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Common Roots Rising
Follow our Common Roots Rising blog and podcasts for a collection of stories that are growing our human spirit, cooperative culture, and community.
Being Collective
BEing Collective | Center for Connection + WellBEing … a space to let your soul blossom in the company of others doing the same … a gathering space for connection and soul expression through yoga, movement, and healing arts.
Loving Awareness
Loving Awareness offers transformative intuitive energy and life guidance sessions, wellBEing services, nature immersions, medicine walks, and retreats, sanctuary grown and crafted self-care products, and creative conscious media to support in balancing and uplifting your well-being on all levels.
NAMI Fox Valley
NAMI Fox Valley works to support and empower everyone touched by mental illness.
We commit to eliminate stigma and nurture recovery through education, support, outreach, and advocacy.
Multicultural Coalition Menasha
Multicultural Coalition, is here to serve their community members and provides access to basic needs while also addressing ways we can do better as a community to overcome language, systems, transportation, employment, housing and other barriers as identified by those we serve.
Connected Fox Valley
Connected Fox Valley is a community initiative to improve social connection across Calumet, Outagamie & Winnebago Counties
Community Arts
Singing Resistance Fox Cities
Singing Resistance Fox Cities is a movement of singers across the Fox Cities + Oshkosh singing in grief, love, power, and solidarity. Join the MOVEMENT that is SINGING Resistance + Growing LOVE for all ( Instagram: @singingresistancefc )
Oshkosh Art Collective
The Oshkosh Art Collective is a supportive community dedicated to highlighting local artists and art initiatives in the Greater Fox Valley, WI area. We believe art should be accessible to everyone and all experience levels are welcome!
Jambalaya Arts Oshkosh
Jambalaya Arts mission is to cultivate, nourish, and sustain a vibrant community of diverse artists, fostering creativity, collaboration and mutual support. They are committed to providing an inclusive space for artists to share resources, exchange ideas, and exhibit and sell their work.
Creative Downtown Appleton
Creative Downtown Appleton, Inc. is an affiliate 501c3 organization to Appleton Downtown, Inc. dedicated to support the Appleton creative economy movement by enhancing the cultural and artistic environment through the development of opportunities for community access to arts, music and culture.
Waupaca Community Arts Board
Waupaca Community Arts Board is a group of passionate volunteers bringing the arts into everyday Waupaca life by promoting creativity and artistic expression through community building.
Community Organizing
Strong Towns Appleton
Strong Towns is a member-powered movement for change. We tell stories and create resources that inspire people to take the future of their neighborhoods, towns and cities into their own hands.
Groundfloor Democracy
Groundfloor Democracy is neighbors talking, listening, and learning, without the noise. Join their nonpartisan park pop-ups in Oshkosh. This week’s times & ways to get involved. Check out their linktr.ee
Peaceful Patriots
Peaceful Patriots is an action based group with a high interest in peaceful protesting, flexing our democratic muscle by practicing our First Amendment right.
Forward Fox Valley
Forward Fox Valley is a non-partisan community organization located in Northeast Wisconsin. Forward Fox Valley’s mission is to provide an entry point for political engagement and shape paths to progress. Forward Fox Valley believes in protecting and promoting progressive values.
Neighborhood Organizations
Doty Island Community Partners
Doty Island Community Partners mission: To improve the quality of life for all Doty Island residents and help preserve the vitality of a historic district of Neenah and Menasha, Wisconsin USA.
Peace
Fox Valley Advocates for Peace
Fox Valley Advocates for Peace is is dedicated to promoting peace, justice, and equality in the Fox Valley area. If you are passionate about advocacy, human rights, social justice, and creating positive change in your community, then this is the group for you
World Peace Festival Fox Cities
World Peace Festival Fox Cities is bringing together people of all ages for a day of celebration, reflection, and collective hope for a more peaceful world.
Fox Valley Students Demand Action
Fox Valley Students Demand Action is a group made for high school and college students that advocates against gun violence. The gun epidemic has greatly affected our youth and it is time to take a stand! Fox Valley Students Demand Action is a chapter of the nation wide Students demand action. Fox Valley Students Demand Action is a program that aims to provide a voice for students (high school and college) against gun violence. They plan to peacefully organize, speak about violence, and get involved within community events.
Mutual Aid
Oshkosh Vagabond Network
Oshkosh Vagabond Network – The Oshkosh Vagabond Network is a mutual aid group in Oshkosh, WI, offering unconditional, community-based support to the working-class, low-income, unhoused, and marginalized individuals.
Multicultural Coalition
Bodega @ MultiCultural Coalition – Menasha – A bodega is a convenient little corner shop, and the MultiCultural Coalition’s bodega in Menasha is free to the community. They need help processing donations, stocking shelves, assisting guests and more!
Hope Fridge
Hope Fridge – (Menasha & Oshkosh) – Hope Fridge donates & manages community fridges. Take what you need, Give what you can!
