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

That’s right, Edison Elementary School – right here in Appleton – is up for a $25,000 grant from US Cellular, part of the company’s Calling All Communities Campaign! Physical education teacher Chuck Heurkens is spearheading fundraising for the school’s proposed … Read More

Last night, the Waisman Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison celebrated 40 years of improving lives through research, service, training and outreach. A contingency of Fox Valley leaders made up 26 of the 450 guests at Monona Terrace for this … Read More

We’re about a month and a half into the 2013-14 school year and the iPads purchased with a grant from the Bemis Company Foundation are being put to good use. I recently visited Beth Verboomen’s classroom at Houdini Elementary to … Read More

It’s official… the 18 AASD schools that were represented at the 2013 Knowledge Open have been sent their grant checks. Many schools have chosen to support technology initiatives with their funds. Below is a breakdown on how the $11,450 will … Read More

Despite the 85+ degree weather outside, inside room C101 at Fox Valley Technical College it felt like Christmas morning. Over 100 iPad minis and iPad 4s were distributed to AASD early childhood and learning disabilities teachers. Thanks to a generous … Read More

In the spring of 2013, the AEF communications committee began talking about updating its web presence and making the website easier to update in order for the staff to manage it better. Board member and chair of the communications committee … Read More

If you live in the Fox Cities and didn’t hear some fabulous original music this past weekend, you have no one to blame but yourself. More than 100 artists descended on downtown Appleton to perform in the first-ever Mile of … Read More

The 15th annual AEF Knowledge Open was held at Winagamie Golf Club on Friday, July 19. A sold-out field of 144 golfers took to the links to raise funds for the Appleton Education Foundation’s mission: to creatively enhance education in … Read More

The Bemis Company Foundation has made a $39,000 grant to the Appleton Education Foundation to benefit the Appleton Area School District. More than 125 iPad minis and iPad 4s already have been purchased with the funds. These iPads will be … Read More