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The Impact

Your donation provides a powerful combination of financial assistance, college success programming, and mentoring support. Because of donors like you, BCS scholars graduate at 6x the national rate of their peers. You are having an impact. You are bridging the gap. You are making the future brighter 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

Mail a check to:
Berkeley Community Scholars
P.O. Box 680
Berkeley, CA 94701

Give us a call at (510) 907-7834 and we can assist you with processing your donation over the phone.

To make a stock gift, please contact accounting@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 2022 scholarship cohort:

Deborah Arthur & Jeffrey Soller
Battle Family Foundation
The Bayer Foundation
Berkeley Rotary Club
Carol Brosgart & Joseph Gross
Louise & Jacob Epstein
Debra Farb & Eric Sippel
Mary & Stan Friedman
Susie & Rob Goodin
Melinda Haag & Chuck Fanning

Frances Hellman & Warren Breslau
Stephen Isaacs
Dina Honda
Dr. Sucheta Jawalkar & Oseyi Ikuenobe
Deborah Lewis & Martin Myers
Stephanie McKown & John Brennan
Karen and Michael Meryash
The Nancy P. & Richard K. Robbins Family Foundation

Beth Sawi (In Memoriam David Sawi)
Patricia & Merrill Shanks
John Stahl
Ann Smulka & Bob Blackburn
Marcia Tanner
Susan Taylor & Robert Fabry
Ama Torrance
The Voleon Group
Wareham Development Corporation