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.

The Sinquefield Charitable Foundation recently donated $500,000 to the Today and Tomorrow Educational Foundation to help fund scholarships for the Help for Today – Hope for Tomorrow Kindergarten Program. This program offers 100, $2,000 scholarships to city of St. Louis residents desiring a Catholic school education for their kindergarten age student. The scholarship will follow the student through their eighth grade graduation.

On Saturday, April 19 the Columbia Civic Orchestra will premiere a new work titled Caustic Ride by Missouri composer Patrick Dell. The piece is part of the orchestra’s “New Directions” concert, which will include works by Sibelius and Sarasate. Music director Stefan Freund will conduct the concert, which features violinist Eva Szekely.

The 2008 Sinquefield Family Foundation’s Creating Original Music Project (C.O.M.P.) has received 52 student entries from around the State of Missouri.