Day of Giving is an Opportunity to #GivePack to Families and Communities
NC State Day of Giving is March 26, 2025
Day of Giving is March 26, 2025
Day of Giving is quickly approaching on March 26, 2025! NC State Day of Giving was first launched in 2019, and since then, it has become a Wolfpack tradition. It is a daylong fundraising event that is devoted to bringing the entire Wolfpack together for 24 hours of friendly competition, fun challenges, and, of course, #GivingPack. This is an opportunity to make a difference and give forward. Donations make a difference for NC State students, faculty, research, programs, and campus centers like the Center for Family and Community Engagement.
Why Gift on Day of Giving?
Many of the gifts made on Day of Giving, along with the bonuses earned by colleges and programs through challenges and leaderboards, go to work immediately, supporting scholarships, helping students meet basic needs, fueling research, enhancing campus programs, etc. Gifts are not just financial support, gifts encourage our students by showing them that the Wolfpack keeps investing and believing in them. You are always a part of the Wolfpack.
Support Families and Communities on Day of Giving
Since the Center for Family and Community Engagement was founded in 2008, we have strived to better the lives of those in need. Your gifts help us accomplish that mission! With your support, we foster partnerships that are relevant and responsive to families and communities across North Carolina. For example, recent projects focus on addressing youth and young adult opioid use in Wake County, as well as hurricane recovery efforts in Beaufort, NC.
Furthermore, gifts support our training programs dedicated to child welfare. We currently have an extensive training team dedicated to providing training across all counties in North Carolina to support child welfare social workers. And finally, your gift can also make a tremendous impact on the lives of the students who work at the Center!
How to #GivePack
Donate to the Center for Family and Community Engagement Enhancement Fund via our secure online Gift Portal. The enhancement fund supports our core work, including family-centered practice trainings, research, our community and family-focused projects, and so much more!
The Funding Crisis Affecting the Humanities
Right now, the humanities are facing a challenge. During the last decade, the focus on STEM, and as a result, the increase in STEM funding has been monumental. However, at the same time, the humanities have increasingly faced funding challenges and other problems. One of the most significant problems is undervaluing the humanities.
Humanities majors (English, Philosophy, History, etc.) have increasingly been ridiculed as “useless” or seen as “regretted majors” or “wastes of money” on social media platforms. This notion that humanities are inherently less valued and less difficult has dissuaded many students from pursuing such fields. For the last decade, the number of college graduates in the humanities have dropped (Barshay). STEM fields are noble and worthy pursuits–with the purpose to improve the material conditions of our world; however, STEM and the humanities are connected. One cannot exist without the other. The humanities are critical pursuits that have shaped and continue to shape our world, a human world.
Our society will always need STEM, for medical research, for infrastructure, to understand data, to create solutions to problems our world faces, but the humanities are what make our society human. The social workers, teachers, counselors, artists, musicians and so many other careers rely on the humanities and arts to ground their work in empathy and humanity.
Make a Difference on Day of Giving
NC State’s Day of Giving is a chance for our Wolfpack community, made up of scholars from every field, to contribute to the future of this university with the purpose to foster a brighter future, a future that is not possible without the humanities. This Day of Giving, we encourage you to make a difference where it matters most to you.
