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
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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 Gymnastics Road to Nationals 2027
By UMass Amherst Foundation
Help us make it Nationals in 2027!
Help us make it Nationals in 2027! In 2023 UMass Club Gymnastics competed at its first United Club Gymnastics (previously known as the National Association of Intercollegiate Gymnastics Clubs) nationals in Memphis, TN, and has competed in nationals every year since. At the most recent UGC nationals in Birmingham, AL our team had one of its best nationals yet. Composed of gymnasts of all skill levels, our team had gymnasts competing in almost every level (Xcel Silver, Xcel Platinum, Xcel Diamond, Level 9, Men's Beginner and Men's Intermediate). We even had some athletes compete in the trampoline and tumbling events. Our Diamond team placed 12th out of 40 teams, and we had three gymnasts individually place amongst the top 20 and compete in finals. Building off the momentum from last year, we hope to keep traveling to many more destinations as a team in the future, including UGC nationals in Portland, OR in 2027. However, we can't do it without your help! The cost of hotels, flights and meet fees add up fast and we want to be able to take as many team members as possible. Help support our team and our trip to UGC Nationals 2027 by donating. All donations, no matter the size, help fund our flips! To learn more about our club press on the UMass Club Gymnastics logo (under project owners) and read our bio.
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Support Women's Club Soccer for Regionals and Nationals 2026!
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. 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! ⚽
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Isenberg Women in Business 2026-2027
By Women in Business Co-Directors of Fundraising
Help make our opportunities more accessible to all members of our community!
Isenberg Women in Business
Help make our opportunities more accessible to all members of our community! Isenberg Women in Business is an organization that strives to create professional and personal development opportunities for our members. We organize numerous professional events like our annual Etiquette Dinner and Boston Networking Trip. With over 250 active members, we are limited in the number of students who can attend these events. Oftentimes, we must request ticket pricing to accommodate our large group and have to cap our events at a fraction of our overall general body. One of our main priorities for the 2026 - 2027 academic year is to make our opportunities more accessible to all members of our community. Your donations will go directly towards opening our events to more members, which will better prepare our students for careers in business. We plan to use these funds to strengthen the quality of our presentations and speakers, increase the number of members we can include in our events, provide stronger career growth resources, and cover other expenses. Join us in reaching our goal of raising $4000 by December 7, 2026! Donations of any size are greatly appreciated, and we thank you for your consideration. Please view our website here and check out our plans for the school year!
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International Society of Equitation Science Conference
By UMass Amherst Foundation
Help the Equitation Science Club attend a conference!
Help the Equitation Science Club attend a conference! The Equitation Science Club was founded three years ago to promote positive equine welfare, teach students about handling and health of horses, and provide many opportunities for students to network in the equine industry as well as shadow professionals. This year we are hoping to take the next step in our club's goal of traveling to the 2027 International Society of Equitation Science Conference. Every year the conference is located in a different location, this year being Portugal. With that being said, we can't go without your help! Any contribution, big or small, makes a difference. All of your generous donations will be used towards travel fees, hotels, and conference fees. We have recently been presented with a very exciting opportunity to present our club at the conference! Attending this conference would be an amazing opportunity for students to learn about advancements in the equine industry. The conference presents new findings and research on equine behavior and how it affects the way humans handle and interact with horses. Even if you're not an equestrian rider, the fundamental experience gained from this conference would be invaluable. The knowledge we would gain at this conference can be applied in a multitude of ways, such as making medical procedures safer and less stressful for the horse, improving horse and rider connection, increasing students' ability to notice and assess a horse's affective state, and improving equine welfare in everyday handling skills. We would really appreciate your consideration in helping us further our club's goals and making a difference in the equine industry!
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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 (https://github.com/Ehsan-Roohi/FlowMLLab) 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. Meet the Team!Dominque HabchiNaoya Miyamoto Aryan Mohta Francis Padilla
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Support Survivors & Violence Free Community 2026
By UMass Amherst Foundation
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UMass Dance Team 2026-2027
By UMass Amherst Foundation
Support the UMass Dance Team!
