Jess’s Sunshine Fund

Jess’s Sunshine Fund provides financial assistance to families who are Berks County Residents with dependent adult or minor children who have special needs arising from a long-term catastrophic illness or injury.  Preference will be given to residents of the Boyertown Area School District. 

Jess’s Sunshine Fund was established on February 20, 2001.

It is named in memory of Jess Schaeffer, former manager of the Boyertown boys’ basketball team. Schaeffer used a wheelchair due to complications from Langerhans cell histiocytosis, a rare type of cancer.