United Negro College Fund

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January 11, 2024
The United Negro College Fund announced a $100 million from the Lilly Endowment Inc., the single largest gift to the…
March 18, 2022
The United Negro College Fund is working with Deloitte Digital to launch HBCUv, an online learning platform targeting HBCUs.
March 17, 2021
Peachtree Providence Partners founding member Milton H. Jones Jr. has been elected to chair the support organization's board of directors.
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August 10, 2020
Thurgood Marshall College Fund and United Negro College Fund partnered with Testing For America to help reopen HBCUs during the…
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September 4, 2019
Writer David A. Love argues that America is waging a war on Black people and the old-guard civil rights organizations…
December 19, 2016
Tyrese, Usher, Jeezy and Atlanta native Future, each donated to the United Negro College Fund at its annual fundraising event.
June 7, 2014
(AP) - The United Negro College Fund announced a $25 million grant Friday from Koch Industries Inc. and the Charles…
July 12, 2013
OPINION - The Department of Education has suddenly raised the bar so high for acquiring a student loan that thousands…
May 14, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Newark Mayor Cory Booker knows how to grab a headline...
September 18, 2012
NEW YORK (AP) - Randy Newman is weighing in on the U.S. presidential election with a new song 'I'm Dreaming,'…
August 31, 2012
Black Girls Rock! (BGR) in partnership with the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) and P&G’s My Black is Beautiful campaign…
August 8, 2011
OPINION - The American record in getting kids, especially kids of color, the preschool-through-high school education they need to go…
March 3, 2011
OPINION - 'A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Waste' was and is a brilliant slogan for HBCUs who've historically…
October 27, 2010
ATLANTA (AP) - The initiative is designed to increase the pipeline of HBCU students into the financial services industry...