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Support the General Scholarship Fund

The San Mateo County Community Colleges Foundation Scholarship Fund provides scholarships to deserving students who most need the funding assistance. Donate to the Annual Campaign for Student Success.

Establish a New Scholarship Fund

Scholarship Funds can benefit students in a specific field of interest, major, department, or program. Download our form to establish a new named scholarship. (Minimum commitment to establish a named scholarship is $1,500 per year over at least three years.)

Establish an Endowed Gift

You can support scholarships or college programs by establishing an endowed fund, which means your gift will be permanently invested in the Foundation’s portfolio to produce a perpetual source of income that benefits students or programs for generations. It is a great way to make a lasting impact. The minimum to establish an endowed fund is $20,000. You may use cash, stocks, bonds or real property to make your gift, and you may make additional gifts to your endowed fund at any time. The Foundation’s Investment Advisory Committee and paid portfolio managers manage the endowment investments. Awards from the endowed fund are given annually based on the net interest income earned, and additional earnings are returned to the principal for fund growth. Download our form to establish an endowed scholarship.

For more information about the types of scholarship support or to support an existing scholarship or establish a new fund, please contact Tykia Warden.

Your scholarship support enables our students to dedicate their time to their studies and succeed at school. Your help also decreases the amount of funds our students may otherwise need to borrow in student loans, so they are not saddled with debt just as they are getting their new careers off the ground.

Furthermore, most of the students at Cañada College, College of San Mateo, and Skyline College live and work locally during and after college. Your scholarship support gives community members the opportunity to prosper, and our entire community thrives as a result.

To make a gift to scholarships, please contact us for more information or donate now online. For a list of all scholarships currently available to students, visit the academicworks site.

Scholarships are awarded annually to students. Recipients may be entering from high school, continuing their studies at one of our colleges, or transferring to a four-year institution. Awards range from $200 – $2,000 or higher. Scholarship Committees at each of the colleges review the scholarship applications and select the award recipients based on the established criteria for each scholarship. Payments are made to recipients upon verification of enrollment at one of the SMCCCD colleges or at a transfer institution.

To support our students through scholarships, you can make an immediate gift online. You may also use cash, checks, stocks, bonds, real property, an endowed fund, or a planned gift (bequest) to make your gift. See our Ways to Give page or contact us for more information. To create a new scholarship, download one of our forms: Named Scholarship (minimum commitment is $1,500 per year over at least three years) or Endowed Scholarship (minimum commitment of $20,000). You may also fill out the Named Scholarship form online on our website. 

Students applying for scholarships should visit the Cañada College, College of San Mateo, and/or Skyline College websites. 

About SMCCCD

The SMCCCD is a three-college District located between San Francisco and the Silicon Valley. Our three colleges, Cañada College, College of San Mateo, and Skyline College, serve more than 40,000 students each year and offer the first two years of instruction in a wide variety of transfer programs as well as more than 90 vocational-technical programs.

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