DONATIONS TO COLLEGE TOTAL $1.36 MILLION.Byline: Carol Rock Staff Writer VALENCIA - Business suits, paramedics on standby, a leather biker jacket biker jacket Noun a short, close-fitting leather jacket often worn by motorcyclists , wine, computers, books and dental instruments Dental instruments refer to the tools which dental professionals use to provide dental treatment. They include tools to examine, manipulate, restore and remove teeth and surrounding oral structures. for the anthropology lab are among the hundreds of gifts tallied by the College of the Canyons College of the Canyons is one of the fastest-growing community colleges in the state. According to the National Junior College Research Association, College of the Canyons consistently ranks in the top 50 community colleges in the nation. Foundation in its annual report. Donations worth a total of $1.36 million were collected from special events and capital campaign participants during the 2003-04 fiscal year. That amount is dedicated to various school programs such as academics ($241,106), scholarships and endowments ($88,146), development ($332,052) and education, activities and special events ($701,810). The foundation received 4,937 cash donations, with gifts averaging $276 per donor, Kathleen Maloney, the foundation's executive director, wrote in the report. In-kind donations, which support program equipment and services, had an estimated value of $189,048. ``In comparison to this same time last year, the foundation's gifts have increased in every area,'' Maloney wrote. ``The acceptance of gifts reported herein have increased by 13 percent overall, major donor gifts have increased by 19 percent, special donor gifts have increased by 5 percent and in-kind gifts have increased by 25 percent.'' Among some of the in-kind gifts made to the foundation were items of clothing for the Clothes Closet, an on-campus program supporting participants in the California Work Opportunities and Responsibilities for Kids program, knows as CalWORKs. ``CalWORKs is California's response to President Clinton's welfare reform,'' said Carolishca Forster, director of the college's Re-entry RE-ENTRY, estates. The resuming or retaking possession of land which the party lately had. 2. Ground rent deeds and leases frequently contain a clause authorizing the landlord to reenter on the non-payment of rent, or the breach of some covenant, when the and Transitional Support Services support services Psychology Non-health care-related ancillary services–eg, transportation, financial aid, support groups, homemaker services, respite services, and other services , which includes CalWORKs. ``Ninety-nine percent of our clients are single mothers and these clothes provide them something nice to wear to a job interview and to work.'' CalWORKs and Forster's other re-entry programs support single parents, displaced homemakers dis·placed homemaker n. A woman who, after managing a household for years, is forced by financial necessity to find a wage-paying job. , at-risk young people, pregnant teenagers, people seeking nontraditional careers, dislocated dis·lo·cate tr.v. dis·lo·cat·ed, dis·lo·cat·ing, dis·lo·cates 1. To put out of usual or proper place, position, or relationship. 2. workers, the chronically unemployed and those financially disadvantaged but ineligible in·el·i·gi·ble adj. 1. Disqualified by law, rule, or provision: ineligible to run for office; ineligible for health benefits. 2. for other financial aid programs. ``A good example would be a woman in a domestic-violence situation,'' Forster said. ``Her salary is tied to her husband, so she's not eligible for financial aid. He won't give her money to go to school, but she does anyway because it's her only way out. We have many of these.'' Despite funding cutbacks - federal funding stopped in 1999 and state funding was cut severely in 2002 - she has been able to help nearly 200 clients improve their situations. For more information on the Clothes Closet, CalWORKs or other programs, call (661) 362-3393. Carol Rock, (661) 257-5252 carol.rock(at)dailynews.com |
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