CEGAANA Scholarship Fund

CEGAANA has setup a scholarship fund to help deserving students achieve their dreams of becoming an engineer. We now provide the ability to donate and get a tax deduction. We have also built end to end transparency to show where and how the donations are spent.

We have currently helped sponsor 5 students as of December 2020 through CEGAANA and batch contributions.

Some of the criteria we apply while selecting students are:

- First generation to go to College

- Low-income family

- Interest, commitment and good grades in high school

We always support a student through all four years of college. Our cost per day scholar student is $2100 and $6800 for hostel students. We work with a non-profit Knowledge Foundation - in Chennai (run by alumni from CEG 1990 batch) to identify and vet the deserving students. All contributions are directly used to fund students (transaction fees are deducted, please see the FAQ for further details about the fees).

Batch based funds:

Besides the general CEGAANA scholarship fund we offer alumni an option to combine donations amongst their batch and fund one or more students. Several batches including 1990, 1993 and 1984 have set up such batch based funds and have raised over $30K so far.

Thank you for supporting our young students!

Donation Options:

Option 1: Through your company contribution site

If your company has Benevity, please log into your company website (eg: google.benevity.org) and choose "CEGAANA Scholarship fund" to make a donation. This will help us get matching funds which allows us to support more students. Once you donate please fill your information in this form for the tax receipt. Use this Benevity FAQ for additional help.

Option 2: Contribute through PayPal if your company does not have a match.

Send the donation to via PayPal to finance@cegaana,org . Once you donate please fill your information in this form for the tax receipt.

Option 3: Contribute via check

Please send us a check if you are sending us larger amounts and your company does not have a match. Please make the check payable to "CEGAANA" and add a note specifying the purpose for eg: "CEGAANA scholarship fund". Please mail the check to the address below and fill this form so that we can send you the tax receipt.

CEGAANA

279 Leota Avenue,

Sunnyvale, CA 94086

Option 4: Contribute via smile.amazon.com

Please follow these instructions to setup Cegaana as your favorite charity while you shop at Amazon.

Option 5: Contribute via Venmo

Coming soon

Other ways you can help

• Help sign up CEGAANA as a charitable organization with your company for matching contributions. Please reach out if you can help

• Share this page with other alumni to help spread the word

• Mentor students: We have an initiative Ask A CEGian Mentorship Program

Frequently Asked Questions