Designated Funds / Scholarship + Service Fund
One Gift, Two Acts of Good
A $10,000 gift funds a student's full year of study. In return, every recipient commits volunteer hours to a cause close to their heart — 15,000 of them across the fund so far in 2026.
The Challenge
A Full Year Costs $10,000. Most Students Don't Have It.
Tuition, books, and the cost of simply getting to campus add up to about $10,000 a year. For a student already working to support a family, that number is what ends a degree before it starts. And the students who need a scholarship most are often the ones already giving their time to the community around them.
What We Do
How the Fund Works
Your Gift
100% of every dollar funds one student's scholarship. Nothing is held back.
Their Scholarship
A student stays enrolled, stays focused, and finishes their degree.
Double Impact
A $10,000 gift becomes a full scholarship and a full year of community service. Double the impact of a single check.
The Result
Not a Promise. A Number.
Every student this fund supports commits volunteer hours to a cause close to their heart. Counted across the fund so far in 2026, those hours came to this.
Your gift pays for a degree. What comes back goes to a food bank, a youth club, a hospital ward, a Holocaust survivor who needed the company — the good, doubled.
hours of community service given back by our
scholarship recipients so far in 2026
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The Second Act of Good
Every recipient commits volunteer hours to a cause close to their heart. This is what those hours look like.
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How Your Donation Helps
= one full scholarship and one full year of community service
Gifts below that level are combined until they add up to a whole award, so no dollar sits idle.
A quarter of a scholarship, and the service hours that come with it.
Half a year covered for one student, and half a year of community work behind it.
A complete scholarship and a complete year of service. One check, two results.
Create Two Acts of Good
A $10,000 gift becomes a full scholarship and a full year of community service.
Friends of Peres Academic Center is a U.S. 501(c)(3) organization, EIN 42-3158631.
Your gift is tax-deductible to the fullest extent allowed by law.