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OUR COMMUNITY

Community Feature

The greater Eau Claire community is the heart and soul of our foundation. To highlight and promote the outstanding work of our nonprofit partners in our community, we feature significant progress and notable events in our community on a rotating basis. To read past community features, visit our archives.

December 2025: Education

What comes to mind when you think about the word education? Does it make you think back to your school days? Maybe you think about your children’s school experiences. Maybe you’re a student yourself right now! Yeah, you’re right! School is absolutely a big part of education, and there’s so much more to it as well.

Knowledge is power. Education transforms lives and can break the cycle of poverty—sometimes for an entire family in a single generation. Whether providing children with reading, writing, and sensory exposures when their brains are quickly developing or helping adults obtain equal access to higher education, scholarships, mentorships, and networks, we view education as taking place both in and out of the classroom. We support education efforts that are nimble, adaptable, and transferable across generations to come.

When we at Pablo Foundation bring up education, we’re talking about public schools, universities, museums, libraries, health education, summer camps, youth empowerment, technology training for seniors, advocacy, family time, and so many more core parts of our community. However education has impacted your life, it likely informs a huge part of who you are. If you do any sort of work in education, please pick one or more of the following questions to answer in the comments.

Why did you get into working in education in the first place? (The text is accompanied by a picture of multiple colored pencils across the color spectrum.)

What have you enjoyed most about working in education throughout your career? (The text is accompanied by a photograph of a biracial educator working with young children who are counting on their fingers.)

Whatever your role is, tell us about a time you felt really appreciated as an educator. (The text is accompanied by a photograph of a bearded Black educator smiling in conversation with a white young adult.)

The news outlet Education Week announced its word of the year for 2025 as “dismantle” due to the extreme efforts at the federal level to dismantle education oversight, funding, and programs related to equity, diversity, and inclusion. Based on your experiences, what is your word of the year for education? (The text is accompanied by a washed out photograph of an empty classroom with harsh lighting and empty blackboards in the front of the room.)

How would you like to see education transform and progress in our shared community? (The text is accompanied by a photograph of a multi-ethnic group of elementary school students jumping with glee down the steps of a school while wearing backpacks.)

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