Designated Funds >Educators for Fair Consideration

Educators for Fair Consideration’s (E4FC) New American College Fund provides financial awards and support services to high-achieving, financially needy immigrant college students who have grown up in the Bay Area.  In their second year, they received applications from 176 talented immigrant students representing 78 schools and 21 countries of origin.  E4FC awarded $40,500 to nine extraordinary immigrant students, astounding for their intelligence, perseverance, and character.  

More deserving immigrant students need help.  Next year, the E4FC hopes to double their scholarship fund by raising $100,000.  If you believe in supporting hard-working immigrant students who have grown up in the Bay Area, please consider making a donation to E4FC. Your support will keep the American dream alive for talented, hard working and deserving students like Iris and Daniela, whose stories we feature below, and to the right.

“My teachers were confident that I had what it took to be a successful college student, but I never considered myself worthy of attending one of the top research universities in the country. “Me? The foreign girl who just moved from Mexico three years ago, the one with the funny accent and not so perfect SAT scores.  You must be kidding, right?” - Daniela

Daniela has never been one to shy away from opportunity.  Only three years after moving to the US, she ranked 11th in her graduating class of 317 students at Concord High School, where she acquired a huge fan base of teachers, counselors, and classmates.  Daniela just completed her first year at UC Davis, where she has already made herself known to professors in 200+ student classes, pursued a student post on the UC system’s Board of Regents, and worked on the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton.  During her first quarter at UC Davis, Daniela saved money by living at home, waking up at 5am and commuting by train three hours a day.  She has excelled in the UC Davis Honors program, earned a 3.75 GPA and plans to major in Economics and International Relations.

 

 

 

 

Iris - E4FC scholar