Today Governor Newsom proposed an investment of more than $2 billion in a statewide college savings account modeled after San Francisco’s Kindergarten to College Program (K2C). In 2011 when he was Mayor, Gavin and I launched K2C based on research showing that children with savings accounts will be up to seven times more likely to attend college than those without an account. Today, as a result of Newsom’s vision back in 2011, 46,000 public school students in San Francisco have K2C accounts, and have $8.6 million saved for college. I am beyond thrilled to see this program go statewide, and provide low income students with $500 to start saving for college.

Thank you to everyone who participated in our virtual summer contest. We had an amazing turnout that spanned across all grades in SFUSD schools. We appreciate you seizing this opportunity to tour colleges online and attend First Gen’s workshops! Please see here for all the scholarship awardees.

Kindergarten to College is excited to share the final selection of city-wide honorees of K2C's art, poetry and video contests for Spring 2021. We also invite you to join us in a virtual celebration for all participants at 5pm April 29th. Find out more details here.

Check out school contest winner's stories to learn about what motivates them, their aspirations for college, and the activities they enjoy.

Thank you to all the schools and students who participated in K2C’s 5th Grade Art, Middle School Poetry, or High School Short Video contest. To view all school winners and the timeline for the next steps on deciding K2C's city-wide honorees, click here.

Last December, San Francisco’s Kindergarten to College (K2C) program welcomed a new program manager, Mohan Kanungo. Prior to joining K2C, Mohan served as the Director of Community, Innovation, and Impact for the Children’s Council of San Francisco, which advocates for quality education and financial support to empower families and communities.

In 2019, ideas42 and San Francisco’s Office of Financial Empowerment launched a partnership to better understand how different families in San Francisco were using their Kindergarten to College (K2C) accounts, an automatically-opened and universal college saving account offered to every child entering kindergarten in the San Francisco Unified School District. We dove into program
data, talked to families, and explored the barriers that families faced when it came to saving for college. In the following report, we outline the resulting insights around how overcoming some of these barriers could promote equity within the K2C program and engage the families who would benefit most.