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Greater Portage Youth Education Foundation


Our scholarships are an excellent way to help reduce the costs of higher education.


INSTRUCTIONS FOR GRANT APPLICANTS


2025 GPYEF Scholarship Recipients

GPYEF Scholarship to a senior planning to attend a 4-year college or university

Ally Saloun


GPYEF Scholarship to a senior planning to attend a 2-year college transfer program or technical college


Max Johnson


Arthur & Eleanor Docter Memorial Scholarship to a senior planning to attend a 2-year or 4-year university


Elizabeth Youra


William Hanson Memorial Scholarship to a recipient going into a technical field
(This is the first year we have awarded the Hanson Scholarship so it does not appear below on other years.)


Mark Schlinkert          


GPYEF Scholarship Recipients

2024 2023 2022

Ezra Laufenberg (4-year) Fallyn Breunig (2-year)

Docter Scholarship
Estella Brees

Ayden Hellenbrand (4-year) Maya Schroeder (2-year)

Docter Scholarship
Gabe Bandekow

Landon Walker (4 year)
Brandee Schumann (2 year)

Docter Scholarship
Natalie Weidner
2021 2020 2019
Kelsey Cervantes (4 year)
Julia Aulik (2 year)

Docter Scholarship
Leo McEvilly
Nicholas Nadolski (4 year)
Brianna Brandner (2 year)

Docter Scholarship
Gabrielle Garrigan
Nathan Poches (4 yr)
Janet Moyotl-Hernandez (2 yr)

Docter Scholarship
Isaac Brockley
2018 2017 2016
Cade Harkner (4 yr)
Allyson Ableman (2 yr)
Ethan Lentz (4yr)
Joseph Clemmons (2yr)

Madigan O'Leary (4yr)
Samantha Jahn (2yr)

 

2015 2014 2013

Samuel Clemmons (4-year)
Madison Bear (2-year)

 

Jolie Dion-Gottfried (4 year)
Kelsey Pence (2 year)

 

Abby Carpenter (4 year)
Veronica Gutierrez (2 year)
2012 2011 2009

Abigail Boeck (4 Year)
Rachel Jensen (2 Year)

 

Ben Carpenter (4 Year)
Elyse Fenne (2 Year)

 

Ashley Hartwell (4 Year)
Spencer Nett (2 Year)


How Greater Portage Youth Education Foundation
has helped Portage Community Schools (for a complete list click here)

Projects & Events

2025 2024 2023

Paddle Forward(Canoe Project)
John Muir Ukuleles
School Band Instruments
Bartels MS Outdoor Adventure Club
Insect Life Cycle Project
Portage HS Art Club
Post Prom 
4th Grade Books for Bright Minds
Beyond the Notes Festival
Portage HS Baseball
PHS Art Dept. Kiln Replacement/Upgrade
Sensory Integration Room
Portage HS Choir Attire
Art Show Display Panels
UV Goggles & Sterilization Cabinet
Social, Emotional, Cognitive Development
Animal Science Training
Sponsorship for Girls Basketball Club
Phonological Awareness and Life Skills
Youth Frontier Coverage
Souper Show-Bartels Middle School
Winter Gear for Students
National Art Education Association Conference
Spanish Exchange
Costa Rica Trip-for June 2026, Spanish Class
Swing Choir Uniforms

German Exchange-Three Week Trip
IL Holocaust Museum Field Trip
Free Voluntary Reading Library(this isn’t on the list currently and needs to be added)
FFA Day on the Hill
MS Band T Shirts(this is listed with two other things on the same line and needs to be separated)
PHS Art Club Field Trip(this is listed along with two other things on the same line and needs to be separated)
DSLR Cameras for Photography Class
Insect Life Cycles (this is listed along with two other things on the same line and needs to be separated)
Portage HS Baseball
Beyond the Notes Choral Festival
PHS Art Club Stained Glass Workshop
Bartels Middle School Kiln Upgrade
Portage High School Costume Closet
MusicFest Proceeds
Environmental Science Stream Tables
Flexible Seating and Storage for Elementary
Flexible Seating for Elementary
Marching Band Grant
Souper Show Grant
Portage Wrestling

PHS Post Prom
John Muir Book Room Nonfiction Books
Portage Curling Club Video Equipment
John Muir Sensory Items Kindergarten Unit Celebration Books
BMS art students to Van Gogh
Exhibit PHS Art Club to Van Gogh
Exhibit Bridges for Math
Artist is Residence
Tech Ed, Ag and Science Department Lumber Mill
Community Service Activities for 9th Grade Transition Class
Muir Elementary Graphic Novels
Xtra Lifelong Performance-Modern Band
Portage HS Wrestling