Support the UMass Dance Team! The UMass Dance Team is made up of dedicated, hardworking student-athletes who are proud to represent the University of Massachusetts Amherst both on and off the field. We perform at all home football and basketball games, UMass community events, and at Collegiate Nationals! Our mission is to create a positive, safe, and hardworking environment where our dancers can share their passion and commitment to dance with one another and with the UMass community. Being a member of the UMass Dance Team goes far beyond what you see on game day. In addition to being full-time students, our dancers dedicate countless hours behind the scenes to training, rehearsing, conditioning, and preparing professional, polished performances. Throughout the year, we have the opportunity to represent UMass at special events and travel alongside the Minuteman Marching Band, including appearances at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, the 250th Concord Parade, and numerous collegiate competitions. We have also supported UMass Athletics at events such as the MAC Tournament and UMass Football’s away games at UConn, Army, and Penn State. During the fall semester, our team trains intensively in preparation for our biggest opportunity of the year: traveling to Florida in January to compete at UDA College Nationals. Each year, the UMass Dance Team competes at UDA Nationals in the highly competitive Division IA category. Nationals is an incredible opportunity for our dancers to represent UMass Amherst on a national stage and showcase the dedication, passion, and countless hours of work that go into our program. Your donation directly helps make this experience possible. Contributions support the cost of uniforms, costumes, travel, registration, competition gear, and other essential expenses that allow our dancers to look and feel their best while representing UMass. Every donation, no matter the amount, makes a difference and helps our team continue to grow, compete, and proudly represent the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Thank you for supporting the UMass Dance Team and helping us put our best foot forward at UDA Nationals!
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ZooDisc 2026
By Men's Club Ultimate Frisbee
Help us to have another great season!
Help us to have another great season! Men's Club Ultimate Frisbee Zoodisc is UMass Amherst's Men's Club Ultimate Frisbee A Team, and the USA Ultimate College Division 1 reigning national champions. In 2026, the team had a tumultuous regular season but an epic run through the series, culminating in a 15-11 win in the national final over the previous year's national champions, Carleton CUT. Aside from the final, Zoodisc didn't allow a single opponent in the postseason to score more than 10 points. But even more important than the results of the season were the memories made, the bonds formed, and the forever love that the men of Zoodisc had for each other. But upon returning back to Amherst, we discovered that our budget had been cut by more than half. While the boys wanted to have another season of love and success, we realized that the costs for tournaments would skyrocket for the team and for individual players. On a team where we want everyone to play without worry, our budget being cut impaired that ideal. By donating to our team, you help take the burden off the players shoulders. Our budget goes to hotels, travel, coaching and other tournament costs. We're truly grateful for anything you can give to support us, no matter how small.
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Massachusetts Daily Collegian 2026-2027
By UMass Amherst Foundation
Support UMass Amherst's student journalists!
Support UMass Amherst's student journalists! Dear students, faculty, staff, and our alumni! Your student-run, independent campus newspaper again needs your support as we launch our annual MinuteFund fundraising campaign. Hooray! Since 1890, the Massachusetts Daily Collegian has served the UMass Amherst community with pride, purpose, and a commitment to free and responsible journalism. Every story we publish, photo we take, and magazine we print is made possible by the generosity of our readers and donors like you. Thanks to your continued support, so far we’ve been able: Send three writers and a photographer all the way to Sacramento, California to cover the first-ever West Coast UMass football game. Print our first magazine for the Fall 2026 semester, with more planned throughout the year. Design and sell new merchandise (arguably the most exciting). These achievements have transformed our newsroom and allowed us to elevate the standards of student journalism we hold ourselves to. But we’re not done yet. With your help in this year’s campaign, we hope to: Send more writers to conferences in Kansas City and Atlanta, many different events and tournaments, across the state and country to gain firsthand reporting experience. Expand our print capacity, allowing us to publish and distribute more of our full-color magazines across campus and the surrounding community. Continue to grow our multimedia output through photo, video, and social media. Your donations, no matter the amount, directly fund opportunities that empower our journalists, editors, and photographers. Thank you for your support and for continuing to inform, engage, and inspire the UMass community one story at a time. If you have any questions, concerns, or words of advice on how we can make this campaign as successful as possible, please reach out to collegian@umass.edu. We sincerely appreciate any help to grow and develop our paper to be the best it can be! Thank you, The Massachusetts Daily Collegian Staff
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UMass Finance Society New York City Networking Trip
By UMass Amherst Foundation
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Mass Mileage Club
By UMass Amherst Foundation
Help us go to the Shell Eco-Marathon, where we can compete against other collegiate teams to achieve the highest fuel economy.
