:UNCF

{{Infobox organization

| name = United Negro College Fund

| abbreviation = UNCF

| employees = 281"[https://pdf.guidestar.org/PDF_Images/2018/131/624/2018-131624241-0fe5cb00-9.pdf Form 990: Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax]". United Negro College Fund Inc. Guidestar. March 31, 2018.

| employees_year = 2017

| volunteers = 2,584

| volunteers_year = 2017

| revenue = $89,277,523

| revenue_year = 2018

| expenses = $171,722,769

| expenses_year = 2018

| endowment = $103,734,086 (2018)

| purpose = To build a pathway of educational support from K–12 through college and career.

| logo = UNCF.svg

| type = Educational

| founded_date = {{start date and age|1944|04|25}}

| founder = Frederick D. Patterson
Mary McLeod Bethune

| headquarters = 1805 7th Street NW
Washington, D.C. 20001

| coords = {{Coord| 38.9143|-77.0214|type:landmark_region:US-DC|display = inline,title}}

| area_served = United States

| tax_id = 13-1624241

| status = 501(c)(3)"[https://apps.irs.gov/app/eos/displayAll.do?dispatchMethod=displayAllInfo&Id=671753&ein=131624241&country=US&deductibility=all&dispatchMethod=searchAll&isDescending=false&city=&ein1=&postDateFrom=&exemptTypeCode=al&submitName=Search&sortColumn=orgName&totalResults=2&names=United+Negro+College+Fund&resultsPerPage=25&indexOfFirstRow=0&postDateTo=&state=All+States United Negro College Fund Inc]". Tax Exempt Organization Search. Internal Revenue Service. Retrieved November 1, 2019.

| leader_name = Dr. Michael L. Lomax"[https://www.uncf.org/bio/dr-lomax Dr. Michael L. Lomax]". United Negro College Fund. Retrieved November 1, 2019.

| leader_title = President, Chief Executive Officer

| website = {{URL|http://www.uncf.org/}}

}}

UNCF, the United Negro College Fund, also known as the United Fund, is an American philanthropic organization that funds scholarships for black students and general scholarship funds for 37 private historically black colleges and universities. UNCF was incorporated on April 25, 1944, by Frederick D. Patterson (then president of what is now Tuskegee University), Mary McLeod Bethune, and others. UNCF is headquartered at 1805 7th Street, NW in Washington, D.C."[http://www.uncf.org/sections/WhoWeAre/SS_AboutUs/contact_us.asp Contact Us] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131002142807/http://www.uncf.org/sections/WhoWeAre/SS_AboutUs/contact_us.asp |date=2013-10-02 }}". United Negro College Fund. Accessed October 8, 2013. In 2005, UNCF supported approximately 65,000 students at over 900 colleges and universities with approximately $113 million in grants and scholarships. About 60% of these students are the first in their families to attend college, and 62% have annual family incomes of less than $25,000. UNCF also administers over 450 named scholarships.

UNCF's president and chief executive officer is Michael Lomax. Past presidents of the UNCF included William H. Gray{{Cite web |date=2019-03-14 |title=75+ Years Strong: Highlights from UNCF's History |url=https://uncf.org/the-latest/75-years-strong-highlights-from-uncfs-history |access-date=2022-03-30 |publisher=UNCF |language=en}} and Vernon Jordan.{{Cite web |title=UNCF Mourns the Passing of Vernon Jordan, Former Executive Director |date=March 2, 2021 |url=https://uncf.org/news/uncf-mourns-the-passing-of-vernon-jordan-former-executive-director |access-date=2022-03-30 |publisher=UNCF |language=en}}

Scholarships

Though founded to address funding inequities in education resources for African Americans, UNCF-administered scholarships are open to all ethnicities; the great majority of recipients are still African-American. It provides scholarships to students attending its member colleges as well as to those going elsewhere.{{cite web |url=http://www.uncf.org/sections/WhoWeAre/SS_AboutUs/faqs.asp |title=UNCF Faq |publisher=UNCF |date=2008-11-07 |access-date=2013-10-08 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131002142851/http://www.uncf.org/sections/WhoWeAre/SS_AboutUs/faqs.asp |archive-date=2013-10-02 }}

Graduates of UNCF member institutions and scholarships have included many Black people in the fields of business, politics, health care and the arts. Some prominent UNCF alumni include: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and leader in the civil rights movement; Alexis Herman, former U.S. Secretary of Labor; movie director Spike Lee; actor Samuel L. Jackson; General Chappie James, the U.S. Air Force’s first black four-star general; and Dr. David Satcher, a former U.S. Surgeon General and director of the Centers for Disease Control.{{cite web |url=http://www.uncf.org/sections/WhoWeAre/SS_AboutUs/aboutus.asp |title=UNCF |publisher=UNCF |date=2008-11-07 |access-date=2013-10-08 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131002142108/http://www.uncf.org/sections/WhoWeAre/SS_AboutUs/aboutus.asp |archive-date=2013-10-02 }}

