A local physician and a school division facilitator have donated $100,000 to the Community Foundation of Portage & District (CFPD) to establish a new education fund designed to support local residents who face financial barriers to post-secondary education.

Dr. Brett Finney and Dana Geisel launched the Geisel-Finney Future Fund , which aims to fill a niche by funding students who are not recent high school graduates or who need retraining, an area that often falls through the cracks of existing bursaries.

Lorna Knight, Executive Director of the CFPD, called the donation “game-changing.”

“These two individuals were very adamant about making sure that they created a fund that was going to fill a niche that we have present in our community,” Knight said in an interview. “It’s really ma

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