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Longfellow Outdoor Adventure Club
This spring, LPEF joined other community donors and awarded a Gold Star Grant to the Longfellow Outdoor Adventure Club for their Backpacking 101 summer school course. Clint Grabhorn and Lila Planavsky, Longfellow Middle School teachers and the Longfellow Adventure Club Co-leaders, shared the outcome of that week with us. “In late June, Longfellow Middle School’s Outdoor Adventure […]
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Gold Star Grants – $53,614 Awarded in March 2024 – Our Largest Ever!
Made possible through generous community support, La Crosse Public Education Foundation is proud to announce the largest round of Gold Star Grants funding ever with $53,614 awarded for 20 projects. Funded grants provide students and teachers a chance to expand their skills, be exposed to novel experiences, and to engage with unique ideas — everything […]
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Gold Star Grants – $34,018 Awarded in December 2023
Made possible through generous community support, La Crosse Public Education Foundation is proud to support students at all grade levels with our winter Gold Star Grants. Funded projects provide students and teachers a chance to learn new skills, have new experiences, and to be exposed to new ideas — everything from CPR and First Aid […]
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Gold Star Grants – $41,500 Awarded in April 2023!
Made possible through generous community support, La Crosse Public Education Foundation is proud to support students at all grade levels with our spring Gold Star Grants. Funded projects provide students and teachers a chance to learn new skills, have new experiences, and to be exposed to new ideas — everything from tricycles and strider bikes, […]
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$44,778 awarded for 23 Gold Star Grant projects!
Made possible through generous community support, La Crosse Public Education Foundation is proud to support students and teachers at every grade level in the La Crosse schools with Gold Star Grants this winter. Funded projects provide students a chance to learn new skills, have new experiences, and to be exposed to new ideas — everything […]
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Gold Star Grants in Action
Gold Star Grants are awarded in December and April each school year and in the 2021-22 school year over $80,000 in grants were funded. The majority of these project are put into action between September – May when most SDLC schools are in session. But with robust summer school schedules and two year-round schools, Gold […]
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Gold Star Grants Awarded – $34,156 for 20 projects that will improve reading skills, promote social and emotional learning, and more.
LA CROSSE, WI, April 12, 2022 – Made possible through generous community support, La Crosse Public Education Foundation is proud to support students and teachers at every grade level in the La Crosse schools with Gold Star Grants this spring. Funded projects provide students a chance to learn new skills, have new experiences, and to […]
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LPEF GRANTS OFFER $49,143 TO IMPROVE READING SKILLS, PROMOTE PHYSICAL ACTIVITY, AND MORE.
LA CROSSE, WI, December 7, 2021 – The generous support of community donors will offer students at every grade level in La Crosse schools a chance to learn new skills and expose them to new ideas — everything from traditional Hmong music, creating an outdoor classroom, to using photography to learn geometry, geology, and geography.
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Grants for physical fitness, servant leadership, and character development will be funded through Randy and Lynn Nelson Endowment
La Crosse school students will have the opportunity to participate in projects involving physical fitness, servant leadership, and character development due to an endowment fund established by retired School District of La Crosse Superintendent Randy Nelson and his wife Lynn. Beginning this fall, teachers in the School District of La Crosse will be able to […]
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Helping students experience benefits of being in nature is focus of new grant funded by Kathie and Rob Tyser
La Crosse school students will enjoy field trips to explore nature, urban gardening projects, hiking, birding, kayaking, geo-caching, classes in outdoor survival techniques and many other opportunities due to a new grant program of the La Crosse Public Education Foundation. Retired educators Kathie and Robin Tyser have created a new endowment fund, the Tyser Power […]
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