Help us go to the Shell Eco-Marathon, where we can compete against other collegiate teams to achieve the highest fuel economy. Welcome to UMass’ Legacy Design Team. We are excited to have the chance to share our journey with you and welcome you to support us for the 2026-2027 year. Your contribution to the team allows us to carry on tradition and innovation in the field of engineering. Established as a class in 1995, UMass Supermileage has had a long history of competing in the SAE Supermileage Competition, a tradition that unfortunately came to a close in 2022, along with the class that started it all. The following fall, our founder, Julius Rosenthal, rallied a dedicated group of freshmen to reestablish the team. Since then, we have grown into a strong team of 40 experienced members, known as Mass Mileage. Currently, we compete in the Shell Eco-Marathon, hosted at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, where we have the chance to compete against other collegiate teams to achieve the highest fuel economy. In 2025, thanks to hard work and your support, we accomplished a run of 414 Miles Per Gallon! It has been a long road to get there and we have even more ambitious goals ahead of us. This year we are aiming to top 1000 Miles Per Gallon, as well as beginning work on a new Battery Electric Vehicle. Both of these missions require your help. Your donations allow us to begin fabricating the new monocoque for the BE vehicle, develop the subsystems in our Internal Combustion Engine vehicle and build the Battery Electric systems up from zero. By sponsoring Mass Mileage, you will be supporting a team that has overcome adversity and embodies resilience and passion. You will have the opportunity to provide young engineers with a hands-on learning experience and build connections with our members as we progress in our careers. Please feel free to reach out with any questions Thank you for considering supporting Mass Mileage.
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The Rebirth Project
By Kyla-Journey Womack
We're a multimedia platform and community for creatives of all underrepresented identities at UMass Amherst
We're a multimedia platform and community for creatives of all underrepresented identities at UMass Amherst Kyla-Journey Womack The Rebirth Project needs your support! Every semester, we publish a full color copy of our zine and distribute it around the UMass Amherst campus and surrounding area. We publish art, poetry, academic papers and other things that collaborators and artists bring us on our website and in our zine. We need your support to print the art for the underrepresented, the overlooked and the unheard. We can be reached at umassrebirthproject@gmail.com and on Instagram @rebirthumass."
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Support UMass Ukrainians
By UMass Amherst Foundation
UMass Ukrainians was created to give Ukrainian and Ukrainian-American students a safe home on campus and to share Ukrainian culture, language, and history.
UMass Ukrainians was created to give Ukrainian and Ukrainian-American students a safe home on campus and to share Ukrainian culture, language, and history. UMass Ukrainians was created in 2025 to give Ukrainian and Ukrainian-American students a safe home on campus, to share Ukrainian culture, language, and history with the wider UMass community. In our first year, we grew to 45+ members, hosted bi-weekly meetings, and held culturally significant events such as an Easter egg painting event. We are re-registered as an official Registered Student Organization (RSO) at UMass for 2026, so the club is here to stay. This year, we’re planning meetings that bring Ukrainian culture to the whole campus, and your gift would help make them happen: Cultural nights: a Ukrainian poetry night, a dance night, and a Christmas gathering (вечорниці, vechornytsi) Hands-on workshops: motanka doll making, and a short presentation on a famous Ukrainian artist where we try to recreate their work Social nights: Ukrainian card games, trivia about Ukraine, and movie nights in English or with English subtitle Outreach: Networking opportunities with Ukrainian business leaders & creating posters about the club and Ukraine, and a bake sale at the farmers market Another goal of our organization is to fundraise for the Ukrainian army. We created this page to cover our club’s basic operating costs and every additional dollar we raise will go directly to the Ukrainian soldiers fighting for Ukrainian freedom (through the Return to Life Foundation https://savelife.in.ua/). Your contribution helps cover our club's needs and maximizes our help for Ukraine. We appreciate your support. Слава Україні!
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Fuel our Season: UMass Men's Club Basketball
By UMass Amherst Foundation
Every contribution helps us travel farther, compete more often, and make the most of the season ahead
Every contribution helps us travel farther, compete more often, and make the most of the season ahead UMass Club Basketball is excited for another season representing UMass Amherst and competing against club basketball programs nationwide. This season gives us the chance to travel to different schools and tournaments, face strong competition, and keep building our program. This fundraiser will primarily help support our travel throughout the season, including transportation, gas, hotels, and tournament-related expenses. Traveling allows us to compete against teams outside of our immediate area, take part in larger tournaments, and create memorable experiences along the way. Every contribution helps us travel farther, compete more often, and make the most of the season ahead. Whether you're a family member, friend, alum, or supporter of UMass Club Basketball, we appreciate you being a part of our journey. Thank you for helping Fuel Our Season!
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UMass Golf Team Simulator Equipment Fundraiser
By UMass Amherst Foundation
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UMass Dance Club 2026
By Umass Dance Club
Welcome to the donation page for Umass Dance Club!
Welcome to the donation page for Umass Dance Club! Welcome to the UMDC minute fund! Umass Dance Club Welcome to the donation page for UMass Dance Club! We are a passionate group of dancers who want to continue performing and sharing our love for dance. Each semester we put together a showcase to share the student-choreographed pieces that our dancers have worked on with our friends and families. In order to produce these performances we need funds for equipment, venue rentals, and other expenses which may arise during the school year. With your help, we can keep dancing together and performing the pieces that we create. We are so grateful for your support of our club and would greatly appreciate any donations! Follow our Instagram for more updates and dance content! @umassdanceclub Watch our YouTube to see our dances! https://www.youtube.com/@umassdanceclub6613
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Women's Club Ice Hockey 2026
By UMass Amherst Foundation
Help us travel to Michigan and Arizona in January for winter games!
