Giving Tuesday is a great way to share your generosity. Every year it falls on the first Tuesday following Thanksgiving. Please make your donation today in support of our programs to give foster youth pursuing an education the tools they need to stay in school and graduate.
We initiated our 2nd Annual fall donation campaign on November 1st.
Our goal is to raise >$25,000 to continue to provide educational grants and critical needs for foster youth.
Generous donations from last year enabled us to significantly expand our activities in 2017
- Expanded our partnership with the Sonoma State Seawolf Scholars Program and launched a new collaboration with the Sacramento State Guardian Scholar Program
- Increased the number of Power to Soar Foundation’s scholars from 4 in 2016 to 17 in 2017. A 425% increase !!!
- Provided school start packs to 180 foster youth in the two programs mentioned above.
- Supported the SB12 legislation that Gov. Brown signed to increase state funding for foster youth education.
We have received numerous emails and postcards from foster youth thanking us for the support.
Giving Tuesday donations will support these priority areas:
- Continue to increase the number of PSF grants awarded and critical need support
- Develop additional collaborations with other Foster youth programs at universities
- Support legislative action to increase state support for tuition waiver/reduction
Our hearts go out to everyone affected by the devastating wildfires in Northern California.
Sonoma State University students were impacted in many ways.
We’ve increased our fall campaign fundraising goal to $25,000, so the additional $5,000 will be dedicated to an emergency fund for foster youth who suffered losses due to the fires.