Make Your Impact Today. Invest in the next 50 years of NSBE.

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For nearly 50 years, NSBE has been a beacon of hope and opportunity for Black Engineers. Your support is crucial in empowering us to expand STEM initiatives, honor academic brilliance with scholarships, offer valuable mentorship to Black professionals, and positively transform lives and communities.

Acknowledging the pivotal role of STEM and engineering in enhancing the quality of life across all regions where NSBE chapters are active, we collaborate with a diverse range of grant providers. This includes private donors, corporate entities, family foundations, and governmental agencies.

External funding enables us to go above and beyond our annual operational budget, allowing us to support and invest in our future engineers year after year. This support helps us deliver exceptional programs and initiatives that make a lasting impact on our communities.

Together, we can inspire and nurture the next generation of trailblazing innovators and leaders.

NSBE Family and Friends,

Happy holidays! I greet you warmly in this season of giving and gratitude. I hope this segue to the new year finds you thankful, as I am, for the strength that has always enabled our family to locate joy in challenging times.

As always, sending this holiday message is a source of joy for me, as I take full advantage of an opportunity to express my gratitude for all you have done for NSBE during the year. Thank you. Thank you for your gifts of time, creativity, passion and treasure that make our work possible.

2025 has been unique: a year of important milestones met and passed for our Society, as we have continued to celebrate our 50th anniversary. And our second half-century promises to be even greater than our first:

NSBE students are rising, displaying a new level of courage, innovation and leadership in STEM and the broader community.

NSBE Professionals are continuing to “up their game,” serving as mentors, role models and supporters of aspiring STEM professionals as well as children and teens just beginning to explore STEM and its career opportunities — all the while pursuing excellence in their own careers.

NSBE alum are returning to the community as thought partners, donors and advocates for our longstanding legacy, by establishing or supporting named scholarships. 

NSBE is gaining unprecedented visibility and respect on the national and international stage, as we stand firm, and advance, for diversity, equity and inclusion in the midst of a war against DEI.

Year-end 2025 brings an opportunity for each of us to help fulfill the promise of NSBE’s next 50 years by moving our Society toward our current fundraising goal of $500,000 for the year.

Your tax-deductible donation to NSBE before January 1, 2026, will support:

  • Scholarshipsthat expand access to STEM education and increase representation from Black communities
  • K–12 programslike NSBE Jr. and NSBE’s Summer Engineering Experience for Kids (NSBE SEEK), building early pathways to success
  • Professional excellence and equity, strengthening the STEM pipeline and advancing inclusive workplaces through programs like the Black STEM Experience
  • Administrative and programmatic resources to meet the needs of our membership

The $500,000 fundraising goal is within reach! Whether you’re able to contribute $50 or $50,000 to NSBE’s mission in our 50th anniversary year, your gift is important.

Please join me in empowering NSBE students and professionals as we expand the possible before the new year. I bid you countless blessings in 2026, and I wish you lasting vision to see the victory that’s coming: a reward for our continuing commitment to NSBE’s mission.

Yours in gratitude,

Janeen Uzzell

Janeen Uzzell

Chief Executive Officer

National Society of Black Engineers

How your donations help

A significant percentage of our partners’ support and funding efforts assist in educating, advocating, and keeping engineers gainfully employed, especially when starting from underserved backgrounds.
Thank you to our partners

Supplier Diversity

With NSBE’s platform, you can put the tools of education, equity, and network at the frontline of your systems to help you improve your businesses and processes and enable you to increase your presence in our diverse collective.

Enhance ESG Goals

While you address the longer-term elements of your ESG strategy, supporting diverse engineers can be a quick and visible way to make an impact to demonstrate your achievements with NSBE.

Fosters STEM programs and academic scholarships, and provides mentorship opportunities

Empowering the Black Community

Empowering men and women with the knowledge, tools, and ongoing mentorship and leadership support to grow in their professional fields, encouraging economic stability, upward mobility, and breaking intergenerational cycles, while meeting diversity and social justice objectives.  

Diversity / Equity Mission

Connecting and leveraging resources to address diversity and equity goals in a way that is impactful, efficient, and scalable.

