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posted 04/25/01
The Green Bay Packers Foundation has awarded a record $150,000 in grants to 40 civic and charitable groups and organizations throughout the state of Wisconsin in its annual distribution of funds, Carl Kuehne, chairman of the Foundation Committee, announced today.
The grants awarded include a first-time contribution to the Greater Green Bay Community Foundation for the City Stadium Memorial, a project designed to pay permanent tribute to the long-time former home of the Packers. The team played its games at the East Side stadium for 32 seasons (1925-56), winning its first six National Football League championships during that span.
They also include 24 additional grants to Brown County organizations, among them the Brown County Library, which has been an annual recipient since the Foundation made its initial awards in 1988, and 15 to other groups around the state. The grants to Brown County groups represent 70 percent of the total disbursements.
With the latest disbursements, the Foundation has distributed a total of $886,676 for charitable purposes since it was established in 1986 by Judge Robert J. Parins, then president of the Packers Corporation, "as a vehicle to assure continued contributions to charity."
In addition to Mr. Kuehne, the Green Bay Packers Foundation Committee includes Dr. Donald Harden, Mike Reese, Gary Rotherham and Pat LaViolette. Phil Pionek is secretary of the Foundation.
A complete listing of grant recipients:
Brown County Organizations (25):
1)A Woman's Place
2)American Cancer Society
3)American Legion/Sullivan-Wallen Post 11
4)Ashwaubenon Family Resource Center
5)Bellin College of Nursing
6)Breast Cancer Family Foundation
7)Brown County Library
8)Brown County Literacy Counsel
9)Center for Childhood Safety
10)Concerned Hearts Club
11)Encompass Child Care
12)Greater Green Bay Community Foundation (City Stadium Memorial)
13)Greater Green Bay YMCA
14)Green Bay Boy Choir & Girl Choir
15)Green Bay Preble Quarterback Club
16)National Association of Mental Illness-Brown County
17)Neville Public Museum
18)The Phoenix Fund
19)Pulaski Girls Softball Association
20)Reading Connections
21)Service League of Green Bay
22)Unity Hospice
23)Urban Partnership
24)Volunteer Center
25)YWCA of Green Bay-De Pere
Organizations Outside of Brown County (15):
26)Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Milwaukee
27)Boy Scout Troop 345 (Marshfield)
28)CAP Fund
29)Down's Syndrome Association of Wisconsin
30)International Association of Lions
31)Janesville Literacy Counsel
32)Lakeland Family Resource Center
33)Make-A-Wish Foundation of Wisconsin
34)Milwaukee Center for Independence
35)Sexual Abuse Survivors Support Year-Round
36)Tree of Life/Brave New World
37)Tyme Out Youth Center
38)United Negro College Fund
39)Waushara County Habitat for Humanity
40)Wisconsin Badger Camp