In 2022, Kimball Electronics began offering Creating Quality
for Life College Scholarships to high-school seniors who are
dependents of our employees worldwide. Winners were chosen
based on their demonstrated commitment to volunteering time
to help others in their community or to help the environment.
We were moved by the various ways applicants are helping create quality for life in
their communities: assisting in fundraisers helping immigration centers and children
with cancer; recycling, planting trees, and composting; helping at animal shelters;
building a water check dam enabling a forest to retain moisture longer and reducing
the severity of forest fires; preserving water canals; helping the elderly; volunteering at
an orphanage and a foster home for abused, abandoned, and neglected children.
The 10 winners earned scholarships worth $1,250 for each year of college they
attend up to four years. Winners were dependents of employees in the U.S., Mexico,
India, Thailand, China, and Vietnam.
Winners were selected by three judges from outside the company: Alex Rose,
Senior Editor for Ocean Geographic Magazine and founder of Blue Ring, Inc., which
supports the funding of globally significant ocean exploration and conservation
projects that will positively shape the future; Jen Chapin, a professional musician, a
high-school humanities teacher in Brooklyn, NY, and a long-time board member of
WhyHunger, a nonprofit focused on fighting hunger that was founded in 1975 by her
late father, the musician Harry Chapin; and Anna Sacks, who is known as THE TRASH
WALKER in the media for documenting usable items that she finds in both corporate
and residential waste in New York City to raise people’s consciousness about waste
and consumption.
To further demonstrate the spirit of our Creating Quality for Life scholarship program,
the company donated $250 to each judge’s recommended charity of choice:
WhyHunger, Blue Ring, and the Lower East Side Ecology Center in New York City.
