Help Move the Scholarship Fund to $50,000

Mrs Neu's birthday is March 19, next Sunday, and she would have turned 77. We are also coming on a year from her passing on March 30.

Join us, if you can, in pushing the fund to $50,000 in recognition of these milestones. We will match all donations made until we reach a $50,000 fund balance through March 30, 2017.

As excited as we are to be awarding a $1,000 Barbara Neu Memorial Scholarship this year, we still want to do more. Pushing the fund balance over $50,000 would get us close to being able to double the scholarship or the scholarship amount next year. 

The fund balance currently stands at $35,114.01, with gifts to date of $34,865. This puts us just under $15,000 from a $50,000 goal.

This is the fund summary as of March 9, 2017 (with the 2017 scholarship grant paid out).

This is the fund summary as of March 9, 2017 (with the 2017 scholarship grant paid out).

To donate, click on the donate button below and select the YCF - Barbara Neu Memorial Scholarship from the "Please use my donation for" dropdown list. Or, send a check payable to the same to: 

Barbara Neu Memorial Scholarship Fund of Yolo Community Foundation
c/o Sacramento Region Community Foundation
955 University Avenue, Suite A
Sacramento, CA 95825 

Thank you for your support!

 
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Joining the Yolo Community Foundation Family of Funds

In considering working with the Yolo Community Foundation, we considered not only its mission and services, but also the family of funds it supports currently. These are the funds that the Barbara Neu Memorial Scholarship fund will be joining (see YCF website for more details):

  • Bob Morris Family Community Fund - To provide high school scholarship funds, particularly students with an interest in science, music, and agriculture.
  • Burns-Bellhorn Scholarship Fund - The Burns-Bellhorn Fund Scholarship was established to benefit further education to a Winters High School senior to encourage and assist their participation in making the world a better Place. Applicants must be a Winters High School senior planning on attending a Junior College, Trade, Technical, or vocational school with a career goal of becoming a tradesman, business person or entrepreneur.
  • Cache Creek Conservancy Reserve Fund - The reserve fund is set up to meet the future needs of the organization.
  • Cache Creek Nature Preserve Endowment Fund - The fund supports the development, operation, and maintenance of the Jan T. Lowrey Cache Creek Nature Preserve.
  • Chan Family Fund - To fund general charitable purposes.
  • David and Margret Gerriets Family Fund - To provide funding for the following agencies: Yolo Hospice, Suicide Prevention Services, Grace-In-Action, Davis Community Meals, Davis Schools Foundation, and the Yolo SPCA.
  • Davis Arts Center Long-Term Investment Fund - The purpose of the fund is to support the Davis Arts Center’s mission to provide a gathering place for dynamic engagement with the arts. Through multidisciplinary classes and programs for the regional community, the Arts Center inspires creative expression in people of all ages and fosters an environment for the arts to flourish.
  • Davis Recreation & Community Services Program Fund - To provide long term, consistent source of financial support for the City of Davis Community Services division, including but not limited to, assisting with ongoing operational costs for recreation, community and social services programs.
  • Davis Senior Services Endowment Fund - To provide long term and consistent source for financial support for the City of Davis Senior Services Division, including but not limited to, supporting and promoting the ongoing activities, services and facilities associated with the City of Davis Senior Center. 
  • Davis Senior Services Improvement Fund - To provide long term, consistent source of financial support for the City of Davis Senior Services division, including but not limited to, assisting with ongoing capital maintenance needs, facility improvements, and special projects desired at the City of Davis Senior Center and its associated programs and services. 
  • Friends of the Davis Library Fund - The purpose of this fund is to assist the Mary L. Stephens Davis Branch Library in efforts to raise funds, plan for expansion of physical facilities, develop the library’s book collection, encourage reading programs for children, and to promote the library as a cultural center for the city of Davis.
  • Friends of the Yolo Community Foundation - To support operating expenses of the Yolo Community Foundation (YCF) as recommended by the YCF Advisory Board.
  • George W. Hinkle Fund - The fund emphasizes education and fitness activities for children and seniors, but is not limited to this.
  • Joan Q. Hogan Endowment - To support Yolo County well into the future through grants to Yolo County organizations and support for operating expenses related to such work.
  • Lew Franck Family Fund - To help protect or restore the environment (lakes, rivers, wetlands and open spaces in Yolo and El Dorado County, as well as to help meet future needs of Yolo County.
  • Putah Creek Council Endowment Fund -  Putah Creek Expendable Fund
  • Richard and Kyoko Luna Family Fund - For general charitable purposes.
  • Roy and Cynthia Kroener Family Scholarship - To provide scholarships to qualified students from Davis Senior High School to pursue higher education.
  • Senior Citizens of Davis Endowment Fund - To support and benefit the Davis Senior Center and its participants and to carry out other and charitable activities associated with this purpose forever.
  • Stallard Family Fund - To support the arts, education, the environment, and other charitable purposes. 
  • Stephens DeWall County Library Staff Fund - To support the Yolo County Library (YCL) employees by funding staff development events and opportunities to celebrate and honor the good work of YCL employees.
  • Timothy Casson Memorial Scholarship Fund - The Timothy Casson Memorial Scholarship Fund was established by Paul and Gail Casson in memory of their son, Timothy Casson, who promoted small business ownership as a profession. Applicants must be a Winters High School senior planning on attending a Junior College, Trade, Technical, or vocational school with a career goal of becoming a tradesman, business person or entrepreneur.
  • Western Yolo Recreation and Aquatic Fund - To support the annual operations and maintenance of the Aquatic Recreation, a 10 acre public park and swimming pool in Esparto, CA and to support future infrastructure improvements and repairs of the park facility and grounds.
  • Wide, Wide World Fund - To promote educational and cultural enrichment for students in Winters schools that will open a wider world to them. Monies from this fund may also be used to support the Burns-Bellhorn Scholarship Fund. 
  • William and Nancy Roe Fund - For general philanthropy.
  • Winters Senior Fund - To support seniors activities and facilities in Winters and other related purposes.
  • Woodland Shakespeare Club - For the general operation of the Woodland Shakespeare Club.
  • Yolo Children and Families Fund - The purpose of this fund is to ensure that programs exist throughout the county to improve the health, education and wellbeing of children ages 0-5 years and their families.
  • Yolo County Children’s Alliance Charitable Fund - To Support the mission of the Yolo County Children’s Alliance to assess, coordinate, and act to strengthen and support the continuum of prevention and intervention services and resources of children,youth and their families.
  • Yolo County Community Impact Fund - To support grantmaking to Yolo County nonprofit organizations, including but not limited to arts and cultures, basic human needs, education and community health, environment, and YoYoSA grants, as recommended by the Yolo Community Foundation Advisory Board.
  • Yolo Youth Service Award - The Yolo Youth Service Awards (YoYoSA) program is designed to promote and reward Yolo County youth volunteering with local nonprofit organizations, and encourage Yolo County nonprofits to engage with youth volunteers. Yolo Community Foundation is proud to recognize tomorrow’s leaders in local philanthropy.

