Donors
Donors play a vital role in supporting the academic future of students. By providing scholarships and other forms of financial aid, donors help students access higher education and achieve their academic goals.
Why Give?
The AWC Foundation works to strengthen educational opportunities in our community by raising funds for scholarships, programs, and capital projects at AWC.
Our donors understand the importance of their generosity. Besides tax credits, donors have a personal connection to our cause. A thoughtful way of remembering someone special and creating a living legacy is by making a gift to the Foundation in honor, or in memory, of an individual. Memorial gifts can include a scholarship in the name of the person, or a room or building dedication.
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AWC District Governing Board Member, Olivia Zepeda, supports AWC Foundation.
Donor Spotlight
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Sylvia Plotts Memorial Scholarship
Sylvia F. Plotts was born in 1897 in Iowa. She obtained her Master's Degree in 1946 and continued post-graduate work at both Arizona Universities. She taught high school for eight years and served as County School Superintendent from 1944 to 1951. Ms. Plotts taught at Alice Byrne and in Somerton schools in the 1940s. She passed away in July 1990. She named Arizona Western College Foundation as a beneficiary of her Arizona State Retirement fund. Through her generous donation, The Sylvia Plotts Memorial Scholarship was established in 1991 in order to help educate Native American students.
"This college, in the middle of a rural area, on the US-Mexico border, is changing the lives of its students. It's changing the trajectory of their families. It's creating the conditions where entire communities can thrive. AWC Foundation is the rising tide helping people meet their potential and live out their dreams."
Lori Stofft
Executive Director of the AWC Foundation
Frequently Asked Questions
You'll find frequently asked questions below, if you have additional questions then please contact us at foundation@azwestern.edu or (928) 344-1720.
The minimum to establish an endowed scholarship fund is $10,000.
An endowment is way of investing that ensures your gift is a permanent source of funding that makes fulfilling the scholarship’s purpose possible, forever. The principal of the endowment is never spent and can grow over time. Interest earnings are used to make annual scholarship awards.
The average award is $500/semester. Scholarship award amounts vary depending on the size of the fund, the number of qualified applicants, and the criteria of the fund.
