The N.O.D. Everest Foundation, a 501(c)3 entity, was founded in 2016 to benefit a handful of philanthropic and educational pursuits. We host fundraising campaigns for Nepal through education and service projects, including a new partnership for a study abroad program with Colorado Mountain College. The Everest Scholarship is awarded annually to a graduating high school senior student athlete from Eagle Valley High School in the amount of up to $2000 based on need. We also host and direct summer basketball camps in the Vail Valley as fundraisers for our initiatives.
Our primary goal is to give back to the communities that have supported us through the years. Our world has enough resources so that no one should go hungry, but resources are not distributed appropriately. We can't solve this for everyone but we can for someone.
Interested in donating to our Everest Scholarship Fund or our fundraising initiatives for the Sherpa community in Nepal? Donate below or you can send a check Payable to The N.O.D. Everest Foundation, PO Box 532, Avon CO. 81620.
Between Jon's expeditions to K2 (Jan-Feb 2021) and Everest (April-May 2021), he was able to raise $20,000 for Sherpas and High Altitude Porters. These unheralded support staff of mountain expeditions lost a lot of income due to the pandemic in 2020, with most international travel and expeditions curtailed.
Thank you so much for your donations!
Here, Jon gives $500 from the funds raised by his non-profit while he was in Pakistan to Pemba Sherpa and the SherpaLand Lodge in Nepal during his April 2021 Everest Base Camp Trek.
Jon gives $1000 to Nirmal Purja for his project to build a shelter for porters in Luboche, Nepal (April 2021).
Every summer, The N.O.D. Basketball Academy hosts basketball camps for youth, featuring high school and college coaches. Proceeds go to our non-profit and benefit a graduating high school senior for college with the Everest Scholarship.
Highlights of the camp include: instruction from high school and college-level coaches, friendly competitive drills and games, giveaways from sponsors, beginner to advanced skill work, and young player development through games and contests with an emphasis on ball-handling, individual and team defense, rebounding, and shooting.
Mentoring to youth through visits to schools locally, regionally, and nationally. This includes visits to classrooms and for school assemblies to educate our kids into making the right choices. The focus is motivation, teamwork, goal setting, and working hard in sports or in the classroom, which translates over into real life.
We have also recently launched a study abroad program for Colorado Mountain College, taking young men and women to the Everest region to support several of our ongoing non-profit service projects in partnership with the Sherpa Foundation.
Dr. Jon Kedrowski is a board member and active participant in the projects of the non-profit the Sherpa Foundation. Past projects were centered on raising funds following the 2015 magnitude 7.9 earthquake and rebuilding efforts and need-based on-going assistance in the Everest Region of Nepal.
Most recently, Jon has launched several fundraising campaigns to go along with his expeditions to Nepal and Pakistan, to raise money for the Sherpa and porter communities that have been devastated by the financial impacts of the income loss due to the COVID pandemic.
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