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Berkeley Community Scholars
P.O. Box 680
Berkeley, CA 94701
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From Dreams to Degrees
Your donation provides a powerful combination of college success programming, mentoring support, career development, and financial assistance. Because of donors like you, BCS scholars graduate at 3x the national rate of their peers. You are having an impact. You are bridging the gap. You are helping turn dreams into degrees for more Berkeley youth.
Your Donation Supports…
Freshman care packages
One semester’s worth of textbooks
Toolkits for 25 new mentors
Community College High Hopes Scholarship for 1 year
Community College High Hopes Program for 2 years
Bachelor’s Degree High Hopes Scholarship for 1 year
Bachelor’s Degree High Hopes Scholarship for 2 years
Bachelor’s Degree High Hopes Program for 4 years
Other Ways to Give
Give us a call at (510) 907-7834 between the hours of 9:00am – 5:00pm and we can assist you with processing your donation over the phone.
To make a stock gift, please contact sherry@berkeleyscholars.org and we will provide you with further instructions.
Berkeley Community Scholars is a charitable organization as described in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Gifts to Berkeley Community Scholars are tax-deductible contributions in accordance with Code section 170. Our tax id is 94-3264327.
We are grateful for those in the community who have joined us in the past to provide access to our four-tiered approach of advising, mentoring, career readiness, and scholarships. The following community members ensured funding for the entire journey of a scholar in either our bachelor’s or community college programs for the 2024 scholarship cohort:
Ann Smulka and Robert Blackburn
Anonymous
Anonymous
Beth Sawi
Carol and Joseph Brosgart
Deborah Lewis and Martin Myers
Dena and Wayne Lamprey
Diana Burden and Alan Levy
Frances Hellman and Warren Breslau
Jacob and Louise Epstein
Jeffrey Soller and Deborah Arthur
Karen and Michael Meryash
Mary and Stan Friedman
Morris Family Fund
Patricia and Merill Shanks
Rosa Luevano and Charles Martson
Stephanie McKown and John Brennan
Susan Taylor and Robert Fabry
The Saul Zaentz Company
Voleon Capital Management LP