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Thurgood Marshall College Fund

Abbreviation	TMCF
Founded	1987
Founder	N. Joyce Payne
Type	Educational non-profit
Headquarters	901 F Street NW, Suite 300 Washington, D.C., US
Region served	United States
Membership	55 member schools
Chair of the board	Racquel Oden
President & CEO	Harry L. Williams
Main organ	Board of Directors
Website	www.tmcf.org

TheThurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) is anon-profit organization that supports and represents nearly 300,000 students attending its 55 member-schools that includepublichistorically black colleges and universities (HBCUs), medical schools, and law schools. The organization is named after theSupreme Court's firstAfrican-American Justice,Thurgood Marshall.^[1][2][3]

The organization was established in 1987, under the leadership of Dr. N. Joyce Payne, in cooperation withMiller Brewing Company,Sony Music, theNBA,Reebok and theAmerican Association of State Colleges and Universities to institutionally support public HBCUs. It underwent a name change in 2006 from the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund to the Thurgood Marshall College Fund.^[4]

TMCF advocates for higher education atpublichistorically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and has grown from a small organization providing scholarships for public HBCUs, raising over $500 million to date for programmatic support, capacity building support, and scholarships for its member schools and the students matriculating on the campuses.^[5]

Its mission differs from that of theUnited Negro College Fund, which supported approximately 65,000 students at 900 colleges and universities with approximately $113 million in grants and scholarships in 2015 alone. The Thurgood Marshall College fund supports 55 schools and is a501(c)(3) tax-exempt, charitable organization, which means it does not pay taxes on its income.^[6]

TMCF was granted $50 million in 2015 byApple,^[7] $25.6 million in 2017 by theCharles Koch Foundation,^[8] and $6 million byThe Boeing Company in 2018.^[9][10]

In 2013, TMCF acquired theOpportunity Funding Corporation (OFC), merging the two organizations with TMCF becoming the parent organization. Both organizations share a similar mission of providing service to the HBCU community, particularly in the area of talent identification. While continuing its efforts to enhance the entrepreneurship curriculum within public and private HBCUs, OFC will identify the promising future entrepreneurs and introduce them to potential investors and successful entrepreneurs.^[11][12]

• Harry L. Williams became president and CEO in 2018.^[13]
• Johnny C. Taylor Jr. was president and CEO from 2010 to 2018.
• Johnny Parham became the first executive director in 1994.
• Dwayne Ashley served as president and the chief executive officer from 1999 to 2010 and created the Leadership Institute and Member Schools Conference.

Member School Breakdown:^[14][15]

• 55 Member School Breakdown
  • 42 HBCUs: 4-year Historically Black Colleges and Universities
    • 6 LAW: HBCU Law Schools
    • 1 MED: HBCU Medical School
  • 3 PBIs: 4-year Predominantly Black Institutions
  • 7 Historically Black Community Colleges
  • 1 technical college

• Official website

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• Historically black universities and colleges in the United States
• Scholarships in the United States
• 501(c)(3) organizations
• 1987 establishments in Washington, D.C.
• Thurgood Marshall

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