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Table of Contents ANNUAL REPORT 2019 PDF DOWNLOAD TABLE OF CONTENTS • Financial Statement • INNOVATE • Ocers and Directors • A Scholarships Scoop: Three New • Our Mission Named Scholarship Programs • Download Annual Report • STEM Scholars Update • INTRODUCTION • “A Seat at the Table”: K-12 Advocacy Report • Directors’ Letter • A New Generation of UNCF • IMPACT Presidents Arrives • 42 Years and Counting: Anheuser- Busch • INSPIRE • Dr. Lomax on the ‘State of the HBCU’ • Strength Through Numbers Saved • A Legacy of Education: Herbert Bennett College When it was Most Horner Needed • 75 Years of Schools, Students and • An Increasing Number of Female Stewardship UNCF Presidents Makes an Impact • Why UNCF Matters Now More than • Senator Doug Jones: A Hero of Ever HBCUs • A “Moses” Among HBCU Leaders: • INVEST Dr. Billy C. Hawkins • HBCU Funding Increased • In Memoriam: Oswald Bronson • 75th Anniversary Gift by AKAs • Top Ladies of Distinction Lend Distinctive Touch to Workplace Fundraising / • Five Fundraisers in Five States Across Two Nights Our Mission UNCF envisions a nation where all Americans have equal access to a college education that prepares them for rich intellectual lives, competitive and fullling careers, engaged citizenship and service to our nation. UNCF’s mission is to build a robust and nationally recognized pipeline of underrepresented students who, because of UNCF support, become highly qualied college graduates and to ensure that our network of member institutions is a respected model of best practices in moving students to and through college. UNCF’s North Star is to increase the total annual number of African American college graduates by focusing on activities that ensure more students are college-ready, enroll in college and persist to graduation. This is done through a three-pillar strategy: • Positioning member institutions as a viable college option for students and investing in institutional capacity to improve student outcomes. • Creating transformational support programs to ensure that students are enrolling and persisting through college completion. • Building awareness of educational attainment and cultivating college-going behaviors within the African American community. UNCF: Building a Pathway of Educational Support From K-12 Through College and Career / Dear friend of UNCF, Welcome to UNCF’s annual report for the 2019 scal year. We are often asked the secrets behind UNCF’s success: 75 years and counting, more than $5 billion in contributions and 500,000 graduates from UNCF-member HBCUs with UNCF scholarships. “No secret,” we reply, “It’s all in the Annual Report.” This year’s report is no exception. As we told a packed house in our rst-ever annual address about the health and well-being of HBCUs (read “The State of the HBCUs”), ever since UNCF was founded in 1944,“HBCUs have persisted, producing educational results far beyond what would be predicted based on their size and funding.” Another story, “A Scholarships Scoop,” reports on the second lane of UNCF’s work: the 400 scholarship, internship and fellowship programs UNCF oers each year, programs whose recipients have an average graduation rate of 70%, almost double the average rate for all African American students and signicantly higher than the rate for students of all races and ethnicities. UNCF is also active and eective in securing passage by Congress of legislation providing increased funding and exibility for HBCUs and for low-income, rst-generation college students—“Why UNCF Matters now More than Ever,” and UNCF research provides a rigorous and impactful foundation for UNCF’s advocacy of the right of every student to a K-12 education that prepares them for college and career. “Another story, “A Scholarships Scoop,” reports on the second lane of UNCF’s work: the 400 scholarship, internship and fellowship programs UNCF offers each year, programs whose recipients have an average graduation rate of 70%, almost double the average rate for all African American students and significantly higher than the rate for students of all races and ethnicities. None of this would be possible, as this Annual Report documents, without the support and partnership of companies, like JPMorgan Chase, ExxonMobil and Coca Cola, that have been with UNCF since it was founded (read “75 Years of Schools, Students and Stewardship”); organizations like Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. (read “The Enduring Power of Partnership”) and Top Ladies of Distinction (read “Volunteering to Make a Dierence”) and loyal supporters like UNCF-member institution Morehouse College graduate Herbert Horner, who generously included UNCF in his estate plan (read “A Legacy Of Education”). These are just a few of the “secrets” of UNCF’s success, and just a few of the articles in this Fiscal Year 2019 Annual Report. Read this Report straight through or browse through the articles that most interest you. We hope that whether you’ve invested in UNCF’s schools and students for years, or this is the rst time you’re considering helping us send students