YOUR GIFT

MAKES AN IMPACT!

EDUCATE

EMPOWER

EXPLORE

ENGAGE

Gifts from alumni, parents, and community members provide resources, access, and opportunity for Shaker students!

Your gift to the Advancing Shaker Annual Appeal supports:

  • Classroom Learning: technology for hands-on learning, SEL programs, supplies, and equipment for a new curriculum
  • Innovative Teaching: enrichment grants for field trips, author visits, and other tools for creative study and exploration
  • Opportunities for All: direct student support for K-12 extracurricular activities and youth sports, and assistance for international high school travel
  • Career Exploration: entrepreneurship, mentoring, job-shadowing, and leadership experiences

Help us ensure that every child in the Shaker Heights Schools has the opportunity to thrive!

Advancing Shaker

Do you want to help wherever and whenever it’s needed most?

Support Opportunity Assistance Scholarships

Support our scholarships dedicated to furthering equitable access to educational activities outside of the offerings of the District: Level the Playing Field and Beyond the Desk Scholarships. Learn more to see how you can help.

Travel Assistance Fund

Do you want to broaden our students’ horizons with opportunities for travel and cultural exchange? Learn more.

Innovation Fund

Are you a champion of STEM, makerspaces, and other hands-on learning opportunities? Learn more.

Shaker Staff Payroll Deduction Gift

Shaker staff can support our students through payroll deduction. Contributions will provide critical resources and support to our Shaker students. Learn more.

Educational Equity Fund

Are you eager to support equity initiatives in the Shaker Schools? Learn more.

Sarah Grube Memorial Fund

Join us in remembering Sarah by donating to her Memorial Fund to help grant an annual award at Shaker Heights High School in Sarah’s name for a rising student activist and advocate who is a disruptive, committed, or fearless advocate for social, political, environmental or economic change in their community.

Honoring Aisha Fraser

November 17, 2023 marked the fifth anniversary of Aisha Fraser’s passing. As a sixth-grade teacher at Woodbury, Aisha had a gift of making math accessible and interesting to all of her students. Aisha developed many lasting friendships in the Shaker community and we want her to be remembered. Please consider donating to the Aisha Fraser Memorial Fund to help provide scholarship funds for Sixth-Grade Camp. Read more about Aisha Fraser and this special initiative.

Rashad L. Burnley Minority Achievement Memorial Fund

Celebrating Rashad, Continuing his work and legacy

August 2, 2024, marks the 25th anniversary of Rashad L. Burnley’s passing. The family commemorates this time by encouraging support of the Rashad L. Burnley Memorial Fund.

Please make a donation and learn more about this special fund.

The Reynold Ellis Raise Our Voice Fund

The Reynold Ellis Raise Our Voice Fund was created to honor the legacy of the High School’s beloved Choir Director, Mr. Reynold Ellis, who led with dignity and was the hallmark of what a teacher should be to students.

The Class of 1970 is working with the Shaker Schools Foundation and Shaker’s new choir director, Nick LaPete, to reinvigorate this fund and to help the next generation of choir students.

Please learn more about the legacy of Mr. Ellis and support this fund.

Named Funds

We are grateful for our Fund Sponsors! See a complete list of our named funds here.

Ways to Give

You can donate to the Shaker Schools Foundation online, by mail, with stocks, gifts-in-kind, and with bequests and other planned gifts. Find out how by clicking the button below.

Learn How Your Company Can Become a Corporate Sponsor

The Shaker Schools Foundation welcomes the support of corporations and businesses through contributions to our Corporate Partnerships and Shaker Athletics Sponsorships programs. Both programs provide significant, needed support for our Shaker students!