The Charter Oak State College Foundation
Creating Brighter Futures, One Degree at a Time.
The Charter Oak State College Foundation Mission is to make higher education a possibility for all, to help eliminate gender and racial inequities, reduce wage and poverty gaps and to ultimately, enrich the lives of students, graduates, children, the workforce, and our communities.
The Charter Oak State College Foundation supports Charter Oak Students, with scholarships, grants, degree completion funding, and more. As we know, a college degree provides a hand-up to improve economic and career mobility.
We help reduce student loan debt and make dreams of degree completion more attainable.
The financial awards are made possible by our generous donors, alumni, faculty, staff, community members, and business partners combined with the endowment fund interest earnings. Every gift helps us as we strive to raise more and give more.
Impact Report | 2023-2025
Give - Participate - Leave a Legacy
Help Create Brighter Futures by Giving Online Today!
Give
- "Where it is needed most" Give to the 2025 Annual Appeal
- "Give to Honor or Remember" - Designate Your Gift to Specific Fund
- Establish a New Fund, Create a Lasting Legacy, and impact generations of students for years to come! Learn more by contacting Carol Hall, chall@charteroak.edu or 860.515.3889.
Participate [Upcoming Events]
WIT 25-Year Celebration!
The Power of Education, The Radiance of Resilience!
Celebrating 25 Years of WIT!
WIT Homecoming Saturday, September 20, 2025 | 10:00 am - 2:00 pm
(details and registration)
WIT Graduates, Students, and community partners are invited to this Innagural Homecoming Saturday - a vibrant gathering of students and graduates, featuring empowering workshops, dynamic speakers, time to network and connect, professional headshots, and plenty of refreshments.
The all-volunteer Board of Directors believes in the mission of providing financial resources to help adult students achieve their academic and career aspirations. We also provide opportunity for you to get invovled!
About the Charter Oak State College Foundation
The Charter Oak State College Foundation is dedicated to supporting flexible and comprehensive degree completion opportunities for adults and technology innovations through the work of Charter Oak State College. The Foundation is a vehicle for accepting private gifts, donations and bequests for activities that are not adequately funded by the State of Connecticut. [Give online]
The Foundation Board of Directors provides volunteer leadership for development and fundraising programs and stewardship of the Foundation's assets in order to assist deserving and under employed adult students meet college costs; award scholarships; and encourage technological initiatives that enable the College to be a leader in online higher education. [About Scholarships]
The Foundation supports the College Mission: As part of the Connecticut State Colleges & Universities (CSCU) system, Charter Oak State College, the state's only public, online, degree-granting institution, provides affordable, diverse and alternative opportunities for adults to earn undergraduate and graduate degrees and certificates.
Contributions to the Charter Oak State College Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organization, are tax-deductible to the full-extent allowed by the IRS Regulations. Tax ID # 06-0969831
Leave a Legacy
Interested in Leaving a Legacy and Making a Lasting Impact?
An endowment or legacy gift to the COSC Foundation can be designated to the fund of your choice and can be held in perpetuity - impacting generations to come. A legacy gift can be established to intentionally remove barriers to higher education degree completion, increase opportunity for economic improvement, and to help create brighter futures for our graduates and their families.
Let's begin with a simple conversation, please contact Carol Hall, Executive Director, Charter Oak State College Foundation via phone or email: chall@charteroak.edu | 860.515.3889.
Learn More about the Foundation
Charter Oak State College Foundation not only provides financial assistance to students through scholarships and grants, the Foundation seeks to provide opportunity also to continue learning and to celebrate success through a variety of programs, lectures, and special events.
Annual Report
Impact Report | 2023-2025 | Raise More Give More
Audit Report
The audit report on the Charter Oak State College Foundation, Inc. for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2024.
For more information about the Foundation or our initiatives, please feel free to contact Carol Hall via email at chall@charteroak.edu or by calling (860) 515-3889.