Danielle
Appearances
The Ramsey Show
It’s Our 2024 Annual Giving Show!
Okay, so my husband and I are both educators in a small school. And in 2018, there's a theme I've noticed today in the show, but
The Ramsey Show
It’s Our 2024 Annual Giving Show!
Unfortunately, we lost two students to suicide, and it was one of the hardest things as an educator that we've had to go through, and we decided we were on baby step six, and we decided to go ahead and take a goal that we had for baby step seven, and we went ahead and started a college scholarship in the name of my brother. His name was Evan, and we give, we raise money, and we give
The Ramsey Show
It’s Our 2024 Annual Giving Show!
scholarships to students at our high school. And so far to date, since then, we've been able to give 15 scholarships, ranging from $750 to, actually, I'll pause real quick and say that where we get the funds is
The Ramsey Show
It’s Our 2024 Annual Giving Show!
Um, we don't, I have an annual fundraiser in the summertime and the students at the school will help me to put on the fundraiser and we sell, um, food burritos and salsa and the community is extremely generous.
The Ramsey Show
It’s Our 2024 Annual Giving Show!
And so, um, I'll, I'll tell people that, um, you know, the, the food costs a certain amount, but they'll tip me like crazy cause they know that every dollar that they give to us will go straight to the college scholarship, straight to the kids. And, um, The reason why we wanted to do the scholarship is because the loss felt really real to us and we wanted to have change in the community.
The Ramsey Show
It’s Our 2024 Annual Giving Show!
But we also knew that we would prefer that the scholarship be more about going to school without loans than mental health. And so our focus is on teaching kids also on how to go to school without any loans.
The Ramsey Show
It’s Our 2024 Annual Giving Show!
We have given out 15 so far, and we've awarded over $64,000 in scholarships. I love it. Yeah, it's a community. The community is very generous, plus we have some really generous donors. And how the kids will qualify for the scholarship is they have to
The Ramsey Show
It’s Our 2024 Annual Giving Show!
listen to the borrowed future or watch the documentary and they have to come up to us and let us know how they're going to school without loans and so our scholarship renews every year for up to $10,000 and I'm proud to say quite a few of these kids, I know it's made a difference in them going to school.
The Ramsey Show
It’s Our 2024 Annual Giving Show!
We changed their mindset and they go to school without any loans and that makes me very proud and it's the only positive thing I can say that came from the losses that we had.