Katie Memorial Foundation

KMF is founded by friends and family of Katie Evans to help individuals internalize, as Katie did, Gandhi’s challenge to humanity to “Be the change you want to see in the world.” Katie was the change that she wanted to see in the world. She modeled that for those she knew and loved. Katie left us with the challenge, the responsibility, to carry on her legacy of service to the global community. It’s an individual challenge that can only be met through the pooling of our communal effort, talent, strength, and support. Through its work in establishing and supporting educational opportunities and service projects for communities at home and abroad, The Katie Memorial Foundation seeks to meet that challenge. In doing so, we honor Katie’s life and work.

— Judy Shaffer (Katie’s mom)/March 2008

_{(Katie and Judy in Miami, 2006)}

KMF creates and supports educational and service opportunities in the fields of public health and human service, focusing on three project areas:

• Funding public health graduate students in their post-graduation international health work.

• Providing small grants to teachers who establish classroom public health programs.

• Creating local human service projects in the Indianapolis and Chicago areas.

_{(Katie’s desk at IOCC in Romania, decorated in her memory.)}

_{The Katie Memorial Foundation (KMF) is a 501c(3) federally tax-exempt charitable nonprofit organization. The KMF taypayer identification number is 74-3250765.}