Virginia Union University News September 21, 2021 Actions to Take to Improve the Reconciliation bill for HBCUs: Washington Update Good evening, VUU We need your help to improve the reconciliation spending bill. In its current form, the bill disadvantages HBCUs while spending $700 billion on Higher Education. We need you to do the following make it better: We need you to go to https://uncf.org/hbcuignite immediately. This website will allow us to get letters to Capitol Hill quickly in support of our stance on reconciliation. On the website, click "email your members" at the top, fill out the form, and press send. A letter will be generated to your member of the House and both senators quickly and easily. Congress wants to pass this bill, and Rep. Alma Adams is standing up for us, but we have to support her, stand up for ourselves, and show the powers that be that we want the bill to advantage us and not disadvantage. If we do not act now, the institutions that always "have" will get more, and we will not even be left with the crumbs. WE NEED EVERYONE'S SUPPORT AND ASSISTANCE! Lodriguez Murray, Senior Vice President, Public Policy and Government Affairs UNCF (United Negro College Fund) 1805 7th Street, NW Washington, DC 20001 Direct: (202) 854-0019 Cell: (202) 615-5539 lodriguez.murray@uncf.org Sandra M. Phoenix HBCU Library Alliance Executive Director Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library 111 James P. Brawley Drive SW Atlanta GA 30314 404-978-2118 (office) 404-702-5854 (cell) http://www.hbculibraries.org<http://www.hbculibraries.org/> sphoenix@hbculibraries.org<mailto:sphoenix@hbculibraries.org> Honor the ancestors, honor the children and those yet to come. Building Capacity for Humanities Special Collections at HBCUs - Become an ally and partner with us to protect, preserve and share a more authentic record of American history. Follow this link http://hbculibraries.org/humanities-2019.html for more information. Follow this link http://hbculibraries.org/ and click on the Donate Now button to invest in this project. Your support is appreciated. Follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/hbculibraryalliance1/ and Twitter at https://twitter.com/HBCULibAlliance Check out "PULSE!" The HBCU Library Alliance's News Source! - https://hbculibraryalliance.wordpress.com/