Making an Impact – Stories

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Making an Impact – Stories

$7,500 to Purchase Home Repair Equipment Trailer

Habitat for Humanity serving Winona County helps low-income families, seniors, and individuals with disabilities across Winona County to both obtain and maintain safe, healthy homes. In 2025, the organization received a $7,500 community grant from the Winona Community Foundation to purchase a new equipment-hauling trailer for use in their [...]

$5,450 to Fund Earth Day Celebration in Winona

Riverway Learning Community (RLC) is a public charter school district whose mission is to nurture the growth of the mind, body, and spirit of its students, both as individuals and as members of the larger community. In 2025, RLC received a $5,450 community grant from the Winona [...]

$4,000 to Support Project Get Outdoors

Project Get Outdoors (Project GO) was established in 2005 and provides training to community organization leaders and volunteers to help connect kids with nature. Project GO programs have been offered at community centers, boys and girls clubs, recreation centers, libraries, and low-income housing complexes. In 2025, the non-profit [...]

Winona Community Foundation Awards $72,296 to Local Nonprofits

Left to right: Suzanne Redepenning (Winona Family YMCA), Anne Conway (Will Dilg Chapter of the IWLA), Carrie Frederich (Winona Arts Center), Emily Tipton (Ready Set School), Blandine Berthelot (Friends of Winona Public Library), Katherine Sublett (Lets Erase the Stigma), Kara Eggers (Theatre du Mississippi), Lisa Lind (Elder Network), Christopher [...]