An accomplished bass player, Jeanne is very generous in support of her passions. Her goal is to turn Missouri into a music Mecca for composers. Read the evolution of her dream in Fujah, a Springfield web-magazine.

Extra, Extra Read all about the the talented, local COMP students and an exciting opportunity for composers sponsored by the Sinquefield Charitable Foundation. Maybe one of this year’s winners someone you know…

Exciting news happening with Jeanne Sinquefield’s music efforts featured in the Columbia Daily Tribune and on KTRS Saint Louis Talk Radio

Committed to creating a Mid-Missouri Mecca for music composition, Jeanne and Rex were featured in Columbia Tribune’s biggest news of 2009 article

Feature story in Washington University Magazine on education reforms including St. Louis Teach for America and charter schools

SCF donated $100,000 to Teach For America, a non-profit that recruits top college graduates to teach for two years in low-income communities.

The University of Missouri at Columbia has created the Mizzou New Music Initiative, a diverse array of programs intended to position the school as a leading center for music composition and new music. The initiative is a direct result of a $1 million donation by the Sinquefield Charitable Foundation, headed by Jeanne and Rex Sinquefield.

Dr. Jeanne Sinquefield, who started the yearly Creating Original Music Project (COMP) with the University of Missouri School of Music in 2005 with a gift from the Sinquefield Charitable Foundation, is donating $1 million in the next four years to create a new music program focusing on composition at the university’s music school.

This month’s Saint Louis Magazine features a five-page story on Rex Sinquefield, known to the investment world as the innovator of index funds and known to Missourians as a philanthropist and a mover-and-shaker in the realms of public policy.

Playing a video game called ‘Space Race’ requires nothing more than brainpower to make rockets on a computer screen move forward. However, this is more than just fun and games. A University of Missouri researcher is using neurofeedback in the form of video games to see if the brainwaves of children with autism can be ‘retrained’ to improve focus and concentration.