2023-2024 Grant Recipients

The Austin Public Education Foundation is please to announce the education grants awarded for the 2023-2024 school year. Community Learning Center Sheri Mitchell Book Buddies $872.23 Suzanne Rymer PACT (Parents and Child Together) Packs $1,400.00 Heather Ruzek, Lori Coughlin, & Amy Goette **Buddy Bins Rolling Carts $4,148.69 Woodson Kindergarten Center Andrea Larson Vestibular Movement Tools

Grant application is now open for submission

Austin Public Education Foundation is pleased to be able to continue with a 30 year tradition of providing instructional staff grant monies to support and enhance learning in the classrooms! Since 1992 the Huntting and Packer Endowments have made these grants possible. Growing from a single $500 dollar grant that first year to awarding 50

The Annabell Benson Endowment Fund

The Austin Public Education Foundation would like to announce the establishment of a new educational grant to benefit instructional staff for Austin Public Schools District #492. Annabell Mae Benson was born July 7, 1930, in Blackduck, Minnesota to Frederick William and Anna Cecilia (Sorberg) Benson.  She graduated from Blackduck High School and went on to

APEF ANOUCEMENTS!

Grant Committee Meets to Award Staff! Thanks to the continued generosity of the Austin Community, including the Hirsch Foundation and Alumni of Austin Public Schools, the APE Foundation was able to fund 43 instructional staff grants at $40,127.79 and 7 building grants at $44,453.45 for a combined total of 50 grants and $84,581.24! We at

Grant Application Extended! Deadline is Now March 21st, 2022

Austin Public Education Foundation Grant Process Information Eligibility The APE Foundation is pleased to consider applications that benefit the students of the Austin Public Schools. Please review the attached district goals when submitting your grant. The foundation does not provide grants for the following: Salary or fringe benefits for school district employees Continuing education Student

Welcome, Lindsay!

We at the Austin Public Education Foundation would like to officially welcome Lindsay Bires a new Director on the APE Foundation Board. Lindsay is originally from Windom, MN. She moved to Austin in 2009.  Her husband Toren works at Hormel, she has an American Family Insurance agency on Oakland, and they have three children.  Ashlyn

IT’S TIME! APEF GRANTS APPLICATIONS NOW BEING ACCEPTED

It is an annual tradition for the Austin Public Education Foundation to provide grants to instructional staff within Austin Public School District support and enhance learning. Since 1992, the Huntting and Packer Endowments have made these grants possible, growing from a single $500 grant that first year to 55 grants totaling $45,588.20 in 2021! Austin

Welcome, Jennifer!

The executive committee of the Austin Public Education Foundation would like to announce that Jennifer Boysen has been hired as the new Executive Director effective September, 2021. Jennifer is originally from St. Paul, MN. She met her husband, Bryan (an Austin native and AHS Class of 1997 Grad), in Winona and made Austin her home

The Results Are In!

The 2021 Packer Classic was a rousing success this past Monday at the Austin Country Club. 25 teams came together for a beautiful afternoon of golfing in support of education and Austin Public Schools. When planning this event, many of the COVID restrictions were still in place, so we needed to forego our usual dinner

2020 Eberhart Poetry Contest Winners

The 2020 Eberhart Night of Poetry was not able to be held in a face-to-face setting this year, but a virtual celebration has been made.  All 22 finalists made clips of themselves reading their poems and these were put together into a video celebration.  All 22 finalists receive a book of poetry courtesy of The Friends