September 2024 - Newsletter
Yuba Community College Foundation
When you Give! Students Succeed
Yuba Community College District Foundation is committed to aligning with Yuba Community College District in their Mission and Vision!
The focus of the Yuba Community College District Foundation is to provide increased opportunities for students and support student success. We do this by seeking, managing, and administering funds for the betterment of student-centered programming and services at Woodland Community College and Yuba College
Happening Now
Foundation Board Approves $203,750 in Scholarship Funding
At the November 4, 2020 meeting of the Foundation Board of Directors a total of $203,750 was approved to provide 246 scholarships for the 2021/22 academic year. Of the scholarships approved, 36 are OSHER scholarship awarded through a partnership with the Foundation for California Community Colleges, and 60 are Sawtell Awards funded through the original gift to the Foundation’s endowment by Harold Sawtell in the 1970s. All scholarship approved are designated for specific purposes through either an endowed fund, or through funds raised annually for an intended purpose. The following amounts were approved: Woodland Community College – 45 scholarships totaling $39,850; Yuba College – 157 scholarships totaling $136,300; and Lake County Campus – 44 scholarships totaling $27,600.
Foundation Update – November 2020
Food Pantries and Emergency Funds Benefit
from Giving Tuesday
On Tuesday, December 1st a total of $4,840 was raised through YCCD’s first ever Giving Tuesday campaign. Giving Tuesday is a global generosity movement that unleashes the power of people and organizations to transform their communities and their world. It was created in 2012 with a simple idea: a day to encourage people to do good. Over the past seven years, this idea has grown into a global movement that inspires hundreds of millions of people to give and celebrate generosity.
Our Giving Tuesday campaign was focused on raising dollars to support campus food pantries and student emergency funds. Of the $4,840 raised, donors designated their gifts in the following manner: WCC Food Pantry – $827; WCC Dorothy Minges Emergency Fund – $675; Yuba College Dusty’s Food Pantry – $945; Yuba College Emergency Fund – $1,483; Lake Campus Food Pantry – $231; Colusa Center Food Pantry – $128; other programs – $552
While Giving Tuesday is over, the need is still there. So Giving Tuesday became Giving December and you can still make a gift to support your campus food pantry or emergency.
