Do you love our community and want to be part of making it a brighter place for everyone? Your generosity has that very potential.
Health and Human Services
There’s security when your needs don’t extend beyond your community’s resources. But community needs shift and change, requiring new and improved resources. From pressing concerns like providing mental health support to staying recreationally current by installing pickleball courts, when we award grants, we consider the broad spectrum of what it means to live in a thriving community.
Help evolve health and human service resources to meet the needs in our community.
Health and Human Services
There’s security when your needs don’t extend beyond your community’s resources. But community needs shift and change, requiring new and improved resources. From pressing concerns like providing mental health support to staying recreationally current by installing pickleball courts, when we award grants, we consider the broad spectrum of what it means to live in a thriving community.
Help evolve health and human service resources to meet the needs in our community.
Resource Preservation
It takes intentionality to preserve and enhance our area’s natural beauty, and often it’s when practical needs are forsaken that a community starts to look rundown. New retaining walls, updated parks, and solar panel installations aren’t projects that often make the big headlines, but we’re glad donor generosity makes it possible for us to help keep our area the bright and well-kept community we love.
Your generosity can go toward keeping our corner of the world beautiful!
Resource Preservation
It takes intentionality to preserve and enhance our area’s natural beauty, and often it’s when practical needs are forsaken that a community starts to look rundown. New retaining walls, updated parks, and solar panel installations aren’t projects that often make the big headlines, but we’re glad donor generosity makes it possible for us to help keep our area the bright and well-kept community we love.
Your generosity can go toward keeping our corner of the world beautiful!
Arts
Creativity breathes the kind of vibrant life into a community that we all crave. What would our community be without the arts? Dull. And that’s why we get excited to receive grant applications for creativity-focused projects. The generosity of our donors makes our community a brighter place by providing resources for great ideas to come to life and for local artists to connect and collaborate.
Our community’s art scene is strong – together, let’s keep it that way!
Arts
Creativity breathes the kind of vibrant life into a community that we all crave. What would our community be without the arts? Dull. And that’s why we get excited to receive grant applications for creativity-focused projects. The generosity of our donors makes our community a brighter place by providing resources for great ideas to come to life and for local artists to connect and collaborate.
Our community’s art scene is strong – together, let’s keep it that way!
Education
Alphabet puppets for kindergarteners, building gadgets for an elementary STEM program, reading games, globes, maps, foam blocks, and welding materials are just some of the tangible learning resources we’ve had the privilege of helping provide to educators and their students in the last year. Teachers often have great ideas to enhance the learning experience of their students, but district budgets don’t always allow for out-of-the box projects. Because of donor generosity, we get to provide resources to help make their visions become realities.
Make learning more fun, engaging, and effective in our community!
Education
Alphabet puppets for kindergarteners, building gadgets for an elementary STEM program, reading games, globes, maps, foam blocks, and welding materials are just some of the tangible learning resources we’ve had the privilege of helping provide to educators and their students in the last year. Teachers often have great ideas to enhance the learning experience of their students, but district budgets don’t always allow for out-of-the box projects. Because of donor generosity, we get to provide resources to help make their visions become realities.
Make learning more fun, engaging, and effective in our community!
What makes the Wausau Marathon County Impact Funds possible?
The generosity of hundreds of donors! Whether $20, $100,000, or somewhere in the middle, all donations are pooled together and invested for growth. Your donation will live in the fund and generate earnings to fuel grants year after year. Donors who give $250,000 or more to the Wausau Marathon County Impact Funds establish a Named Unrestricted Fund for Marathon County to help meet community needs for generations.
The Named, Unrestricted Funds for Wausau Marathon County:
- Wausau Marathon County Fund | Diamond | 1987
- Otto S. & Esther M. Holmskug | Silver | 1994
- Caroline S. Mark | Platinum | 2005
- Marvin C. & Ruth (Rudie) J. Schuette | Platinum | 2009
- Nils Folke Jr. & Jean B. Becker | Platinum | 2013
- Edward & Lois Drott | Platinum | 2016
- James & Susan Lundberg | Gold | 2017
- Tom & Marilyn Kraemer | Silver | 2023
- William & Juliana Franzen | Silver | 2024
- Clarion G. & Irene B. Sternberg | Bronze | 2024
- Orville & Geraldine Peterson Family | Bronze | 2024
- Wausau Business Show | Granite | 2024
Giving Levels
Diamond | $2,000.000 or more
Platinum | $1,000,000 to $1,999,999
Gold | $500,000 to $999,999
Silver | $250,000 to $499,999
Bronze | $100,000 to $249,999
Quartzite | $50,000 to $99,999
Granite | $10,000 to $49,999
How can you get involved today?
Have you ever dreamed of accomplishing something important but needed more resources to make it happen? Watching nonprofit leaders dream big but lack the resources to make their dreams come true was the catalyst for establishing the Wausau Marathon County Fund. The nonprofits in our community meet a variety of tangible needs, and for decades now, they have been able to apply for grants from the Wausau Marathon County Fund to help make their visions for a brighter community come to life. Anyone can donate at any time! Every gift is meaningful and is important for making the community a better place for all.
Let’s Start a Conversation.
Curious to learn more about the Wausau Marathon County Fund? Connect with Michelle Gleason, Development Director of the Community Foundation of North Central Wisconsin.
Or call Michelle at (715) 845-9555
Michelle Gleason | Development Director
Let’s Start a Conversation.
Curious to learn more about the Wausau Marathon County Fund? Connect with Michelle Gleason, Development Director of the Community Foundation of North Central Wisconsin.
Or call Michelle at (715) 845-9555