The Foster Youth Education Fund awards higher education grants each year to support the efforts of emancipated foster youth in the four county Sacramento region. The grants are awarded to youth who have successfully completed their high school education and who are entering or attending a two or four year accredited college/university or technical/trade school. Eligibility for education grant is without regard to race, gender, ethnicity, religion or political affiliation.

Memorial Scholarship Funds

Due to the generous support and dedication to children of these individuals, the following ongoing memorial grants have been established in their names. We thank them and their families and friends, for their gifts to former foster children. If you wish to make a contribution to one of our memorial scholarship funds, please indicate which fund your contribution should be directed to.

Laverne Adolpho Memorial Scholarship
Helen B. Taggart Memorial Scholarship
Alan Watahara Memorial Scholarship

“I was the only one in my family that graduated high school. I was really excited for myself even though my family was not. At least I know I had a future ahead of myself and I had to go for it. My family thought that I was lying to them when I told them I was going to college. I was not lying and I'm in college now.”
Foster Youth Education Grant Recipient

Overview

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Foster Youth Education Guidelines 2009/2010

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Foster Youth Education Application 2009/2010

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