Supporting Our Goals
We are building momentum toward the future.
Everything we do at Valencia College is aligned with strategic goals we’ve committed to reaching by 2035. They are:
Step 1
Work with partners to increase enrollment in college or technical training school upon high school graduation.
Step 2
Boost five-year graduation rates for degree-seeking students at Valencia.
Step 3
Help enable more Valencia College graduates who transfer to baccalaureate degree programs—at either Valencia or the University of Central Florida—earn their bachelor’s degree within four years of transferring.
Step 4
Ensure all Valencia A.S., B.S., B.A.S. and Accelerated Skills Training programs lead to starting wages that exceed the starting wage of high school graduates in Orange and Osceola counties.
Ways to give:
- Online: valencia.org/donate
- Securities: Stocks, bonds, or mutual funds
- Bequests: Include us in your will or estate plan
- Retirement Assets and Life Insurance: Designate the Foundation as a beneficiary
Questions?
Contact Angela Mendolaro at 407-582-3011 or amendolaro@valenciacollege.edu
You can support the strategic goals of Valencia College.
Engage with our students and programs.
- Join an Advisory Board to bring your industry expertise into our classrooms.
- Become a mentor to our students.
- Hire our graduates.
Invest in student success
- Donate to The Valencia College Foundation.
- Provide funding to a wraparound service that addresses student issues such as food insecurity.
- To make an in-kind donation (such as equipment) to one of our programs, contact a Gift Officer at amendolaro@valencia.org
Partner and advocate for impact
- Partner with us to sponsor a program or help us develop a program that meets your industry’s unmet workforce needs.
- Sponsor access initiatives.
- Contact your state representative and ask that Valencia College receive more state funding.
- Contact your state senator
- Thank Orange and Osceola county commissioners for their support of scholarship opportunities.
Distinguished Graduate, Alfredo Dominguez, returned to Valencia College for a Bachelor’s Degree and to rekindle his spark.
Arelise Vasquez flew under the radar in high school. But thanks to the Osceola Prosper scholarship, she's attracting attention as an SGA leader.
When Melodie Cros came to Valencia at age 21, she had one goal in mind — to dive into a career in audio engineering.
Maritza Martinez may have sprinted through her MBA, but for UCF’s community relations director, the road to a bachelor’s degree was more of a winding, long-distance run – one full of dead ends and tangents.
Selena Chaves, the first female graduate from Valencia's electrician training program, left her job as a substitute teacher to become an apprentice electrician at Disney.
Yve Servius was homeless, living in his car and had no clear path to a better life. A friend of his couldn’t stand to see him living in the confined space a car offers, so he and his dad took him into their home.