Congrats to the Staff at Hillcrest Elementary & South High School

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We are incredibly grateful for the staff support for our annual "Go Casual for a Cause" competition. We know this has been a difficult year and we love that you have continued to support this project and have chosen to wear jeans on Thursdays to support WEF. We are grateful to Sue Ettinger for spearheading this project, to Dr. Sebert for supporting it, and for the school secretaries across the district for collecting the weekly donations and making it happen. And of course, we are grateful to all of YOU for participating. 

While the fundraiser will continue until Spring Break this year, the contest period has ended. This week, the staff at both Hillcrest Elementary and South HS collected their prize...a lunch for Hillcrest and breakfast for South. While we couldn't hang out and chat this year, we still loved making this happen. 


Shout out to the staff at Waukesha North for coming in 2nd place in our secondary contest. Since they missed first by such a small margin, and still raised over $1000, we dropped off donuts to their office on Friday as a special treat. 

Thank you to all that participated! Those dollars will go right back into this year's grant totals. Don't forget that the Grant Window is open until April 9! Learn more by clicking here!. 

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