San Mateo County Community Colleges Foundation’s First Annual Golf Tournament Report

San Mateo County Community Colleges Foundation’s First Annual Golf Tournament was optimistically expected to raise $25,000 for San Mateo County community college students. Instead, the sponsors, attendees, and champions of the tournament helped raise an astonishing $60,000!

These funds will benefit:

• The San Mateo County Community Colleges Foundation General Scholarship Fund, which awards scholarships to talented students with demonstrated financial need at Cañada College, College of San Mateo (CSM), and Skyline College.

• The Presidents’ Innovation Fund, which the college presidents use to support new programs at their schools. Recently, this Fund supported honors-level classes at Cañada, a CSM astrophysics student internship to the Arctic, and a high-school-to-college mentoring initiative at Skyline.

• Alumni outreach. For the first time since the Foundation’s inception in the 60’s, we are embarking on a large-scale effort to reintroduce SMCCCD alumni to the colleges where they got their starts. We hope to inspire the alumni to support their alma maters and the students who walk the path they once walked.

This was a marvelous outcome for an inaugural fundraising golf tournament. Our donors truly are ‘links’ to community college student success. Thank you all!

Click here to browse photos from the event. The password is “foundation” (lower case).