The Community Foundation is honored to announce that the Clifford and Clara Herlache Heritage Foundation is inviting local charities to submit ideas which foster the appreciation, enhancement and preservation of historical landmarks and the cultural heritage of Door County, Wisconsin.  

 

Visit our website to read more about the Clifford and Clara Herlache Heritage Foundation.

The Community Foundation also invites you to learn more about how you can establish your own philanthropic legacy by creating a charitable Fund named in your family's honor.  Contact Bret Bicoy at (920) 746-1786 to make a gift today, or to discuss creating a Fund through your estate plans.  Through the Community Foundation, you can forever support that aspect of life in Door County which is most important to you.

Door County is blessed with an abundance of natural resources.  From our lakeshore to the wetlands, our orchards to the meadows, the open spaces and our rural roads - there is something about the beauty of this place that keeps us here or calls us back each year.

The Community Foundation's Environmental Fund welcomes grant applications from traditional environmental organizations that are working to sustain and preserve our environment.  We also encourage non-environmental charities to bring forth ideas on how they might incorporate an environmentally conscious perspective into their work.

 

Download the Environmental Fund Application and guidelines from the Community Foundation's website.  Applications and all supporting materials must be received in the Community Foundation's offices by Friday, September 12th at 4 p.m.  For more information, or for an informal assessment of your idea, contact Bret Bicoy at (920) 746-1786.

East Shore Industries, Inc. (ESI), located at 813 Rabas Street in Algoma, is a Northeast Wisconsin charity dedicated to assisting people with disabilities in obtaining their personal independence and employment goals. Each year ESI provides services to 115 individuals. These services include: day service, employment and training services, supported employment and placement services, evaluation services, school to work transition services, and case management for adults with disabilities. The ESI service area includes Door, Kewaunee, Manitowoc and Brown County.
 
Like other non-profit organizations, ESI utilizes a variety of sources to help fund its programs. Those sources include money received through grants, the annual fund drive, special events, donations, memorials, and interest earned during its 2000 "It's All about People" Capital Campaign.
 
The funds raised during this campaign were set aside for future projects and needs and continues to grow each year. The monies are under the management of ESI's CEO, CFO and its Board of Directors who use the services of professional money managers.

East Shore Industries also entrusts the administration of its Door County endowment to the Door County Community Foundation. The Community Foundation aggregates the endowed assets of many Door County charities and family foundations, collectively investing them as a larger, more diversified pool.  The Community Foundation also facilitates complex gifts and estate gifts to charities that serve our region. 

 

To learn more about how you can incorporate the East Shore Industries endowment as a beneficiary in your estate plans, contact ESI at (920) 487-3541, or Bret Bicoy at the Community Foundation at (920) 746-1786.