Recent Foundation News

Winona State Univeristy (WSU) students are well known to be bright, hardworking, and dedicated to their education. While each one comes from a different background with a different story to...

When Xavier Smith learned he was Tigertown bound in 2016, he had dual feelings of joy and apprehension. How would the cost of his college education be covered? When he...

Penn’s scholarship celebrations provide an opportunity for Penn’s generous donors to undergraduate scholarships to meet and build connections with the extraordinary students that their philanthropy supports. Held each fall on...

On Penn’s campus, Kayvon is already well-known. A musician and entrepreneur, Kayvon is one of the stars of the This is Our Penn video and has thrilled Penn crowds for nearly four...

Annexstad Foundation Program Administrator Visits Scholars Al and Cathy Annexstad, founders of the Annexstad Family Foundation, have long held an impassioned belief that exceptionally bright young people who have little...

University of Pennsylvania Leaders for Tomorrow scholar Kayvon Asemani has recently been selected as one of Poets & Quants’s 3rd annual “Best and Brightest Business Majors” from the class of 2018. Kayvon...

On July 12, Victor Hunt ’18 and cofounders Aaron Resnick ’18 B.S., Matt Kim, and Yusuf Olokoba, took home the grand prize at the NYU-Yale Pitchoff for their startup, Astorian, an...

Indian Springs High School teacher Joe Kelly gets a bit emotional talking about one of his former students. “I get teary-eyed thinking about Kimberly graduating,” he says of Kimberly Rios-Hernandez...

Focus on a Specialized Scholarship Program: The Annexstad Family Foundation A shared life experience for Cathy and Al Annexstad (’10) is that they are children of single-parent homes created by...

At the recent Americus-Sumter High School (ASHS) Band Banquet, the Gabrion Johnson Pay It Forward Band Scholarship was presented to its first recipient — De’Shun Iverson. Johnson was drum major...

Each year Boston College hosts a scholarship dinner in April. Two inspiring students are chosen to speak at the event and this year Naren Briar, an Annexstad Family Foundation Leaders for...

A Tribute to the Knowledge, Energy, and Passion behind the Annexstad Family Foundation During my former career, I hired Dick nearly 40 years ago, and I can honestly say his...