Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Awards $525,000 in Local Grants Through Regional Philanthropic Partnership
July 28, 2025 – The Greater Green Bay Community Foundation has awarded $525,000 in grants to 13 nonprofit organizations through the Otto Bremer Trust (OBT) Community Responsive Fund — a partnership leveraging the Foundation’s knowledge and community relationships to respond to immediate challenges and opportunities in Brown, Kewaunee, and Oconto counties.
The Greater Green Bay Community Foundation is one of several partners selected to distribute grants of up to $75,000 through the 2025 OBT Community Responsive Fund in Wisconsin. Alongside the Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region and the Oshkosh Area Community Foundation, the three foundations are helping distribute $1.5 million across 10 counties.
“We are honored to help bring these critical resources into our community and direct them where they are needed most,” said Amber Paluch, Senior Vice President of Community Impact for the Greater Green Bay Community Foundation. “Our relationships with local nonprofits and understanding of the region’s challenges allow us to connect funding with organizations that are creating real, lasting impact in people’s lives.”
Grants were awarded to support work aligned with the following OBT focus areas: literacy, adoption and foster care services, children’s health, children’s disability services, mental health, and capital projects for hospitals and clinics.
Grant recipients awarded through the Greater Green Bay Community Foundation include:
- Aspiro: To provide comprehensive early intervention for children with disabilities and their families.
- Bay Area Workforce Development Board: To coordinate resources, provide training, and offer support for local organizations serving youth transitioning out of foster care.
- Boys & Girls Club of the Bay and Lakes Region: To support direct, targeted mental health services for the most vulnerable youth.
- Brown County Oral Health Partnership: To provide dental care for low-income children in clinics, hospitals, and schools.
- Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Green Bay: To provide improved access for mental health counseling for area youth and families.
- CP: To provide pediatric occupational, physical, and speech-language therapy for children with disabilities.
- Encompass Early Education & Care: To support high-quality, affordable early childhood care centers providing literacy development and wraparound care.
- Golden House: To provide free on-site licensed professional counseling for adults and children who have experienced domestic abuse.
- Greater Green Bay YMCA: To provide recreational programming for youth with physical and cognitive disabilities.
- N.E.W. Community Clinic: For expanded pediatric healthcare services for uninsured and low-income children and adolescents.
- NorthLakes Community Clinic: To provide school-based behavioral health services in Oconto County.
- Unity Hospice: For pediatric hospice, palliative, and grief care for children and their families.
- Wise Women Gathering Place: To support the expansion of clinical mental health services for individuals impacted by domestic violence, sexual assault, sex trafficking, and victims of crime.
For more information about the Greater Green Bay Community Foundation, visit ggbcf.org.
For more information about Otto Bremer Trust, visit ottobremer.org.
