Ways to Give
2025 IFYE Donors
2025 was a successful year for fundraising among IFYE Alumni and friends of IFYE. With the Lad Harrison Challenge and Annual Giving Campaign, we were able to achieve our fundraising goal for the following year. These contributions play a major role in sustaining the IFYE program and allow us to continue to provide today’s young adults with valuable and unique experience in international understanding and global awareness.
It is with a deep sense of gratitude that we share our heartfelt Thank You to all who contributed this past calendar year. We hope that you will continue to help sustain IFYE with your annual contributions and encourage other IFYE alumni and friends of IFYE to do likewise.
Listed below are the names of those who contributed (excluding names of those who requested to remain anonymous) depicted by the level of giving as shown here. Legacy Society gifts are celebrating those who named IFYE as a beneficiary of part of their estate. Year denotes when the gift was received by IFYE.
Individuals in whose names the 2025 donations that were made either 'In Memory of' or 'In Honor of' a friend or loved one are also listed below. Thank you again for your faithful support of IFYE!
| Diamond: $25,000 and above | Ruby: $20,000 - $24,999 | Emerald: $15,000 - $19,999 |
| Sapphire: $10,000 - $14,999 | Platinum: $5,000 - $9,999 | Gold: $1,000 - $4,999 |
| Silver: $500 - $999 | Bronze: $100 - $499 | Copper: Up to $99 |
| Legacy Society | |||
| Alice C Matonic (2018) | |||
| Betty Stephenson (2025) | |||
| Eldon “Bud” & Virginia Aupperle Estate (2026) | |||
| Diamond $25,000 and above |
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| Lad Harrison | |||
| Ruby $20,000 - $24,999 |
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| Elaine Wolf | |||
| Emerald $15,000 - $19,999 |
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| The Halle Foundation | |||
| Sapphire $10,000 - $14,999 |
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| No Donors | |||
| Platinum $5,000 - $9,999 |
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| Linda Eppelheimer | Marjorie Loyd | Nebraska IFYE Association | Douglas Nelson |
| Gunver Penton - Lodge | Patti Jo Price | ||
| Gold $1,000 - $4,999 |
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| Anonymous (2) | Don Anderson | Barbara Austin | Susan Ball |
| Gloria Bartholomew - Nelson | William "Brad" Bradley Jr. | Lee Hood Capps | Elizabeth Carlson |
| Maureen Cook | Clifton Foundation, Inc. | Patrick & Diane Corcoran | Anna Creamer |
| Patricia Donahue | Robert Ellis | Keith Ferris | Janet Floeter |
| Margaret Foster | Ann Foley Gardner | Larry & Joan Gould | Elnore Grow |
| Karla Henderson | Carolyn Hansen | Jan Holen | Pat Hutsell |
| Richard & Judy Isaacson | Robert & Nicki Jenkins | Dr Barbara Maidment | Judiann McNulty |
| Robert Miller | Dick & Joyce Niggley | Harlen Persinger | Paul Rice |
| Edwin Schellin | Rudolph Schnabel | Roger Sherer | Susan Shultz |
| Dalton Still | Martha Tarter | Wesley Tschetter | Dona Turner |
| Victoria Warren | Mabel Wheeler | Dale Wicke | Henry (Hank) Wicke |
| Janet Wood | Norma L Wu | Mark Zeug | |
| Silver $500 - $999 |
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| Anonymous (2) | Theresa Bahns | Phyllis Debnar | Anne Fournier |
| Toni Frank | Lynn Hamilton | Dorothy Horrell | Alice Linnebur |
| James Morgan | Susan Morris | Ernst & Janice Mehl | Larry & Betsy Moore |
