WELCOME TO THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF DUNN COUNTY
The Foundation has been creating a better Dunn County each year for the past 25 years. Since 1995, we have been helping donors express their passion for giving. Our passion is to promote charitable giving that creates a permanent source of capital to benefit and enrich the quality of life for everyone in the Dunn County Area. Read all about what we do, how we do it and how we help make Dunn County a great place to live, work and play!
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THANK YOU to our 2026 Jeans & Jewels
Platinum Sponsor:
OUR COREÂ MISSION
The Community Foundation’s core mission is serving the common good of the Dunn County region. We are grateful for the visionary donors who entrust the Foundation to deploy monies to address local needs through discretionary funding, and/or through specialized funds designated for a specific charitable purpose.Â
LATESTÂ NEWS & UPDATES
Jeans & Jewels: Your Invitation to Sponsor, Attend & Give Back
Jeans and Jewels is our annual fundraising event that enables the Community Foundation to continue its ongoing work in philanthropy, collaboration, and leadership. The charitable needs of our community are constant, and we will always do our part to support those...
The Red Cedar Film Festival Returns this September!
This September, the historic Mabel Tainter Center for the Arts in Menomonie will once again fill with the sights, sounds, and stories of independent cinema from around the globe. The 8th Annual Red Cedar Film Festival (RCFF) runs September 24–27, and we're proud to...
Protecting Menomonie’s Murals
From June 24–28, downtown Menomonie was transformed. More than 200 volunteer artists descended on the city for the Walldogs "Murals in Menomonie" festival, leaving behind 15 breathtaking, large-scale murals that bring the town's history to life on its own buildings....
MAKING MORE POSSIBLE
Join Us for a Nonprofit Impact Tour: Oct 8
The Community Foundation of Dunn County invites you to join us for a Nonprofit Impact Tour! New ages and stages of life bring different opportunities, challenges, and needs. From young children to older neighbors, the right resources can help everyone thrive. Join us...
Community Indicators Project
Dunn County Community Indicators is a new public data dashboard from the Community Foundation of Dunn County, built on the MySidewalk platform. It brings together hundreds of local metrics — from health and economic trends to community needs — in one place, so...
Brunn/Schley Scholarship for Future Builders
Bruce Schley and Roger Brunn were longtime friends and construction colleagues with a shared passion for working with their hands and shooting the breeze – especially if that breeze was in the woodshop, on a golf course, or at a vacation getaway. Bruce graduated from...
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🌟 SCHOLARSHIP SPOTLIGHT 🌟
🎓 Congratulations, Sara Palmer!
Sara's love of history started early — with childhood favorites like the Laura Ingalls Wilder books — and grew into a fascination with how people through the ages faced hardship with what little they had, offering lessons we can still learn from today. She's the recipient of the Menomonie HS Faculty Scholarship, and this fall, she's heading to Gustavus Adolphus College to study History.
"I have always loved history. When I was little, my favorite books were Laura Ingalls. I loved learning about how people in the past lived both so similar and so different to how we do now. It was fascinating to learn how pioneers made do with what they had, and how they faced the hardships of their time in a way that we could learn from today."
Sara, your passion for history already shines through — we know you're going to do great things. Congrats and good luck this fall! 💛
Your gift could be the reason another Dunn County student gets to chase a dream like Sara's. 🌎 cfdunncounty.org | 📞 715-232-8019
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🌟 SCHOLARSHIP SPOTLIGHT 🌟
🎓 Congratulations, Ryan Xu!
Ryan's path toward mechanical engineering was shaped by hands-on experience, independence, and a recent research internship at UW-Stout — real-world groundwork that pointed him straight toward his goal. He's the recipient of the Eric Goers Memorial Scholarship, and this fall, he's heading to UW-Madison to study Mechanical Engineering.
"I chose to pursue my dream to become a Mechanical engineer at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. I choose this path due the positive and negative experiences in my life. That being due to my development in independence/hands-on work, and more specific experiences like my recent research internship at the University of Wisconsin - Stout."
Congratulations, Ryan! This is just the beginning of the impact you're going to have in engineering. 💛
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CFDC is a public charity, tax exempt under IRS Code 501(c)(3) with the goal of improving the quality of life in our area. The purpose of the CFDC is to create a pool of charitable funds that are used for philanthropic good. We manage funds, invest assets and use the earnings from these investments to award grants to a wide variety of non-profit organizations and community groups for charitable purposes.
