Scholarship Fund for Ventura County

The Ventura County Community Foundation is a public charity dedicated to increasing the quality of life in Ventura County by encouraging local philanthropy to respond to needs through responsible grant making and scholarship programs. The Ventura County Community Foundation has many different scholarship funds that were created by individuals, corporations, and organizations to assist local students pursuing higher education or career training.

In addition to scholarships for which students apply to VCCF annually (listed in the annual Scholarship Guidelines), the Community Foundation also oversees school-managed programs in which school personnel select recipients for certain scholarship awards according to donor criteria. Graduating high school seniors, community college students, and California State University, Channel Islands students should check with their school’s Career/Counseling Center to learn more about these awards.

Ventura County Community Foundation has collaborated with the Ventura County Star since 2004 to offer scholarship awards to graduating seniors at every high school in Ventura participating in the Ventura County Star Scholar Program. Ventura County Star Scholars are selected by representatives from their high schools. The Community Foundation established the endowed Scholarship Fund for Ventura County but the fund does not generate enough to make awards to the 70 - 85 Star Scholars named annually by their high schools. Thus VCCF works to raise money so awards may be made to each Star Scholar. The dollar amount of the awards depends upon the success of our annual fundraising efforts for the program. We encourage all Ventura County residents to join us by investing in the youth of our county as they pursue their educational dreams.