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The Blue Valley Educational Foundation has invested in what we believe is the cornerstone of a healthy and prosperous community - the education of our children. The Foundation contributes significantly to the capability of our school district to provide the highest quality education, now and in the future.

We all profit when we invest in our schools. The Blue Valley Educational Foundation provides the exceptional educational opportunities for which our school district is known. The better we educate our students today, the better citizens they will be in the future.

Each year the Foundation hosts the Community Breakfast and BVEF Month. The Foundation applies the money raised from these events to school grants and awards.

Community Breakfast
Each year the Blue Valley Educational Foundation brings our corporate, parent and school communities together to help kick off the school year at our annual Community Breakfast. Student grants are highlighted and our superintendent gives the "State of the District" address.

When: September 4, 2008

View the article: Community Breakfast 2007

Photo:BVEF Executive Director, Kate Allen honors breakfast presenting sponsors: The Administrative Assistants, Ltd, First National Bank and Shawnee Mission Medical Center with BVEF President, Mark Cosby

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BVEF Month
BVEF celebrates our volunteers, donors, staff members, students and patrons by thanking them with a variety of activities and programs each year during the month of April. Virtue Vans visit each school to announce the staff and student Sunflower Ambassadors.

When: April 2008

View the newsletter: Foundation Focus Special Edition - BVEF Month 2007

Photo: The Surprise Squad delivers a check to Melissa Hansen at Blue Valley High School for her Community Service Day grant.

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Sunflower Ambassadors
A student and staff member from each school who exemplify the Blue Valley Virtues are nominated by their peers. One fourth, seventh and eleventh grader and a teacher at each school is selected by a committee of judges based on essays written about the nominee. These ambassadors are honored in their schools during BVEF Month as part of BVEF's support of character education.

Photo: Oak Hill Elementary student ambassador Sam Allred with student nominator Samuel Glass are honored with staff ambassador Becky Botts and staff nominator Sharon Atwell.

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