Support the National Labor College

We are very grateful for your interest in supporting the National Labor College and its many programs. The College’s most pressing needs are for Annual Fund contributions and support for the AFL-CIO National Workers Memorial.  We are, of course, most appreciative of gifts to one or more of our special funds and program initiatives. Listed below are some of the giving opportunities to help the NLC succeed. For additional information or questions on how to contribute please do not hesitate to contact the NLC Development Office at 301-628-4861.

 

The Leadership Circle Donate Now

The Leadership Circle is a unique opportunity to support the NLC at the highest level. Members of the Circle show their commitment to the College and its programming by making a significant investment in its future.

As major sponsors for the important work of the NLC, Leadership Circle donors make a real and lasting difference in workers’ lives. The Leadership Circle helps to preserve and enhance NLC’s programs to strengthen unions to promote job advancement, financial stability and family security for working people.

• Recognition plaque on “NLC’s Leadership Circle Wall”
• Prominent listing in NLC publications and website announcements
• Select membership on NLC Advisory Committee(s)
• Invitations to special events
• Premier tickets to annual NLC programs and conferences
• Regular updates on NLC activities and program development

 

The Dean's List Donate Now

The Dean’s List at the NLC is a special group of donors who want to support the work of the College in a meaningful way. By joining the Dean’s List, participants enjoy the benefits of membership and become part of a growing national and international community who believe in what the College stands for and who share in the College’s vision.

Please join today and become part of the labor movement’s premier educational and training institution. Give as generously as you can so others may benefit from the College’s extraordinary programs

 

The NLC’s Annual Fund  Donate Now

The college is announcing the public launch of a three-year, multi-million dollar fundraising “Campaign for the Future” to secure support for the College’s expanding reach to workers across North America and beyond.  NLC President William E. Scheuerman has announced that the campaign is a top priority and critical to the continued success of the College.

Annual Fund contributions are essential to ensuring that the NLC continues to provide exceptional education and training opportunities, and to maintain its quality facilities. Annual fund gifts help support our highly regarded faculty; an innovative and evolving curriculum; campus technology and facility improvements. Like most colleges, the NLC is reliant on generous gifts from many outside sources.  We count among our benefactors our alumnae, union partners, the AFL-CIO, many foundations, like-minded organizations, legal firms and many others who share our goals.

 “Unions are developing more sophisticated strategies to face challenges in a more complex world,” said Scheuerman. “The global economy, the evolving workplace and the increased complexity of bargained benefits demand that workers and their union leaders get the training and education they need to protect decent living standards and to sustain our middle class.”

Your contribution, whether $50, $100, $500 or $50,000 or more, is both welcomed and valued and represents your demonstrated commitment to advance the lives and livelihood of workers throughout the United States. We encourage you to support the College as together we move forward to meet the complex challenges of the 21st Century.

 

Support NLC Scholarship Fund  Donate Now

Your gift may be directed to helping students who cannot afford tuition and fees or to support existing scholarship opportunities.

 

The National Workers Memorial  Donate Now - Download Individual Brick Rememberance Brochure and Form

In April of 2008, leaders of the AFL-CIO, International Unions and NLC officials, gathered on the front lawn of the Campus to dedicate the grounds where the new “National Workers Memorial” will be built.  The memorial will honor the memories of union members and leaders who were killed or injured on the job, or in the cause of advancing the rights of working men and women throughout the U. S.

The project, expected to cost some $500,000 and scheduled for completion in 2009, will be funded by contributions from unions and their supporters throughout the county.  It is a place where union members may honor the lives of their fallen brothers and sisters and to rededicate themselves to workplace safety and health.

The memorial will be located in the center of the campus and will feature a plaza of bricks surrounded by granite benches and pavers. One may support the memorial in four ways: A union, or even loved-ones may sponsor an individual brick in the name of a fallen worker for $125.   Slate pavers, which encircle the memorial may be sponsored for $2,000, to remember an important catastrophic event or notorious location where workers lost their lives or worked in peril.  And whole categories of workers may be remembers through the sponsorship of a granite bench for $10,000.  Finally, major supporting contributions of $50,000 or more toward construction will be remembered with a special marker.

“I can think of no more appropriate place for a permanent workers memorial than on the campus of the college that the labor movement calls its home for learning, its center for ideas,” said William E. Scheuerman, NLC’s president.

"This will be the only place in America where workers from all industries, all crafts and all walks of life who are killed on the job are memorialized,” said Cecil Robert, president of the United Mine Workers and chair of the AFL-CIO committee on health and safety.  “We build this memorial to honor and remember them, and to remind us of the work that still remains to be done to make America's workplaces as safe and healthy as possible.”

 

Support NLC Institutes  Donate Now

Your gift may be designated to support one or more of the NLC’s new Institutes and Conference Programs.

Through this specially funded program, the NLC provides opportunities for focused study in specific fields including national conferences and symposia . Two new Institutes below focus on current issues involving health care and strategic labor policies and political action.  Donors may contribute to these efforts or may help the college develop whole new programs. Please contact the Office of Development if you wish to share in this program.

 

The Bernard & Audrey Rapoport Foundation Institute for Labor & Politics

This institute supports courses, speakers, workshops, and other educational programming to empower union members and working families to better understand local, state, national, and international political forces that impact their lives.

 

Kaiser Permanente Health Care Institute

This institute supports NLCs current healthcare bargaining courses; development of new healthcare certificate and degree programs; and a national conference on healthcare policy, bargaining and benefits held annually at the NLC.     

 

Underwrite Special Programs  Donate Now  

The continuation of existing programs and the development of new projects is central to the mission of the NLC. Through grants and dedicated funding sources the National Labor College has an ongoing commitment to respond to the changing needs and priorities of the labor movement and the circumstances facing individual union members and officers.

 

Endow a Faculty Chair  Donate Now

Your gift would help support a professorship in any one or more of the six bachelor degree programs: Labor Studies, Labor Education, Labor Safety & Health, Labor History, Political Economy & Labor, and Union Leadership & Labor. Endowment of chairs recognizes a professor’s teaching excellence, outstanding scholarship, and their unique contributions to students and the labor movement. For more information please contact the Office of Development.

 

Underwrite a Course  Donate Now

Support for a particular course in one or more of the degree programs enables the sponsor to dedicate the course in honor of or in memory of a family member, student, alumnae, union officer or individual with a recognized contribution to the labor movement.

 

Name a Room, Conference Facility, or Campus Area in Your Honor  Donate Now

Your donation gives you the opportunity to dedicate a portion of the campus or its facilities in your honor, or to your union, company or association.