Making an Impact – Stories

You want our community to thrive, and we want to be your partner. Since 1987, the Winona Community Foundation has served as a trusted partner and resource for a thriving community, touching thousands of lives across the region. When you invest in the Winona Community Foundation, you take on [...]

What are you passionate about? How do you want to improve life in the Winona area? And could you use funding to support this effort or passion? The Winona Community Foundation has matching grant dollars to start a new Field of Interest Fund. What’s your interest? Nature? Animals? [...]

2020 Founders Award JC Pfeiffer: Planting a Seed “Everybody wins when they invest time, talent or treasure into their community.” – JC Pfeiffer For JC Pfeiffer, a simple phrase such as “planting a seed” has many meanings. On October 6, 2020, he was honored for all the [...]

Cycle 2 Community Grant Results COVID-19 has changed many aspects of daily life. For local nonprofits, they have stayed focused on their missions and adapted to a different reality while trying to manage losses of income or increased demand for their services. In response to the global pandemic [...]

A Surprise Gift From a Person Known for her Giving Heart Introducing the Ramona L. Jezewski English Fund Ramona L. (Ladewig) Jezewski English lived a lifetime in the Winona area yet traveled widely, leaving her mark not only on people in Winona, but all around the world. Because of [...]

Stronger Together Led by the Laird Norton Family Foundation The Laird Norton enterprise and their partners raised over $1,000,000 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and distributed funds nationally to the Seattle Foundation, Pierce County Connected, Washington Food Fund, and the Winona Community Foundation COVID-19 Relief Fund. “We understand [...]