| Mary Kay Munson | Kenneth Offord | Keith Olsen | Nancy Schmidt |
| Steve Schomberg | South Dakota IFYE Association | Denise Tolmie | Nancy William |
| Dale Yonker | |||
| Bronze $100 - $499 |
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| Anonymous (3) | Ross Aker | John Aylsworth | John Baird |
| Cindy Barnett | Margery Bayless | Patricia Baymiller | Evelyn Beavers |
| Roger Beesley | Cathy Behm | Judy A Bell | Glen Bornt |
| Mark Bowen | Elna Bragdon | Judith Bramlette | Mary Buchele |
| Allison Clinton | Patricia Cook | Patricia Cooksey | James Cormode |
| Shirley Coulson | Don DeWerff | Ken Dolezal | Joyce Drewiecki |
| William & Jane Ebert | William & Jane Edwards | Lynette Ely | John Foree |
| Delbert Frericks | Hope Fry | Dwight Gee | Marilyn Geiger |
| Nancy George | Shirley Gerken | Barbara Gershman | Richard Gibson |
| Margaret Godke | Jon Greeneisen | Cynthia Grimm | Robert Grimm |
| David Harrison | Len & Barbara Harzman | Mena Hautau | Emily Haver |
| Audrey Hay | Rodney Henderson | Carol Hendrickson | Marge Hennenfent |
| Hope Heslop | Harold Hill | Nancy Hofstetter | Prudence Holton |
| Kraig Humbaugh | Irlene Huntington | Robert Jones | Molly Kalany |
| Helen Koehler | Rev. Cleo Kottwitz | Martha Kovacevich | Sharon "Sherry" Kuntz |
| Rev. Larry Kuntz | Jonathan Lang | Rosalie Leigh | W Lewis Leigh Jr |
| Kateri Linn | Layton Manus | Sally Meeks | Karen Mosteller |
| Margaret "Peggy" Olsen | Mari Ann O'Neill | Roger Pine | John & Linda Poehlmann |
| Tracy Remy | Nachelle "Shelly" Richard | Jon Roberts | Janet Rodekohr |
| James Roseberry | Claire Rotering | Laura Schick | Donald Seaman |
| Dr Wayne Sharp | John Siembida | Mary Steinberg | John Stitzlein |
| William Stroman | Leon Sucht | Sheri Swackhamer | Ruth Trail |
| Doreen VanSickle | Dr Mary Wahl | Deryl Waldren | Susan Walters |
| Patricia Wenning | John Westcott | Jilinda White | M. Brooks & Mary Rose Whitney |
| Eleanor Wilson | Shannon Wood | ||
| Copper Up to $99 |
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| Anonymous | Debra Beck | Linda Beech | Jody Bonazzi |
| Karen Borchers | Alissa Bullard Bumstead | Keith Burt | Carolyn Clague |
| Michael Conger | Cathleen Cummings | Nancy Dewey | Cleo Erickson |
| Ronald Faas | Beatrice Garner | Beverly Hain | Gail Harris |
| Virginia "Ginger" Heller | Sarah Heminway | Vicki Herman | Betsy Inkel |
| David & Jo Lynne Johnson | Katharine Leavitt | Courtney Loflin | Beth Lomkin |
| Sherry Lynch Conrad | Mark Miller | Jeffery Moser | Emily Page |
| Wayne Piersel | Chrystal Reichard | Janet Risinger | Mary Beth Roren |
| Elaine Shirley | Don Shoop | Gwen Stickney | Reginald Stroud |
| Mary Ann Sward | Arlene Vincent | Larry Wood | |
| 'In Honor Of' The Following Individuals |
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| Keith & Pam Ferris | Thomas D. Fenton | David & Andrea Maille | Judy (Moore) Reierson |
| 'In Memory Of' The Following Individuals |
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| Barb Bierman Batie | Joseph Bicknell | Jean Boor | Bea Cleveland |
| Roger Fox | John Fuquay | Caroline S. Gardner | Francis Hart |
| JoAnne (Thomas) Havelka | Jim Johnson | Gwyneth Jones Augustine | Ralph D. & Mildred Kelting Jones |
| Carl Matter | Betty McCoy | S. Suzanne Schepers Nielsen | Kenneth Offord |
| Leland (Lee) Olkjer | John D. Orr | Ken Oxford | William Penton |
| Thomas & Fern Rice | Robert Walker | Kathy (Murphy) Wachsmuth | Hugh Wetzel |
| Ray Williams | Mary Woodward | ||
February 2026
