Sneakers made
with HBCUs.
Funded by you.
Wear Your School. Fund a Future.
Each pair is a licensed collaboration with a Historically Black College or University. $15 of every $110 pair goes directly into a named scholarship fund at the partner school. No middlemen. No mystery. Just receipts.
We're not chasing the next big brand.
We're building the first of us.
The HBCU sneaker market has long been dominated by mass-market brands — but the money flows out, not back. Kicks For Scholarships is asset-light by design: licensed drops, manufactured by an existing partner factory, drop-shipped to you, with scholarships paid directly to the HBCU.
We don't pre-buy 50,000 pairs. Every drop is made-to-order through a licensed manufacturing partner.
We license each silhouette and colorway directly with the HBCU. No bootlegs, no rip-offs. Every pair is signed off by the school.
Each pair routes a fixed, public amount into the named scholarship fund at the partner HBCU — receipted to the dollar.
No restocks. Once 500 pairs ship, the silhouette is closed. The next drop is a different school.
Featured this season.
The Yard, on rotation.
FAMU — Strike, Strike, Strike. Home of the legendary Marching 100 and a powerhouse for engineering, pharmacy, and journalism. Orange and green run through every step.
Standing 'by the sea' since 1868, Hampton is the Home by the Sea — a Tidewater institution that shaped early Black engineering, education, and entrepreneurship.
Founded in 1867, Howard University is a leading HBCU known for producing trailblazers in law, medicine, the arts, and civic leadership. Its blue-and-red colors are a symbol of excellence and Black scholarly achievement.
Morehouse College is the alma mater of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and a singular institution in the formation of Black male leadership. Maroon is its banner and its bloodline.
NC A&T — the largest HBCU in the country and the nation's top producer of Black engineers. Aggie Pride runs deep, from the Greensboro Four sit-in to the modern STEM powerhouse it is today.
Spelman College is the nation's top-ranked HBCU and a global leader in educating women of African descent. The royal blue colorway reflects intellect, refinement, and sisterhood.
We don't compete —
we created a category.
Kicks For Scholarships is the only scholarship-commerce platform that turns school pride and culture into scholarship funding — at zero upfront cost to the university.
We're not chasing market share. We're building a new lane where HBCU culture funds HBCU students, on the school's terms.
Schools earn scholarship dollars instead of paying for merch programs. Every pair sold routes a fixed amount to a named scholarship fund at the partner HBCU.
Designs rooted authentically in HBCU heritage, homecoming, band culture, and Greek life — co-created with the campus community, not bolted on at the end.
We handle design, production, and marketing. The school simply approves and collaborates — with full design approval before anything goes to market.
We're a scholarship revenue partner — not a product vendor.
Raise Scholarship Dollars
— With Zero Upfront Cost.
Kicks For Scholarships is a scholarship revenue partner, not a vendor. We bring funding to your campus — you keep full creative and licensing control.
A fresh source of scholarship funding tied directly to school pride — no fundraising drives, no donor solicitation.
Premium, culture-forward product students and alumni actually want to wear. Designed to spark homecoming-level energy.
Fully licensed (CLC / Learfield or approved vendors), full design approval before anything goes to market, and no upfront cost.
Three steps. No procurement headache.
Kicks For Scholarships handles design, production, and marketing — end-to-end.
The school provides licensing approval and brand collaboration. Nothing ships without your sign-off.
Revenue is shared into the school's scholarship fund — on the record, every drop.
Fully licensed through CLC / Learfield or approved vendors — full design approval before anything goes to market.
Two ways to start a conversation.
Use the form to Start a Partnership when you're ready to explore a co-branded drop — or just Request the 1-Page Pitch Sheet if you want to share the concept internally first.
- No upfront cost to the school.
- Full design approval before anything ships.
- Licensed silhouettes, never bootlegs.
- Scholarship dollars routed directly to your fund.