Grant Flashback: Menomonie Off Leash Dog Park

Grant Flashback: Menomonie Off Leash Dog Park

In the fall of 2008, Barbara Gort, project coordinator of Grassroots Community Organization, wrote and received a grant to the Community Foundation of Dunn County to assist a city-wide project to create an off leash dog park in Menomonie for canines.  The city of...

Grant Flashback: Menomonie Area Senior Center – Card Tables

Fifteen new Lifetime card tables were purchased for the Shirley Doane Senior Center in Menomonie through a Foundation grant written by Shari Homstad, previous Director of the Center.  This awarded grant was able to replace a number of older card tables that had been...
Merry Mixers

Merry Mixers

  In 2009, the Merry Mixers Club of the Grapevine Senior Center in Colfax requested the Foundation fund an electrical upgrade for two gas stoves and other electrical functionality in the kitchen at the Center. The Club ended up purchasing one 36″ gas range...
Harry A. Miller

Harry A. Miller

In 2008, the Dunn County Historical Society applied and received a grant through the Community Foundation to create the Harry A. Miller exhibit at their facility located at Wakanda Park in Menomonie. The Historical Society wanted to create this exhibit to honor the...