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Your unrestricted donation to the Making Hope Happen Foundation enables all of our work by supporting our programs in San Bernardino — plus the mission-critical activities that program-only grants and donations do not.
From human resources, accounting, and payroll to staff development and organization-level operations, we could not do what we do without your support!
Each donation breathes life into dreams, reshapes futures, and creates paths forward for young people to succeed. By standing with the Making Hope Happen Foundation, you’re investing in a brighter tomorrow.
Please make hope happen today by clicking the “Donate” button below. Thank you for your contribution!
Are you ready to make an ongoing commitment to the future of San Bernardino? Consider becoming a monthly sustainer!
When you pledge to make a monthly donation, you’re showing your long-term support of the Making Hope Happen Foundation, our programs and initiatives, and the youth of San Bernardino.
Becoming a monthly sustainer for the Making Hope Happen Foundation isn’t just about donating—it’s about planting seeds of change in the heart of San Bernardino. Monthly sustaining ensures that the foundation can consistently fuel projects, support young people, and invigorate the community.
It’s more than just a financial gesture; it’s a consistent affirmation that you believe in the power of hope and the difference it can make in a person’s life.
Everyone who calls San Bernardino home should have the opportunity to prosper, thrive, and feel like they belong.
Everyone who calls San Bernardino home should have the opportunity to prosper, thrive, and feel like they belong.
Everyone who calls San Bernardino home should have the opportunity to prosper, thrive, and feel like they belong.
Dr. Margaret Hill was a force of nature. Like an overflowing river, she moved into our school district in 1971 and forever changed the landscape. In a city experiencing poverty and decline, she had a way of making everyone she talked to feel like they mattered, and to her, they did.
Her commitment to the city’s children and youth was unwavering. She started as a teacher in the district and for the last 16 years of her employee tenure, she was the principal at San Andreas High School. Exceptional emotional intelligence was her superpower, but don’t mistake her empathy for acceptance of mediocrity. She wanted the best for and from her students and community.
Even in retirement, she was non-stoppin’, working first for the county schools then joining the SBCUSD board of education. As a member of Board of Education, she was a part of a District turnaround that garnered national attention and recognition.
Margaret Hill was the heart of the Board and the soul of the District. When her flood waters ultimately receded, she left us better people, a better organization, and a better community. There are few people in the community who cannot tell a story about how she touched their lives as evidenced by her memorial service held at San Manuel Stadium.
Your donation to the Dr. Margaret Hill Memorial Scholarship Endowment will enable graduating seniors from San Andreas Continuation High School to realize their dream of attending college. Mentor-Supported Scholarships provide students with $3,000 plus a paid mentor for their first two years of post-secondary education. Students are allowed to use the funds at the accredited trade school, college or university of their choice.
Our mentors are graduates of SBCUSD high schools and were scholarship recipients. They are either upperclassmen or graduate students. Their role is to be that knowledgeable friend to help students transition to post-secondary life and education. Your donation makes hope happen for students in our community.
Arlene Lewis is a San Bernardino High School alumna and beloved Cardinals cheerleader. Her lifetime of service in partnership with her late husband, Congressman Jerry Lewis, has left an indelible mark on San Bernardino and the Inland Empire.
Her commitment to the community continues with the creation of the Jerry & Arlene Young Leaders of a United America Scholarship for graduates of San Bernardino High School who are working towards careers in public service. This endowed fund will provide at least one scholarship each year in perpetuity.
This endowment is made possible through a generous donation from local attorney and philanthropist Bill Lemann, who helped us to create the Robert L. Harbison Scholarship Endowment with a catalytic investment of $726,000.
This scholarship fund provides 10 $3,000 scholarships to graduates of SBCUSD high schools every year in perpetuity. As with all Making Hope Happen Foundation scholarships, recipients are guided by paid mentors for two years, which is a best practice, especially for first generation college and university students.
Since 2019, 40 Harbison full or partial scholarships have been awarded that have allowed students to attend UCs, CSUs, and private colleges all over CA and beyond. In December of 2021, Mr. Lemann provided another $50,000 with a challenge to all of us to grow the endowment to at least $1 million.
Per Bill’s request, new awards from the Robert L. Harbison Scholarship Endowment have been paused until the fund has reached the goal. What do you say? Will you make the Robert L. Harbison Scholarship available to SBCUSD students again by helping us reach $1 million in the fund’s corpus? Bill Lemann makes big things happen. If we do this together, it will be huge!
