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You can read about our work, learn about our funds, and choose a fund to support. You can also check out some of our stories below to see how our work affects students.

Student Affairs Funds You Can Support

Asian American Cultural Center Programs Fund

Help us reach our goal to raise $4,000 to support high-impact programs and initiatives such as the center’s Peer Mentoring Program, the APIDA+ programmatic series, student leadership development initiatives, and the annual APIDA Graduation & Leadership Awards ceremony. Your support helps fund APIDA student supporting programs, initiatives, and services that reach thousands of students each year including: peer mentoring initiatives, leadership development, professional networking, and so much more. With your help, we can reach our $4,000 goal to fund high-impact opportunities and mentoring initiatives that will enhance their personal and professional development.

AACC students smiling

Center for Latino Arts and Culture Fund

With your help, we can reach our $3,000 goal and fund the UNIQUE OPPORTUNITIES and MENTORING INITIATIVES that will enhance the academic pursuits of our students and prepare them for advanced study and their professional careers. Your support allows us to continue supporting students as they research, document, interpret and promote Latino/a, Hispanic, Caribbean, and Latin American heritage. Donations help fund the programs, initiatives, and services that touch over 2,000 students a year including: student research projects, mentoring initiatives, conferences registration, travel abroad, graduate and career support, and professional networking, and so much more.

CLAC staff

Center for Social Justice and LGBT Communities Excellence Fund

Help us reach our goal to raise $3,500 to support our DIVERSITY PEER EDUCATOR PROGRAM which trains students to educate their peers on topics of diversity, inclusion, and social justice. Gifts made during Rutgers Giving Days will FUND STIPENDS for our Diversity Peer Educators THIS FALL. Your support allows us to continue to be the campus-wide resource around gender and sexuality issues through the lens of social justice and promote a supportive environment for students of all backgrounds, identities and experiences, with a focus on the LGBTQIA+ community.

SJE

Parents Fund

Donations to the Parents Fund support special initiatives of student organizations, career-related advising, resources, and opportunities to advance student learning and faculty research.

Gifts are not only applied to enhance student organizations, sports clubs, libraries, and career services, but Greek organizations can also apply for grants to support special initiatives.

Donations to the Parent Fund support all things that will enhance your students' lives - now and after graduation.

Rutgers parents

Paul Robeson Cultural Center Fund

Your funds support the programs and events led by the PRCC and allow us the flexibility to keep creating new programs and initiatives, like the BLACK & RETREAT that help support student success at Rutgers.

Here is what students said about their Black & Retreat Experience:

  • “This was soooo EYE OPENING, and I AM TRULY BLESSED to be a part of such a great experience, you’ll never know how appreciative I am for it. I am Black and LIMITLESS!”
  • “This was AMAZING!! I felt so welcomed and at home with this group!! I hope many more people get to experience this program! Thanks to everyone who made this retreat possible!”
  • “Overall, I really enjoyed this retreat. It was very informational. I feel so much more confident and relieved going to Rutgers knowing I have a community there.”

With your help, we can reach our goal to raise $3,500 to PLAN and EXECUTE programs and initiatives like our BLACK & RETREAT that serve and educate students, as well as entire Rutgers community, about African and African Diaspora oriented cultures. We simply cannot do this without your support.   

PRCC

Student Emergency Fund-New Brunswick

Every year, we witness students who are struggling to continue their education after experiencing an unforeseen emergency or catastrophic event. Others struggle with food insecurity, homelessness, and domestic issues. Donations to the Students Emergency Fund provide direct financial assistance to students who are unable to meet immediate and essential needs because of an unexpected situation or temporary hardship. 

Gifts to the Student Emergency Fund ensure students facing an unexpected crisis have the financial resources needed to prevent them from having to drop out or take time off from pursuing their degree.

Photo of students smiling

Student Food Pantry Fund-New Brunswick

Donations to food security will ensure that all students have access to food at both the food pantry on the College Avenue campus and the Mobile Food Pantry that visits the Busch, Livingston, and Douglass campuses.

Food pantry
AACC students smiling
CLAC staff
SJE
Rutgers parents
PRCC
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Food pantry

How Our Work Impacts Students

Naomi Kutin poses for a photo next to a weight rack.

At just nine years old, Naomi Kutin shattered a world record for her weight class in 2011. Today, in her fourth year at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, the young athlete maintains her powerlifting skills, but now she’s weighing options in the field of social work as well. While continuing to train one to two hours a day, five days a week, and competing as a member of the Rutgers Powerlifting Club, Kutin is completing her undergraduate degree and studying for her master's degree at Rutgers’ School of Social Work. Read more in this article from Rutgers Today!

The Clothesline Project 2023 in Douglass Library

At Rutgers—New Brunswick, the Office of Violence Prevention and Victim Assistance (VPVA), with campus partners, has taken a lead on providing support and programming during Domestic Violence Awareness and Prevention Month (DVAM) through their Turn the Campus Purple campaign. One crucial resource that will remain available throughout the rest of the month—and the entire calendar year—is VPVA’s crisis intervention hotline, which aims to help survivors cope with the effects of interpersonal violence.  

Colorful mural on the Center for Latino Arts and Culture

Friday, September 15 marked the official beginning of National Hispanic/Latine Heritage Month. At Rutgers—New Brunswick, in the Division of Student Affairs, the Center for Latino Arts and Culture (CLAC) and the Latino Student Council (LSC) are partnering to kick off their celebration with an upcoming event, Welcome to La Familia: Latine Fest, which will take place at the CLAC on Friday, September 22 from 1-9 P.M. 

Students eat at Busch Dining Hall during New Student Orientation

At Rutgers—New Brunswick, like other universities across the nation, many students suffer from food insecurity. To begin addressing this issue, the Dean of Students—Off-Campus Living and Community Partnerships, a department within the Division of Student Affairs, offers a Student Food Pantry that students can use when necessary, as well as the No Hungry Knights Scholarship, which offers free meal swipes for on-campus dining halls. 

Rutgers personal trainer works with a client in a gym

Students have busy lives, and it can be difficult for them to balance their classwork, extracurricular activities, and on- or off-campus jobs, along with their personal lives and any other obligations. As a result, many of them need help creating the best exercise routine for their own specific situations. 

That's where the Exercise is Medicine program, which has helped hundreds of clients engage in healthful exercise, comes in.