Skip to content
Give Now
Give Now
Log In

VNA of Fox Valley Receives $25K Grant From Community Foundation

The Beacon-News
Sun-Times Media

Visiting Nurse Association of Fox Valley has been awarded a $25,000 grant by the Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley. The Community Foundation is a charitable foundation in Aurora and provides grants to nonprofit organizations in the Fox River Valley. VNA of Fox Valley is a nonprofit community health care organization and will use the funds toward the purchase of an ultrasound machine for the VNA Health Center.

The machine will allow VNA to perform on-site breast ultrasound testing for women determined by their physician to need a more specific test following a mammogram. VNA anticipates performing about 2,700 tests annually with the new machine. The equipment will compliment VNA’s digital mammography services available at the VNA Health Center, 400 N. Highland Ave. in Aurora. Patients from VNA Health Center in Elgin will also be referred to the Aurora location for testing.

Currently, VNA Health Center offers free mammograms and pap tests to uninsured women through the Illinois Breast and Cervical Cancer Program. For more information, visit www.vnafoxvalley.org orwww.cffrv.org. Call 630-892-4355 to make an appointment at VNA.

Give your gift of time and see what it means to the people you impact. Helping others is what life is all about.

Neal Ormond

Donor & Fund Advisor

Education is important to us. We support causes that touch our lives and align with our values. We believe in paying it forward. We are here for a short time,, and it is the next generation that will take on what we leave behind.

Michelle Emanuel

Donor and Past Scholarship Recipient

YEP was a great experience to have in high school. I became a more confident person, someone with a lot more perspective. Coming from a small school, YEP allowed me to branch out into my community, meet students from other schools, and learn about their backgrounds. I made some great friends and still keep in touch with them today.

Abby Vagnoni

YEP Alumni

Being a part of the Community Foundation scholarship committee is the highlight of my year. For many, a scholarship from the CFFRV is the reason they are able to continue reaching for their dreams and changing the future of our world. I hope each recipients knows just how inspirational they are to those of us who are lucky enough to read their stories.

Jessica Breugelmans

Scholarship Committee Member and Board Member

I am incredibly grateful for the generosity of the Zari Foundation Scholarship and the Community Foundation in supporting my education. I am majoring in mechanical engineering with a concentration in aerospace engineering at the Rose-Hulman Institue of Technology. In my spare time, I volunteer on campus, in the community and I’m also the principal violist in the symphony orchestra. I hope to make an impact on the next chapter of space exploration by eventually working at a groundbreaking aerospace company such as SpaceX or NASA.

Taytum Newell

Albert M. Zari Scholarship Recipient

YEP has made me realize the importance of being involved in my community, and how to make a difference. There are a lot of problems in the world but if we can do everything that we can to help the world will become a better place. YEP has helped me realize this and encouraged me to help more people in the future.

Madi Porter

YEP Member

Grant funds from the Community Foundation helped provide updated technology. These upgrades were transformative. By creating new time saving processes, it turned us into a more efficient organization.

Marie Wilkinson Food Pantry

Grantee

Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley

Install Community Foundation of the Fox River Valley

Install this application on your home screen for quick and easy access when you’re on the go.

Just tap then “Add to Home Screen”

Accessibility Toolbar