Room and Board Scholarship Fund
The Redwoods Room & Board Scholarship Fund supports CR students who are experiencing homelessness or who are housing insecure. This scholarship provides semester grants so that these students can live in CR's residence halls and have a meal plan in the cafeteria. The goal is to ensure these students have the opportunity to focus on their education rather than on their daily survival.
College of the Redwoods was the first college in the nation to provide on campus housing and meal plans for its students experiencing housing insecurity or homelessness.
Housing Statistics
Nearly half of all community college students are experiencing overwhelming housing challenges: 35% experience ongoing housing insecurity; 15% are homeless; and 56% of community college students face food insecurity.
Wisconsin HOPE Lab and the Association of Community College Trustees
At College of the Redwoods
CR students self-identify as to experiencing housing insecurity or homelessness. Our students are living in their cars, moving from sofa to sofa, and have even camped in the redwoods behind the College. A significant number of our students are not getting enough to eat. Our Food Pantries help over one hundred students every week.
Donate Now
Send to:
Redwoods Room & Board Scholarship Fund
College of the Redwoods Foundation
7351 Tompkins Hill Rd.
Eureka, CA 95501
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"My father didn’t graduate from high school and used to say ‘don’t be like me’…. And I know if I drop out of school and work full time, I will just keep struggling. I will never get ahead."
- Martha, College of the Redwoods Student
Martha's Story
Martha is a student at College of the Redwoods. She applied for financial aid, with help from her high school, and received confirmation of her completed application. But when she arrived at CR she found out her application was incomplete and that it could take months to be resolved.
Listen to Martha's Story:
Read the Full Story (PDF)"On the nights that I had to camp near school, I would usually stay in the wooded area behind the dorms and then use the shower facilities in the gym in the mornings."
- Tammy, College of the Redwoods Student
CR is Battling Housing and Food Insecurity
- A Basic Needs Center was established on the Eureka Main Campus.
- Food Pantries at the Crescent City and Hoopa campuses are planned for 2019.
- A Housing Liaison was hired to help our students find housing.
- Gym showers and washers & dryers were opened to our students facing housing insecurity.
- We provide health services and emotional / mental health counseling for our students.
- There are various forms of financial aid to provide free or reduced tuition.
- Student support services help cover fees, book costs, bus vouchers for transportation, and loaner laptops.
- And now we have the new Redwoods Room & Board Scholarship Fund.