Mrs. Frances Yeager was a passionate advocate for literacy in San Bernardino. With your help, her legacy of encouraging children to read will live on through programs that provide books and inspire kids to love reading.
Thank you for considering a donation in her memory today!
Kids today are growing up in a world full of exciting opportunities and entertaining distractions. The old paradigms of classroom education are struggling to compete with the fast-paced flash of pop culture for the hearts and minds of children. Education must be rigorous and relevant to inspire engagement in our students.
With investments from our generous donors, the Making Hope Happen Foundation fuels great ideas from local educators who know what it really takes to engage our kids. They just need a little help to make these educational visions come to life!
Making Hope Happen Foundation Innovation Grants offer that help and add the power of philanthropy to boost their efforts. When their plans are supported by charitable gifts, educators are emboldened by deep feelings of gratitude. Students who participate in projects funded by donations are likewise changed by the knowledge that people care enough to help them through giving to their school.
Innovation Grants are made to the San Bernardino school district to support projects in classrooms, across multiple school sites, or through district-wide initiatives.
Gifts to this fund will help us equip parents to maximize brain development within their children before they reach our schools, thereby giving them the best hope for success in life.
Research demonstrates that up to 85% of the brain is developed during the first three years of life. Unfortunately, research also shows that children growing up in poverty lack enough simple interactions to maximize that development and set them up for success in school.
Parents in these communities often haven’t been exposed to the research or taught to connect with their babies in the most meaningful ways. The solution here is simple. It just takes a little investment to give children the foundation they need to make learning easier.
The Making Hope Happen Foundation supports the Infant-Toddler Success program to ensure parents know and are equipped to help their children learn so they will be better able to succeed when they enter school. Initial investments from the San Bernardino City Unified School District helped to launch the program which is now offered in partnership with The Community Foundation of San Bernardino & Riverside Counties and California State University San Bernardino’s Institute for Child Development.
The program focuses on parenting approaches to advance a child’s cognitive and social skill development. Each class provides child care, a light meal, and a gift of a book to take home to read aloud to children. Subsequently, to help assure school readiness, parents are called back three times a year until the child enters kindergarten.
San Andreas High School operates an innovative program where students learn urban farming and entrepreneurship. This fund receives donations to assist with internships, scholarships, outreach and operation expenses of the Growing Hope Program.
Thank you for supporting this important fund!
The SBCUSD Special Education Program recognizes the need to invest in special education teachers so they can best serve the scholars they serve. Our scholars deserve the best and we want to ensure they have every opportunity to succeed. Great teachers are the key to helping our special education scholars thrive.
Donations to this fund will support our summer conference where we will build capacity, refresh and renew the spirits of special education teachers just in time for the new school year.
The vision of The Olive Branch is to service the entire San Bernardino community.
The mission of the Olive Branch is to provide food, clothing, school supplies, financial support, wellness services, counseling, infant/baby supplies, and other basic health and wellness needs.
Dr. Margaret Hill was a force of nature. Like an overflowing river, she moved into our school district in 1971 and forever changed the landscape. In a city experiencing poverty and decline, she had a way of making everyone she talked to feel like they mattered, and to her, they did.
Her commitment to the city’s children and youth was unwavering. She started as a teacher in the district and for the last 16 years of her employee tenure, she was the principal at San Andreas High School. Exceptional emotional intelligence was her superpower, but don’t mistake her empathy for acceptance of mediocrity. She wanted the best for and from her students and community.
Even in retirement, she was non-stoppin’, working first for the county schools then joining the SBCUSD board of education. As a member of Board of Education, she was a part of a District turnaround that garnered national attention and recognition.
Margaret Hill was the heart of the Board and the soul of the District. When her flood waters ultimately receded, she left us better people, a better organization, and a better community. There are few people in the community who cannot tell a story about how she touched their lives as evidenced by her memorial service held at San Manuel Stadium.
Your donation to the Dr. Margaret Hill Memorial Scholarship Endowment will enable graduating seniors from San Andreas Continuation High School to realize their dream of attending college. Mentor-Supported Scholarships provide students with $3,000 plus a paid mentor for their first two years of post-secondary education. Students are allowed to use the funds at the accredited trade school, college or university of their choice.
Our mentors are graduates of SBCUSD high schools and were scholarship recipients. They are either upperclassmen or graduate students. Their role is to be that knowledgeable friend to help students transition to post-secondary life and education. Your donation makes hope happen for students in our community.
