Our Mission is to Support and enhance the legacy of

excellence in Eden Prairie Public Schools

“Dear FEPS — Thank you for everything you have provided for our

classroom and school. Everything you guys have done is wonderful

and generous. We all have huge smiles on our faces for all of the

things you’ve done. Thanks, Shreya”

Tower Gardens Funded at Three Schools—$14,300

IMPACT REPORT 2015-2016

Message from the Board President

In 2016, the Foundation for Eden Prairie Schools is celebrating many things! For 10 strong years, the Foundation teacher/staff grant program has funded nearly $770,000 including LEGO Robotics, Maker Stations with 3D printers, tower gardens, a solar telescope, improved equipment for physical education and the arts, and technologi-cal innovations across the district, including $70,000 to 17 different projects this year alone! We are leaders in innovation in the west metro thanks to your donations!

Since 2012, we have been giving college scholarships to graduating seniors. With $43,750 given in 2016 to 18 seniors, we’re the largest scholarship provider at Eden Prairie High School!

Having a small, yet excellent staff, with our Executive Director, Sarah Cheesman, and Fundraising Event Coordinator, Susan Paulus, makes us fiscally strong and increases our impact! We rely upon, and are grateful to, our dedicated volunteers, working throughout the community, running events, serving on the Board of Directors, and giving generously themselves. We also hear daily about the engaged students and enthusiastic teachers who have benefitted from the continued generosity of our individual and corporate donors who make the biggest difference by increasing our endowment!

In volunteering as President, I have witnessed the Foundation successfully complete a full audit of our finances, increase our connectedness with the community and grow our volunteer base, enhance our electronic presence with an exciting new web site, and take steps toward achieving official certification with the Charity Review Council. By all accounting, we are a GREAT investment, fully aimed toward a successful future! Please continue to donate generously. Join us for the optimism and the amazing achievements that it brings!

Best wishes,

Cathy Bockenstedt

“I am part of an organization that changes students’ lives. I am

proud of it! We make innovative learning possible! Your children

are better off because of our Foundation!”

Staff: Sarah Cheesman, Executive Director, scheesman@edenpr.org, 952-975-7205 Susan Paulus, Fundraising Event Coordinator, susan.feps@gmail.com

Anne Byrne Susan Kielly Paul Matheson Renee Rushdy

Cathy Haukedahl Colleen Larson Karen Nelson Jaclyn Swords

Suzan Kammer Andy Malone Esti Ollerman Bill Wrobel

2015-2016 Board Members

President – Cathy Bockenstedt President Elect – Holly Parker

Secretary – Ginny Leppart Treasurer – Jon Oberle

Goals of the Foundation’s Grant Program:

Provide large grants to Eden Prairie education professionals seeking to make significant change.

Serve as an incubator for great ideas that impact curriculum, instruction and assessment while

achieving meaningful, measurable results. Encourage ideas that have a direct and significant

impact on students’ passion for learning.

Lynn Zigen

In 2016 Foundation for Eden Prairie Schools Funded

17 Grants totaling $70,000

Targeted Services Students learn math while playing

the piano $2,500.00

Elementary students solve puzzles to open boxes to reveal their “prize”

$4570.00

Students program Ozobots to learn to code $2,750.00

My Book Day-1st Graders get a brand new book. $5000 Partnership with Eden Prairie Noon Rotary

Biology Manipulative and Models $10,000 EPHS 10-12 grade

Griffiths Family Scholarship in Health Sciences: Neetij Krishnan Griffiths Family Scholarship in Engineering: Piper Lincoln

Holaseck-Griffiths Scholarship in Business: Rijul Malik (above 3 scholarships are funded through the generosity of Harold Griffiths) Matheson Family Technical Scholarship: Ikram Ali and

Matthew Fisher (funded through the generosity of Paul and Bev Matheson)

Ron Iverson Memorial Scholarship: Olivia Henstein (funded through the generosity of Mark and Elizabeth Spohn)

Class of 1973 Spirit Scholarship: Noelle Ballantine (funded through the generosity of Deb and Rick Karulf)

Randall D. Voas/Randy's Run Scholarship: Caroline Frischmon and Kevin Jeter

(funded through the generosity of the Voas family and Randy's Run) Sydney M. Galleger Memorial Scholarship: Kayla Albers, Jennifer Aksoz, Ben Basile, Emily Bohlig, Madeline Brown, Steven Harris, Emily Fenske,

Carly Rogers and Christopher Rose (funded through the generosity of donors, see page 11 for the 2015-2016 fiscal year donors)

2016 Scholarship Winners

2016 Legacy Award Winners

Teachers of the Year: Rae Ann Brenckman – Little Eagles Pre-School Matt Busch – Eden Lake Elementary Karen Fogarty – Eden Lake Elementary John Pogatchnik – Eden Prairie High School

Staff Person of the Year: Eric Motzko – Eden Prairie High School

Volunteers of the Year: Tracy Bredehoft – Eagle Heights Spanish Immersion

Willi Husaby – Central Middle School

Students of the Year: Tommy Fenske – Forest Hills Elementary Disha Manvikar – Eden Prairie High School

Community Member/Alumni: Kathy Educate

Legacy of Giving: Harold Griffiths

Thank you to our sponsor Royal Credit Union!

