The Mission of the Ryan Pappas Memorial Foundation is three-fold:

  • To help provide Safe and Sober alternate activities for High School students. We accomplish this through the RAD (Real Alternatives to Drugs and Drinking) program.

  • The outstanding RAD Student Leadership team is planning some super fun events, creating activities for two Fridays per month (as of Spring semester 2023) as they strive to rebuild the program.

  • To educate our high school youth with meaningful, impactful, and factual Drug and Alcohol risk information. Click on the In the News link to see how we are accomplishing this.


  • To provide scholarships for D38 High School Seniors who positively impact their peers and community.

We have suspended the Scholarship program so that we focus or resources on rebuilding the RAD program but we do hope to offer scholarships again in the future! Thank you to everyone who makes their communities and homes a better place by all that they do in love for others.