Botkins Education Foundation

2023 in Review

 

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year from the Botkins Education Foundation’s Board of Trustees!!!!

Hard to believe the year is coming to an end but another successful year it has been for the Botkins Education Foundation.  Eight years ago, seven local community-minded individuals set out to research, investigate, plan and form this Foundation.  The initial focus was threefold:

  • Provide scholarships for our graduates
  • Recognize contributions to advance education in the school district
  • Establish an endowment to provide long-term support for the foundation

Through the generous efforts of this Community, Volunteers, and Donors, the Foundation has far exceeded those initial early-on expectations.   Our Community and its Alumni have created many new and additional scholarships (both skilled and academic) over these past eight years.  Unsolicited contributions have enabled a Teach Grant opportunity.  And the endowment dream has also been met assuring and enabling scholarships for years to come.

The focus the past several years has grown to include the Teachers Grant program.  In just the past two years - for the elementary students we helped bring to Botkins - Kirby Lane Larson, an American writer of children's books; helped sponsor a Mom & Muffins event in the elementary grades; helped sponsor a Kindergarten Wild Life Theme program; and currently helping to bring in a computer keyboard training program for the elementary students.

Three years ago, through our endowment investments and being a non-profit organization, we became eligible to participate in the Community Foundation of Shelby County’s Match Day Event.  Through the Match Day event, we have the opportunity of a $5,000 match if we define a project related to our Education Foundation efforts and we earn the first $5,000.  We have been successful in our three years of eligibility all because of the generous Botkins Community and Alumni support.  Year one, we used the Match Day dollars to bring the aforementioned Chris Herren to Botkins to speak to our Junior High and High School Students.  (Note: we also invited Anna and Jackson Center’s High School Students to attend as well).  Year two, our project was to help provide a part time Licensed Social Worker in our school for the purpose of providing our youth with mental health and other related circumstantial support.  This was initiated this year – school year 2023/2024.  We just completed our third year of Match Day eligibility in which our project was to continue providing the part time Licensed Social Worker for a second year, next school year 2024/2025.  Again, through the support of our local Community, Alumni, etc. we met and exceeded our Match Day target, this year raising $14,905.

As you can see, the Botkins Education Foundation has been most successful and has continued to grow over these past eight years.  But we couldn’t do it without the wonderful generous support that has been provided.

If you have any questions, suggestions or recommendations for our Foundation, please contact any of the Board of Trustees.  They are as follows for the new year 2024.

  • Fritz Serr
  • JoAnn Koenig
  • Sara Kreitzer
  • Ashliegh Maurer
  • Connie Schneider
  • Shaun Zimpfer
  • Rita Hemmert

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year

from The Botkins Education Foundation Board of Trustees

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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