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East Bay College Fund helps Oakland students get to college—and stay there

By Sara Bernard | March 14, 2013 | 4

The East Bay College Fund awards up to forty sixteen-thousand dollar scholarships each year to low-income students from Oakland. Nearly all of these students are the first in their families to attend college, and nearly all have weathered the kind of personal challenges—such as violence, homelessness, or early parenthood—that could easily have blocked the way.

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