The nation's first private historically Black university is notching up another first. Wilberforce University is one of 11 Historically Black Colleges and Universities named to the Brilliance Initiative's first cohort.

The Brilliance Initiative is a program announced earlier this year by the Reinvestment Fund, a nationally focused Community Development Financial Institution. It aims to support the financial health of HBCUs and bolster their futures.

The Brilliance Initiative will provide $40,000 in grants and up to $1,000,000 in financing to each cohort institution. The schools will then use the funds to pay for development projects like campus infrastructure, planning, and sustainability and environmental initiatives.

"We are growing rapidly," President Vann R. Newkirk, Ph.D. tells WVX

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