The founder of the Reach Your Peak Scholarship Program, Mr. Bruce Shepard, found success in Colorado Springs industry, leading an influential real estate firm and the regional Chamber of Commerce, and co-founding the city's Economic Development Corporation. He knew that to ensure Southern Colorado's continued strength, the region's largest university needed to ease the path to higher education for
students who needed financial support, yet fell through the cracks with traditional scholarship programs. So, in 2000, he and his wife, Anne Shepard, established the Reach Your Peak Scholarship Program. More than 100 donors have joined the Shepard's vision, providing personal examples of success to Reach Your Peak scholars. Shepard passed away in April of 2015. He was a lifelong resident of Colorado Springs and was a man of quiet faith who felt serving others was his greatest calling. The Reach Your Peak community misses him greatly.
