https://cook-county.legistar.com/Gateway.aspx?M=LD&From=RSS&ID=8129152&GUID=E89DE6CD-78CF-481F-A96F-F26C753E6C79Legistar15https://cook-county.legistar.com/Gateway.aspx?M=LD&From=RSS&ID=8129152&GUID=E89DE6CD-78CF-481F-A96F-F26C753E6C79E89DE6CD-78CF-481F-A96F-F26C753E6C79-2026-07-10-00-55-13Title: PROPOSED RESOLUTION 2026 UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND NATIONAL WALK FOR EDUCATION WHEREAS, in 1943, Dr. Frederick D. Patterson, president of Tuskegee Institute suggested to the presidents of other private black colleges that they pool their monies and make a united appeal to the national conscience; and WHEREAS, on April 25, 1944, the United Negro College Fund (“UNCF”) was incorporated with 27 member colleges as a not-for-profit entity established to assist its member institutions of higher education to raise funds from the public for their mutual support; and WHEREAS, the importance of UNCF, and the historically Black colleges and universities it supports, promotes the value of higher education as well as the traditional values of family and heritage that have made this nation great; and WHEREAS, over the past seven decades UNCF has grown to become the nation’s oldest and most successful African American higher education assistance organization in the country by having raised more than $6 billion and having helped more than 550,000 students not just attend college, but Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:55:13 GMT