Dr. Kathryn Jeffery, SCC President, back, and Ryan Thalken, holding shovel, dedicate SCC City Farm with the help of the SCC Berneice Clayton Childhood Development Center. Thalken is the President of the newly chartered City Farm student club.

SCC Annual Fund

Department projects, scholarships, equipment for an SCC program-SCC's Annual Fund continues to
reach students in exciting, innovative ways. The Annual Fund is comprised of tax-deductible gifts that
offer the financial support and flexibility needed for unforeseen student needs and college opportunities.
By giving to the Annual Fund, SCC employees and members of the greater community make a difference.
Your donations help with college needs that do not benefit from traditional sources. To give to the
Annual Fund, visit www.scc.losrios.edu and click Give a Gift or call 916-558-2197.

Annual Fund Mini Grants in the Classroom

As would be expected in challenging economic times, the need for donor assistance with college needs has increased. The SCC Annual Fund helps close the gap in traditional funding due to budget restraints. This year, the Annual Fund will give much needed help to the following projects.

SCC Choral Performance at Carnegie Hall-the SCC Choir is invited to perform a solo concert over Memorial
Day weekend in 2012, and the Annual Fund mini grant will help with this unique opportunity. For more information about the choir's needs, contact Doreen Irwin at 916-558-2496.

Connections Workshops-Connections is a nationally acclaimed customer service program that has become an integral part of the SCC culture, focusing on communication, going the extra mile in solving problems, telephone techniques, e-mail communication and handling customer complaints.

MacPro Computer and Display Monitor-Pro Tools is a music and audio production software. Students who
meet the requirements of Pro Tools courses have an advantage in obtaining audio production employment over job applicants without the training.
Livescribe Smart Pens-the Disability Resource Center needs to purchase these pens to provide note-taking
assistance for SCC students with disabilities. This is a ballpoint pen with an embedded computer digital audio recorder. Used with special paper, it records what it writes for later uploading to a computer and synchronizes with notes with any audio recorded.

Green Chemistry: SPME Technology-The premise of green chemistry is to use analytical procedures that
generate less hazardous waste that is safer to use and more benign to the environment. There is a cost savings from the ongoing processing and disposal of laboratory waste associated with multiple academic lab experiments. Solid Phase Micro-Extraction chemistry is a leading green chemistry technology now being employed in academia and industry. Chemistry and Biology would collaborate to perform environmental, hair, volatiles and biological fluid analyses. This reusable technology involves no solvents for analyses. At SCC, the SPME technology could be used for air pollution analyses, smog check,waste water analyses, to determine the ripeness of fruits, breath analysis and many more applications. There are several courses that can use SPME technology.

Business Plan Contest-Students will compete for an award by writing formal business plans to be reviewed by entrepreneurs and/ or business executives. The grant money will go to the students who win the competition to help them purchase their business licenses, website domains and start-up supplies.
City Farm-This multi-disciplinary, service learning,community garden will support curricular interests in a number of areas. Plans and consulting will be donated by UC Davis Agriculture and Plant Science programs and Soil Born Farms in Sacramento. A City Farm student club has been chartered.

Touring Production: Bilingual Romeo and Juliet-This outreach effort travels to Old Sacramento, the Fair Oaks Tudor Fayre, schools, parks, Fairytale Town and senior centers. The Theatre Arts Department wants to invite students from the Spanish Department, from Shakespeare classes in the English Department and other interested students to create a production that could travel during the summer and then be available to travel into classrooms after the summer season.