Why We Need Your Support
The Peralta Colleges are known for their outstanding students, staff, and alumni. The Foundation is committed to helping sustain this excellence while supporting student success, keeping enrollment strong, and keeping the cost of education as affordable as possible.
State and local funding covers the basic costs of instruction, but limited resources are available to help students with the additional expenses that can make completing college challenging—including textbooks, supplies, equipment, lab fees, transportation, and other educational needs.
Your support can make a meaningful difference. Contributions to the Peralta Colleges Foundation help provide scholarships and essential resources that reduce financial barriers, support student success, and help students stay enrolled and reach their educational goals.
Your contribution to the Peralta Colleges Foundation is an investment in our community—supporting the students, educators, and future of the Peralta Colleges.
Currently, the Foundation is able to provide scholarships to only a small number of students. With your support, we can help more students stay enrolled, complete their education, and achieve their goals.
Consider creating a named scholarship fund and making a lasting investment in a Peralta student. A named scholarship fund can be established with a tax-deductible gift of $2,500.
To learn more about establishing a scholarship fund or supporting an existing scholarship, please contact the Peralta Colleges Foundation at pfs@peralta.edu
Managed funds can be used to support eligible college and classroom needs, including vendor invoices, classroom supplies, and other essential items that enhance the student learning experience. Faculty and staff can establish a managed fund to provide a dedicated source of support for projects and activities that align with the Foundation’s mission.
Interested in creating a managed fund or supporting student success? Contact the Peralta Colleges Foundation to learn how you can establish a managed fund, contribute to an existing scholarship fund, or support the Program Grants Fund.
Please email Foundation staff at pfs@peralta.edu for more information.
PeraltaGives is the faculty and staff giving campaign supporting the Peralta Colleges Foundation and our students.
As employees of the Peralta Community College District, we see firsthand the challenges our students face as they work toward their educational goals. The cost of tuition, textbooks, transportation, living expenses, childcare, and other necessities can create barriers to student success.
Your gift can help make a difference. Contributions from faculty and staff provide the Foundation with additional resources to support hard-working Peralta students through scholarships, emergency assistance, and other programs that help students stay enrolled and reach their goals.
You can make a one-time gift or choose a recurring gift through payroll deduction. To make giving easier, you can spread your contribution across the year with a payroll donation of $25 or more per pay period—a minimum of $300 annually.
As a special thank-you, employees who donate $25 or more per pay period will receive a PeraltaGives ceramic piggy bank.
Every Gift Makes an Impact
Whether you give once or make a monthly contribution, your generosity helps Peralta students overcome financial barriers and continue their journey toward success.
Give today and invest in our students.
Legacy Planning
Throughout our lifetime, most of us strive to make a difference in the lives of others, providing gifts to the people and causes we value. Wouldn’t it be nice to know that you could continue to change lives by documenting your wishes in your will or trust — creating a legacy of support for the causes most important to you? By creating an endowment with the Peralta Colleges Foundation—or adding to our existing endowment—you can give a gift that lasts forever.
That’s why our students, many of whom are first-generation college students, frequently need the assistance of a scholarship as they balance school, work, personal, and family responsibilities. While 70 percent of our students receive some type financial assistance, at the present time the Foundation can only assist a small fraction of these worthy students. We can increase our support with the help of the community. That's why we need you!
How Supporting the Peralta Foundation through Legacy Planning Works
You give cash, securities or other assets to an existing endowment or an endowment that you create with our organization. If you are not in a position to give assets today, consider making the gift in your will or other estate plan, specifying that you would like your gift to be used to fund an endowment.
You determine if your endowment will be designated to fund a specific program or service, or given without restrictions to allow our board of directors to direct the fund to our most critical needs.
We use a small portion of the fund to support our mission, but the balance always remains invested in order to perpetuate the fund. Both current and estate gifts can be restricted. Within your restriction, gifts can be directed for scholarships, endowments, or programs. Some common restrictions at Peralta Colleges include, but are not limited to:
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Area of greatest need
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Named or endowed scholarships
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Individual college, program or initiative
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Peralta Alumni Association
