Thompson Education Foundation

Thompson Education Foundation (TEF) is celebrating 35 years of elevating student and staff success in TSD. The foundation is excited to build on its history of success and to continue its commitment to support and enhance educational experiences for students.

Here are some of the ways TEF creates opportunities for students and staff:

• Field trip funding to deepen and enhance the curriculum taught in the classroom.
• The Help Kids Succeed school supply program provides 1,400+ economically vulnerable TSD students with supplies and backpacks for success in the classroom.
• Does your student need supplies or a backpack? Schools are stocked and ready to distribute!
• The Resiliency Fund helps over 800 TSD students identified as unhoused each year to overcome barriers that keep them out of school.
• Classroom grants for teachers implementing innovative learning experiences for students – over a quarter million dollars in classroom grant support since 1999!
• Financial support enhances music and art programs in each TSD school.
• TEF and our community partners award over $350,000 to scholarship recipients each year to help with post-secondary education costs—over $3 million and counting since the scholarship program began!
• TEF annually celebrates TSD educators and staff at Trailblazing Thompson, where the Educators of the Year are announced. 
• The Scheer Student Opportunity Fund helps individual students embrace individual academic, leadership, recognition, and extracurricular opportunities that would otherwise be inaccessible because of financial need.
• Project Prom provides prom attire for high school students to feel and look great for their big night.
• The Student-Athlete Fund offers gear and other necessities to ensure that students on district sports teams are ready to play, regardless of their financial circumstances.

To learn more, you can find TEF online at www.thompsontef.org.

Kim Akeley-Charron
Executive Director