Simon Estes is also deeply involved in efforts for children and youth throughout the world. Among other things he has founded the Simon Estes Educational Foundation in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and the Simon Estes Foundation for Children in Switzerland, which supports a school in Cape Town, South Africa.

Simon Estes is a professor of music at Wartburg College in Waverly, Iowa, and also teaches at Boston University. Simon Estes wears a “Time to Play” from Jaermann & Stübi.