The Houston Community College System Foundation was founded in 1976 to provide scholarships to

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students and to support the college's efforts to attract and educate Houston-area students—including many non-traditional students and those facing barriers to higher education. Like virtually all community college foundations, for most of its existence the HCCS Foundation functioned primarily as a clearinghouse for scholarships, accepting funds from donors and awarding them to eligible students. It was not expected to engage in large-scale solicitation of funds. Much has changed since the HCCS Foundation's establishment. Higher education has become a requirement for earning a stable living, and businesses have begun clamoring for a more educated workforce. At the same time, tuition and fees at four-year institutions have skyrocketed, and Houston's demographics have shifted, with the majority of the city's young people now coming from backgrounds historically unlikely to receive

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. In 2007, the HCCS Foundation launched a website, and was reclassified by the

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as a Section 509(a)(1) and 170(b)(1)(A)(vi) publicly supported charity.

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