Chisholm Events & News
The Chisholm Community Foundation sponsors a number of wonderful events each year. These events not only raise money for grants and scholarships, but also help cover the operating costs of the CCF, to ensure your donations go directly to our causes.
CCF events are a great way to bring friends, family and the community together and provide the CCF with a substantial source of revenue. Your support of these community events is greatly appreciated and makes a huge difference!
Chisholm Community Foundation Newsletters
See our archived newsletters to learn what the CCF has been doing over the past several months!
Be a part of the fun, unique and energetic events sponsored by the CCF! It’s a great way to support your community and get to know people! Mark your calendar for upcoming events now!
Whether you’re a local business, a family, or a resident, we have a number of options that allow you to donate specifically to the areas of community service that you care most deeply about!
Named donations and planned gifts are a great way to support the Chisholm community. Honor your friends, family members or neighbors while investing in your hometown in specific and meaningful ways ways!
We are proud to offer grants for innovative and important Chisholm community projects as well as scholarships to invest in the lives of our youth!
The Chisholm Community Foundation awarded $54,208 in grants for the first cycle of 2021, as well as $29,400 in scholarships to graduating seniors of Chisholm High School. The CCF has provided over $1.6 million in grants for community causes, which has helped to make Chisholm a better place to live, work and raise families.
Support your CCF and make a difference in our community!
The CCF Mission
Our mission is to serve the Chisholm and Balkan communities by stewarding funds for innovative and creative projects, which are responsive to community and economic development in the areas of social service, education, arts and culture, conservation, and historic and environmental preservation.
2021 Chisholm Events: Support Your Community!
Mark your calendar. The following great events will be held in Chisholm in 2021. Join us!
25th Annual Golf Outing
Monday, July 26, 2021 at the Mesaba Country Club in Hibbing. Registration – 11:00; shotgun start – Noon. Dinner to follow at Valentini’s.
Valentini’s Supper Club Annual Burger Bash –
Fall 2021 (date to be determined).
Keyboard Liquor Holiday Festival
Friday, December 3, 2021 beginning at 6:00 at Valentini’s Supper Club.
Golf Hole Sponsor
2021 Event Memories
Valentini’s Hosts Chisholm Chili Warm-Up
This past February, the Chisholm Community Foundation joined forces with Valentini’s Supper Club in a fun, unique friendraiser called the Chisholm Chili Warm-up. We coincided the event with the Polar Bear Days’ event “Sled the City,” allowing folks to “warm-up” after a fun afternoon of sledding in downtown Chisholm.
We divided and conquered by having CCF board members selling tickets and helping out on the sledding hill, as well as folks serving up meal orders for both Covid-friendly curbside and indoor dining. All-in-all, we ended up selling 160 tickets and raising over $1,400 for the Chisholm Community Foundation. On behalf of all CCF board members, I would like to thank the staff at Valentini’s for their wonderful collaboration and teamwork in this event with us. As we are nearing the end of spring and welcoming the summer season, we are looking forward to more community involvement and fundraising events that can help us work toward furthering our vision of stewardship and investment in our wonderful city of Chisholm.
Class of 1968 Gives Back!
After celebrating the 50th reunion of the Chisholm Class of 1968, it was decided to donate the remaining fund balance of $1,380 to the Chisholm Community Foundation in appreciation for the good start in life graduates received by living in the community of Chisholm. Our class has had many reunions over the past 50 years. This year’s two-day event, held at Tom & Jerry’s and Valentini’s Supper Club, was described by many as fun, a great time and restorative. It’s good to give back to the town that helped shape who you are! Members of the Class of 1968 are pictured below.
Top Row (L to R): Jeff Lundell, Jack Kirk, Victor Bodnia, Chuck Oman, Debbie “Doesken” Verlo, Carol “Petrini” Shanks, Tom Lopac, Tom Varichak, Dale Rapovich, Mike Nelson, Duane Delich.
Fifth Row (L to R): Joanne “Podlogar” Watson, Pat “Verant” Carrels, Barbara “Bodin” Ukura, Janis Niemi, Laura “Oresek” Perry, Charlotte “Oddo” Unseth, Charlotte “Gornick” Nash, Kendra Casey, Jane “Rudstrom” Holland, Beverly “Johnson” Lundorff, Rosemary “Valentini” Lewerer, Jackie “Mcleod” Werket, Roxine “Goslar” Lawton.
Fourth Row (L to R): Jim Minerich, Jeanne “Kne” Mueller, Claire “Erspamer” Rupar, Linda “Hendrickson” Bateman, Vicki “Verant” Anderson, Bobbi “Kosloski” McCarthy, Vince Repesh, Larry Cardoni, Dick Tomassoni, Tom Medved, Bruce Anderson.
Third Row (L to R): Larry Stainiger, Bill Hanegmon, Gary Jance, Marianne “Hanks” Johnson, Noah Lindemann, Larry Belluzzo, Tim Franzen, Jerry Janezich, Sam Nenadich, Ernie Deluca.
Second Row (L to R): Gary Vake, David Bicanich, Dianne “Ivanca” Halfen, Tom Salonen, Karen “Lillquist” Midthun, Bettie “Stalker” Leustek, Kathy “Vitali” Mehle, Nancy “Bartolus” Sertich, Jeanne “Kautto” Froemming, Bob Rupar, Joanne “Belluzzo” Olson, Joe Sertich.
Bottom Row (Left to Right): Chris “Arko” Freeman, Connie “Samsa” Peterson, Peggy Yost, Judy “Briski” Stainiger, Patty “Badiali” Levstek, Todd Clark, Gaynelle “Johnson” Lee, Mary “Bonicelli” Gaviglio, Connie “Bradovich” Van Blarcum, Marilyn Mayry.
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