Impact

You want our community to thrive, and we want to be your partner. Since 1987, the Winona Community Foundation has served as a trusted [...]

What are you passionate about? How do you want to improve life in the Winona area? And could you use funding to support [...]

2020 Founders Award JC Pfeiffer: Planting a Seed “Everybody wins when they invest time, talent or treasure into their community.” – JC Pfeiffer [...]

Cycle 2 Community Grant Results COVID-19 has changed many aspects of daily life. For local nonprofits, they have stayed focused on their missions [...]

A Surprise Gift From a Person Known for her Giving Heart Introducing the Ramona L. Jezewski English Fund Ramona L. (Ladewig) Jezewski English lived [...]

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 [...]

Connecting Passions to Projects Introducing the Donna Helble Literacy Fund A monetary gift left by a passionate educator and child literacy advocate will impact [...]

The Winona Community Foundation (WCF) awarded eight grants totaling $45,200 to area nonprofit organizations in its first-cycle of 2020 after reviewing 25 qualified applications exceeding [...]

Competitive community grants are a common element of community Foundations. The funds to support these grants come from annual donations, gifts made through a [...]

“Education and children’s literature were Donna Helble’s passions. In 1973, she moved to Winona to take a position at Goodview elementary where she taught [...]