Buy Nothing Groups (Facebook)
Buy Nothing Neenah, Buy Nothing Menasha, Buy Nothing Appleton (South), Buy Nothing Appleton (North – Downtown), Buy Nothing Fox Crossing (West), Buy Nothing Grand Chute, Buy Nothing Greenville, Buy Nothing Appleton (North Central)
Little Free Library local (map) + Worldwide
Take a Book, Share a Book, Little Free Library is: building community, inspiring readers, expanding book access. Map link here
Local Food and Growing
Oshkosh Seed Savers
Oshkosh Seed Savers – Oshkosh Seed Savers is a collective of food gardeners and seed savers of the Fox Valley in Wisconsin maintaining a collection of locally adapted garden seed. We share seed freely at local events and provide opportunities to learn organic food growing and seed saving methods by working with us in the OSS Seed Garden. We are all volunteers and operate as a non-profit organization.
Appleton Seed Library
Appleton Seed Library is a community based seed library. We house a collection of open-pollinated and heirloom seeds that you can borrow-grow-share.
Neenah Farmers Market
Start your weekend off right at the Future Neenah Farmers Market, nestled along the scenic Fox River in charming Shattuck Park. Every Saturday morning from June 13 through October 10 from 8am until noon, this open-air market brings together over 50 local vendors offering the very best in homemade, homegrown, and handcrafted goods.
Downtown Appleton Farm Market
Downtown Appleton Farm Market – Visit 100+ local vendors along College Avenue selling locally grown produce, handcrafted items, baked goods, flowers, hot food, coffee, meats and cheese, and so more!
Central Rivers Farmshed
Farmshed partners to create equitable access to food that is grown in central Wisconsin and in ways that mitigate climate change, protect our soil, water, and air, and promote healthy lives.
Waupaca Farmers Market
The Waupaca Farmers Market is located at East Fulton Street in DowntownWaupaca Wisconsin. The market opens the first Saturday in June and runs every Saturday through October from 9 am-1 pm.
Wisconsin Farmers Union
Wisconsin Farmers Union, a member-driven organization, is committed to enhancing the quality of life for family farmers, rural communities, and all people through educational opportunities, cooperative endeavors, and civic engagement.
Local Nature + Conservation
Wild Ones – Fox Valley Area
Wild Ones Fox Valley Area (WOFVA) continues to celebrate and promote the use of native plants in home and civic landscaping. We lead the natural landscaping movement in exploring, teaching, and changing the practice of gardening to include the use of native plants. Join them in helping to restore our natural world. WOFVA serves Calumet, Fond du Lac, Green Lake, Outagamie, Waushara, Waupaca and Winnebago counties.
Urban Ecology Oshkosh
Urban Ecology Oshkosh is a grassroots group dedicated to environmental education, ecological restoration, and inclusive community building in Northeast Wisconsin.
Sustain Greenville
Sustain Greenville is a volunteer organization that promotes eco-friendly activities that support a sustainable environment. They sponsor the Sustain Greenville Farmers’ Market and several recycling and educational events. You are invited and encouraged to get involved and participate!
Grow Native Greenville
Grow Native Greenville advocates, provides accessibility and creates action for native plants.
Heckrodt Wetland Reserve
Heckrodt Wetland Reserve is a 91-acre urban nature reserve with habitats including forested wetland, cattail marsh, open water, created prairie, open field, and upland forest. Persisting despite the urbanization that continues to grow around it, the Reserve is home to numerous species of reptiles, amphibians, and mammals. Migrating songbirds and waterfowl nest and feed in its protection.
Fox-Wolf Watershed Alliance
Founded in 1991, Fox-Wolf Watershed Alliance has over 34 years of experience protecting the basin. There’s a lot of work to do, but we are making progress toward our goals of clean, healthy water. Your support makes a difference, whether you make changes at home, volunteer in the community, or make a financial donation.
Friends of the Fox
Friends of the Fox WI is a river related advocacy group for the Fox River of Wisconsin.
Golden Sands Resource Conservation & Development Council
Golden Sands – Conservation that Works! Bringing together science & community for over 45 years to help grow Wisconsin’s economy and protect our natural resources.
Central Wisconsin Invasives Partnership
The Central Wisconsin Invasives Partnership (CWIP) is a Cooperative Invasive Species Management Area (CISMA) that serves Wood, Portage, Juneau, Adams, Waushara, Marquette, and Green Lake Counties.
Northeast Wisconsin Invasives Partnership
The Northeast Wisconsin Invasives Partnership (NEWIP) is a cooperative invasive species group that serves Brown, Outagamie, Waupaca, and Winnebago Counties and the Oneida Nation in Wisconsin.
Parks and Trails
Greater Waupaca Parks and Trails
The Greater Waupaca Area Parks & Trails group exists to identify on and off-road biking and walking routes, river routes, and parks both linear and neighborhood throughout the Townships of Dayton, Farmington, Lind, Waupaca, and the City of Waupaca. Learn more
Fox Cities Greenways
Fox Cities Greenways is fostering the Development and Preservation of Trails and Greenways in the Greater Fox Cities Region
Renewable Energy
Rise Up Midwest
Rise Up Midwest believes the energy efficiency industries have the capacity to rapidly expand services resulting in increased local investment, business growth, energy resiliency as well as employment opportunities in urban and rural communities across the region. Let’s put people to work. Now is the time.
Rocky Mountain Institute
RMI is transforming the global energy system to secure a clean, prosperous, zero-carbon future for all.