Foundation News
Helios Invests $1.85M to Improve Latino Student Success at Maricopa Community Colleges
[PHOENIX, Oct. 7, 2022] – Helios Education Foundation is making new investments to improve Latino student success at colleges across the Maricopa County Community College District (MCCCD). Helios awarded a $1.85 million grant to the Maricopa Community Colleges...
NACCE/EEVF Phase II Small Business Venture Funding Program
MCCD, City of Phoenix, and NACCE/EEVF Phase II Small Business Venture Funding Program - Announcement of Winning Cohort for Spring, 2022 Several Maricopa Colleges are participating in a collaboration with the National Association for Community College Entrepreneurship...
Maricopa Community Colleges Foundation Receives Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust Grant to Continue its Foster Care Student Program
Many pursuing higher education struggle to balance college and personal lives, but for former foster youth, the challenges are daunting. Bridging Success, a Maricopa Community Colleges program for students who experienced foster care in Arizona, plays a key role in...
City of Peoria Announces Scholarship Program
The PeoriaAZ Promise scholarship program will launch in the spring. PEORIA, Ariz. (March 29, 2022) – On Tuesday, March 22, the Peoria City Council approved the PeoriaAZ Promise program through a community partnership with Glendale Community College (GCC) and Maricopa...
Maricopa Community Colleges Host Second Annual Be A Student’s Hero
Day of Giving to Raise $100,000 to Support Students The Maricopa County Community Colleges District (MCCCD) is hosting Be a Student’s Hero (#IAmAHero) day of giving on March 31, 2022. Held in partnership with the Maricopa Community Colleges Foundation (MCCF) and 10...
Helping Students Struggling With Food Insecurity
Food insecurity can be a barrier to student success. Check out this Fox 10 News interview with Brian Spicker, President and CEO, Maricopa Community Colleges Foundation and Dr. Ray Ostos, District Director, Student Affairs, Maricopa Community Colleges, from the Mesa...
Fry’s Food Stores Donates Additional $25,500 to Help Feed College Students
Longstanding partnership enables Maricopa Community Colleges Foundation to provide meals to students in need of food assistance across Maricopa Community Colleges The Kroger Co. Foundation in partnership with Fry’s Food Stores recently awarded a $25,500 grant to the...
$75,000 APS Foundation grant supports STEM outreach programs at local community colleges
Students from North High, Central High, and Phoenix Coding Academy with College faculty and staff, and Intel Deputy Director of US Corporate Affairs, Gabriela Gonzalez, at the 2018 Hermanas Conference. The Arizona Public Service Foundation awarded a $75,000...
Maricopa Community Colleges Foundation Awarded PepsiCo Grant Providing Scholarship Opportunities to Black and Hispanic Students
PepsiCo and its philanthropic arm, The PepsiCo Foundation, announced today a $500,000 2-year grant award to the Maricopa Community Colleges Foundation (MCCF.) The grant is part of the PepsiCo Foundation Community College Program to provide scholarship opportunities...
Maricopa Community Colleges Foundation Awarded Grant from Bank of America in Support of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Engagement
The Maricopa Community Colleges Foundation (MCCF) is pleased to announce that it has received a $500,000 grant from Bank of America in support of the Guided Pathways program at the Maricopa County Community College District (MCCCD). Guided Pathways, a MCCCD program...