Every contribution makes a direct impact on the lives of our scholars

With your support, NGS will continue breaking barriers, developing leaders, and ensuring educational opportunities for all

Every contribution makes a direct impact on the lives of our scholars image

From First Grade to First Career - Join Us to Help Make an Impact

Next Generation Scholars empowers first-generation, under-resourced students across Marin County with more than academics—students from first grade to their first careers gain unwavering educational guidance and vital family support services. Our holistic model provides everything: rigorous academic coaching, college and career counseling, and essential family services—from housing and food security to healthcare and legal resources—so scholars and their families can flourish.

Over twenty years ago, Next Generation Scholars started on a dining room table. What began as an innovative idea has become an academically-forward, leadership-driven, family wellness organization. Now, we empower young people and families throughout the county and in universities worldwide. We are celebrating 20 years of serving Scholars. From first graders over the summer to middle school support year-round, we see them through their college graduations and into their careers. We foster them as young people who eventually become their family’s highest wage earners and their communities’ next leaders.

Today, we counsel, mentor, and guide 231 students from 1st grade through college and into their first jobs. We look forward to growing our capacity to equip, to empower, and to embolden the next generation of young people and families in Marin County.

Join us in this movement to foster the next generation of ethical public officials, equitable scientists, emboldened teachers, excellent lawyers, and empowered professionals.

Thank you for believing in us, for investing in our young people, and for contributing to the power of a transformational educational experience.

Ways to Donate & Instructions

Online:

  1. Select an Amount, or Enter Your Own
  2. Select a one-time, or a recurring contribution*
  3. Complete the checkout and embrace the good feeling your generosity brings.

*Benefits of a recurring donation include:

  • A consistent life-changing difference in the lives of resilient, deserving young people;
  • Environmental sustainability - your monthly pledge is automatically withdrawn through a secure platform, without stamps, envelopes, or paper checks;
  • An easily budgeted gift, with a year-end tax summary acknowledgment and
  • A note of gratitude for choosing to empower a student, 24/7 for 365 days.

By Check:

Please make checks payable to Next Generation Scholars, and mail to 1018 E Street, San Rafael, CA, 94901

Stock Transfer Donations:

  1. Please notify Director of Development, Eric Weller (eric@nextgenerationscholars.org), of your upcoming stock transfer. Because your name won’t accompany the electronic transfer of shares, kindly include your name, your contact information, the name of the stock, and the number of shares transferred in your email. This will ensure we are able to acknowledge your gift correctly and issue you a proper tax credit.
  2. Charles Schwab Non-Profit
    1. Charitable Account No: 2388-7962
    2. DTC 0164
    3. Customer Service Phone Number: 1-800-435-4000
  3. For tax purposes, the date of the gift is the date the shares hit the NGS account. Gift Value is the average share price on that date.

Please spread the word to anyone in your circles who might want to invest in this life-changing work!

NGS is a 501c3 nonprofit organization, tax ID # 26-1110584. All donations are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.

Donor Privacy Policy

OUR COMMITMENT TO OUR DONORS

Next Generation Scholars will not sell, share, or trade our donors’ names or personal information with any other entity, or send mailings to our donors on behalf of other organizations.

This policy applies to all information received by Next Generation Scholars, both online and offline, on any platform (including the Next Generation Scholars website and mobile applications), as well as any electronic, written, or oral communications.

To the extent that donations are processed through a third-party service provider, our donors’ information will only be used for purposes necessary to process the donation.

Charitable Tax Laws

P.S. - A friendly reminder. Charitable Tax Laws will allow: 1) Individuals to deduct up to $300 in cash donations, regardless of whether or not you itemize; 2) Suspension of the 50% limitation of AGI for those that do itemize, and 3) A change in limitation from 10% to 25% of taxable income for corporations.