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The Skyline College Drive-Thru Community Market launched in September and provided groceries to 300 families in the first day. This past week marked our 17th weekly food distribution event and served 825 families! Each family receives almost 40 lbs of groceries, including milk, eggs, pasta, rice, fresh produce, canned goods and dry goods, as well ...

The Skyline College Drive-Thru Community Market launched in September and provided groceries to 300 families in the first day. This past week marked our 15th weekly food distribution event and served 800 families! Each family receives almost 40 lbs of groceries, including milk, eggs, pasta, rice, fresh produce, canned goods and dry goods, as well ...

SparkPoint and Skyline College partnered with United Way Bay Area to do outreach for the 2020 Census and we have received the official BAY AREA COUNTS 2020 report.  People and communities throughout the Bay Area will have better access to services, more resources and better political representation because of these efforts. THE INVESTMENT: Over $27.5M in ...

The 2020 Virtual Food Drive at Skyline College is an effort to support local communities to gain access to fresh, nourishable groceries and meals provided by Second Harvest of Silicon Valley. Normally, we would be hosting this event on campus with the support of Second Harvest of Silicon Valley, SparkPoint, the Phi Theta Kappa Honor ...

On Wednesday, October 14, the Outreach & Student Recruitment Office hosted, for the first time, its annual virtual high school partners event. This year’s theme was centered around “Community, Conversations, and Collaboration” and focused on strengthening partnerships with our local high schools to better serve students and our community during these isolating times. Given a unique ...

The Skyline College Drive-Thru Community Market launched on Wednesday, September 2, providing groceries to 300 families in the first day. Wednesday, October 7, marked our sixth food distribution event, which was the largest yet and served 650 families. Each family receives almost 40 lbs of groceries, including milk, eggs, pasta, rice, fresh produce, canned goods ...

In March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic forced our district and our community to shelter in place.  Unfortunately, his unprecedented situation forced the Skyline College Free Community Market and SparkPoint Food Pantry to close in order to protect the health and safety of our students, community and employees.  In April, the San Mateo County Community College ...

SparkPoint at Skyline College is currently accepting scholarship applications for 25 Career and Technical Education (CTE) students for the fall 2020 cohort. Grove Scholarship applications are available online at skylinecollege.edu/sparkpoint and are due by 3:00 p.m. on September 9. Eligible students will be selected for the program based on three short personal statements that describe who they are, ...

The Skyline College Legal Clinic, located in the Dream Center at Building 1, Room 1-219, aspires to fulfill the community’s unmet needs of accessibility to legal information. Since 2014, under the direction of supervising attorney Maria Segarra, the clinic has served Skyline College students, faculty and staff, as well as other members of the community. As envisioned, the ...

The Ceramics Club hosted its sixth Biennial Empty Bowls Fundraiser on November 6, 2019, in the Fireside Dining Room. Empty Bowls is a grassroots project created to raise money and awareness of hunger and food insecurity in communities. Each group that participates in the Empty Bowls project works with their community to create their own event. We ...