History

In 1944 William J. Trent, a long-time activist for education for black people, joined with Tuskegee Institute President Frederick D. Patterson and Mary McLeod Bethune to found the UNCF, a nonprofit that united college presidents to raise money collectively through an "appeal to the national conscience". As the first executive director from the organization's start in 1944 until 1964, Trent raised $78 million for historically Black colleges so they could become "strong citadels of learning, carriers of the American dream, seedbeds of social evolution and revolution".Wharton Alumni Magazine, Spring 2007 In 2008, reflecting shifting attitudes toward the word Negro in its name, the UNCF shifted from using its full name to using only its initials, releasing a new logo with the initials alone and featuring their slogan more prominently.{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/17/business/media/17adco.html |title=Revising a Name, but Not a Familiar Slogan |last=Quenqua |first=Douglas |date=January 17, 2008 |website=The New York Times}}{{cite web |url=http://www.chronicle.com/article/United-Negro-College-Fund/40274 |title=United Negro College Fund Decides Its Great Tag Line Is a Terrible Thing to Waste |last=Schmidt |first=Peter |date=January 17, 2008 |website=The Chronicle of Higher Education}}

Fundraising and the Lou Rawls Parade of Stars

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The UNCF has received charitable donations for its scholarship programs. One of the more high-profile donations made was by then-senator and future U.S. President John F. Kennedy who donated the money from the Pulitzer Prize for his book Profiles in Courage to the Fund. Another significant donation was made in 1990 by Walter Annenberg, who donated $50 million to the fund.[http://www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/african/2000/1990.htm B. Davis Schwartz Memorial Library] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100211134655/http://www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/african/2000/1990.htm |date=February 11, 2010 }}

Beginning in 1980, singer Lou Rawls began the "Lou Rawls Parade of Stars" telethon to benefit the UNCF. The annual event, now known as "An Evening of Stars", consists of stories of successful African-American students who have graduated or benefited from one of the many historically black colleges and universities and who received support from the UNCF. The telethon featured comedy and musical performances from various artists in support of the UNCF's and Rawls' efforts. The event has raised over $200 million in 27 shows for the fund through 2006.{{cite web |url=http://www.prnewstoday.com/release.htm?cat=music&dat=20060106&rl=DCF04006012006-1 |title=United Negro College Fund :: An Evening of Stars Continues in Memory of Lou Rawls |website=www.prnewstoday.com |access-date=15 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070313124917/http://www.prnewstoday.com/release.htm?cat=music&dat=20060106&rl=DCF04006012006-1 |archive-date=13 March 2007 |url-status=dead}}

In January 2004, Rawls was honored by the United Negro College Fund for his more than 25 years of charity work with the organization. Instead of Rawls' hosting and performing, he was given the seat of honor and celebrated by his performing colleagues, including Stevie Wonder, The O'Jays, Gerald Levert, Ashanti, and several others. Before his death in January 2006, Rawls' last performance was a taping for the 2006 telethon that honored Wonder, months before entering the hospital after being diagnosed with cancer earlier in the year.

In addition to the telethon, there are a number of other fundraising activities, including the "Walk for Education" held annually in Los Angeles, California, which includes a five kilometer walk/run. In Houston, Texas, the Cypresswood Golf Club hosts an annual golf tournament in April.{{cite web |url=http://www.uncf.org/sections/Events/Events.asp |title=UNCF Events |publisher=UNCF |access-date=2013-10-08 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131002142226/http://www.uncf.org/sections/Events/Events.asp |archive-date=2013-10-02 }}

In 2014, Koch Industries Inc. and the Charles Koch Foundation made a $25 million grant to UNCF.{{cite news|title=Koch brothers donate $25 million to United Negro College Fund|author=Sullivan, Sean|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/06/06/koch-brothers-donate-25-million-to-united-negro-college-fund/|date=June 6, 2014|access-date=August 26, 2014|newspaper=Washington Post}} In protest of the Kochs, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, a major labor union, ended its yearly $50,000–60,000 support for UNCF.{{cite news|url=https://nypost.com/2014/07/10/koch-brother-grant-halts-union-support-for-united-negro-college-fund/ |title=Union halts support for United Negro College Fund over Koch brothers' grant |date=2014-07-10 |access-date=2014-07-11|agency=Associated Press|work=New York Post}}

In June 2020, Netflix founder Reed Hastings donated $120 million to the UNCF to be used as scholarship funds for students enrolled at UNCF institutions. His donation was the largest in UNCF history.{{Cite web|last=Bursztynsky|first=Jessica|date=2020-06-17|title=Netflix CEO Reed Hastings donating $120 million to historically Black institutions|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/17/netflix-ceo-hastings-donating-120-million-to-historically-black-institutions.html|access-date=2021-02-17|website=CNBC|language=en}}{{Cite web|date=June 17, 2020|title=Netflix CEO is donating $120 million to HBCUs, wants it to celebrate "great black achievement"|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/reed-hastings-netflix-ceo0donation-120-million-hbcus/|access-date=2021-02-17|website=www.cbsnews.com|language=en}}

