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"We have students living in cars, moving from sofa to sofa, camping in the redwoods behind the College."
The Redwoods Room & Board Scholarship Fund supports students struggling to find a safe place to sleep and enough food to eat while dedicating themselves to earning an education. The Scholarship provides these students with housing and meals, so they can focus on their education rather than on their daily survival. The program provides an interim safety-net that gives students an opportunity to build rental and job history, while they have the stability of housing & meals. CR’s Housing liaison will work with recipients to secure sustainable housing in the community.
This program provides a renewable, semester long scholarship which includes housing in CR’s Residence Halls and a meal plan in CR’s cafeteria. CR is contributing four rooms with eight beds, valued at $50,000, to demonstrate the College’s commitment to addressing the negative impacts of housing insecurity. We are asking for your support to cover the annual meal expenses of $48,000 and thereby provide $16 a day per student for food.
Nearly half of all community college students are experiencing overwhelming housing challenges: 35% experience ongoing housing insecurity; 15% are homeless; and 56% of community college students face food insecurity.
Wisconsin HOPE Lab and the Association of Community College Trustees
In Fall of 2018, over one hundred of CR’s students self-identified as facing housing insecurity or homelessness. Our students are living in their cars, moving from sofa to sofa, or camping in the redwoods behind the College. A significant number of our students are not getting enough to eat. Our Food Pantry is assisting over 100 of our students every week.
Send to:
Redwoods Room & Board Scholarship Fund College of the Redwoods Foundation 7351 Tompkins Hill Rd. Eureka, CA 95501
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'My father didn’t graduate from high school and used to say ‘don’t be like me’…. And I know if I drop out of school and work full time, I will just keep struggling. I will never get ahead.'
- Martha, College of the Redwoods Student
Martha is a student at College of the Redwoods. She applied for financial aid, with help from her high school, and received confirmation of her completed application. But when she arrived at CR she found out her application was incomplete and that it could take months to be resolved.
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'On the nights that I had to camp near school, I would usually stay in the wooded area behind the dorms and then use the shower facilities in the gym in the mornings.'
- Tammy, College of the Redwoods Student
'The Redwoods Room & Board Scholarship will change the homelessness narrative in our community and at College of the Redwoods.'
- Keith Flamer, President/Superintendent of College of the Redwoods
Criteria for Qualifying
In order to qualify for this scholarship a student must:
Upon successful academic completion of a semester and housing status review, a student may apply for the following semester’s Redwoods Room & Board Scholarship.
Criteria for Maintaining
St. Joseph Health System – Care for the Poor Grant
The Rose Perenin Foundation
The McLean Foundation
Emily Arents, CNM, RN Wendy Bates David Bazard and Mary Mallahan Sally and John Biggin Vicki and Steve Bradford Steve Christianson - 2003 CR alumni Marty & Kim Coelho Butch Conley Larry and Ruth Connolly Dr. Bonnie Deister, Trustee
Michael and Tamara Dennis Aline Faben Keith Flamer Walt and Becky Giacomini Michelle Haggerty Marina and Joe Hash Angelina Hill Nancy R. Ihara Indivisible Ferndale Katie Wendt Manning '77 Carol Mathews, Trustee
Julia Morrison Colleen Mullery, Trustee Open Door Community Health Centers Jennifer Ourique In memory of John and Rose Petrusha The Quist Mazzocoo Family Jesica Rawlings Aaron and Christine Reiher Thawatchai Ronne Dave and Gaby Somerville Monica Sperling Barbara and John Vernon Mike and Beth Woyak
Marty-Coelho@redwoods.edu 707-476-4325Fax: 707-476-4402
Student Services/Administration Building, Second Floor
7351 Tompkins Hill RdEureka, CA 95501