THE POWER OF PHILANTHROPY
Ventura College expands music programming with multimillion
dollar Schwab endowment… read more
Miriam Schwab will go down in history as one of Ventura’s greatest benefactors. The successful real estate developer and music lover, who passed away in December 2017, made an enormous, $12 million donation to Ventura College.
“This is the largest gift ever to a Southern California community college,” says Anne Paul King, executive director of the Ventura College Foundation, “and the second largest gift in the state for a community college, according to the Chronicle of Philanthropy gift database.”
A gift of this size is a game changer — and it just may help Ventura College transform itself into one of the most prestigious music education entities in the nation.