The Foundation for Eden Prairie Schools hosted the following

fundraising events that fund our teacher and staff grants.

Each spring and winter, an Appreciation Gift

with a personalized card can be purchased

and sent to a teacher or district staff person.

The 5K for EP Schools is held each year in fall at the Eden Prairie High School.

The Taste of Eden Prairie is the Foundation’s signature fundraising event

hosting hundred of community

members. The event includes food

from local restaurants, cash bar,

silent auction, music and trivia.

The Foundation for Eden Prairie Schools makes every effort to accurately reflect our donors. Please contact Sarah Cheesman at scheeman@edenpr.org with any changes.

Gold $1,000-$2,499

Silver $999-$500

Bronze $100-$499

Friends of EP Schools up to $99

Liz and Jason Dayton* John Estall and Shirley Boyd Bev and Paul Matheson^

Jeff and Holly Parker^

Thank you to our supporters! Platinum $2,500-$5,000 Esti Ollerman and Brad Ericksen

Anonymous

Paul and Cathy Bockenstedt*≈

K. Jon Breyer Eden Prairie Education Association*

Sandra and Peter Griffin

Lions Tap

Bonnie Theis and Joe Martin

Renee and Jamal Rushdy≈

Maureen Oates≈

Gregory and Susan Thurin

Bill and Malyn Wrobel≈

Linda and John Zimmerman

Nadia Alleman

Patrick Andrus*

Karen Busack

Sharon and Bob Barker

Starr Bourque*

Rae Ann Brenckman

Anne and Pat Byrne^

Sarah and Shawn Cheesman

Mark David

Mary and Dan DeMarce*

Jennifer and Mike Dewberry Karen Donohue Douglas and Becky Duchon*

Eden Prairie High School*

Sue Feigal-Hitch*

Sheila Fitzgerald*

Randy Haar*

John & Julie Heinmiller

Mary and Kevin Gustafson

Cathy Haukedahl

Michelle and Dave Hawkins

Brenda and Darryl Heck*

Susan and Guy Hicklin*

Molly and Craig Hollenbeck

Terry and Bruce Hutchins Duane and Connie Hytjan*

Therese and Joel Johnson*

Suzan and Mark Kammer*

Jeanne and Scott Knutson

Mary and Tim Lenker

Bronze $100-$499

Ginny and Jerry Leppart Kathy and Larry Link* Nancy Tyra-Lukens and Jeff Lukens

Sue and Daniel Malina

Megan and Andy Malone*

Tom May*

Carol Meyer*

Andrea and Mike Mohan Linda and Dave Mona

Laurel Nebeker*

Martha and Brian Nordmann*

Karen and Jon Oberle

Bill and Susan Paulus*

Katherine and Wyatt Reyerson*

George Schell

Heather and Greg Schu

Lisa and Scott Sieling

Bronze $100-$499

Megan and Mark Skogstad*

Tanya Smith*

Connie and John Steinlicht Steph and Josh Swanson*

Jill and Tony Szczepaniak

The iDoctor, LLC

Vince Thomas*

Jennifer and John Urbanski

Laura and Rick Wall

Brenda Walsh*

Paula and Andy Wright

Jane Aagenes*

Heather Adams

Mark Allen

Cynthia Amin and Dr. Rahim Kaysar

Mary Andert

Saurabh Baisakhiya

Stephanie and Tom Baker*

Lindsey Bakkum

Julie and Kevin Balon

Denise Batson

Frank Bausch*

Pat Belland

Jennifer Becker

Jeff Beuning

Carrie Van Beusekom

Rick and Lisa Birno*

Ramesh Bolinenk

Ron and Sara Borchardt

Jill Boyd

Barbara Brandt

Marie Brown

Jennifer and Anthony Burke

Matching Gifts

Blue Cross Blue Shield Braun Intertec Marsh & Mclennan Wells Fargo Matching Gift Program

