The Annexstad Family Foundation board and staff are filled with gratitude this holiday season as we reflect on those who have contributed to the mission of investing in the potential of future leaders through scholarship. From on-campus visits to virtual and in-person events and programming, impact is made by building community through the network of scholars, alumni and institutional partners. We wish you a happy holiday season. We are grateful for a new yea rof strengthening partnerships and creating change! …
Leaders for Tomorrow scholarship recipient Jennifer Zhang
Leaders for Tomorrow scholarship recipient Jennifer Zhang (’25) was recently featured in the University of Pennsylvania’s Career Services Summer Funding series. Jennifer, who is originally from Atlanta, GA, is pursuing a degree in Nursing and spent this past summer at Mount Sinai Hospital’s Medical Intensive Care Unit at the hospital’s main campus in New York City’s Upper East Side. Jennifer shares, “As someone who always seeks growth and challenges, this was by far the most intensive and rigorous job experience I’ve ever had. From a series of back-to-back code calls and unexpected …
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The Goldie Initiative® Establishes New Foundation Partnership to Support Female Graduate Students in the Commercial Real Estate Industry – Patch
Chicago, IL – May 22, 2024 – The Goldie B. Wolfe Miller Women Leaders in Real Estate Initiative (‘The Goldie Initiative®”), a nonprofit organization designed to prepare women for senior leadership roles in all sectors of commercial real estate, has partnered with the Annexstad Family Foundation in providing scholarship support for two cohort members in The Goldie Initiative’s Goldie Scholars program. The Goldie Initiative has created a professional community of women with extraordinary academic and leadership potential, known as Goldie Scholars. Read More …
Annexstad Family Foundation Continues Legacy of Giving
For the Annexstad Family Foundation, education and generosity go together. Since 2011, 21 students have earned their degrees from The University of Alabama with the help of the Annexstad Family Foundation. These scholars have been funded through the Foundation’s Leaders for Tomorrow National Scholarship Program (LFT), which allows recipients — most of whom are first-generation college students — to complete their academic careers fully-funded and graduate with little or no debt. The roots of such generosity were sown by Al and Cathy Annexstad, who founded the Annexstad Family Foundation …
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A LIFE OF GIVING AND GROWING – A CHILDHOOD OF CHALLENGES SCHOOLED AL ANNEXSTAD.
At Minnesota State University, Mankato, the loss of Al Annexstad ’67, who died July 8 at the age of 82, brings to light the impact he had not only on his alma mater but on education around the country. His was a rags-to-riches story in which his good fortune was shared through nearly 1,300 scholarships to students around the U.S.—including many at Minnesota State Mankato. Annexstad will be remembered as a thoughtful businessman, a dedicated husband, father and friend, and a philanthropist whose generosity touched students who, like him, had to navigate difficult economic …
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