Make Your Impact
Welcome to the NCCU crowdfunding page, which facilitates support for projects led by NCCU students, faculty, and staff. Crowdfunding empowers the NCCU community to come together and create a lasting impact for our students. Since there’s not an in-person Ultimate Homecoming this year, explore our exciting opportunities below to make your "We Are 110" gift today! Thank you for all you do for NCCU. Eagle Pride, Amplified.
Need-based scholarships provide support to students who demonstrate financial need. Ensuring access to education remains a top priority. Your gift helps to provide much-needed resources to recruit and retain tomorrow’s leaders.
Goal: $250,000
A gift to the Annual Fund directly impacts the University’s ability to sustain operations and supports every student, faculty member, and program at NCCU. Your gift provides resources to ensure relevant, state-of-the-art learning and discovery opportunities are available and gives the University the flexibility necessary to be responsive to emerging needs and challenges.
Goal: $200,000
These resources are used to purchase the latest mobile hot spot devices to provide reliable internet services for students.
Goal: $25,000
These resources will be used to support ten students to attend the Taking the Leap 2021 summer program. Through workshops and classes, this program prepares students to launch new businesses.
Goal: $40,000
Gifts to the Eagle Idea Competition support an entrepreneurship program open to all NCCU students that develop and mentor students who have ideas for a business start-up. The five-week program culminates with finalists presenting their business idea to a panel of judges for cash prizes.
Goal: $25,000
Contributions are used to provide financial literacy programs for both the NCCU and the greater Durham communities.
Goal: $100,000
CASH seeks funding to support 15 seniors who are near graduation but cannot afford their last semester’s tuition due to federal aid constraints.
Goal: $75,000
The Jazz Studies Program seeks scholarship funding to help support students and remain competitive in recruiting.
Goal: $100,000
CASH seeks funding to install new flooring in the dance studio and storage lockers for musical instruments.
Goal: $150,000
The NCCU School of Law New Institute for Social Justice and Racial Equality Initiative will provide educational outreach on social justice, anti-racism and other equity concerns. The four-part initiative will collaborate with the School of Business and the Department of Criminal Justice through its Juvenile Justice Institute.
Goal: $25,000
The NCCU School of Law offers a conditional admission program, the Performance-Based Admission Program (PBAP). We are proud to be a law school that trains attorneys who become leaders and serve their various communities around the state, country, and world. Applicants selected for this program have an opportunity to gain admission for the fall semester upon successful completion of the summer program.
Goal: $25,000
The NCCU School of Law has turned 80! Please consider making a gift of at least $80 to support student scholarship and faculty development. Your decision to support the law school today helps us achieve our goals of providing the finest legal education in the world.
Goal: $80,000
The Transitions Program is a campus-based support program for students who are facing homelessness and food insecurity. The initiative aims to provide assistance and resources to support the needs of this student population. The program provides food through the Transitions Pantry at no cost to students who are facing food insecurity, assists with housing instability by identifying resources, and offers life skills seminars focused on financial literacy, leadership development, personal growth, and health and wellness.
Goal: $20,000
The Women’s Achievement Center empowers students to find their voices by promoting personal and professional development and celebrating the strengths and aspirations of women. Through structured "edutainment," we focus on managing healthy relationships and women's unique leadership experiences in society.
Goal: $10,000
The Men’s Achievement Center (MAC) is committed to enriching the quality of students' collegiate experiences and ensuring their success at NC Central and beyond.
Goal: $10,000
Help support 30 students who are required to take the licensure practice tests during their senior year prior to graduation.
Goal: $20,000
Support five students’ experiential opportunities to provide learning experiences outside of the classroom through travel, research, or study abroad opportunities.
Goal: $25,000
Support the growing demand for five outstanding undergraduate professors through funded professorships to attract and retain talented faculty/scholars.
Goal: $25,000
Your support is needed for the Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence and Equity Research (LAIER), which will encompass work on a diverse set of topics within artificial intelligence related to (1) machine learning, (2) human-computer interaction, (3) diversity and inclusion and the disparities of impact on our everyday life. The lab was founded in 2020 by Dr. Siobahn Grady.
Goal: $50,000
Your support is needed to update the equipment for the SLIS Digital Archives and Record Management lab for students to train on how to do remote collaboration to digitize special collections for the Black Caucus of the American Library Association and the Dr. EJ Jossey papers.
Goal: $50,000
Your support is needed to update the portraits of former SLIS deans, including the commissioning of a new portrait of Dean Irene Owens.
Goal: $10,000
Resources will be used to support 20 Pharmaceutical Science students who are members of NCCU’s ISPE chapter to attend STEM-related conferences in 2021.
Goal: $30,000
Resources will be used to expand STEM outreach with the BRITE Futures Program to access all 100 counties in North Carolina.
Goal: $50,000
Resources will be used to ensure that students and faculty can work safely in the BRITE labs with proper PPE supplies.
Goal: $30,000
CHS seeks funding to set up and equip a Sports Medicine Research and Teaching Laboratory for the newly approved Sports Medicine degree in the Department of Kinesiology and Recreation.
Goal: $200,000
CHS seeks funding to facilitate students’ participation in experiential career exploration, which will expand the diversity of internship opportunities.
Goal: $20,000
The #NCCUStrongerTogether Campaign outlines specific strategic initiatives to maintain opportunities for student athletes and elevate the competitiveness of all NC Central’s athletics programs.