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What We Do
The Fund
The Shawn Higgins Memorial Fund is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization committed to
making a difference in the lives of children. The fund was developed in 1999 when
Players & Spectators and the American Diabetes Association joinded forces. Since
its creation, the fund has reveived a tremendous amount of support from the community.
Since 1999, the SHMF has raised over $325,000 and provided insulin pumps for 32 chidlren
with diabetes who could not afford them. It has sent over 197 to Camp Fun in the Sun,
a camp for children with diabetes. It has contributed over $65,000 to fund 25 different
literacy programs such as the Martin Luther King Center, Liberty Park Childrens
Center and the Native America summer literacy program.
The Shawn Higgins Memorial Fund is dedicated to the memory of Shawn Higgins (1956-1985).
Shawn died at the age of twenty-nine from a lifelong battle with diabetes. The Fund
has been developed to help provide the funding needed to make a difference in the lives of children.
Insulin Pumps
We have had the opportunity to purchase insulin pumps for 32 children in the Inland Empire.
The Shawn Higgins Memorial Fund strives to make a difference in the lives of these children
by providing the medical equipment tat they need. We are committed to helping those families
who do not have the resources to provide the necessary medical supplies.
The Fund in its first six years has:
Raised $325,000.
Purchased leveled book for Opportunity Elementary School.
Sponsored Greenacres Elementary's Read Across America Day.
Provided food and books for the Greenacres Elementary Mother Read/Father Read monthly program.
Purchased 32 insulin pumps for children in need.
Donated 197 Camp Fun in the Sun scholarships.
Flown the Spokane delegation of teen advocates to Washington D.C. and Olympia to meet with politicians
in support of deabetes.
Sponsored a ten-week literacy program at three local ECEAP Cenaters.
Generated awareness of diabetes through the local media.
Purchased computer literacy software for the MAP School.
Routinely sponsored the Spokesman Review's Newspapaer in Education weekly childrens's story.
Designed and implemented a four-week summer literacy program created by local reading specialists
at the Martin Luther King Jr. Child Developement Center, and the American Indian Community Center.
Sponsored the Mother Read/Father Read Family Literacy Program at Greenacres Elementary.
Donated over $1000 in books to The One Sweet World Foundation, to help school chidlren who were victims of Hurricane
Katrina in New Orleans.
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