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A performance on a stage by the YES Company
YES Company's 2025 Production, Mamma Mia!
A group of students on a wooden deck at Foothill Horizons
Foothill Horizons Outdoor School
YES Company students pose with Superintendent Kuykendall
Education Foundation Gala
Student track athletes jumping hurdles
Student Events Program Harold Pope Junior Relays
A group of young students gathered around books at a table
Imagination Library provides free books for children ages 0-5

Enriching Students' Lives

Each year, more than 17,500 students participate in activities sponsored by the Education Foundation of Stanislaus County (EFSC), which is supported through donation and volunteer help. Sustained through donations from generous community donors, the EFSC dispersed over $100,000 to fund student programs in Stanislaus County.

YES Company

An audition-based theater company for youth in grades 7-12 that produces a full-length Broadway musical each summer.

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YES Company dancers on stage doing a ballet

Foothill Horizons Outdoor School

A residential outdoor education school in the foothills of the Central Sierras.

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Two students holding up their name medallions at Foothill Horizons

Student Events

The Student Events Program coordinates or sponsors 12 student events throughout the year designed to encourage achievement among 4th grade through 12th grade students.

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Two students with History Day medals

Imagination Library

The Imagination Library of Stanislaus County supports early literacy by giving free books to families of children ages 0-5.

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A small child reading a book

Video Highlights

Foothill Horizons
Outdoor Education

Student Events -
Stanislaus Music Festival

Student Events -
History Day

The programs supported by the Foundation are designed to enhance and acknowledge the skills and abilities of Stanislaus County youth. Today's students are tomorrow's leaders. They will emerge as representatives of their communities and make decisions based on their experiences. In order to strengthen the future of Stanislaus County, its current students must be nurtured and encouraged.Anonymous