Amherst ABC Annual Fund Drive

ABC is a national high school program which prepares academically talented and highly motivated African American, Latino, Asian, and Native American students for college and future leadership roles in the broader community. Since the program began, over 100 students have graduated from Amherst Regional High School and have attended more than 50 colleges and universities. Please support our annual fund drive and make a donation today!

We are gearing up for the 39h Annual Fall Foliage Walk! This year we will also include the 14 mile Classic Walk along the Robert Frost Trail, as well as 5K Fun Run. The Walk is all about community, with family, friends, and neighbors to participating. Not only is the Fall Foliage Walk our largest fundraiser, but it has become an Amherst tradition. Please join us for this year's event!

Amherst ABC welcomes new resident directors, Jamie and Talib Sadiq on July 1. The Sadiqs and their three children, Yusef who is 12, Sayd, 5, and Talia, 3, are excited to begin their new lives as parents to two returning and two incoming scholars. More on their story...

Frank Anderson's stories from the founding of Amherst ABC. “Forty years?  That sounds about right.  I’m eighty now, and I was forty when we founded Amherst ABC.”  The math is clear and easy, as clear and easy as the stories that come back to Frank Anderson today, along with the reasons that he brought ABC to Amherst, back in what some might call a different era...more>>

In celebration of the Amherst ABC Program on its 40th Anniversary and the role of Amherst College's class of 1969 in helping to found  this extraordinary program, Dick Aronson '69 shares insites into events forty years ago that helped to fund Amherst ABC. Read excerps from members of the class of 1969 including Dick Aronson, Fred Hoxie, Jonathan Tobis, Bob Brown, Robert Fein...more>>

Make a donation in memory of Herbert Joseph Leary, Jr. who believed strongly in education and the economic empowerment of young men of color. Please read Dr. Leary's obituary at this site>>.

Help us reach our fundraising goal as we gear up for our Annual Fund Drive

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