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13 2021 Community Report PLEASE NOTE: The grants represented are based on the fiscal year of the fund and the Basic Needs Giving Partnership. Community Foundation fiscal years vary. Be Great: Graduate School-Based Expansion: $150,000 (Year 3 of 3, $300,000 total) This effort connects students at risk of dropping out of school with the Boys & Girls Club's academic mentoring program. The project is developed in response to Achieve Brown County's recommendation to offer Be Great: Graduate as a proven mentoring intervention to support the highest-need students in Brown County middle and high schools. The grant adds dedicated Graduation Specialists at seven schools across Brown County. Collaborators: Boys & Girls Club of Green Bay, Howard-Suamico, Denmark & Green Bay Area Public School District Navigating Our Wealth (NOW): $100,000 (Year 3 of 3, $300,000 total) The project will improve Circles Green Bay's capacity and effectiveness through a shared staffing model with The Salvation Army. Development of a Cliff Effect Calculator will use household data to predict financial pitfalls and help offset the financial crisis of the household as they move away from benefit dependency. The project will also gather, educate and rally the community to focus on developing a model that is inclusive of all groups serving households in poverty. Collaborators: Circles Green Bay, The Salvation Army of Greater Green Bay Dynamic Measurement & Community Engagement to Actively Improve Health Equity in Brown Co.: $82,250 (Year 3 of 3, $280,000 total) This project combines data, technology and engagement to reduce health inequities in Brown County. Collaborators implemented an adapted version of the World Health Organization survey, successfully piloted in 2018, to gather information on the well-being of residents in Brown County. Funding will support the countywide implementation and analysis for data-driven interventions to improve health and reduce inequities. Collaborators: Wello, St. Norbert College, UW-Green Bay, healthTIDE/Wisconsin Resiliency-Based Program for Youth (Wolf Den): $53,000 (Year 4 of 4, $273,000) A year-round resiliency program for at-risk youth in the Algoma community involves youth as leaders and targeted group activities focused on social and emotional learning. Lack of formal services necessitates an increase in early intervention, and low-intensity services geared toward improving social and emotional skills in youth. These programs are designed to develop those skills, which in turn foster emotional wellbeing overall. Collaborators: Algoma Public Schools, with UW- Green Bay Social Work Program; St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran School; St. Mary's Catholic School Improving Mental Health for Low-Income Older Adults & Adults with Disabilities: $40,194 (Year 3 of 3, $213,059 total) This project represents a coordinated response to unmet mental health needs for low-income older adults and adults with disabilities in Brown County. Foundations embeds a resident clinician at the Aging and Disability Resource Center to provide outreach, individual and group mental health counseling; community educational services; and intensive clinical supervision and training. Collaborators: Foundations Health & Wholeness, Aging and Disability Resource Center REGIONAL GRANTS Build Food Bank Capacity: $73,884 (Year 2 of 3, $161,702) To support a new Retail Assistant position to help grow the Direct Connect program and purchase scales, tablets and tablet mounts for the warehouse's four fork lifts. Recipient: Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin Food as Medicine: $96,124 (2 of 3 year, $299,427) To implement proven, innovative strategies for diabetes prevention and treatment for approximately 600 food insecure patients in the Fox Valley through a Food as Medicine program. Collaborators: Be Well Fox Valley, United Way Fox Cities; Ascension; Aurora; Children's Hospital of Wisconsin; ThedaCare; Network Health; Mosaic Family Health; Partnership Community Health Center; Calumet County, Outagamie County, Winnebago County and City of Menasha health departments; Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin. Broadband Infrastructure Analysis: $50,000 To provide a 10% local match for a $500,000 federal CARES Act Recovery grant to conduct a detailed county by county analysis and recommend specific broadband infrastructure investments throughout the 18-county New North region. Recipient: New North Accelerating Community Transformation: $300,000 To spread and scale Live Algoma's community transformation work to two other "communities" by building a network of change agents. Recipient: Algoma Area Education Foundation Effects of COVID-19 on Women in NE Wisconsin: $7,500 To conduct research on behalf of the Women's Funds in Oshkosh, the Fox Valley, and Green Bay to determine the economic, child/family caregiving, and mental health impacts of COVID-19 on women in Northeast Wisconsin. Recipient: St. Norbert College Southeast Asian Family Strengthening Program: $50,000 (Year 1 of 3, $150,000) To support case management, education and support services that empower Hmong and Southeast Asian families to end all forms of domestic violence and sexual assault. Recipient: Safe Harbor of Sheboygan County POINT Regional Poverty Initiative: $101,533 The POINT Initiative began through a partnership between the Basic Needs Giving Partnership and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement to accelerate efforts to reduce poverty in a ten- county region. Originally focused on continuous improvement methodology to nonprofits and service providers, it has evolved to also support the Basic Needs Giving Partnership in a research, development and strategy role. Through connecting, sparking ideas and sharing data, POINT convenes individuals and organizations across sectors and the region so that people in the region are self-sufficient and able to fully participate in the life of the community. Community Suicide Prevention Coordinator: $75,000 (Year 3 of 3, $226,000 total) To create a community-level staff position to build infrastructure for responding uniformly and effectively to suicide attempts and completions, drive the Zero Suicide framework into healthcare, and use data to drive strategy in Winnebago, Outagamie and Calumet Counties. Collaborators: Samaritan Counseling Center of the Fox Valley, NEW Mental Health Connection members Mental Health Awareness Campaign: $7,230 (Year 2 of 2, $32,230) Mental health organizations have seen unprecedented stress due to the pandemic. Funding would support a public service campaign to help people identify when the chronic stress is negatively impacting their lives, and how to reach out and get support. The agencies will collaborate on a campaign to urge people to seek help before they reach a mental health crisis. Collaborators: Family Services of NE WI, Foundations Health & Wholeness, Samaritan Counseling, Catalpa Health ACTIVE GRANT* Traumatic Brain Injury Support Program: (Year 3 of 4, $295,491) To develop and implement a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Support Program including services to survivors, whether or not they are living in homeless shelters, and educational programming. Collaborators: SOAR Fox Cities, Pillars, Inc., Harbor House Domestic Abuse Programs, Apricity, Neuroscience Group, Christine Ann Domestic Abuse Services INTERNATIONAL GRANTS CTAOP: $150,000 Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project (CTAOP) champions young people living in Africa by investing in organizations that prioritize and advance the health, education, and community support of these youth, supporting their ability to keep themselves safe from HIV. By providing funding, building capacity, and fostering awareness for the work of its Program Partners, CTAOP helps to ensure the youth they serve are on a path to reaching their full potential. CTAOP was created in 2007 by actor and United Nations Messenger of Peace, Charlize Theron, with the hope of making a difference for youth in her home country of South Africa. Although the geographic scope of CTAOP is sub-Saharan Africa, South Africa has remained the primary area of focus with the highest number of people living with HIV in the world. The GEANCO Foundation: $25,000 The GEANCO Foundation organizes special surgical missions and runs a Clinton Global Initiative program to fight anemia and help vulnerable pregnant women safely deliver healthy babies in Nigeria. *Payments made outside of 2021.

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