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The HBCU Resource Guide UNCF’s HBCU Resource Guide is designed to assist families, students and school administrators in learning more about historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). This document provides information on scholarships, college- planning databases and key facts about HBCUs.

Getting into College: A Readiness Guide UNCF’s college readiness guide provides families and students a comprehensive college readiness checklist, outlines the pivotal steps in preparing for college, and shares additional websites and resources that are useful to students as they prepare for their post-secondary journey.

I Have a Question: What Parents and Caregivers Can Ask and Do to Help Children Thrive at School This tool provides parents with a set of questions to ask, and important issues to consider when approaching their child’s teachers, principals and counselors about their development. As a parent or caregiver, it can be hard to know how to support your child’s learning, but asking your child’s educators the right questions is a good place to start.

Hear Us, Believe Us: Centering African American Parent Voices in K-12 Education (2024)
African American parents are critical stakeholders in the education system. As such, this report illuminates the perspective of African American parents and caregivers on key issues in education, such as race, college readiness, Black teacher representation, parental engagement and more. This report begins the 2nd edition of the UNCF Perceptions Research Series.

UNCF Perceptions Research Series This groundbreaking three-part series of in-depth reports uplifts the voices of African American parents, community leaders, and youth because we know that the African American voices have and always will matter in education policy. The Perceptions Research Series creates the impetus for concrete action and challenges readers to confront assumptions about apathy among the African American community on important issues like education.

A Seat at the Table: African American Youth’s Perceptions of K-12 Education (2018)
The role to be played by youth is just as important as that of leaders and parents. They are, after all, the stakeholders whose response to reform will determine if it succeeds or fails. Of the three groups, they are the only one with firsthand knowledge of what happens in the classroom. And, all too often, they do not have a seat at the table during reform discussions. This study, the third installment of UNCF’s African American perceptions research on key issues in K-12 education, begins to remedy that omission.

Faith in Action: Tips and Tools for Education Advocacy (2020)
UNCF and The Expectations Project (TEP) teamed up to create a brief document that provides tips and tools to help clergy and leaders in the faith engage in educational equity issues.  A profession of faith calls for compassion and a willingness to speak up against injustice.

ONLINE RESOURCES

UNCF College Toolkit UNCF’s College Toolkit page provides families and students with short blogposts and resources to help in the college application process.

UNCF’s Scholarships,Fellowships and Internships UNCF’s Opportunities page provides information and log-in instructions for various UNCF scholarships, fellowships and internship opportunities. UNCF awards more than 12,000 scholarships and internships each year.

UNCF K-12 LinkTree One-stop shop to UNCF college readiness resources.

UNCF Webinars UNCF’s Outreach and Recruitment team offers free webinars every second Tuesday, where Mary Williams and Enjelica Reid of UNCF talk about UNCF’s opportunities open to students, from high school to post-grad. They discuss UNCF’s 400 programs, scholarships, internships, fellowships and career opportunities posted annually, and offer tips and advice on how to make the most of the offers.

UNCF.org/Parents As a parent, you want what's best for your child. But sometimes it's hard to know how to support your child's learning. These tips and website can help.

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