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Roberta “Bertie” Elliott

Roberta “Bertie” Elliott has consistently donated to CSUMB beginning in 1998 with our first president, Peter Smith.

Both personally and through her foundation, the Berkshire Foundation, she has supported science, the library, Women’s Leadership Council scholarships and the arts.

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Her lifetime giving to CSUMB is over $7.5 million.

Elliott is a community philanthropist with a demonstrated commitment to education, the arts and healthcare. Her 2017 gift of $105 million to Montage Health and the Community Hospital of Monterey County, or CHOMP, launched a family behavioral health program to serve the needs of community families.

The donation was the largest in CHOMP history, and the 18th largest in the nation made by an individual in 2017. 

Elliott said the fact that the county had no hospital beds for children requiring mental health evaluations was a motivator, along with the opportunity to transform the way mental health care