The Fund for MCLA supports the College’s mission to provide an affordable and accessible education through top notch student experience and faculty excellence. This unrestricted fund supports the College's areas of greatest need. Our priority areas for the 2021-2022 Fund for MCLA include the following areas of immediate need: 

• Mental Health and Wellness 
• Student Emergency Need
• Food Security
• Equitable Internship Access

The MCLA Athletics Department has embraced a 3-2-1 vision. Our goal is to have all student athletes reach and maintain a 3.0 grade point average, all teams competing in the top two of their conference, and all students and staff working together as one team.

Your gift supports our programs to travel to play competitive opponents, recruit talented student athletes, meet special equipment needs, and do our best to provide an exceptional student athlete experience. You may designate your contributions to a specific program or where it is most needed to advance our athletics program.

Your support is vital to the Athletics mission of developing excellent players and students.

Your support will allow us to enhance scholarship opportunities and programming access for LGBTQIA+ students.

Our goal is to provide every student with the support they need to finish their degree without delay due to the impact of COVID-19 and other emergencies, such as being unhoused, food insecurity, or technology needs. 

This year we will build a new fund to support scholarship and programming opportunities for MCLA’s African American and Black students.  
 
Nationwide, there is a pronounced racial gap in enrollment rates at top colleges and universities around the country. Data from the National Center for Education Statistics reveals that African American students only accounted for 14% of total undergraduate enrollment in 2016, while white students accounted for 56%. In order to live up to our reputation as a Top Public Liberal Arts College, it is paramount that we support and raise every student who wishes to come through our gates.  
 
The fund is named for Lift Every Voice and Sing – often called “The Black National Anthem” – written as a poem by NAACP leader James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) and then set to music by his brother John Rosamond Johnson (1873-1954) in 1899.  

Your support will immediately help approximately 33% of MCLA students who are struggling with food security by providing them access to free meals and stocking the shelves of our on-campus food pantry with a variety of healthy items.

The student internship experience is very important to us at MCLA. Your support will allow for equitable access to internships, ensuring that every student is able to access the career-enriching possibilities these experiences offer.