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Foundation helps SBCC keep 'margin of excellence'
The Santa Barbara City College Foundation has been one of most successful of California's community colleges in raising development income in the past several years. Total assets have increased from $7.2 million in 1994 to nearly $30 million in 2000. During fiscal year 1998 alone, the college raised $5 million in private gifts and grants, more than any other single community college campus in the United States.
Don't get any ideas that the SBCC Foundation is ready to rest on its laurels, however.
"Much has been accomplished, but so much more is needed," said executive director Pat Snyder.
 At the same time that gifts and deferred bequests have come in at unprecedented levels, student financial-aid requests have multiplied and new training and technology needs have been identified, Snyder said. In addition, welfare reform has presented the college with new challenges in educating and training people who are entering the work force. "There are many ways you can help," said Snyder, who has been with the college since 1995, from making regular gifts to the SBCC annual fund, participating as a volunteer and making a major gift to support a scholarship fund or program of your choice. Gifts of cash, stock or real property, as well as pledges of a future gifts, are all possibilities, she said. Deferred gift options range from including the college in your will or living trust to establishing a charitable trust that offers major tax benefits as well as income for life to the donor. To find out more about helping SBCC sustain its "margin of excellence," call Pat at 965-0581, ext. 2618, or visit the website: www.sbcc.net/foundation. |
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