Thank you for your support

Thank you to all who donated and left comments on the Donationto site. Thanks to you, we raised $4,750 at post time. 

Mrs. Neu would thank you, too

Mrs. Neu would thank you, too

As a next step, we are happy to confirm that the Barbara Neu Memorial Scholarship Fund of Yolo Community Foundation is now set up and ready to accept tax-deductible donations with 501(c)(3) status. We will be donating all the funds collected (so far, and going forward) to this newly-established endowment scholarship fund and work with the Yolo Community Foundation to set up the scholarship particulars later in the year (we still need to reach the $25,000 goal to finalize the endowed fund).

If you would like to make a donation to the fund directly (and get the tax deductibility), the fund has been added as an option to the online-giving page of the Sacramento Region Community Foundation (of which the Yolo Community Foundation is an affiliate), for donors who wish to gift by credit card. If you go to their website at www.sacregcf.org and click on GIVE NOW in the upper right-hand corner, it will take you to their donation page (https://ssl.charityweb.net/sacregcf/). Under “Please use my donation for,” there is a pull-down menu, and you may select the Barbara Neu Memorial Scholarship (it's the second option on the list). Donors who wish to donate by check can make their checks out to YCF-Barbara Neu Memorial Scholarship and mail them to:

Barbara Neu Memorial Scholarship Fund of Yolo Community Foundation
c/o Sacramento Region Community Foundation
955 University Avenue, Suite A
Sacramento, CA 95825

How to select Barbara Neu Memorial Scholarship on the SacReg Community Foundation web form

We'd like to thank Raphael Moore for his help in introducing us to the local community foundations, as well as Babs Sandeen, Executive Director of the Yolo Community Foundation and Fran Baxter-Guigli, Donor Services Officer, with the Sacramento Region Community Foundation. But, most of all, we thank all of you for your support and donating to an idea that we fortunately stumbled upon to memorialize my mother, Barbara Neu, that just seems right.