The Appleton Education Foundation has approved grants totaling more than $18,000 to support creative programs and projects that enhance the education of Appleton Area School District students. Eighteen projects are receiving funding. All grants were awarded from the Appleton Education … Read More
The Appleton Education Foundation has approved grants totaling nearly $25,000 to support creative programs and projects that enhance the education of Appleton Area School District students. Nineteen requests received funding. All grants were awarded from the Appleton Education Foundation Fund … Read More
The Appleton Education Foundation has approved grants totaling more than $42,000 to support creative programs and projects that enhance the education of Appleton Area School District students. Thirty-nine requests received funding. All grants were awarded from the Appleton Education Foundation … Read More
The Appleton Education Foundation has approved grants totaling more than $26,000 to support creative programs and projects that enhance the education of Appleton Area School District students. Twenty requests received funding. All grants were awarded from the Appleton Education Foundation … Read More
The Appleton Education Foundation has approved grants totaling more than $30,000 to support creative programs and projects that enhance the education of Appleton Area School District students. Thirty requests received funding. All grants were awarded from the Appleton Education Foundation … Read More
Appleton Education Foundation board members were out and about the last few days delivering 13 grant awards. Following is a listing off all grants. Funds came from the Appleton Education Foundation Fund – an unrestricted endowment – unless otherwise noted. Appleton … Read More
Appleton Education Foundation board members and donors were out and about the last few days delivering grant awards – 32 of them to be exact. Board members (and in some cases donors/fund initiators) surprised grant applicants. There were tears, hugs, … Read More
May 18, 2015 Attention Appleton East and West Alumni: The Appleton Education Foundation (AEF) is working with Harris Connect to produce 2015 alumni directories for both Appleton East High School and Appleton West High School – and the charter schools … Read More
This week grants totaling more than $19,000 were delivered to AASD schools! A big thank you to all AASD educators who applied for grants and congratulations to everyone who has received funding. We can’t wait to hear the results of … Read More
The AEF Board of Directors recently approved grants totaling >$19,000. Thanks to all educators who applied and congratulations to the recipients! A perk of being an AEF Board Member is that you get to go into the schools and hand … Read More
MEDIA RELEASE 10/2/2014 On Thursday, October 30, the Appleton Education Foundation (AEF) welcomes Jeff Snell, Ph.D., to speak on social innovation and its relationship to investing in early childhood education. Through his presentation, Snell will explore what it means to … Read More
This past July we celebrated 16 years of our golf outing: the Knowledge Open. Just like all other golf committees, in the “off season” we talked a lot about what we could do to make the event better than ever. … Read More
It is hard to believe, but it’s already that time of year again. More than 20 grant applications were submitted to the AEF this spring. Grant requests ranged from funding for boxing equipment to interactive math materials and everything in … Read More
The Appleton Education Foundation has been receiving quite a bit of publicity lately – all thanks to Mary Beth Nienhaus. Mary Beth is a former educator in the Appleton Area School District and was the sole-owner of Winagamie Golf Course … Read More
10. You get to spend a fun day with 143 other education-minded friends golfing beautiful Winagamie Golf Course. 9. Fabulous raffles! Where else can you buy $30 in raffle tickets for an opportunity to win season tickets to the Broadway Across America … Read More
Calling all Appleton Area School District elementary students! Annually, the AEF holds an art contest to design the front of a note card. These note cards are then used to offer words of appreciation and thanks to AASD staff and … Read More
At 10 p.m. last night, Lauren Frownfelter Viljamaa won AEF’s Facebook grant competition! She garnered 202 likes – 20 more than her closest competition. Lauren will use the funds to start a dance club at Highlands Elementary. She will purchase performance … Read More
December is a wonderful time of year… especially if you can set aside the fact that single digit temps (below zero factoring in wind chill) can make you want to curl up in a blanket in front of a fire … Read More
Thanks to dozens of very creative and innovative educators we received 27 applications for our first Facebook Grant Competition. Teams of educators from birth-five through high school submitted their 30-word ideas for how to use $250 to enhance education. Ideas … Read More
First of all, thank you to all of you who took time to vote for Edison Elementary in U.S. Cellular’s Calling All Communities campaign. Voting is now closed, and the winning schools will be announced on Tuesday, December 10. Now … Read More
