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
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