The Foundation in the Community
The Golden West College Foundation proudly gives back to the community by supporting the Scholar's Hope Foundation, and the Huntington Beach Youth Shelter.
Huntington Beach Youth Shelter
The Youth Shelter is an emergency crisis and intervention program providing a safe environment for approximately 120 Orange County 11-17 year old children each year. The home provides a clean bed, meals, counseling and tutoring for runaways at risk, and homeless youth in crisis. The Golden West College Foundation supports Shelter'sThe Light of Love Snowflakes fundraiser.
Scholar's Hope Foundation
How does the Scholar's Hope Foundation take students from the poorest neighborhood in Huntington Beach, with every disadvantage, and have all 450 students go to college? If the Oak View neighborhood were a city, it would be the eleventh poorest in the nation. Scholar's Hope Foundation makes a 10 year commitment - taking students from 4th grade through their second year of college. The first in their families to graduate high school and attend college, their $4,000 scholarship gives them a head start as they are taught, encouraged, tutored, modeled, and enriched. The students overcome the cycle of poverty and neighborhood challenges like academic failure, gang involvement, drug use, teen pregnancy, illiteracy, and a sense of hopelessness. They achieve academic and social skills, confidence, success, and become role models. College bound behavior is encouraged through science projects, workshops, museum trips, and sailing classes. Student and family expectations are changed as they learn that hard work and education create future options and success. Scholar's Hope Foundation seeks to make a difference – to leave a legacy for the children, the families, and the community of Oak View and Huntington Beach. We are grateful to have partners like the Coast Community College District and Golden West College.