Foundation News, Updates & Announcements
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Homesteaders Life Company Pledges $150,000 in Support of Funeral Service Foundation
Homesteaders Life Company Pledges $150,000 in Support of Funeral Service Foundation Brookfield, Wis. – With gratitude, Funeral Service Foundation Executive Director, Kathy Wisnefski, announced yesterday that Homesteaders Life Company pledged a major gift of $150,000 in support of the Foundation’s [...]
National Guardian Life Pledges $150,000 in Support of Funeral Service Foundation
National Guardian Life Pledges $150,000 in Support of Funeral Service Foundation Brookfield, Wis. – With appreciation, Funeral Service Foundation Executive Director, Kathy Wisnefski, announced yesterday that the Foundation received a $150,000 major gift pledge from National Guardian Life Insurance Company [...]
Breathe Deep
If you know me, you know you wouldn't ever catch me crying. Not during a sad movie, not at funerals, and certainly not at airports over lost luggage or canceled flights. This was not the case in the San Francisco [...]
Foundation Announces 2014 NFDA Professional Women’s Conference Scholarship Recipients
Brookfield, Wis. -- The Funeral Service Foundation has awarded five scholarships for attendance at NFDA’s 2014 Professional Women’s Conference (PWC), which will be held April 25-27 in Atlanta, Georgia. The PWC scholarship program aligns with the Foundation’s mission to fund projects [...]
Funeral Service Foundation Currently Accepting Academic Scholarship Applications
The Funeral Service Foundation is now accepting applications for four of its five academic scholarships: The Joseph E. Hagan Scholarship; the Memorial Classic Golf Tournament Scholarship; the Schoepp Memorial Scholarship; and, new in 2014, the Shipley Rose Buckner Memorial Scholarship. [...]