Employee Engagement / Volunteerism

Through our network and learning community, we enable our future engineers and employees to engage in-person and virtually, and at scale.

Community and Giving Strategy Alignment

Galvanizing the individuals you care about with workforce and entrepreneurial skills to exceed educational and professional expectations.

Ways to Give

  • Chapter Member Roles & Responsibilities

  • Establishing a Chapter

    To charter a new chapter or renew an established chapter, the following criteria must be met:

    • Chapter has ten active (nationally paid) members
      • National Collegiate membership dues are $5 annually. A chapter may also collect additional chapter dues to cover chapter costs.
    • Chapter must have the following chapter executive officers assigned and active in NSBE Connect:
      • Required chapter roles:
        • President
        • ​Vice President
        • Secretary
        • Treasurer
        • Professional Delegate
      • How to assign chapter officer using NSBE Connect:
        • Log into NSBE Connect.
        • Select Chapters.
        • Select My Chapters.
        • Select the Chapter you are associated with.
        • Select Manage officers to edit chapter roles.
        • Follow Prompts.

    If your chapter becomes inactive, log into your NSBE Connect account and make sure that the above criteria are met. Once completed, the system will automatically recognize your chapter as active. We recommend updating your chapter profile yearly.

  • Chapter Chartering

    To begin the chapter charter process, petition a chapter using this link.

    Chapter petitions are reviewed and approved by NSBE World Headquarters Membership Staff.

    Each chapter must complete all relevant chapter information. This information includes, but is not limited to chapter name, address, phone number, and constitution.

    A sample Chapter Constitution can be found here.

    For questions regarding the chapter charter process, contact the Membership Team at NSBE World Headquarters at membership@nsbe.org or 703.549.2207 prompt 1.

  • 501C3

    NSBE Chapter Tax Exemption Process

  • Company Membership Process

    Companies can now purchase professional memberships for their employees to use!

    Instructions on Partner Processing Orders in NSBEConnect

    1. Log in to NSBEConnect.
    2. ​Once successfully logged in, hover over My Profile, then select Company Membership Purchases.
    3. Select the company’s name (to locate it easier, type the first letter of the company’s name until you are able to find it). If the company is not listed, contact membership@nsbe.org before you are able to proceed to the next steps.
    4. Enter the total amount of memberships that you would like to purchase, then select Submit.
    5. You will now be able to view the cart to confirm accuracy before proceeding with payment. Once confirmed, select Check Out.
    6. Select Next Step
    7. You will now be able to enter your credit card information. Note – If paying by check, select Bill Me Later. Note – You will not receive the codes to distribute to employees until payment is received/applied.
    8. Further instructions, including how to apply the code, will be provided in the payment confirmation email.
    9. Members will complete the normal Membership Application and add the campaign code to the checkout page. This will zero out the price on their Professional Membership only.

    Note: If the member tries to use the campaign code, but their Professional Membership is already free (because they are an international member, they get their first year professional free, or any other reason), they will not be counted towards the allotment used.

  • Current Chapters

    Chapters must be active for their senators’ and delegates’ votes to be recognized in NSBE elections. Keeping your chapter active also permits your chapter to compete in Chapter of the Year competitions and have access to chapter relief funding.  

    To renew your chapter’s charter each year, you must ensure the following requirements are met:

    • Chapter has at least 10 active members (five members for NSBE Jr. chapters).
    • The following chapter executive officers are assigned and active in NSBEConnect. (For instructions on how to update your chapter officers, download the Chapter Officer Appointment Instructions.)
      • President
      • Vice President
      • Secretary
      • Treasurer
      • Senator

  • Start a Chapter

    Would you like to start a NSBE chapter? If so, please submit a petition to start a chapter today!

     

    NSBE chapters may be eligible to use NSBE’s 501(c)(3) nonprofit standing: 

    • Must have your own federal tax ID (or use that of your university).
    • Your chapter must be active. If not, renew the chapter’s charter.
      • Chapters that do not have active status in NSBEConnect are not eligible.
      • Chapters need to have 10 paid members and the required officers.
    • Confirm with your university that the chapter cannot use the university’s tax-exempt status for itself as a subordinate.