Help us travel to Michigan and Arizona in January for winter games! The UMass Women's Club Ice Hockey team is excited to travel to Michigan and Arizona this January for our winter games! These trips are a highlight of our season, giving us the opportunity to compete against high-level teams, challenge ourselves, and gain valuable experience. Facing teams that have competed at the national level helps us continue developing as a program and brings us one step closer to our ultimate goal of making it to Nationals! As a student-run club team, we are responsible for raising much of the money needed to support our season. With expenses like flights, hotels, and transportation, fundraising plays a huge role in making these opportunities possible. Our goal is to raise $6,000 to help with the costs of these winter trips! Beyond the competition, these trips are about more than just hockey. They give us the chance to grow as players, become stronger as a team, and create memories that will stay with us long after our time at UMass. We need your help to reach our $6,000 goal! Every donation, big or small, helps cover our travel expenses. Even if you're unable to donate, simply sharing our fundraiser with friends and family makes a difference! Whether you're a family member, friend, alum, local business, or supporter of Women's Hockey, we're incredibly grateful for your generosity and encouragement. Thank you for supporting ourteam and helping make these winter trips possible! Go Minutewomen!
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UMass Club Water Polo MinuteFund
By UMass Amherst Foundation
UMass Club Water Polo is a student-run organization that competes in the Collegiate Water Polo Association in the Colonial and New England Divisions.
UMass Club Water Polo is a student-run organization that competes in the Collegiate Water Polo Association in the Colonial and New England Divisions. UMass Club Water Polo is a student-run organization that competes in the Collegiate Water Polo Association in the Colonial and New England Divisions. We have 38 members in our club playing in two seasons where we play other club collegiate water polo teams in the surrounding area. In the 2026 season, our fall team placed 1st overall in the North Atlantic/Colonial Division and our spring team placed 5th in the New England Division in 2025. In the 2026 season our spring team will be competing as the 6th seed for their championship tournament. Club Water Polo offers UMass students the ability to remain active, learn a new sport, and foster community through competition. Our club is funded mostly through dues from players and fundraisers such as our home tournament. However, while we do the best that we can to fundraise, outside help is crucial for our team to continue to be able to afford to travel and play in all our tournaments. We hope to beat last year’s record of $1,500 to help us buy a new water polo goal! Please help support UMass Club Water Polo, even if you can only give a few dollars. Any donation made to our team will help us out tremendously in the future and will not be taken for granted.
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UMass Shotokan Karate Club
By UMass Amherst Foundation
Help us promote the sound mental, physical, and emotional development of our members through the study of traditional Shotokan karate.
Help us promote the sound mental, physical, and emotional development of our members through the study of traditional Shotokan karate. The purpose of the UMass Shotokan Karate Club is to promote the sound mental, physical, and emotional development of its members through the study of traditional Shotokan karate. We are members of the International Shotokan Karate Federation (ISKF) and the East Coast Collegiate Karate Union (ECCKU), with instruction led by Sensei Jared Carver, 5th dan. The UMass Shotokan Karate Club is dedicated to making martial arts accessible to all students and faculty on campus and providing access to expert instructors. We compete regionally at various colleges and consistently rank highly in a multitude of categories, thanks to our expert instructors. In order to continue our goals of providing accessible karate to the community, we need to be capable of paying our instructors, which allows us to keep our dues at a minimum during the semester. Martial arts is an expensive sport, and our club consistently keeps dues low to maintain accessibility. In order to pay our instructors, we are required to fundraise to make up for the money we do not collect from members of the club. Your support would allow us to continue to provide experienced instructors to the club, which allows us to continue ranking well in competitions and maintaining the fundamentals of traditional karate, which is to develop as a person. Every contribution, no matter the size, makes a difference to our club. Your generosity is greatly appreciated and will help keep karate accessible to members of the campus community. Additionally, your generosity will not go unnoticed; for milestones within our fundraiser, the Eboard will participate in a variety of activities. The milestone activities are listed below: 250 dollars - Eboard ice bucket 500 dollars - E-board jumps into Boyden Pool in uniform 1000 dollars - E-board dyes their hair the color of the club's choice 1500 dollars - E-board gets a new piercing / first piercing 2000 dollars - E-board wears silly costumes all day (including trainings) 2500 dollars - President runs half marathon in uniform After 2500 dollars, for every additional 100 dollars, the E-board will run a mile!
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