Arlene Lewis is a San Bernardino High School alumna and beloved Cardinals cheerleader. Her lifetime of service in partnership with her late husband, Congressman Jerry Lewis, has left an indelible mark on San Bernardino and the Inland Empire.
Her commitment to the community continues with the creation of the Jerry & Arlene Young Leaders of a United America Scholarship for graduates of San Bernardino High School who are working towards careers in public service. This endowed fund will provide at least one scholarship each year in perpetuity.
This endowment is made possible through a generous donation from local attorney and philanthropist Bill Lemann, who helped us to create the Robert L. Harbison Scholarship Endowment with a catalytic investment of $726,000.
This scholarship fund provides 10 $3,000 scholarships to graduates of SBCUSD high schools every year in perpetuity. As with all Making Hope Happen Foundation scholarships, recipients are guided by paid mentors for two years, which is a best practice, especially for first generation college and university students.
Since 2019, 40 Harbison full or partial scholarships have been awarded that have allowed students to attend UCs, CSUs, and private colleges all over CA and beyond. In December of 2021, Mr. Lemann provided another $50,000 with a challenge to all of us to grow the endowment to at least $1 million.
Per Bill’s request, new awards from the Robert L. Harbison Scholarship Endowment have been paused until the fund has reached the goal. What do you say? Will you make the Robert L. Harbison Scholarship available to SBCUSD students again by helping us reach $1 million in the fund’s corpus? Bill Lemann makes big things happen. If we do this together, it will be huge!
Mrs. Frances Yeager was a passionate advocate for literacy in San Bernardino. With your help, her legacy of encouraging children to read will live on through programs that provide books and inspire kids to love reading.
Thank you for considering a donation in her memory today!
Kids today are growing up in a world full of exciting opportunities and entertaining distractions. The old paradigms of classroom education are struggling to compete with the fast-paced flash of pop culture for the hearts and minds of children. Education must be rigorous and relevant to inspire engagement in our students.
With investments from our generous donors, the Making Hope Happen Foundation fuels great ideas from local educators who know what it really takes to engage our kids. They just need a little help to make these educational visions come to life!
Making Hope Happen Foundation Innovation Grants offer that help and add the power of philanthropy to boost their efforts. When their plans are supported by charitable gifts, educators are emboldened by deep feelings of gratitude. Students who participate in projects funded by donations are likewise changed by the knowledge that people care enough to help them through giving to their school.
Innovation Grants are made to the San Bernardino school district to support projects in classrooms, across multiple school sites, or through district-wide initiatives.
Gifts to this fund will help us equip parents to maximize brain development within their children before they reach our schools, thereby giving them the best hope for success in life.
Research demonstrates that up to 85% of the brain is developed during the first three years of life. Unfortunately, research also shows that children growing up in poverty lack enough simple interactions to maximize that development and set them up for success in school.
Parents in these communities often haven’t been exposed to the research or taught to connect with their babies in the most meaningful ways. The solution here is simple. It just takes a little investment to give children the foundation they need to make learning easier.
The Making Hope Happen Foundation supports the Infant-Toddler Success program to ensure parents know and are equipped to help their children learn so they will be better able to succeed when they enter school. Initial investments from the San Bernardino City Unified School District helped to launch the program which is now offered in partnership with The Community Foundation of San Bernardino & Riverside Counties and California State University San Bernardino’s Institute for Child Development.
The program focuses on parenting approaches to advance a child’s cognitive and social skill development. Each class provides child care, a light meal, and a gift of a book to take home to read aloud to children. Subsequently, to help assure school readiness, parents are called back three times a year until the child enters kindergarten.
San Andreas High School operates an innovative program where students learn urban farming and entrepreneurship. This fund receives donations to assist with internships, scholarships, outreach and operation expenses of the Growing Hope Program.
Thank you for supporting this important fund!
The SBCUSD Special Education Program recognizes the need to invest in special education teachers so they can best serve the scholars they serve. Our scholars deserve the best and we want to ensure they have every opportunity to succeed. Great teachers are the key to helping our special education scholars thrive.
Donations to this fund will support our summer conference where we will build capacity, refresh and renew the spirits of special education teachers just in time for the new school year.
The vision of The Olive Branch is to service the entire San Bernardino community.
The mission of the Olive Branch is to provide food, clothing, school supplies, financial support, wellness services, counseling, infant/baby supplies, and other basic health and wellness needs.
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