Fort Atkinson Community Foundation

We are having some significant technical issues here at the foundation with our Microsoft products. Unfortunately, this means we do not currently have access to our email account and any emails being sent are bounced back to the sender.

We are actively working with Microsoft to resolve this issue and hope it will be fixed as soon as possible.

Our community grant deadline was yesterday, and we realize any emailed submissions would not have been able to get through. So we are extending the deadline to next Monday, June 22nd.

If you have been trying to email us anything, we ask that you please stay tuned here and resend your message once our account is back up and running. Or please call our office at 920.563.3210.

We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience and understanding!

Stay tuned for some wonderful updates to the Brietzke Educational Wetland this summer (while still maintaining it's natural beauty)!

The new pier has been installed and will soon have educational signage and audio boards installed - turning the space into a true, outdoor educational environment.

You'll also see some concrete work happening soon, to prepare for the installation of a new entryway and some amazing metal artwork by local artist, Brady Lueck. And let's not forget about the new table, benches and bike rack that will be installed soon.

Thank you to Project LEAD, the Brietzke family, the School District of Fort Atkinson and the Fort Atkinson Area Chamber of Commerce for their partnership support in this exciting project, and to the dozens of local organizations and donors who invested in this work.

We look forward to sharing the full list of all the generous supporters of this project soon!

Congratulations to this year's 8th grade Rose Inspire-a-Dream scholarship nominees!

June Duarte (Rockwell), Nainah Harrison (Barrie), Blake Sampson (Purdy), and Chase Miller (Luther), were presented their award letters for this incredibly unique scholarship opportunity during their 8th grade promotion ceremony last week!

Fred and Helen Rose were longtime residents of Fort Atkinson who expanded on an idea, first developed by Dr. Rick Brietzke, then principal of Purdy Elementary School, to encourage promising eighth-grade students to consider attending a four-year college after graduation. his led to the idea of planting a seed in eighth grade to encourage a goal to pursue college, allowing the idea of that goal to grow during high school.

To assist with this initiative, Fred and Helen established the Rose Inspire-a-Dream Scholarship Fund to provide encouragement and financial assistance to help make the dream of college possible. The scholarship is funded by the generosity of the Rose family and contributions from each of the four public elementary schools in Fort Atkinson.

These students were nominated by a middle school committee, along with other students from their elementary schools, and were then selected as the nominee from committees at their respective elementary schools. They were chosen based on their academic performance, kindness, positivity, school involvement, interactions with others, maturity, leadership, and many other impressive traits.

If these students can uphold the expectations of the award throughout their high school careers, they will automatically receive a $2,000 scholarship at their senior awards night.

Please join us in congratulating these incredible students!

Our May newsletter was FULL of updates on community grant funding, scholarship support, community partner events, ongoing projects, and much more.

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