Special Funds & Endowment

Opportunities for Supporting Existing Endowed Funds at The College Preparatory School

Endowment Funds at The College Preparatory School provide critically needed long-term support that will ensure the stability of our school into the future. Existing endowment funds include:

• College Prep General Endowment Fund provides general long-term support, ensuring that future generations of students will benefit from a College Prep experience. 
  
• The College Prep Diversity Fund ensures that the school’s traditions of mutual respect, tolerance, and academic excellence are continued through initiatives and activities that encourage and enhance diversity in its many forms within the College Prep community.
  
• Class Endowment Funds honors members of individual graduating classes and provide support for general endowment.
• The Ben Caraco/Scott MacPherson Stapleton Memorial Scholarship Fund* provides financial assistance to an individual student in need while he/she is enrolled at College Prep.   First consideration is given to students rising to 9th grade through the Partners Program.
  

• The Helen Green Turin Memorial Endowment Fund* primarily provides financial assistance to, but not exclusively to, minority students, and secondarily, provides funds that are to be used to enhance faculty compensation.

• The Jenks-Willis Scholarship Endowment Fund* provides financial assistance to individual students in need while they are enrolled at College Prep

• The John H. Imbrie Memorial Fund provides general support for the enhancement of student life at College Prep. This endowment also supports the school’s chamber music program.

• The John H. Lawrence Memorial Fund provides for the support and expansion of academic programs within the school's curriculum.

• The James Otis Cole, Jr. Memorial Scholarship Fund* provides financial assistance to African-American students while they attend College Prep.

• The Julia Burke Memorial Scholarship Fund* provides financial assistance to College Prep  students, primarily students who reside in Contra Costa County

• The Julia Burke Endowment for Debate provides financial support for the College Prep debate programs and activities.

• The Mary Louise Mahoney ’64 Endowed Scholarship Fund provides financial support for an individual College Prep student of Hispanic, Native American, or African American background while he/she is enrolled at College Prep.

• The Riddell Family Scholarship Fund provides financial support to a student of an under-represented ethnicity while he/she is enrolled at College Prep.

• The Robert Baldwin, Jr. Fund for the Faculty supplements compensation and support of the College Prep faculty.   

* All grants for financial assistance are need based.  Gifts to the College Prep Annual Fund support the school's operating budget, providing resources for competitive faculty salaries, scholarships and the expansion and enhancement of educational and recreational programs and community service.

Planned gifts enable donors and their heirs to receive long-term financial benefits while making a substantial gift to College Prep that the school will receive at a later date. Planned-giving benefits for donors and their heirs can include income for life, considerable tax benefits, and professional investment management.

Gifts of real estate can be made outright or as a remainder interest on a case-by-case basis after a thorough analysis by the Development Committee and approval of the Board of Trustees.

All gifts are subject to approval by the school to ensure that each gift is consistent with the school's mission, core values, philosophy and stated policies. The school's Gift Acceptance Policy sets forth the policies and procedures for accepting gifts to College Prep, and the Investment and Spending Policies states how funds are managed and used by the school.

*All grants for financial assistance are need based.