Our Crowdfunding Groups
Step onto our campus and you'll feel it immediately — a vibrant energy where every story adds to our collective strength and success. That's why Sacramento State is committed to nurturing a home where belonging isn't just a word, it's our foundation. Our student support programs work hand-in-hand to provide tailored, holistic support to ensure all students belong and thrive.
Join us in building a vibrant future by ensuring tomorrow's leaders are shaped by diverse in perspectives, experiences, and ambitions. Your gift will ensure these programs can continue to transform the student experience, providing equitable access to educational resources and an environment free from discrimination and bias.
Pan- African Programs |
Black Honors College (BHC): Designed to empower any student interested in Black history, life, culture, and contributions, students are provided holistic support as they take on accelerated, specialized coursework in addition to their daily studies.
Black Student Union (BSU): Serves and unifies black students at Sacramento State by addressing their needs. BSU seeks to identify relevant issues and initiate appropriate action to reduce or eliminate any impediments believed to be averse to students and their continued well-being and matriculation.
Cooper-Woodson College Enhancement Program: An association of faculty, staff, students, and community members who are committed to recognizing and upholding the tradition represented in Pan-African cultures best expressed in relationships between historically Black colleges and students.
George Floyd Emergency Endowment: This endowment honors George Floyd's legacy by assisting students experiencing trauma crisis.
Martin Luther King (MLK) Center: The MLK Center supports and ensures the success of African-American students or those interested in African American heritage in their quest toward a degree at Sacramento State.
Latinx Programs |
College Assistance Migrant Program (CAMP): Helps students from migrant and seasonal farm worker backgrounds develop the college skills associated with academic success and graduation. CAMP facilitates the high school to college transition by assisting with admission, financial aid application, and registration processes.
Dreamer Resource Center: The Dreamer Resource Center helps undocumented students and students with mixed-status families realize the dream of a college degree by supporting their academic, personal, and professional goals.
Asian American and Pacific Islander Programs |
Asian Pacific Islander Desi American (APIDA) Student Center: Along with many other campus programs and community partners, the APIDA Center will strive to expand and scale support for APIDA students by offering social, cultural, educational, and advocacy programming.
Full Circle Project: The Full Circle Project aims to assist Asian American and Pacific Islander students throughout their college careers and provide ample opportunities to engage in service both on and off-campus to enhance their university experience.
Project HMONG: This program aims to build a positive and supportive community of mentors and peers through mentoring and networking with support, guidance, and encouragement while promoting positive character development.
Native American Support Programs |
’Esaḱtima Center for Native Students: The goal is to create a home away from home where Native student's traditional values are honored and recognized, their accomplishments celebrated, and their contributions to our community are honored. NSSC will work to support decolonization and to remove barriers to Native students’ academic success.
Native American Student Support Program: To support the needs of our American-Indian community of students, the American Indian Student Success Collective promotes the rich traditions of the culture, the faculty/staff and students, as well as builds on successful existing approaches to advance student success.
Native American Studies Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation Scholarship Fund: This scholarship fund is available to all undergraduate and graduate students regardless of major. Recipients must complete a Native American Studies course during the year.
Equity, Diversity, Inclusivity, and Social Justice |
Educational Opportunity Programs: Support Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) students once they transition to their respective major department in the Academic Colleges, to promote retention and graduation.
Center on Race, Immigration & Social Justice (CRISJ): CRISJ attempts to bring research, mentorship, and civic engagement together by building a network of faculty, University centers and institutes, and community leaders who work as collaborative partners to create, develop, implement and deploy activities addressing issues of equity and social justice in the University and the larger community. CRISJ seeks to connect the university and Sacramento communities that have been underserved and marginalized.
CRISJ Empowerment Scholarship: Support and recognize students who exemplify the mission of CRISJ in their academics and community engagement efforts.
Disability Access Center: Working collaboratively with students, faculty, staff, and administrators, Disability Access Center (DAC) provides a wide range of academic accommodations that ensure disabled students have equal educational access.
Gaining Access to Internships (GAIN): Aims to mitigate the barriers to compensation for an internship, mitigate the hardship of participating in unpaid or low-paid academic internships/fellowships, as well as subsidize the cost of travel and living.
Guardian Scholars Program: Designed to help former foster youth continue striving towards graduation. Services provided by Guardian Scholars include academic advising, career advising, professional mentoring, emergency funding, internship opportunities, and community building.
International Programs & Global Engagement: Maintaining the University's commitment to building connections with students, scholars, and partners around the world, this fund not only provides incredible opportunities for students, it is also currently supporting Afghan refugee students. To specifically support Afghan refugee students, please indicate that in the notes section at check-out.
MESA Engineering Program (MEP): Mathematics, Engineering, Science, Achievement program working to close the achievement gap, provides vital services to help BIPOC and those from educationally disadvantaged backgrounds realize their potential to succeed in engineering, computer science and construction management majors to earn their degrees.
Multi-Cultural Center (MCC): Supports the needs of diverse communities by offering educational programs and experiential leadership opportunities. The MCC focuses on relationship building, fostering cultural understanding, multiculturalism, as well as social justice.
Parents & Families Program aims to mitigate the risk of disenrolling by supporting these scholars and their unique needs so they can persist to graduation. There is too much at stake for these incredibly ambitious and driven students.
Peer Assisted Learning (PAL): Guided by trained students known as PAL Facilitators, this program provides a supportive, inclusive, and collaborative community comprised of STEM students engaging in collaborative learning that enhances students' sense of belonging working within the STEM field.
PRIDE Center: Offers advocacy and outreach services to the LGBTIQQAA community. The Center organizes classroom panels, Safe Zone Trainings, and other educational and celebratory programs and events. The PRIDE Center advocates for the respect, inclusion, and safety of all community members.
Project Rebound: Works to transform the formerly incarcerated into scholars through counseling, mentoring, academic resources, and career development. Project Rebound supports students motivated to succeed in earning a high-quality degree.
Science Educational Equity (SEE): The goals of the SEE program are to improve access to quality health care in underserved communities and to foster inclusion of diverse perspectives in science research and science education that are attentive to the needs of our pluralistic society.
Students with Disabilities Scholarship Fund: Offers financial support to ensure students with disabilities have the opportunity and access to pursue their educational goals.
Summer Undergraduate Research (SURE) Program: Provides valuable hands-on learning experiences for Natural Science & Mathematics students by pairing them with faculty mentors and offering financial support to help cover their everyday expenses, ensuring these opportunities remain accessible.
Women's Resource Center (WRC): Works to eliminate gender discrimination and oppression by building the capacity of women on an individual and social level. The WRC builds alliances throughout the community, providing students with a supportive environment, resources, and educational encouragement.
The Division of Inclusive Excellence: The Division of Inclusive Excellence ensures that Sacramento State’s commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion is evident throughout our University and communicated to the larger Sacramento community. Inclusive Excellence partners with multiple stakeholders across the campus and in the community to embed antiracism, equity-based, and inclusive approaches and practices in every aspect of the Sac State experience in pursuit of academic excellence, student success, and social justice for all. Areas of focus include:
Your generosity will create equity – the kind that comes from access to support resources, mentorship, and the ability to be their authentic self while feeling they belong. Wherever students plan to go with their degrees, your gift helps get them there.
Help us build the future through generosity and make a gift on Giving Tuesday, December 3.
Sacramento State is more than an education — it's where the future begins.
To give by mail, make checks payable to: The University Foundation at Sacramento State. Please use the mailing address:
Sacramento State | Development Office | 6000 J Street MS 6030 | Sacramento | CA | 95819
