Do you love your community and want to be part of making it a brighter place for everyone? Your generosity has that very potential.

While money doesn’t solve every community problem, funding is an essential pillar to keeping up with needs, preserving our area’s beauty, and providing new opportunities for people to connect, grow, and thrive. Could the Wausau Marathon County Fund be a fit for your philanthropic generosity?

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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!

5 things to know about the Wausau Marathon County Fund:
  1. It is a permanent community endowment; grant-making will continue forever and is designed to meet the ever-changing needs of Marathon County for generations to come.
  2. Every gift is meaningful and is important for making the community a better place for all.
  3. The fund was formed on 1987.
  4. The fund grants approximately $400,000 each year.
  5. Anyone can donate at any time!
5 benefits of giving through us:
  • Maximum tax benefits beyond those available to private foundations.
  • Maximum recognition or anonymity based on donors’ wishes.
  • We accept donations in many forms.
  • Gifts go toward enhancing the vibrancy and livability of your community.
  • We are here for good, forever!

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

Michelle Gleason | Development Director