Support Students Every Day with a Monthly Gift
When you commit to giving monthly, you’re making a lasting impact on the most vulnerable students and highest-need schools in Hillsborough County. Your ongoing support ensures that educational inequities are addressed, giving every child the opportunity to receive a high-quality public education and helping close achievement gaps for those who lack the same resources as their peers.
- A monthly gift of $60 can, over the course of a year, provide a student with a computer and year-long internet access.
- A monthly contribution of $83 for five years supports a student from 8th grade through graduation, covering a two-year college scholarship, a success coach, and a mentor.
By choosing to give monthly, you provide consistent, meaningful support that helps students thrive not just today, but throughout the school year and beyond.
Why Give Monthly?
Simplicity: Becoming a recurring monthly donor is easy and convenient. By opting to make a budget friendly, tax-deductible monthly gift, your donation will automatically be processed on the 28th of each month. It also allows you to space out your contribution over time.
Sustainability: Your monthly commitment provides consistent support that helps HEF make strategic investments, build a predictable source of funding and allocate more resources to advance our programs with a long-term vision to create meaningful change.
Support: Month after month you can feel good knowing your gift has a deep impact on students’ lives by providing free school supplies, mentoring, scholarships and technology for digital equity, plus support, recognition and development for our teachers.
Meet Our Beneficiaries
Romello’s Story
Plant City High School Senior and HEF Take Stock in Children Mentee Romello Jones shares some of the incredible challenges he’s overcome to succeed in school and the tremendous impact having support from our program and a mentor to look up to has made in his life.
The Hernandez Family’s Story
Francis Hernandez is a mother of four who works full time and is going to school to become a nurse. She says she’s grateful to HEF’s donors who care about her kids’ success in school and their futures. Through our Digital Equity Initiative the family has received a computer, WiFi device and ongoing support.
FAQs
Hillsborough Education Foundation is committed to ensuring donations are used in the most impactful way possible. We support Hillsborough County Public Schools teachers and students in need through our programs:
- School supplies
- Mentoring
- Digital Equity
- Scholarships
- School and Classroom Enrichment
- Teacher Support and Recognition
- College and Career Readiness
- Transforming Early Literacy Initiative (TELI)
94 cents of every dollar you invest is used directly for our initiatives. Our dedication to being responsible stewards of donors’ contributions has earned us these accolades:
- Charity Navigator 4 Star Charity
- GuideStar Platinum Transparency
- Exemplary Rating from Foundations for Excellence/Consortium of Florida Education Foundations
- Tampa Bay Business Journal One Tampa Bay Award
- Named “Tampa’s Top Charity Doing the Most with Donors’ Dollars” by Tampa Magazine
You have the option to set up your recurring donation on any major credit card or from a bank account direct debit.
All monthly gifts will automatically be processed on the 28th of each month or the next business day, if the 28th falls on a weekend/holiday.
Once your gift is processed by credit card each month, you will receive a receipt via email.
You will also receive an annual summary of your prior year’s giving by mail in January.