The UNCF motto

In 1972, the UNCF adopted as its motto the maxim "A mind is a terrible thing to waste." This maxim has become one of the most widely recognized slogans in advertising history.[http://www.verdant-systems.com/Mind.htm ] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927183340/http://www.verdant-systems.com/Mind.htm |date=September 27, 2007 }} The motto was notably mangled in a 1989 address to the organization by then–Vice President of the United States Dan Quayle, who stated: "And you take the U.N.C.F. model that what a waste it is to lose one's mind or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is."Dowd, Maureen. [https://www.nytimes.com/1989/06/25/magazine/the-education-of-dan-quayle.html?pagewanted=all "The Education of Dan Quayle"]. The New York Times. June 25, 1989.

The motto, which has been used in numerous award-winning UNCF ad campaigns, was created by Forest Long, of the advertising agency Young & Rubicam, in partnership with the Ad Council.See the UNCF website.

A lesser-known slogan the UNCF also uses, in reference to its intended beneficiaries, points out that they're "not asking for a handout, just a hand."Gasman, Marybeth (2007). Envisioning Black Colleges: A History of the United Negro College Fund (page 192). Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press.

UNCF member institutions

=Alabama=

Miles College, Birmingham, https://uncf.org/member-colleges/miles-college
Oakwood University, Huntsville, https://uncf.org/member-colleges/oakwood-university
Stillman College, Tuscaloosa, https://uncf.org/member-colleges/stillman-college
Talladega College, Talladega, https://uncf.org/member-colleges/talladega-college
Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, https://uncf.org/member-colleges/tuskegee-university

=Arkansas=

Philander Smith College, Little Rock, https://uncf.org/member-colleges/philander-smith-college

=Florida=

Bethune-Cookman University, Daytona Beach, https://uncf.org/member-colleges/bethune-cookman-university
Edward Waters College, Jacksonville, https://uncf.org/member-colleges/edward-waters-college
Florida Memorial University, Miami Gardens, https://uncf.org/member-colleges/florida-memorial-university

=Georgia=

Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta, https://uncf.org/member-colleges/clark-atlanta
Interdenominational Theological Center, Atlanta, https://uncf.org/member-colleges/interdenominational-theological-center
Morehouse College, Atlanta, https://uncf.org/member-colleges/morehouse-college
Paine College, Augusta, https://uncf.org/member-colleges/paine-college
Spelman College, Atlanta, https://uncf.org/member-colleges/spelman-college

=Louisiana=

Dillard University, New Orleans, https://uncf.org/member-colleges/dillard-university
Xavier University of Louisiana, New Orleans, https://uncf.org/member-colleges/xavier-university

=Mississippi=

Rust College, Holly Springs, https://uncf.org/member-colleges/rust-college
Tougaloo College, Tougaloo, https://uncf.org/member-colleges/tougaloo-college

=North Carolina=

Bennett College, Greensboro, https://uncf.org/member-colleges/bennett-college
Johnson C. Smith University, Charlotte, https://uncf.org/member-colleges/johnson-c-smith-university
Livingstone College, Salisbury, https://uncf.org/member-colleges/livingstone-college
Saint Augustine's University, Raleigh, https://uncf.org/member-colleges/saint-augustines-university
Shaw University, Raleigh, https://uncf.org/member-colleges/shaw-university

=Ohio=

Wilberforce University, Wilberforce, https://uncf.org/member-colleges/wilberforce-university

=South Carolina=

Allen University, Columbia, https://uncf.org/member-colleges/allen-university
Benedict College, Columbia, https://uncf.org/member-colleges/benedict-college
Claflin University, Orangeburg, https://uncf.org/member-colleges/claflin-university
Morris College, Sumter, https://uncf.org/member-colleges/morris-college
Voorhees College, Denmark, https://uncf.org/member-colleges/voorhees-college

=Tennessee=

Fisk University, Nashville, https://uncf.org/member-colleges/fisk-university
Lane College, Jackson, https://uncf.org/member-colleges/lane-college
LeMoyne-Owen College, Memphis, https://uncf.org/member-colleges/lemoyne-owen-college

=Texas=

Huston–Tillotson University, Austin, https://uncf.org/member-colleges/huston-tillotson
Jarvis Christian College, Hawkins, https://uncf.org/member-colleges/jarvis-christian-college
Texas College, Tyler, https://uncf.org/member-colleges/texas-college
Wiley College, Marshall, https://uncf.org/member-colleges/wiley-college

=Virginia=

Virginia Union University, Richmond, https://uncf.org/member-colleges/virginia-union-university

Member HBCUs (tabular)

The member HCBUs include (tabular):{{Cite web |title=Member Colleges |url=https://uncf.org/member-colleges |access-date=2022-02-27 |website=UNCF |language=en}}

class="wikitable sortable"

!Name

!City

!State

!Established

!Endowment

!Students

!Religious affiliation

!Sporting affiliations

Allen University

|Columbia

|South Carolina