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This organization started in 1989 as a fund at the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation and was incorporated in 1997 to support the students of the Shawnee Mission School District
What is the Shawnee Mission Education Foundation?
Starting with the first class of 12 students in 2018, this Foundation program serves as an intensive leadership training program for students who might not otherwise have those opportunities
What is Leadership Shawnee Mission?
A partnership between the Kauffman Foundation, the Shawnee Mission School District and the Foundation, this program sets out to ensure our students are ready for life after graduation.
What is Real World Learning?
With more than 7,000 future students enrolled, this program brings a free book each month to Shawnee Mission's youngest learners.
What is Dolly Parton's Imagination Library?
By giving $1000 or more, individual donors are considered a part of this giving circle
What is the Superintendent's Circle?
Mark Allen, Jan Kreamer, Rusy Leffel, and Steve Rose
Who are the founders of the Shawnee Mission Education Foundation?
This program brought Shawnee Mission students $737 million in scholarship offers in 2019, its first year.
What is Scholarship Shawnee Mission?
Putting their money where their mouth is, the Foundation hired this Shawnee Mission West student to serve as intern during the 23-24 and 24-25 school year.
Who is Joy Partin?
This program provides school and classroom grants for innovative projects and last year awarded more than $35,000 to innovative teaching projects
What are Excellence in Education Grants or E2 Grants?
This percentage of Shawnee Mission students qualify for free- and reduced-price lunch, accentuating the growing needs within our District
What is 39%?
This early morning extravaganza is the Foundation's biggest fundraiser.
What is the Fall Breakfast?
Starting early with classroom leadership and kindergarten readiness skills, this early childhood education program is funded in part by the Hall Family Foundation
What is Jump Start to Learning or Jump Start?
All Shawnee Mission students will graduate with one of these 4 Market Value Assets by the year 2030.
What are Industry Recognized Credentials
12 Hours of College Credit
Internships/Client Connected Projects (Work Based Learning)
Entrepreneurial Experiences?
Providing emergency funds in times of crisis, this program helped Shawnee Mission families with more than $45,000 during the 23-24 School Year
What is the Shawnee Mission Cares Fund or the Cares Fund?
This Shawnee Mission West grad, best known for his roles in Clueless and Ant Man, headlined the Foundation's Celebrate Success Luncheon in 2004.
Who is Paul Rudd?
This group of Shawnee Mission faithful have left the Foundation in their will or estate plans
What is the McEachen Circle?
$3.1 Billion
What is the amount of scholarship offers for SSM 2023.
Led by Fellow-level members JE Dunn and DS Bus Lines, this group of businesses supports Real World Learning
What is the Corporate Council?
Providing a summer experience on a college campus, this scholarship helps students experience college life the summer before their senior year.
What are the Kenna Campbell Kobin Memorial Stepping Stones Scholarships or Stepping Stones Scholarships?
A partnership between the Foundation, local law enforcement and the Johnson County Branch of the NAACP, this annual event lets high-need SM 6th graders "Shop with a Cop" for holiday presents. The Foundation provides a huge holiday meal for the families.
What is Operation Rudolph?
This many paid staff members and this many board members make up the Shawnee Mission Education Foundation
What is 6 staff and 15 board members?
Knowing that not working for two weeks could be a barrier to some students participating in Leadership Shawnee Mission, the Foundation gives a stipend of this amount to any student who completes the program
What is $500?
Up from 40.6% in 2021, this percentage of Shawnee Mission graduates have earned an MVA at the end of the 23/24 school year
What is 73%?
A music teacher wants to take her 4th graders to see the KC Symphony, but there are no funds for field trips so she applies for assistance from this Foundation fund.
What is the It Starts with the Arts fund?
The name that makes Foundation staff pull out their hair, stomp their feet, and swear like sailors, no one should EVER EVER EVER call the Foundation this.
What is SMEF?