The 2024 Founders Cup raised $26,000 for scholarships!
Join us as we swing for our 2025 goal:
$30,000!
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CGCCF Strategic Plan 2025-2030
Vision
College and workforce training can strengthen our community. We envision a future where Columbia Gorge Community College is accessible to everyone, empowering every student to achieve their goals.
Mission
The Foundation connects with students, donors, and the community to support scholarships, programs and initiatives that improve the accessibility and quality of education at CGCC.
Principles
Open Communication: Engaging in honest and transparent communication
Respect: Celebrating diversity of lived experience based in empathy and understanding
Integrity: Committing to continuous ethical conduct and accountability
Collaboration: Cooperating on solving shared challenges while leveraging the richness of diverse experiences and perspectives
Inclusion and Equity: Ensuring access to resources, providing people what they need to achieve their goals, and creating an inclusive learning environment that welcomes diverse backgrounds
Priorities
Enhance Fundraising and Financial Stability
Objectives:
How will we measure success?
- Increase funds by at least 5% year-over-year.
- Establish a policy and practice for activating the endowment fund that aligns with donor intent to support our administrative and student-focused needs.
Strategies:
What collective action will we take?
- Relationship Management: Connect supporters with organizational leaders and beneficiaries and implement a CRM
- Reinforce our Brand and Messaging: Consistently market the impact of the Foundation on students and the community.
- Leverage Endowment: Establish a disbursement plan to better serve our students and fundraising
Enhance Students’ Access to Resources that Enable their Success
Objectives:
How will we measure success?
- Increase the number of students applying for scholarships each year
- Increase the success rate of students who engage in the scholarship process each year (% who complete and % who are funded)
Strategies:
What collective actions will we take?
- Enhance Student Communications: Improve two-way communications between Foundation and students by offering scholarship workshops on every campus every scholarship cycle.
- Strengthen Student Connection: Clarify and deepen student and VPSS roles on Board
Strengthen Community and Corporate Partnerships
Objectives:
How will we measure success?
- Increase number of sponsorships for event-based fundraising
- Broaden outreach to service organizations
Strategies:
What collective actions will we take?
- Broaden Sponsorships: Increase Board engagement in sponsorship efforts
- Develop Reimbursement Resource: Collaborate with the College to establish an employer tuition reimbursement resource for students
- Increase Presence: Increase our visibility and profile with civic organizations across College district
Develop Foundation and Board Capacity
Objectives:
How will we measure success?
- Establish Board On-Boarding and Training Plan
- Increase number of Board Members to 12-14 based on Board skills inventory
Strategies:
What Collective action will we take?
- Build Board Capabilities: Conduct regular training and development sessions for board members/future leaders and establish on-boarding and transition processes.
- Create Board “Bench”: Establish a bench of people ready to serve by having Board members actively recruit new members throughout the year
- Grow Foundation Team: Leverage CGCC marketing team to support the Foundation and work towards expanding to a full time executive assistant role
Who is the CGCC Foundation?
The CGCC Foundation supports CGCC, and its students, to ensure that the college is a vital, accessible, premiere, educational resource in the beautiful Columbia Gorge.
For more than 40 years, the CGCC Foundation has worked to ensure every student knows the support and generosity of the community—a community that believes in them and is committed to equipping them with resources to attain their educational goals.
Will you join our community-wide effort to support education at CGCC? Will you collaborate with us to build a legacy that generates robust workforce programs and student services that place people in new careers? Your partnership is needed and deeply valued as we seek to change lives together through education that works.
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Studies show that more than 80% of community college students live, work, raise their families, start businesses, shop, and volunteer right where they attend college.
CGCC Students truly are our future!
Building Success
Columbia Gorge Community College is building success! We answered the call of our students, partners, and community and took a bold step forward with the construction of a new regional workforce skills center and student residential hall on The Dalles campus. With a strong vision of our future in place, we are prepared for growth, discovery and service.
The completion of these two new buildings represent the largest expansion of the college’s physical capacity since 2008, when CGCC opened classroom buildings in Hood River and The Dalles.
