Welcome to the MinuteFund, UMass Amherst's crowdfunding platform, facilitated by the UMass Amherst Foundation (UMAF). The MinuteFund is our place to help students, faculty, and staff raise money for their RSO, student group, department, or center on campus. New projects are coming online every week, and you can see all the live projects below. If you would like to support an area that you don't see listed below, you can use this form to make a gift to any area of campus that you are passionate about.
If you are interested in learning more about Accelerate: The Campaign for UMass Amherst you can view the website at: https://accelerateumass.org/
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Projects
12 Projects
UMass Equestrian Team 2026
By UMass Amherst Foundation
Keep equestrian opportunities accessible to UMass students!
Keep equestrian opportunities accessible to UMass students! UMass Equestrian is a team with a historic connection to UMass that is dedicated to fostering a community where students can learn, grow, and strengthen their skills in horseback riding. Our mission is to build teamwork and a sense of community, as we strive to create a safe space for students to develop both as riders and as individuals. With over 30 members on our team, we have consistently placed within the top 2 teams of our region in IHSA (Intercollegiate Horse Show Association), with riders receiving high point rider of the day multiple times at different competitions.
We are extremely excited to announce that we will be moving back to The Hadley Farm this year and we could not be more ready to start working with the amazing people and horses at the farm. However, with the need for new tack, equipment, and horses becoming increasingly more costly with this move, donations matter now more than ever. A donation of any size will be incredibly helpful as we continue to make this transition.
Outside of the move to Hadley Farm, horseback riding is an expensive sport, and for many of our riders, showing outside of college is not financially feasible. Your support will also allow us to provide life-changing opportunities for our athletes by covering the costs associated with competition, equipment for both riders and horses, and other expenses that arise throughout the season.
Every contribution, no matter the size, makes a difference. Your generosity directly impacts our ability to keep these opportunities accessible to our team members and helps us continue to build a community centered on horsemanship and personal growth, all while representing our pride and commitment to UMass.
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UMass Club Swimming
By Ally Sykes
Please help UMCS raise money for our various travel meets this semester!
Please help UMCS raise money for our various travel meets this semester! <strong>Who is UMCS?</strong>
We are a swimming club of around 100 members, with the main goal of giving all of our swimmers opportunities to compete in the sport they love. We partake in numerous travel meets around the country, with locations varying from New England to even Arizona! It is our responsibility to ensure that anyone who wants to compete at meets and large competitions has the ability to. We have swimmers from many backgrounds, some swam for high school and others swam since they were 8 years old.
<strong>Why Donate?</strong>
We want our swimmers to experience high energy meets and travel to further states. With this campaign, we aim to raise money to take roughly 24 swimmers to compete at CCS Eastern Regionals this semester! Last year was our first time attending Regionals, and we want to make this a tradition for our team.
<strong>How Can You Support?</strong>
With the money raised from this campaign, our swimmers will partake in a Swimathon during one of our practices! Essentially, for every donation we receive, we will swim a set distance because of your contribution. However many donations we collect will determine how many cumulative yards we swim as a team at a practice. The details will be explained under “Levels”, with each donation going directly towards our Regionals funding.
For example, $1,000 raised = 10,000 yards for the team to complete at a practice!
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Masschusetts Men's Crew Ergathon
By UMass Amherst Foundation
Help us keep the rowing machine moving!
Help us keep the rowing machine moving! For over 50 years, the Aggies have been adapting and growing, and this year, for the second time in history, the UMass Men's Crew Club will be conducting their second-ever ergathon. For over 48 hours, the members of the team will work together to keep a rowing machine running. While members of the team are participating, family members and friends can pledge money for the number of meters their rowers will row during the event. Donors can also opt for a flat pledge where they select any amount of money regardless of meters rowed. All proceeds will go directly to the team to help with regatta registration, equipment, and travel/transportation costs.
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Club Management Association
By UMass Amherst Foundation
Help our students attend the 2026 National Student Education Conference (NSEC) in Atlanta, Georgia, from November 6–9!
Help our students attend the 2026 National Student Education Conference (NSEC) in Atlanta, Georgia, from November 6–9! Our UMass Amherst CMAA Student Chapter is raising funds to help our students attend the 2026 National Student Education Conference (NSEC) in Atlanta, Georgia, from November 6–9. This conference is an incredible opportunity for students pursuing careers in club management and the hospitality industry to take what we learn in the classroom and experience the industry firsthand. By attending, our students will have the opportunity to connect with club management professionals, network with students from universities across the region, participate in educational sessions, gain hands-on experience, and tour a variety of clubs and facilities.
