How Supporting Basic Needs Makes the Difference between a Diploma or Dropping Out
Empowering Success for Foster Youths It’s easy to understand how young adults in the foster system face extremely significant obstacles in achieving long-term stability and academic success. Basic needs such as housing, nutrition, transportation and emotional...
COD Central Pantries and FIND Food Bank Help Students Eat While Reducing the Plight of Hunger
Students who hunger for a meaningful way to serve their community while moving toward a college degree, have found it at COD, thanks to a program that started in early 2022. College of the Desert, the FIND Food Bank, and the nonprofit groups One Future Coachella...
Give Students the Basic Needs to Succeed
80% of COD’s Students are Either the First in their Family or the First Generation in their Family to Go to College. Since the onset of the pandemic, many of our students have lost their jobs, housing and financial security. Soaring food, gasoline and housing prices...