Our Crowdfunding Groups
Our crowdfunding campaign has ended but you can still support the UCLA Arts Racial Equity Fund by clicking here.
Thank you to everyone who has given to the campaign thus far! We are excited to share that we have raised $1,827 from 18 donors. However, we have fallen quite short of our campaign goal. Last year during Black History Month, we raised $3,736 from 45 donors. That was a big win and it helped us to grant our first five scholarship awards to current students!
Can you help us match last year's giving? This year, we set a very ambitious goal. Our hope was not only to match support from last year, but to set our sights high to raise $10,000 toward new scholarships at UCLA Arts! With only hours left, please help us to spread the word before the campaign ends in the next 11 HOURS!
Please share this campaign on social media and encourage your friends and colleagues to join us in amplifying historically underrepresented and excluded voices by making a gift to uplift Black Life at UCLA Arts.
We're so grateful to the community of donors who have showed up to support the UCLA Arts Racial Equity Fund so far. We caught up with one of our inaugural scholarship awardees and current student, Nehemiah Cisneros, to speak about the impact that scholarship support makes for artists and creators at the UCLA School of Arts & Architecture. Your gift will make it possible for more students like Nehemiah to continue raising the bar at UCLA Arts!
We still have 14 days to raise $10,000. We have a way to go but we believe in the power of this community. You know how impactful this fund is, would you help us spread the word and champion this effort in your network? Please share this link anywhere you can: spark.ucla.edu/racialequityfund
Thank you!
Nikki Parrish and the SOAA team
For current UCLA Bruins... who want to support fellow and future Bruins! Donate $8 in honor of the 8-Clap to celebrate Black History Month.
In honor of the 18 volunteer students, staff and faculty members who came together to form the inaugural UCLA Arts Anti-Racism, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Commission! Donate $18 in honor of their work to combat racism and advance social justice.
Only 5% of our UCLA Arts graduate students are US residents who identify as Black. Your gift will help us award scholarships and fellowships to support our recruitment of students and build a more diverse school community.
Today, Black Americans account for only 7% of our undergraduate students. Your gift will honor these students while building scholarship support for future generations of students on their journey toward shaping the future.
In Fall 2020, the undergraduate enrollment rate for Black students at UCLA was about 5%, which means that out of 31,636 undergraduate students, only 1,723 students are Black or African American. Your gift to the UCLA Arts Racial Equity Fund helps us to foster an environment that values difference, rejects inequity and actively works to advance social justice and amplify historically underrepresented and excluded voices.
Honor UCLA Arts' '23 graduating class with your gift in honor of these artists, dancers, performers, architects, and creators who will design our future.
Your generous gift will provide a scholarship award to a student in their journey at UCLA Arts —including support for materials, equipment, travel expenses, and other resources needed to help assist in their completion of our programs.