For many of our students, this conference is much more than a trip; it is an important step toward building a career in the club management industry. Students will be able to meet potential mentors, learn directly from industry leaders, explore different career paths, and build relationships with fellow students who share their passion for the industry. Attendance is also particularly valuable for students pursuing scholarships through NECMA, as participation in student chapter activities and conferences is mandatory for scholarship candidates.
We are asking for your support to help make this experience accessible to as many of our students as possible. Travel expenses such as airfare, transportation, lodging, meals, and conference-related costs can add up quickly, and fundraising helps reduce the financial burden on students who want to participate. Every contribution, regardless of size, directly helps our chapter get students to Atlanta and gives them the opportunity to learn, connect, and grow as future leaders in the club management industry. Thank you for supporting the next generation of club management professionals!
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Support Women's Club Soccer for Regionals and Nationals!
By UMass Amherst Foundation
Help us as we continue our push toward Regionals and Nationals!
Soccer
Help us as we continue our push toward Regionals and Nationals! It's been an exciting season so far for UMass Women's Club Soccer, and we're looking forward to what's ahead. Our team has worked hard to put ourselves in a strong position as we continue working toward our goal of earning a spot at Regionals and, ultimately, Nationals!
Competing at these tournaments is an incredible opportunity, but it also comes with significant travel, lodging, and tournament expenses. Through MinuteFund, we're raising money to help make these experiences possible and ensure our team can take advantage of every opportunity this season has to offer.
We're proud of everything we've accomplished so far and are excited for the challenges ahead. The commitment, teamwork, and passion of our players have made this a special season, and we're eager to see how far we can go.
We're incredibly excited to participate in MinuteFund and are very grateful for the support of our family, friends, alumni, and community. Every donation, no matter the size, directly supports our team and helps us continue representing UMass at a high level.
<strong>Thank you for supporting UMass Women's Club Soccer. We're excited for the rest of the season and can't wait to see where this journey takes us! ⚽</strong>
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FlowMLLab: Open AI for Aerospace Education and Research
By Ehsan Roohi & FlowMLLab
Help UMass students learn and advance AI-powered aerospace engineering through open, reproducible CFD and machine-learning tools.
Help UMass students learn and advance AI-powered aerospace engineering through open, reproducible CFD and machine-learning tools. Ehsan Roohi & FlowMLLab Artificial intelligence is changing aerospace engineering, but access to the computing resources, validated data, and hands-on experience needed to use it remains unequal. FlowMLLab (<a href="https://github.com/Ehsan-Roohi/FlowMLLab">https://github.com/Ehsan-Roohi/FlowMLLab</a>) is an open-source education and research platform at UMass Amherst that helps students connect fluid mechanics, aerospace engineering, and modern machine learning.
Students do more than run ready-made AI models. They generate and analyze computational fluid dynamics (CFD) data, train and test machine-learning models, examine where predictions succeed or fail, and learn how physical laws can make AI more reliable. Current and planned projects span aerodynamics, propulsion, high-speed and rarefied flows, digital twins, scientific machine learning, and aerospace machine vision.
MinuteFund support will directly help students turn these ideas into working projects. Contributions will provide GPU and cloud-computing access; support student-led independent studies, validation studies, and research demonstrations; and help purchase shared equipment such as NVIDIA Jetson computers, cameras, sensors, data-storage devices, and related experimental hardware. These resources will allow students to move from simulation to physical demonstrations by deploying trained models on compact computers and testing machine-vision methods for flow visualization, feature detection, and experimental measurement.
Support will also help students present their work at technical conferences, workshops, and university research events. These experiences give students an opportunity to communicate their results, receive feedback from the scientific community, and build the professional skills needed for careers in aerospace engineering, computational science, and artificial intelligence.
FlowMLLab already includes tested notebooks that combine Python, CFD, neural networks, reduced-order modeling, and operator learning. New funding will allow us to expand these materials into validated datasets, reproducible notebooks, tutorials, videos, and a free community package that educators, students, and researchers can reuse and extend. Because FlowMLLab is open source, each contribution can benefit more than one student, course, or semester. A project developed today can become a classroom module, a research tool, or a publicly available resource for learners who do not have access to costly commercial software.
Your gift will help transform student ideas into validated simulations, working AI demonstrations, conference presentations, and lasting open-source resources. It will give UMass students the physical insight, computational skills, and responsible AI experience needed to design better aerospace systems while sharing the results with the broader community.
<strong>Meet the Team!</strong><strong>Dominque Habchi</strong><strong>Naoya Miyamoto</strong>
<strong>Aryan Mohta</strong>
<strong>Francis Padilla</strong>
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