    If the chapter cannot use the tax-exempt status of the university, then the chapter needs to fill out the survey linked below. 

    If the chapter does not have its own federal tax ID #:

    Unfortunately, chapters are not allowed to use NSBE’s tax id #; you must obtain your own. You can apply for one at the following website: https://irs-form-ss-4.com/.

    If you have any questions, please contact NSBE’s Membership and Registration team at membership@nsbe.org.

    To find a chapter near you, please use the chapter search tool.

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Ways to Give

Donor Advised Funds

A Donor-Advised Fund (DAF) simplifies charitable giving by allowing donors to allocate funds to their preferred nonprofit easily. This method offers a tax-efficient way to manage donations. Through a DAF, donors make a tax-deductible contribution to a sponsoring public charity and can then suggest grants to IRS-qualified nonprofits over time. It’s a thoughtful way to involve family or colleagues in philanthropic decisions.

With DAF Direct, a free web application, you can easily initiate grant recommendations from your DAF directly on the National Society of Black Engineers website. In just a few clicks, you can support NSBE’s mission to cultivate culturally responsible Black Engineers who excel academically, thrive professionally, and make a positive impact on the community.

Volunteer Grants

What are volunteer grant programs?

Volunteer grant programs are corporate giving initiatives in which companies make monetary donations to organizations where employees volunteer regularly. If you volunteer with NSBE, it’s an easy way to provide us with additional financial support! Learn more about volunteer grants HERE.

What counts as volunteer work with NSBE?

When you donate your time to NSBE, you are essentially volunteering for us.  At NSBE, volunteer work looks like the following: 

  • Event Volunteering: Volunteering your time and service to our Summer Engineering Experience for Kids (SEEK) 
  • Volunteering your service to NSBE conferences: Annual Convention, Professional Development Conference, Fall Regional Conferences, National Leadership Conference 
  • Skill-based Volunteering: Providing pro-bono professional accounting, legal work, or PR assistance. 
  • Volunteer Committees: Participating on an NSBE board. 
  • Administrative Volunteering: Giving time and service for various administrative projects pro-bono to NSBE World Headquarters staff.

Black Excellence Engineered™

We envision a world in which engineering is a mainstream word in homes and communities of color, and all Black students can envision themselves as engineers. In this world, Blacks exceed parity in entering engineering fields, earning degrees, and succeeding professionally.

How to renew your membership

  1. Click Renew Action Button
  2. Once you’ve reached your account homepage, click “Renew” on the red banner at the top of your screen or the tab labeled “Memberships/Subscriptions” > “View Inactive Subscriptions” and then “Renew”.
  3. Select a membership item you would like to renew on the next page.
  4. Update your personal information if needed.
  5. Follow the prompts.
  6. Verify the items in your cart for accuracy. If you selected the wrong membership type, please go back and make your changes as needed before completing payment. Membership payments are non-refundable.
  7. Submit.

Please contact membership@nsbe.org if you have any questions or concerns.

Information regarding the Open Enrollment Campaign

We open enrollment for the new membership cycle on May 1st each year which will allow members an additional 2 months to renew and receive benefits. Please note that membership subscriptions are not prorated. However, if you plan on renewing your membership mid-year to qualify for registration discounts or other benefits, that is fine. However, please be aware that renewing a membership following the Annual Convention will only grant you a subscription that lasts for only a month or less. We strongly recommend waiting until May 1st to maximize your investment.

Each region is divided into Collegiate and Professionals, each with their own board and programming. Please visit the sub-sites for more information.
Each region is divided into Collegiate and Professionals, each with their own board and programming. Please visit the sub-sites for more information.
Each region is divided into Collegiate and Professionals, each with their own board and programming. Please visit the sub-sites for more information.
Each region is divided into Collegiate and Professionals, each with their own board and programming. Please visit the sub-sites for more information.
Each region is divided into Collegiate and Professionals, each with their own board and programming. Please visit the sub-sites for more information.
Each region is divided into Collegiate and Professionals, each with their own board and programming. Please visit the sub-sites for more information.