The SEP Foundation: Focused on What Matters
We’ve been blessed to be a successful tech company for over 30 years. In that time we’ve learned that people and community have been the most important pieces to our success. We’ve created The SEP Foundation because we admire and have compassion for the resiliency of those who have experienced hardships and we believe it’s our duty to support our neighbors who deserve the same opportunities.
Our Mission
We believe everyone in our community should have the opportunity to overcome the barriers and confines of poverty. We use our time, talents, and financial resources to help veterans and families experiencing hardships to achieve self-sufficiency.
Grant Recipients
HVAF
HVAF helps homeless veterans return to self-sufficiency and engages at-risk veterans and their families to prevent them from becoming homeless by providing supportive housing, case management, food, hygiene, clothing, and other essential resources.
Horizon House
Horizon House offers services to help individuals and families overcome the barriers they’re facing. They provide a safe place and convenient access to services. These ongoing services help create changes in lives, and empower people toward more self-sufficiency.
The Last Mile
The Last Mile was founded at San Quentin State Prison to address the societal impact of incarceration as a drain on human and fiscal resources. The program provides computer coding training to prepare its students for release into today’s high-tech environment. Their core belief is that having a job is the key to successful re-entry and breaking the cycle of incarceration.
The SEP Foundation Maker Scholarship
In 2020, our dream of establishing a scholarship fund to support underrepresented groups pursuing further education in STEAM became a reality.
The SEP Foundation Maker Scholarship is awarded annually and is open to any Central Indiana resident. The scholarship helps students pursue a degree in a STEAM field at any accredited college, university, technical, vocational, or trade school in Indiana.
SEP Foundation Scholarship History
- 2024: Engineering student at Purdue
- 2023: Cybersecurity student at Purdue
- 2022: Computer Engineering student at Purdue
- 2021: Computer Engineering student at IUPUI
- 2020: Computer Science student at Rose Hulman
Pictured is our first recipient, “E,” a 2020 graduate of Cardinal Ritter High School