Dear Dear Community Partner,

At this holiday season, we are so grateful to you for supporting our efforts to ensure that every student receives the financial aid to which they are entitled.

Your contributions to our financial aid application campaign last year allowed the Ed Fund to invest nearly $300,000 in our College Access Initiative to help students receive grants and scholarships to attend college. The vast majority of our students who qualified received financial aid.

Growing up in Richmond, Caspar, a 2014 graduate of El Cerrito High School, found it difficult to secure the academic, social and emotional support college-bound youth required to be successful. While his mother worked full-time to support Caspar and his sister, she did not have the means to pay for his college tuition.

Your support enabled Caspar to fulfill his dream of attending UC Riverside thanks to a financial aid package worth more than $25,000 per year. He is studying business administration and one day hopes to start his own business.

Thanks to you, our team increased the financial aid application completion rate from 33% in 2012 to 66% in 2014. As a result, an additional 300 families in West Contra Costa County received financial aid.

Our work is not complete. With your help, the Ed Fund is working with teachers and principals to provide workshops to assist even more students in completing their financial aid applications.

Of course, there is no point to completing a financial aid application if you haven’t applied to college. That is why the Ed Fund and our network of nonprofits are working with high school seniors to complete their college applications. Your investment will help students receive professional coaching to craft compelling personal statements which will help them get into the college of their dreams.

Please consider making a donation today to support the Ed Fund's College Access Initiative. Your support gives everyone an equal opportunity to go to college.
 

In Trust,

Joel Mackey
Executive Director