I Have a Dream

Get involved

We encourage you to contribute to the "I Have a Dream" Scholarship Endowment Fund. You can invest in building a stronger community by helping us provide educational opportunities for low-income, young people. Scholarships from the fund will be awarded annually to Dreamers and (if funding allows) to other needy students in Clark County. To contribute any dollar amount, send a check made payable to: I Have a Dream Endowment, and mail it to:

Community Foundation for SWWA1053 Officers RowVancouver, WA 98661

Other Opportunities to Help the Dreamers:

• Tutor a student
• Become a mentor to a Dreamer
• Provide summer jobs
• Volunteer time to support Dreamer activities
• Provide job shadow opportunities
• Be a college coach helping a Dreamer through the application process

For further information on how to join the "Dream Team," call Mary Granger at 737-0720 or the Community Foundation for Southwest Washington at 694-2550.

"If not for the 'I Have a Dream' program and the encouragement and support it provides, many of these students would not be in school today." - Paul Schroeder, Project Coordinator

"It's given me drive when I thought about giving up. But you can't give up when you have this opportunity." - Aleigha Relgor, Dreamer

"I don't know anything else I've been involved in that has potential to make such a long term difference in this community." - Mary Granger, Organizer and Sponsor

"It's more than money for college. It's help and support." - Molly Gifford, Dreamer

"The payoff is seeing the graduating Dreamers going on to further education. We've opened up their vision of what their full potential can be." - Ed Lynch, Sponsor

I Have a Dream, Southwest Washington.