Scholarship Endowment Fund Raising

                   Giving a Gift That Keeps on Giving!!

Fellow Eagle Track and Field Alumni, Family, Friends, and Philanthropists, we are pleased to announce our new Endowment program and ask you to join us in ensuring the financial strength of our beloved program through investment for years to come!
 
Why Give?  A program of  firsts!!
 
Many of you are aware of the pioneering exploits of the NCCU Track and Field Program. The most successful athletic program in the University’s Athletics Department.
*In almost 75 years, this program has produced 7 Olympic medalists (5 gold, 1 silver, 3 bronze medals),
*19 (including 3 female) National Champions,
*1 NAIA National Championship (1972), 2 runner-up finishes (1964, 1971), 4^th place (the highest finish of any HBCU-1972), and 6^th place (1964) in the NCAA Division I Championships. In addition,  a 3^rd place NCAA Division II indoor finish(2007).
*6 conference titles (including 4 consecutive).
*Athletics 1^st international star (Lee Calhoun)
*A world renowned National Hall of Fame coach who would become NCCU’s 5^th Chancellor (Dr. LeRoy Walker).
*With the exception of Villanova, and Tennessee, the most Penn Relay Wall of Fame plaques in the 120 year history of this fabled meet (9).
*The first NCCU female team, and HBCU to qualify for a National championship by winning a Southeast Regional (2006 Women’s Cross country team).
*A NCCU athlete still holds the oldest (43 years) Pan American Games record that many of the world’s best have been unable to break (Ronnie Ray).
 

• Purpose:  To provide financial support to entering freshmen or current undergraduate track team athletes to help them pay tuition costs and ultimately achieve meaningful careers.
• Endowment Name:  NCCU Track and Field Alumni and Friends Endowment
• Kick Off Contribution:  $5,000 donated by Alumni Track Team Committee
• Date Established:  April 2018
• Yearly Goal:  At least $12,000 by June 30^th in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022
• Total Goal:  At least $50,000
• Individual Contribution Minimum:  $100 installments minimum

1. To give Online: Click on the following link: http://www.nccu.edu/
2. Click on Giving
3. Under Donation, click Other, and put in amount
4. Under designation, Click NCCU Track and Field Endowed Scholarship
5.  Fill out giving information
6. Click Add Donation. And you are done!!

 
2.) If sending check in the mail: Make checks payable to NCCU Foundation Inc., and put account # E01518 in the memo line of the check.  Mail to:
North Carolina Central University
Institutional Advancement
P.O. Box 19363
Durham, NC 27707
 

• Fund Usage:  Earnings from endowment investments will generate scholarship dollars that help change lives of deserving track athletes!
• Recipient Selection:  North Carolina Central University Scholarship Committee

 
Questions about contributing???
Call or text Joseph Michael Lipscomb Committee Chairman at 908-391-0290.
or contact: