Foundation

The Timothy P. O’Shaughnessy Foundation, established as a Wichita-based 501(c)(3) operating foundation in 2016, is dedicated to recognizing, motivating, and supporting exceptional high school graduates from the Wichita area with a strong passion for learning and exploration beyond traditional classrooms:

-by providing scholarship recipients financial and mentorship support; and by encouraging them to adopt the entrepreneurial mindset (critical thinking, challenging conventional wisdom, always seeking truth) and the virtues (kindness, generosity, creativity, honesty, integrity, and humility) which Timothy O’Shaughnessy embodied during his lifetime.

By giving this support and encouragement, the Foundation hopes to help scholars embark on a journey of lifelong learning in pursuit of their own unique dreams and the pursuit of “the Good,” following the principle of subsidiarity, which holds the “Common Good” is best achieved, not through the unnecessary intervention and bureaucratic control by larger organizations or societies, but rather through the primary agency of individuals, families and local social units.

–“Entrepreneurs are not obedient, they learn!”-Anon

–“I do the things I don’t know how to do, so that I learn how to do them.” -Van Gogh

–“Create your own path”: -Timothy O’Shaughnessy

-“To strive” To seek. To find. and not to yield.” Tennyson