to and through college, you’ll be inspired to make UNCF’s motto, “A mind is a terrible thing to waste”®, your own. Sincerely, / IMPACT 42 Years and Counting: Anheuser-Busch Foundation Makes UNCF HBCUs and Students a Priority / reativity and inventive tracks to keep the train moving forward are hallmarks of how UNCF has managed to make an indelible mark across its years C of empowering as many deserving students as possible to earn a college degree. Since 1977, Anheuser-Busch and the Anheuser-Busch Foundation (ABF) have helped fuel several projects and business activities that have become legendary parts of the UNCF business model over the years. With passionate desire and fervor of vision, Anheuser-Busch and its foundation have gotten behind UNCF’s eorts, making investing in better futures a priority. Through scholarships, unrestricted donations, event sponsorships and in-kind donations, the industry’s leading brewery best known for brands like Budweiser, Bud Light, Michelob ULTRA and Stella Artois, has helped untold thousands of students of color get to and through college. Over the 42-year partnership, donations to UNCF by Anheuser-Busch and its foundation total more than $4.7 million and counting. The storied history of the two organizations working together began in the late ’70s with a generous donation to help students attend historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). Since then, the support of UNCF by Anheuser-Busch and its foundation has taken o substantially: 1980: “The Lou Rawls Parade of Stars”TM When Anheuser-Busch signed Lou Rawls as a national spokesperson, the corporation asked which charity he wanted Anheuser-Busch to support as part of his contract. Rawls told them, UNCF. While the company had donated generously to UNCF in previous years, the nancial investment that came from its support of UNCF’s telethon, “The Lou Rawls Parade of Stars,”TM went on to raise more than $200 million for UNCF from 1980-2006. 2010: Anheuser-Busch Foundation Scholarship Program The Anheuser-Busch Foundation began a named scholarship program focusing on college juniors and seniors with a nancial need. Donations under the program have now reached more than $1.58 million in scholarships, which have been awarded to nearly 350 students to date. Under the 2019-2020 program, 38 talented students received scholarships valued at $4,000 each. 2013: “The Great Kings and Queens of Africa” In 2013, Anheuser-Busch donated “The Great Kings and Queens of Africa” art collection to UNCF, a group of paintings valued at more than $1 million, that had been commissioned by Anheuser-Busch in 1975-2000. UNCF distributed pieces from the collection to six UNCF-member colleges and universities: Morehouse, Clark Atlanta, Dillard, Fisk, Xavier and Benedict. “The donation by Anheuser-Busch of ‘The Great Kings and Queens of Africa’ paintings to UNCF-member HBCUs is an important contribution to the artistic and cultural education that has always been a hallmark of the HBCU experience,” said Michael L. Lomax, Ph.D., president and CEO, UNCF. “These / works of art help students appreciate both the paintings’ artistry and the stories they tell, while the Anheuser-Busch scholarships continue to keep the promise of the paintings alive by helping outstanding up-and-coming student leaders overcome the nancial obstacles that so many of our HBCU students face.” Today The current relationship between UNCF and the Anheuser-Busch Foundation remains quite strong. The Anheuser-Busch Foundation continues to support UNCF through scholarship funding, unrestricted donations and by supporting events at UNCF local oces in New York and St. Louis—cities where the company has large numbers of employees. “We are grateful to the Foundation for its steadfast, generous and continued support of our mission,” Lomax explained. “The gifts by Anheuser-Busch and its foundation enable us to serve our institutions and our students not only nancially, but through new and inventive experiences which have been mainstays of UNCF’s eorts for many years. We look forward to continuing to do great things with this great partner.” IMPACT Dr. Lomax on the ‘State of the HBCU’: “Our Aspiration Is To Lead, Not To Follow” / DR. MICHAEL LOMAX, UNCF PRESIDENT AND CEO, DELIVERS THE FIRST-EVER “STATE OF THE HBCU” ADDRESS ON CAPITOL HILL TO MEMBERS OF CONGRESS, MEMBER PRESIDENTS AND OTHER SUPPORTERS OF HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES. verybody recognizes what “state of the” speeches are all about: E mayors’ “State of the City” addresses, governors’ “State of the State” speeches, and, of course, presidents’ “State of the Union” address, reports on an organization’s achievements and the challenges they face. So the crowd that gathered in the a room near the United States Capitol in March 2019 to hear UNCF president and CEO Dr. Michael L. Lomax report on the “State of the HBCU” knew they would get a candid assessment of where HBCUs stood as UNCF began celebrating its 75th anniversary, and where the organization was going in the months and years ahead.
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