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Showing posts with label UNCF. Show all posts
Showing posts with label UNCF. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 22, 2024

UNCF President and CEO Dr. Michael L. Lomax Receives Honorary Doctorate from Morehouse College

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UNCF (United Negro College Fund) proudly announces that Dr. Michael L. Lomax, president and CEO, has been awarded an honorary Doctor of Hu...
Tuesday, April 02, 2024

New York UNCF 80th Anniversary Gala Raises Nearly $950,000 for HBCUs and Students

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UNCF (United Negro College Fund) hosted its local “A Mind Is…” ®  Gala celebrating its 80th anniversary on Thursday, March 21 at the Zieg...
Saturday, March 09, 2024

UNCF Celebrates 80th Anniversary

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UNCF was founded on April 25, 1944. For eight decades, UNCF has been the nation’s largest provider of scholarships to minority students ...
Monday, October 31, 2022

The United Negro College Fund Endorses HBCU Infrastructure Bill

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UNCF has come out in full support of the revamped HBCUs IGNITE Excellence Act, H.R. 8803. This bill is the most important single piece of...
Sunday, June 12, 2022

Anheuser-Busch Foundation and UNCF Renew Partnership to Provide Emergency Aid to Help HBCU Students

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Graduation Day is a college student’s dream. Recently for some, their dream would have been shattered had it not been for emergency fundi...
Saturday, January 23, 2021

UNCF Remembers Baseball Legend Hank Aaron

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Today, UNCF (United Negro College Fund) mourns the passing of a great human, husband, father and quiet activist, who made tremendous accom...
Friday, October 30, 2020

Dr. Brian Bridges Appointed New Jersey Secretary of Higher Education

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New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy has announced his selection of Dr. Brian Bridges as the state’s new Secretary of Higher Education. Bridges, wh...
Wednesday, August 19, 2020

UNCF to Host new National Virtual Walk for Education, supporting both HBCUs and Students

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Online fundraising event will provide fun interactive activities for the public during mandatory social distancing Washington, D....
Friday, July 10, 2020

Help the UNCF by watching the documentary John Lewis : Good Trouble

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Magnolia Pictures presents a Dawn Porter documentary, John Lewis: Good Trouble. For each paid rental of the Film that occurs via the UNCF...
Thursday, April 30, 2020

UNCF joining May 5 #GivingTuesdayNow Campaign

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UNCF (United Negro College Fund) is joining the #GivingTuesdayNow campaign to encourage philanthropy  in light of the many challenges ...
Wednesday, March 11, 2020

HBCUs still ‘woefully underfunded,’ according to UNCF president

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One could argue it’s been a victorious year for historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). The FUTURE Act – legislation sustain...
Thursday, January 23, 2020

A new UNCF report details how successes from HBCUs can be implemented into K-12 education

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The United Negro College Fund's, the Frederick D. Patterson Research Institute (FDPRI) has released a new report, Imparting Wisdom:...
Thursday, December 12, 2019

UNCF to Award $1.2 Million to four HBCUs

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UNCF (United Negro College Fund) announces the awarding of Liberal Arts Innovation Grants to four institutions participating in the UNCF...
Wednesday, October 02, 2019

Oprah Donates Over $1 Million To United Negro College Fund

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Oprah Winfrey surprised attendees at the United Negro College Fund’s 17th annual Maya Angelou Women Who Lead Luncheon in Charlotte, Nort...
Sunday, September 08, 2019

Thousands of Students are in College This Year Thanks to UNCF and its Donors

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As the academic year launches in earnest for 2019-2020, UNCF (United Negro College Fund) has announced it is providing approximately ...
Tuesday, August 13, 2019

1,000 HBCU students to receive free access to textbooks from UNCF, Cengage partnership

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1,000 HBCU Students to Receive Free Access to More than 22,000 Cengage Course Materials, Online Homework Access Codes, Study Guides...
Thursday, March 14, 2019

UNCF Delivers First Annual State of the HBCU Address

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On March 5, 2019 the UNCF (the United Negro College Fund) – on the heels of delivering over $100 million in additional federal fund...
Tuesday, February 19, 2019

UNCF Celebrates 75 Years of Lighting the Way to Better Futures

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For 75 years, UNCF (United Negro College Fund) has supported hundreds of thousands of deserving students, private historically bl...