Craven Community College Foundation

The mission of the Craven Community College Foundation is to provide financial assistance to qualifying students whenever possible and to encourage qualified students to experience their full potential. Our students face challenges. Almost 50% of CCC students require some type of financial assistance in order to attend school. 29% have annual incomes of less than $20,000 41% are first-generation college students 33% are parents and 16% are single parents 54% work full time in addition to taking classes Philanthropic strategies to invest in student potential, college initiatives, faculty development and cultural programs: Endowed Scholarships

By making an investment in an endowment fund, you will be able to guarantee that your gift is providing an annual scholarship to a worthy student in perpetuity. Endowment funds begin at $12,000 and pledges for endowments can be completed over a three-year period. The Craven Community College Foundation currently manages a variety of endowments that have been made as memorial gifts or to honor members of the community. They include:

 Annual Scholarships

• Each year, individuals, groups and civic organizations in the community make financial contributions to the Craven Community College Foundation to help qualified students pay for their tuition and books. 
• The cost for one semester's tuition and books for a single student averages $1,200.  Each year, the need for scholarships increases as the number of students with significant financial needs increases.
• In 2007, the Craven Community College Foundation awarded 865 scholarships and emergency loans to students. 
• Harold H. Bate Foundation - Some men are giants yet they walk with a soft step.  Those words describe Harold Bate and the legacy he left to this community.  Each year, hundreds of students have been given a real chance at a successful life because they received scholarships from the Harold H. Bate Foundation.  Students are able to use their scholarships for tuition or books. The legacy left by Harold Bate lives on in each student who walks across the stage at graduation and realizes they owe their "chance" to the financial  support of the Bate Foundation and the legacy left by Harold Bate.

Business Leadership Circle

Membership in the Business Leadership Circle gives an opportunity for local business and industry to support the mission of Craven Community College through an annual gift of $ 3,000.

Workforce development is of significant importance to business, industry and potential employees and an important element of the college's mission is to assist industry in their need for a productive and trained workforce. 

Annual scholarships provided by members of the Business Leadership Circle support students in curriculums as varied as advanced manufacturing, nursing and aviation technology.

Current members of the Business Leadership Circle include:

•      BSH Home Appliances
•      Carolina Technical Plastics
•      Coastal Carolina Health Care
•      Craven Regional Medical Center
•      Eastern Aviation Fuels
•      ECIM
•      Jenkins Gas - The Energy Company
•      Moen
•      PCS Phosphate
•      Tandemloc
•      Weyerhaeuser

Annual Community Campaign

Each year in November, the Craven Community College Foundation conducts an annual fund-raising campaign. Gifts from this campaign are used for scholarships, professional training, special faculty projects, emergency funds for students and other student-related projects.

Craven Community Foundation Board of Directors