In Honor of Willie Husaby

Patti and Steve Cwodzinski

Friends of EP Schools up to $99

550 Club Members ($550 per year for 5 years)

Jeff and Liz Sloan

Laura Burnison

Mary Campbell*

Sudhakar Babu Chennakesavula

Barb and John Clay*

Renae and Darren Conlee

Ruth Coppock*

Sarah and Ken Dombeck

Steve and Linda Enck*

Nicholas Effinger

Laura and Steve Errington

Lynn and Eric Falkenstein

Michelle Farinella*

Karen Farris*

Jodie and John Fenske

Kim Flemming

Jodie Flolid*

Suzanne Fogarty*

Michelle Fourre

Kim Froemming

Tim Fulford*

Margaret Habermaier*

Nora and Brent Hansen

Mark Haugen

Julie Holtz

Joy James

William and Kara Jeter

Jana Johnson

Katherine Kardell

Sonia Khouri

Sally and Frank Kline

Bryan Klotz*

Kathy Kocher*

Amy and Richard Koland

Anne-Marie and Joel Knorr*

Doug and Beth Kreusch*

Theresa Klysen

Beth and Sam Kryzer

Punam Kumari

Leslie Lahti

Jim Leuer

Abigail Libsack

Krista and Dave Link

Wei Liu

Leslie Lohan*

Gregory and Beth Madsen*

Vanny Mahoney*

Val and Greg Malone

Stacy Marek

Bob Meath

AnnMarie and Scott Mikkelson*

Kris and Mark Miner

Joanne and Joe Molzahn*

Kathryn Moore

Lena Morris

Vandana Murthy

Roxy and Derek Myhre*

Sedhuraman Nandakumar

Carol Niemira*

Marlene and Connor Novak

Brittany O'Malley

Rolf and Cindy Olson*

Aaron and Lisa Orwick

Janet and Greg Palmer

Karen Palmer*

John Penshorn

Abhik Rakshit

Jebaraj Raviraj

Rhonda Rekstad

Randy Rowland

Kyle and Peter Rose

Lori Rusch

Maneet Sahni

Wayne Sandbulte

Trish Sandness

Yvonne Selcer

LaTasha Shevlin Marlanges and Burton Simar

Mike Skarp*

Latasha and Dan Slinden

Megan Soukup

Lisa and John Sphatt

Mona and Lee Spencer

Christine Stebner

Jennifer and Rolly Stevens

Jaclyn Swords*

Joanna Takes

Kari and Mike Tarpey

Sue Ellen Toppings

Connie and Todd Tsuchiya

Nicole Visee

John and Anne Walbrun

Lindey and Thomas Walters*

April Williams

Ryan and Margaret Willis

Debra Young*

Debbie Zeller

Lynn Zigan

Owen Ziois*

*Eden Prairie Schools District Staff donating through annual appeal ≈Denotes past 550 Club member ($550 per year for 5 years) ^Denotes Endowment Donor

5K for EP Schools Taste of Eden Prairie

A to Z Rental AmeriTrak GPF Anchor Bank Byrne Law Office, LLC Eaton Corporation Lions Tap

Sydney M. Galleger Memorial Scholarship

In Kind Sponsors

In Kind Sponsors

AmeriTrak

Anytime Fitness

Beacon Bank

Flagship Bank

Fortress Investment Services, Ltd.

Hallberg Engineering, Inc.

HealthSource Chiropractic

Hildi, Inc.

Kennedy & Graven Chartered

Lions Tap

Royal Credit Union

State Farm - Brandi Warmbier

Associated Bank

Great Harvest Bread Company

Kona Grill

Kowalskis

Lions Tap

Organo Gold

Wildfire

Sponsors Sponsors

21 Brix Distributors

Barefoot Wine

MN Vikings

Prairie Electric

Schell's

Suburban Waste Services

Appreciation Gifts Sponsor Flagship Bank

Wayzata Swim and Dive Team

Tery and Scott Wirtch

Jennifer Wood

Bill and Malyn Wrobel ^

Anonymous (2 donations) Cynthia and Stanley Bandur

Betsy and Alan Bohlig

Suszanne and Kyle Crowe

Maya Dahlberg

Brenda and Thomas Dolan

Eden Prairie High School DECA

Cynthia Farr

Richard Fischer

Girls Scouts of River Valley - Troop 10543 Barbara and Kenneth Graft

Mike Lupo

Medtronic Your Cause LLC

Kris and Mark Miner Partner Reinsurance Co. of US

Sanford

Lisa and Craig Schmidtke

Southern Financial Group, LLC

Paula and Gary Szalkiewicz

Rebecca Tollefson

Total Program Management

Maria Selma Barbosa Twigg

Vasso and Associates

Thank you to our Annual Sponsors!

Foundation for Eden Prairie Schools 2016 Grants

($5,000) My Book Day - First Grade

(in partnership with Eden Prairie Noon Rotary)

($2300) Backpacks & School Supplies (in partnership with PROP Food Shelf)

($4,906) Tower Gardens – Cedar Ridge

($5,000) Tower Gardens – Eagle Height Spanish Immersion

($2,750) Ozobot Classroom Kits - Forest Hills

($4,996) Engage Multi-Touch Table - Forest Hills K-6 Spec Ed

($4,764) Wonder Workshop Coding Kits - Cedar Ridge 6th grade

($1,809) Great Outdoors: Engineering with Heat & Snow - Mosaic

($11,189) Aquaculture and Hydroponics in the Classroom - Prairie View

($3,000) Playing Doctor – Medical Lab Stations - Central Middle School

($4,570) Cultivate Curiosity - Prairie View 6th

($600) Mind Up Combined with Yoga Calm – Eden Lake K-6

($1,414) Teaming and Collaboration Table Technology - Eden Lake 3rd

($4,400) Tower Gardens – Oak Point K-6

($2,500) Piano and Math - K-6 Targeted Services

($10,000) Biology Manipulatives and Models - EPHS 10-12

($794) Yoga Calm Combined with Special Pillows and Chair - Little Eagles Pre K