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How to Establish or Give to a Scholarship
Cal Poly invites you to enhance the mission that is at the heart of our educational enterprise: supporting students.
The type of support you choose can be designed to fit your intentions, financial resources and funding timetable. Scholarships and awards can be established in the following ways:
Annual Scholarships
- Provide support to students for one
academic year
- Allow a donor to make an immediate
impact in the lives of our students
- Can be renewed each year by the
donor, or through a gift sufficient
enough to cover several years
- Annual student support is temporary
and many times donors will ultimately
create an endowment to ensure that their
scholarship is perpetuated
- Minimum donation for a named
annual scholarship is $300 |
Endowed Scholarships
- Provide a consistent flow of support to
students and allows the University to
plan into the future
- Permanent fund meaning that the
original asset is held in perpetuity and
only a portion of the earnings from the
fund is distributed to students on an
annual basis
- Endowment distributes 4.5% of the
three-year rolling average in the fund
- Minimum donation for a named
endowment is $10,000; minimum
donation for a named endowed award
is $3,000 |
To learn more about Cal Poly's endowment investment policy click here, or visit our Planned Giving and Endowments website.
If you are interested in establishing a scholarship, internship, or award, please click here to download an inquiry form (pdf format) to help you determine eligibility criteria.
A note about eligibility criteria factors: Scholarship, award, or internship criteria may be determined in accordance with the donor's request except that race, religion, gender, ethnicity or age cannot be factors in selecting a recipient (refer to the University catalog section Policies on the Rights of Individuals for more information). Such eligibility factors as class level, major field of study, financial need, or academic excellence are examples of acceptable criteria.
Gifts to the Cal Poly General Scholarship fund of any amount are always appreciated. Checks may be made payable to Cal Poly and mailed to:
Special Gifts Office
Scholarship Program
Heron Hall
California Polytechnic State University
San Luis Obispo, CA 93407
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