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| $100 | Individual seat |
| $250 | Orchestra seat |
| $1,000 | Patron, including up to four orchestra seats |
| $2,500 | Champagne reception host, including up to six orchestra seats |
| $5,000 | Concert host, including up to ten orchestra seats |
As communicated by the Fund, patrons, reception hosts, and concert hosts will be recognized in the program and will receive signed copies of Anderson & Roe: Reimagine, Elizabeth’s four-hands debut with Greg Anderson, as featured on MTV’s Total Request Live and National Public Radio’s From the Top.
Why do I support Esperanza Fund?
In the last two decades, the capital region has emerged as one of the nation’s fastest-growing and most diverse immigrant gateways. The foreign-born population in the District of Columbia metropolitan area has nearly quadrupled since 1980, jumping from 6% to 20% of the total population. Today, one million immigrants call the capital region home.
This immigrant population faces a severe education deficit. Immigrants in the area are three times more likely to lack a high school diploma than their native-born peers, and 50 percent more likely to have never gone to college. This education gap creates a serious economic disparity. Foreign-born families in the capital region are nearly twice as likely to be poor as native-born families. Immigrants in the capital region need access to higher education, and to the opportunities and leaders that higher education forges and provides.
Taking this into consideration, Esperanza Fund tried to create a different strategy that would set them apart from other similar programs because:
- Their scholarships are financed by the communities we serve. Many scholarships rely on corporate sponsorships or private endowments. We raise our funds from individuals, businesses and institutions in the capital region itself;
- They make long-term, capital- and time-intensive investments in our students. Most scholarships provide smaller awards of $250 to $2,500 and have no further contact with recipients. They award $5,000 for two-year degrees and $10,000 for four-year degrees, and enroll all Esperanza Scholars into an intensive academic and professional Mentorship Program; and,
- They serve all immigrant students regardless of national origin, ethnicity, and immigration status. The most prestigious scholarships open to immigrant students, e.g. the Hispanic Scholarship Fund and the Asian & Pacific Islander American Scholarships Fund, typically limit their awards on the basis of ethnicity and immigration status. This Fund targets and serves all immigrants, from Bolivian to Japanese, from citizen to non-citizen.
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