UNCF , United Nations School Funds , also known as United Fund , is an American philanthropic organization funding scholarships for black students and general scholarship funds for 37 historically black colleges and universities. UNCF was founded on 25 April 1944 by Frederick D. Patterson (then president of Tuskegee University), Mary McLeod Bethune, and others. UNCF is headquartered at 1805 7th Street, NW in Washington, D.C. In 2005, UNCF supported approximately 65,000 students in over 900 colleges and universities with approximately $ 113 million in grants and scholarships. About 60% of these students are the first in their families attending college, and 62% have annual family income of less than $ 25,000. UNCF also manages over 450 named scholarships.
UNCF President and CEO is Michael Lomax. Past UNCF presidents include William H. Gray and Vernon Jordan.
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Scholarships
Although established to address funding imbalances in educational resources for African Americans, UNCF-administered scholarships are open to all ethnicities; most recipients are still African-American. It provides scholarships to students who attend college members as well as for those who go elsewhere.
UNCF graduate members and scholarships have included many blacks in business, politics, health care and the arts. Several prominent UNCF alumni including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Nobel Peace Prize laureate and leader in the Civil Rights Movement; Alexis Herman, former US Labor Minister; renowned film director Spike Lee; actor Samuel L. Jackson; General Chappie James, the first black four-star general of the U.S. and Dr. David Satcher, former Surgeon General and director of Centers for Disease Control.
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History
In 1944 William J. Trent, an old activist for education for blacks, joined Tuskegee Institute President Frederick D. Patterson and Mary McLeod Bethune to set up UNCF, a nonprofit organization that unites college presidents to collect money collectively through "a call to the national conscience". As the first executive director of the organization's beginning in 1944 to 1964, Trent raised $ 78 million for an historical black college so that they could become "a strong fort of learning, American dream bearers, social evolutionary nurseries and revolution". In 2008, UNCF shifted from using its full name to use its initials, releasing new logos with just initials and displaying their slogans more clearly.
Fundraising and Lou Rawls Star Parade
UNCF has received charitable donations for its scholarship program. One of the high profile donations made was by US senator and future president John F. Kennedy who donated money from the Pulitzer Prize for his IMF's Profile in Courage . The largest single donation ever made in 1990 by Walter Annenberg, who donated $ 50 million for the fund.
Beginning in 1980, singer Lou Rawls started the "Lou Rawls Parade of Stars" telekon to benefit UNCF. The annual event, now known as "An Evening of Stars", consists of success stories of African-American students who have graduated or benefited from one of the many universities and universities that are historically black and who receive support from UNCF. Telethon features comedy and musical performances from various artists to support UNCF and Rawls efforts. The event has raised more than $ 200 million in 27 gigs for funding through 2006.
In January 2004, Rawls was awarded by the United Negro College Fund for more than 25 years of charity work with the organization. Instead of hosting and the show Rawls, he was given a place of honor and celebrated by his colleagues, including Stevie Wonder, The O'Jays, Gerald Levert, Ashanti, and several others. Prior to his death in January 2006, Rawls's last performance was a record for the 2006 telethon that honored Wonder, months before entering the hospital after being diagnosed with cancer earlier in the year.
In addition to telethon, there are a number of other fundraising events, including the annual "Walk for Education" held in Los Angeles, California, which covers five kilometers of walking/running. In Houston, Texas, Cypresswood Golf Club hosts an annual golf tournament in April.
In 2014, Koch Industries Inc. and the Charles Koch Foundation grants $ 25 million to the UNCF. In protest from Koch, the American Federation of State, District and City, the main union, ended its annual support of $ 50,000-60,000 for UNCF.
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In 1972, the UNCF adopted the slogan of the saying "Thoughts are a terrible thing to waste." This proverb has become one of the best known slogans in the history of advertising. The motto was primarily destroyed in a 1989 speech to the organization by United States vice-president Dan Quayle, who stated: "And you take the UNCF model that what is in vain is losing the mind or not having a very wasteful mind. which has been used in various award-winning UNCF advertising campaigns, created by Forest Long, from the advertising agency Young & amp; Rubicam, in partnership with the Ad Council.
A lesser-known slogan also used by the UNCF, referring to the intended beneficiaries, shows about them, "[They] did not ask for a leaflet, just a hand."
UNCF Member Institution
Alabama
- Miles College, Birmingham
- Oakwood University, Huntsville
- Talladega College, Talladega
- Stillman College, Tuscaloosa
- Tuskegee University, Tuskegee
Arkansas
- Philander Smith College, Little Rock
Florida
- Bethune-Cookman University, Daytona Beach
- Edward Waters College, Jacksonville
- Florida Memorial University, Miami Gardens
Georgia
Clark Clark University, AtlantaLouisiana
- Dillard University, New Orleans
- Xavier Louisiana University, New Orleans
Mississippi
- Rust College, Holly Springs
- Tougaloo College, Tougaloo
North Carolina
- Johnson C. Smith University, Charlotte
- Bennett College, Greensboro
- Saint Augustine's College, Raleigh
- Shaw University, Raleigh
- Livingstone College, Salisbury
Ohio
- Wilberforce University, Wilberforce
South Carolina
- University of Allen, Columbia
- Benedict College, Columbia
- Voorhees College, Denmark
- Claflin University, Orangeburg
- Morris College, Sumter
Tennessee
- Lane College, Jackson
- LeMoyne-Owen College, Memphis
- Fisk University, Nashville
Texas
- Huston-Tillotson University, Austin
- Jarvis Christian College, Hawkins
- Wiley College, Marshall
- Texas College, Tyler
Virginia
- Virginia Union University, Richmond
References
External links
- Official website
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