TOGETHER, WE CHANGED LIVES.
Thank you for making the EmpowerED campaign a success! We have exceeded our fundraising goal, helping to bridge the gap between potential and opportunity for our students.
Your extraordinary generosity is removing financial barriers, expanding opportunities and creating a lasting impact for students, families and communities throughout Arizona.
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Key Fundraising Initiatives
Workforce Development
We strengthened career pathways through partnerships with business and industry leaders, aligning education and workforce training with the needs of a rapidly evolving job market. Transformational investments we received from many, including Arnold Ventures, Lowe's Foundation and the Ben and Catherine Ivy Foundation, help make this lasting impact possible.
Promise & Innovative Programs
Through investments in innovative and specialized programs, Centers and Institutes across the Maricopa Community Colleges District, and transformational support from donors such as the Garcia Family Foundation for the Maricopa Promise Program, more students are gaining access to opportunities that help them build brighter futures.
Scholarships & Stipends
The campaign helped remove financial barriers, expand scholarship opportunities, and provide essential support, making higher education more accessible and affordable for all.
Basic Needs
Together, we provided basic needs assistance and emergency financial support to help students overcome unexpected challenges, stay on track, and complete their college journey.
Stories of Impact
The Foundation and Maricopa Community Colleges are proud to be one of 11 community college recipients of the Lowe’s Foundation Gable Grants in 2024. The $1 million grant will support the expansion of construction trades programs at Mesa Community College, Rio Salado College, and South Mountain Community College.
Lowe's Foundation 
"The moment I found out I was selected for the Garcia Family Foundation Scholarship Program, I was thrilled about the opportunity and struck by the excitement and motivation it would provide. It’s been over 10 years since I was in college and coming back to it, I thought I had missed my shot at being selected for something like this. I was wrong!"
Justin 
"I was selected to receive the Meta City of Mesa Resident High-Tech Workforce Scholarship at Mesa Community College for the 2025-2026 academic year. I am sincerely grateful for your support in making this scholarship possible. Receiving this scholarship is a life-changing experience. It represents more than just financial support; it acknowledges the perseverance and dedication that I’ve put into my path."
Na'ima 
"I am deeply honored to have been selected to receive the Wilma Ulrick Memorial Scholarship for the Fall 2025 school year. Balancing school, work and motherhood hasn’t been easy, but this scholarship lightens that burden. It allows me to focus more on my studies and less on financial stress. Most of all, it reminds me that there are people who believe in students like me, people who see potential beyond our circumstances."
Regina 
Arnold Ventures, a philanthropy that supports research into America’s most pressing problems and evidence-based solutions to solve them, awarded Maricopa Community Colleges and the Maricopa Community Colleges Foundation a multi-year, $16 million grant to help more students earn a degree or transfer to a partner institution. Arnold Ventures’ investment marks the largest single contribution made by a philanthropic organization in the system’s history. Funding will support the launch of Commit2Completion at three colleges: Glendale Community College, Phoenix College, and Scottsdale Community College, with plans to expand the program across the system’s 10 colleges.
Arnold Ventures 