UNCG women’s basketball player Nia Howard walks with a child at Gateway Education Center

UNCG Student-Athletes Give Back At Gateway

UNCG student-athletes are putting in the work on and off the field. Three times a week, the Spartans visit Gateway Education Center to help the students start their day right.

A teacher sits at a classroom table across from a child who points at pieces of paper on a tray.

A Force for Youth and Families

UNCG’s Center for Youth, Family and Community Partnerships has improved lives across North Carolina for 28 years. Interventions make a deep impact thanks to a commitment to evidence-based research, strong partnerships, and guidance from community members with lived experiences with the issues CYFCP programs tackle.

Professional portrait of Tia Wiggins wearing a red and black suit.

Tia’s Circle

Bryan School alumna Tia Wiggins created an endowed scholarship at UNCG to cultivate platforms for others.

Nursing students celebrate at UNCG's graduation ceremony.

UNCG Nursing scholarship makes critical care possible

Caring for critically ill COVID-19 patients as an ICU nurse opened Cynthia Jones’s eyes to the health inequalities experienced by our most vulnerable populations. She came to UNCG to become a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist.

Someone in a UNCG sweatshirt holds 2 boxes - drug screening & nasal Naloxone at a GCSTOP distribution tent.

GCSTOP saves lives while teaching students lessons

Established in 2018, GCSTOP received the 2023 Achievement Award from the National Association of Counties. It is a partnership program between UNC Greensboro and Guilford County that focuses on harm reduction.