💡Support Park City's First-Gen Students 💡

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In less than two weeks, you can support Bright Futures students and make their life-changing goals a reality! On November 3rd, join our entire community during Live PC Give PC and make first-generation students' college dreams come true.

You can even start giving now and take advantage of matching grants to double your impact!

☀️ There is a Place for Me ☀️

Help Park City's First-Gen Students Know There is a Place for Them

“If you join Bright Futures and you work to stay in the program you will achieve anything you set your mind to. Thanks to Bright Futures, I can continue to dream and turn hopes into reality during my college years.”

-Jose Hernandez Bello

Jose Hernandez Bello, PCHS Class of 2023 and University of Utah freshman, is majoring in biomedical engineering and wants to become a research physician.

The Bright Futures team helped Jose find his summer of 2022 internship at the Huntsman Cancer Institute, where he was a PathMakers Scholar. And, while his time in The Rutter Lab focused on the biochemical work of enzymes, metabolism, and proteins - what he really learned was more existential: you might call it chemistry of the soul. 

“I learned that there is a place for me in science. I may not always look like a scientist or feel like one but science is a big field and it's diverse. I have a place in science - and so does anyone who has that passion.”

Jose is already inspiring the next generation of Bright Futures students! Learn more about Jose's impressive journey so far, and how he has become a role model for other first-gen students at PCHS.

Support Bright Futures!

Help Park City's First-Gen Students Become our Next-Gen Leaders

We are proud to support Jose and the 145 Bright Futures students at PCHS and in college. Now in it's eighth year, PCEF Bright Futures is completely funded by donor-directed gifts to PCEF. You can take part in Park City's 24 hours of giving right now and donate to support Bright Futures through Live PC Give PC!

With generous matches your gift will be doubled during Live PC Give PC! Please give now to support the college dreams of Park City's first-generation students.

What is PCEF's

Bright Futures Program?

Bright Futures changes lives by supporting motivated first-generation students as they work to get to and through college.

The PCEF Bright Futures program walks alongside these first-gen students as they make their college graduation dreams a reality. 

Right now, there are nearly 150 Bright Futures students – 65 in college - and they boast a 90% progression rate.

Nationwide - just 11% of first-gen college students battling economic barriers make it to the college graduation finish line.

Eight members of the first & second cohorts of Bright Futures are brand-new college graduates!

Your generosity is an investment into our future: it changes students' lives and economic outcomes for generations to come.

First Generation Task Force at PCHS

Through Bright Futures, and the counselors, teachers and programming at PCHS, a full spectrum of support is provided for students who are the first in their families to go to college. 

Dream Big is an award winning year-round PCHS curriculum preparing these students for the academic rigor of AP classes and college concurrent enrollment classes.

The Latinos in Action classes from 6th-12th grade teach leadership and community service skills, focusing on the strength of students' bilingual capabilities and multicultural experiences.