$57,300 awarded in Crime Prevention Foundation grants to support a safer Brown County

October 30, 2025 – The Crime Prevention Foundation of Brown County, a fund of the Greater Green Bay Community Foundation, awarded $57,300 in grants to 15 nonprofit initiatives focused on promoting safety, fostering personal development, and addressing the root causes of harmful or unsafe behavior.

The Crime Prevention Foundation distributes grants once per year. Grants are awarded based on a competitive application process, which includes review by a grants team of community volunteers. Each cycle, the Community Foundation invites its fundholders to co-invest in grant applications that align with their giving goals. This year, fundholders contributed $28,300 to increase available grant dollars and help meet the growing needs of our community.

Crime Prevention Foundation grants were awarded to the following organizations:

• Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northeast Wisconsin: Funds will support the recruitment and training of mentors and provide activities that foster growth and connection for participants in the youth mentoring program.

• Boys & Girls Club of Greater Green Bay: Funds will support the incorporation of career exploration and leadership opportunities for Club teens alongside the pop-up barber shops offered at both clubhouses during Family Nights.

• Children’s Museum of Green Bay: Funds will support the Play Patrol Monthly Program and EAT Events to give local families opportunities to build positive relationships with police officers through hands-on activities at the museum.

• Family & Childcare Resources of N.E.W: Funding will support the expansion of the Triple P Positive Parenting program in Brown County, which provides parents with simple and practical strategies to help them build strong and healthy relationships.

• Foundations Health & Wholeness: Funds will support RAYS Youth Services which offers free, confidential, and individualized support for young people navigating instability caused by poverty, mental health struggles, housing insecurity, or various other systemic barriers.

• Girl Scouts of the Northwestern Great Lakes: Funds will support Reaching Out programming at community sites across Brown County. Programming helps girls develop skills to make healthy choices, build supportive relationships, and live according to their values.

• Golden House: Funds will support prevention education programming which aims to equip young adults with the ability to recognize the difference between healthy and abusive relationships, develop skills to foster healthy interactions with partners or family members, and feel empowered to apply these tools in their daily life.

• Greater Green Bay YWCA: Funds will support field trip opportunities offered through local community sites which are designed to provide enriching, safe, and recreational experiences that are otherwise inaccessible to youth due to financial limitations, lack of transportation, or other barriers.

• Green Bay Sail & Paddle: Funds will support the Adventures in Sailing program which engages youth in meaningful activities that foster problem-solving, teamwork, and personal growth. Through sailing, participants gain meaningful social interaction and connection and build essential life skills such as courage, patience, problem-solving, adaptability, and teamwork.

• Growing Resiliency: Funding will support the expansion of a high-impact literacy tutor program that empowers children through a dual focus on literacy and resilience, helping children build strong reading skills and confidence early leading to increased school success.

• Midwest Survivor Institute: Funding will support the implementation of Anything with Friends, a series of structured community-building and crime prevention activities for youth in the Shipyard Neighborhood Association District.

• Rise Up Athletics: Funds will support programming that provides local youth athletes with coaching, mentorship, and support, allowing youth the opportunity to participate in sports while learning skills that help them strive for excellence on the playing field and in life.

• St. John’s Ministries: Funding will support the installation of enhanced security measures to deter crime and bolster community safety around the parking lot and adjacent areas of the Micah Center, a daytime resource center for those experiencing or at risk of homelessness.

• Volunteer Center of Brown County: Funding will support the Reading Coaches for Kids program, a one-hour per week tutoring program aimed at boosting literacy among K-5 students in Brown County schools.

• West De Pere High School: Funding will support the SADD Every 15 Minutes program, a biennial event designed to prevent drunk and distracted driving among teens and adults.