{"id":973,"date":"2022-04-21T17:32:23","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T17:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattlesbravestcharity.com\/?page_id=973"},"modified":"2026-04-14T19:37:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T19:37:12","slug":"k-hoefner-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/seattlesbravestcharity.com\/?page_id=973","title":{"rendered":"Kenneth Hoefner Scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/seattlesbravestcharity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Kenny-Hoefner.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"1260\" src=\"https:\/\/seattlesbravestcharity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Kenny-Hoefner-683x1024.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seattlesbravestcharity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Kenny-Hoefner-683x1024.webp 683w, https:\/\/seattlesbravestcharity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Kenny-Hoefner-200x300.webp 200w, https:\/\/seattlesbravestcharity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Kenny-Hoefner-768x1152.webp 768w, https:\/\/seattlesbravestcharity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Kenny-Hoefner.webp 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The M. Kenneth Hoefner Scholarship Fund was started by Seattle Firefighter Kenny Hoefner in December of 1997.&nbsp; Since then, he has helped hundreds of children and grandchildren of Seattle Firefighters pay for college by donating over $500,000 to the fund.&nbsp;&nbsp; Kenny Hoefner retired from the Seattle Fire Department in 2009 after spending 50 years with it.&nbsp; He was a driver on Engine 33 which is one of the busiest engine companies in Seattle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:28px\">2026 Scholarship applications OPEN!<br><br><a href=\"http:\/\/seattlesbravestcharity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2026-Final-Kenny-Hoefner-Scholarship-Application.pdf\" title=\"\">CLICK HERE FOR APPLICATION!<\/a><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/seattlesbravestcharity.com\/?attachment_id=1405\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"http:\/\/seattlesbravestcharity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2026-Final-Kenny-Hoefner-Scholarship-Application.pdf noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"791\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/seattlesbravestcharity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2025-1-791x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seattlesbravestcharity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2025-1-791x1024.png 791w, https:\/\/seattlesbravestcharity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2025-1-232x300.png 232w, https:\/\/seattlesbravestcharity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2025-1-768x994.png 768w, https:\/\/seattlesbravestcharity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2025-1-1187x1536.png 1187w, https:\/\/seattlesbravestcharity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2025-1.png 1545w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 791px) 100vw, 791px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The M. Kenneth Hoefner Scholarship Fund was started by Seattle Firefighter Kenny Hoefner in December of 1997.&nbsp; Since then, he has helped hundreds of children and grandchildren of Seattle Firefighters pay for college by donating over $500,000 to the fund.&nbsp;&nbsp; Kenny Hoefner retired from the Seattle Fire Department in 2009 after spending 50 years with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/seattlesbravestcharity.com\/?page_id=973\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kenneth Hoefner Scholarship<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-973","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattlesbravestcharity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattlesbravestcharity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattlesbravestcharity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattlesbravestcharity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seattlesbravestcharity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=973"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/seattlesbravestcharity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1410,"href":"https:\/\/seattlesbravestcharity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/973\/revisions\/1410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seattlesbravestcharity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}