Community Involvement
Davenport Evans lawyers strive to provide extraordinary service and successful outcomes for our clients. We apply that same drive in working to ensure our community is strong and successful. Our lawyers and staff give back through a variety of non-profits benefiting at-risk populations, the Arts, education, and health and safety efforts.
Davenport Evans Scholars
For over 30 years, Davenport Evans has awarded competitive annual scholarships to graduating seniors from schools in the surrounding counties enrolling to South Dakota universities. Davenport Evans Scholars are extraordinary students who go on to do amazing things! Get to know our 2019 scholarship recipients and read “Where Are They Now?” stories from past Scholars here.
If you are a high school student or parent seeking scholarship information, find information on the Davenport Evans Scholarship through the Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation. The application deadline is March 15, 2020.
Here is a list of just a few of the other causes and organizations we’ve been proud to support and be involved in over the years:
- 211 Helpline Center
- Alzheimer’s Association, South Dakota Chapter
- Argus Leader Lend-a-Hand
- The Banquet
- Bishop Dudley Hospitality House
- Boys and Girls Clubs of the Sioux Empire
- Children’s Home Society of South Dakota
- Children Inn
- DakotAbilities
- EmBe – Girls on the Run
- Family Visitation Center
- Feeding South Dakota
- Forward Sioux Falls
- Great Plains Zoo & Delbridge Museum
- Habitat for Humanity
- Heartland House
- Junior Achievement
- JDRF – Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
- LifeScape
- Mary Jo Wegner Arboretum
- National Kidney Foundation
- Ronald McDonald House Charities
- Salvation Army
- Sanford Children’s Hospital
- Sanford Health Foundation
- Second Judicial Circuit Pro Bono Project
- Sioux Council Boy Scouts
- Sioux Empire Community Theatre
- Sioux Empire United Way
- Sioux Falls Area CASA Program
- Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation
- Sioux Falls Public Schools Education Foundation
- South Dakota Symphony Orchestra
- Southeast Technical Institute Foundation
- St. Francis House
- Teddy Bear Den
- University of Sioux Falls
- USD Alumni Association
- Volunteers of America, Dakotas
- Washington Pavilion of Arts and Sciences
- YMCA