10 Historically Black Colleges Where Alumni Contribute the Most
At three schools, more than 35 percent of alumni on average donate. At Claflin University in South Carolina, an average of nearly 48.9 percent of alumni contributed to their school. By Delece Smith-Barrow , US News & World Report The U.S. News Short List, separate from our overall rankings, is a regular series that magnifies individual data […]
SAVANNAH RIVER REMEDIATION RENEWS MOU AND DONATES $5,000 TO SUPPORT SCHOLARSHIPS
On November 29, 2016, Savannah River Remediation (SRR) donated $5,000 to Claflin University’s scholarship fund in memory of the four Claflin University students who died in a car accident on October 13, 2016. The donation will help fund scholarships for students majoring in sport management at Claflin. Tom Foster, SRR President and Project Manager, presented […]
Honda Campus All-Star Challenge Inducts Daniel Moss Into 2015 Alumni Hall of Fame
(Video below) Daniel Moss, Chairman & CEO of The HBCU Foundation, shared with three fellow HBCU Alumni, the honor of being recently inducted into the Honda Campus All-Star Challenge Alumni Hall of Fame in Los Angeles California, as a part of the event’s annual week of events. ABOUT THE PROGRAM HCASC alumni span the U.S. […]
HBCU Foundation Board Member Howard Jean on TV One’s NewsOne Now with Roland Martin
(Video below) Young Black Male Entrepreneur Institute Founders, Howard R. Jean and Randall Keith Benjamin Jr. along with BME Participant Ben Carter of Mind Your Damn Money, LLC, discuss the institute and young black millennials as business owners in America with host Roland S. Martin on TV One’s “NewsOne Now” morning talk show. ABOUT THE […]
The HBCU Foundation ‘s Daniel Moss Discusses Diversity at HBCUs In US News & World Report
10 Most Diverse Historically Black Colleges At two historically black schools, more than 85 percent of students are white, according to U.S. News data. At Xavier University of Louisiana, 10.3 percent of students are Asian, U.S. News data show. By Delece Smith-Barrow via US News and World Report Teens interested in attending a historically black […]
Michelle Obama Touts Study Abroad During China Visit
via TheHBCUCareerCenter.com Photo – Mrs. Obama with students in South Africa. In a speech to a group of students at Peking University on the second day of her trip to that country, Michelle Obama notes that China is the 5th most visited destination for American students who travel for study abroad. Mrs. Obama also shared […]
Vice President Biden Announces $25 Million Grant to HBCUs for Cybersecurity Education
Grant money will help meet the demand for more skilled cyber-security professionals by Courtney Connley , Posted: January 16, 2015 On January 15th, Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz and White House Science Advisor John Holdren traveled to Norfolk State University (NSU) to announce their latest efforts in improving cybersecurity education at Historically Black Colleges […]
Inequality, Geography, and Workplace Giving
February 24th, 2014, via Truist Employee giving has in many ways become an American institution. What began as a fall tradition now sees employees regularly making contributions at all times of year to the causes and organizations so important to all of us. A recent study from America’s Charities has estimated this employee giving to […]
Two types of corporate employee giving programs
Adam Weinger | August 29, 2012 Is your nonprofit taking advantage of the wide range of corporate employee giving programs that exist? If not, your organization may be missing out! In 2011, U.S. corporations gave over $14 billion to nonprofits (Source: Giving USA’s 2012 annual Report on Philanthropy for 2011). Much of this funding was donated through […]