The Basic Needs Giving Partnership provides funding through grants to established non-profit organizations that have a proven record of success in maintaining solid, critical programs that address the root causes of poverty and prevent persons in episodic crisis from becoming persons of chronic need.

The Basic Needs Giving Partnership was established in 2007 and brings together charitable resources from the U.S. Venture Open Fund for Basic Needs within the Community Foundation, the J.J. Keller Foundation and other partner donors.

Make your giving dollars go further: In 2012, all gifts from Brown, Kewaunee or Oconto counties to the U.S. Venture Fund for Basic Needs will be matched 50 cents on the dollar, up to $250,000 on the match, from the U.S. Venture Corporation.