOUT
We have been helping donors share in effective, efficient and enduring ways since 1986.
What Is A Community Foundation?
We are a tax-exempt, publicly supported nonprofit organization managing charitable funds — mostly permanent endowments — created by many families, businesses and organizations. These funds generate grants for the long-term benefit of the people of the Fox Valley region of Wisconsin.
OUR MISSION
We strengthen our community for current and future generations by helping people make a difference in the lives of others. We fulfill our mission by:
Accepting and professionally managing financial gifts for the long-term in flexible, easy and efficient ways.
Partnering with people to help them engage in giving that fulfills their charitable dreams.
Awarding grants that achieve results and sustain a vibrant community for all, forever.
Using our knowledge of community needs to lead and convene people around issues and opportunities.
OUR HISTORY
One person's dream, and $5,000, started it all.
Your Community Foundation was established in 1986 from a desire to give an enduring gift back to the community. When Walter L. Rugland received the first “Community Service Award” presented by Aid Association for Lutherans, he used the $5,000 prize money to pursue his dream of a “catalyst for change” working across the region. Walter was the former president and CEO of the Appleton-based fraternal insurance company now known as Thrivent Financial. He had heard about community foundations from his son, Walt, who was working in Hartford, Conn. Walter knew giving back was part of the fabric of the Fox Valley region of Wisconsin.
“What you’re doing is having the Foundation preserve your money for use for the future,” he explained at the time. Persuasive enough on his own, Walter also enlisted the help of contractor O.C. Boldt, attorneys Arthur Remley and Roger Baird and industrialist Paul Groth to join him in making personal visits to community leaders to build support for the idea.
Walter explained the need by recalling working on farms as a boy in North Dakota and one day asking a farmer why he plowed a field under to lie fallow for a year. The farmer replied, “The land has been very good to us and, if we don’t give some of it back, it probably won’t keep helping us.” Walter added, “That’s how I look at the Community Foundation. We give things back to the area because it has been very good to us.”
Walter remained an active supporter of the Foundation until his death in 1991. Through the Walter and Nora Rugland Fund, he and his wife continue to support the operations of the Foundation even today.
Sponsor Relationship
Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region, Inc. is not a part of any other sponsors in our database.
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