In 1969, a group of Chicano students attending the University of California at Berkeley started a program of intensive motivational counseling and tutoring aimed at minority and educationallly disadvantaged high school students. Although EGC was initially housed at Stiles Hall in Berkeley, the program received federal funding in 1972 to become a Department of Education TRiO Talent Search program. In 1997 EGC became a part of University of California, Berkeley's Center for Educational Outreach.

Today EGC serves 11 high schools and 3 middle schools in the West Contra Costa, Berkeley and Oakland Unified School Districts. EGC's current annual budget as allotted by the US Department of Education is $661,369.00.

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