2025 Highlights
As always, education and financial literacy are important components of our mission. During 2025, we awarded local secondary schools over $24,000 to be utilized for educational endeavors. Local technical colleges received $34,000 to be utilized for scholarships and educational purposes. We continued to support financial literacy with donations to multiple Junior Achievement offices totaling $27,500. Other education and literacy donations included money for Aspirus Health Foundation’s Reach Out and Read Program, United Way of South Wood & Adams Counties’ Finance Bowl, and Marathon County Literacy Council. We helped the Children’s Imaginarium launch a new program, “First Grade Futures: A Stem Discovery Day” with a grant of $7,500.
2024 Highlights
During 2024, Connexus Association donated over $190,000. We continued to support educational institutions, Junior Achievement, and various other organizations whose missions’ included education and financial literacy. New donations in 2024 included support for a new Marathon County 4-H program and a summer reading incentive program, Sandy’s Summer Splash in which we pledged money to a Rotary Club Reading to Go program and Marathon County Literacy Council based on the number of minutes children read during the summer. An exciting update for Connexus Association is the decision to utilize a new platform for adult financial literacy. We have partnered with KOFE: Knowledge of Financial Education to provide our members with free resources and guidance to achieve financial well-being. By April of 2025, all members will now have access to interactive courses, webinars, videos, and a toll-free hot-line to reach financial coaches.
2023 Highlights
Connexus Association continued to award grants to programs that align with our mission to provide scholarships for education, to assist educational institutions and to provide financial literacy education. We donated just over $100k to educational institutions in Central Wisconsin including a grant of $5,000 to Mid-State Technical College specifically to help fund a new program, the Student Occupation Success Project. We also continued to provide free financial literacy courses to our members through our partnership with EVERFI. Through this same partnership, Connexus Association helps deliver digital education for up to 15 schools at no cost to the school.
We directly supported financial literacy education including $17,500 to various Junior Achievement offices with thousands more dollars granted to organizations which would indirectly support financial literacy education. A new donation in 2023 was made to Wisconsin Literacy Inc, an organization that supports member literacy agencies statewide, reaching 88% of Wisconsin counties.
2022 Highlights
In 2022, the Association continued its focus on educational endeavors. The Board of Directors for Connexus Association voted to continue providing funding and scholarships for the local schools we support at the same level as previous years. We continued to partner with EVERFI to bring free digital education to schools in our community and free financial literacy courses to our members.
We donated over $20k to other institutions to support STEM and reading programs. We directly support financial literacy education including $17,500 to various Junior Achievement offices with thousands more dollars granted to organizations which would indirectly support financial literacy education.
2021 Highlights
Despite the economic uncertainties, Connexus Association continued its support of education and financial literacy programs. Connexus donated over $25,000 to ten local schools for educational purposes. We continue to partner with EVERFI and local Junior Achievement offices to bring financial literacy education to schools in our community. We opened up our scholarship fund at the local Community Foundation to one more school, making seniors at 18 different high schools now eligible to apply.
This year we also made a $10,000 donation to Colossal Fossils, a non-profit designed to provide interactive natural history programs to schools and communities of Wisconsin. The donation will be used towards life-sized traveling whale exhibit.