Unity
Neighborliness
Integrity
Charity
Opportunity

UNICO National

Service Above Self
The Largest Italian-American Community Service Organization

Leonardo da Vinci

Italian: “La semplicità è l’ultima sofisticazione.”

English: “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

Galileo Galilei

Italian: “Non si può insegnare nulla a un uomo; si può solo aiutarlo a scoprire ciò che ha già dentro di sé.”

English: “You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.”

Maria Montessori

Italian: “Aiutami a fare da solo.”

English: “Help me to do it myself.”

Michelangelo Buonarroti

Italian: “Il pericolo più grande per la maggior parte di noi non è che il nostro obiettivo sia troppo alto e che manchiamo di raggiungerlo, ma che sia troppo basso e che lo raggiungiamo.”

English: “The greatest danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.”

Federico Fellini

Italian: “La vita è una combinazione di magia e pasta.”

English: “Life is a combination of magic and pasta.”

Dante Alighieri

Italian: “Fatti non foste a viver come bruti, ma per seguir virtute e canoscenza.”

English: “You were not made to live as brutes but to follow virtue and knowledge.”

26th Annual UNICO Tom Cetrone and Rick Mairone

Memorial Golf Tournament! 

Membership

Come out to a meeting and express your interest.  We have many activities throughout the year.  

2024 UNICO Calendar

2024 UNICO Calendar

UNICO Scholarship Awards Dinner

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Walk to Defeat ALS in Ocean City

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26st Annual Columbus Day Cetrone & Mairone Memorial Golf Tournament

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Sponsor Program

Your sponsorship helps the chapter assist many young High School graduates afford their college education.  Additionally, we give to organizations like the Jimmy V Foundation, ALS, etc.

How You Can Get Involved

Call (609)-241-9109 to Donate Or Contact Us to Get Involved

Atlantic City UNICO is proud to be awarding $28,000 in college scholarships at our Annual Banquet on Wednesday, July 17th! Please join us in congratulating recipient Mia Bailey ! Please join us at any of our upcoming events to support our scholarships for 2025!

Atlantic City UNICO is proud to be awarding $28,000 in college scholarships at our Annual Banquet on Wednesday, July 17th! Please join us in congratulating recipient Brian Garrabrant of Ocean City High School! Please join us at any of our upcoming events to support our scholarships for 2025!

Atlantic City UNICO is proud to be awarding $28,000 in college scholarships at our Annual Banquet on Wednesday, July 17th! Please join us in congratulating recipient Matteo Barberio of @staugustineprep ! Please join us at any of our upcoming events to support our scholarships for 2025!

Atlantic City UNICO is proud to be awarding $28,000 in college scholarships at our Annual Banquet on Wednesday, July 17th! Please join us in congratulating recipient Maria Maione from @@piratescchs ! Please join us at any of our upcoming events to support our scholarships for 2025!

Atlantic City UNICO is proud to be awarding $28,000 in college scholarships at our Annual Banquet on Wednesday, July 17th! Please join us in congratulating recipient Katie Keenan from @ehtnjhs ! Please join us at any of our upcoming events to support our scholarships for 2025!

Atlantic City UNICO is proud to be awarding $28,000 in college scholarships at our Annual Banquet on Wednesday, July 17th! Please join us in congratulating recipient Ethan Bongiovanni from @mainlandregionalhighschool ! Please join us at any of our upcoming events to support our scholarships for ...2025!

Atlantic City UNICO is proud to be awarding $28,000 in college scholarships at our Annual Banquet on Wednesday, July 17th! Please join us in congratulating recipient Gabriella Longo from @absegamihs ! Please join us at any of our upcoming events to support our scholarships for 2025!

Thanks to Lou Marchiano For Men @loumarchiano for being one of our sponsors for the 2024 UNICO Summer Scholarship Dinner! We appreciate your continued support of this event and organization!

Thanks to @northbeachminigolf for being one of our sponsors for the 2024 UNICO Summer Scholarship Dinner in memory of our member Rick Mairone! North Beach Mini Golf invites you to come play your own "round for Rick" at the only Atlantic City themed mini golf course with a stunning view ...of the ocean!

UNICO National – “Join Us!”

What We Do

UNICO National is a service organization of Italian Americans established in Waterbury, Connecticut in 1922 to “engage in charitable works, support higher education, and perform patriotic deeds”. According to its website, it is the “largest Italian American service organization in the USA”. At that time of its founding, the trial of anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti were in the news, and many stories fostered a belief that Italian Americans were loyal primarily to their homeland. UNICO was founded to show that Italian Americans were loyal to America first and held no allegiance to Italy except through cultural traditions.

Unico is the Italian word for “unique”, chosen to represent the one-of-a-kind nature of the organization. The word has since become a backronym which stands for Unity, Neighborliness, Integrity, Charity, Opportunity.

Atlantic County UNICO Scholarship Foundation

Atlantic County UNICO Scholarship Foundation.

UNICO is the largest Italian American service organization in the nation. Our proud motto is “Service Above Self.” Our Greater Atlantic City Chapter has been serving the community for over 44 years. In that time, the chapter has given scholarships to countless high school seniors to assist them in pursuing their college education. Since the chapter’s inception of its scholarship program, the Greater Atlantic City Chapter has distributed over $800,000 in scholarships.

If you decide to support us, your tax deductible contribution would help provide scholarships to youths that have gone beyond mere scholastic and civic goals.

We sincerely hope that you will be able to support the Atlantic County UNICO Scholarship Foundation.

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Ongoing Causes

The Walk to End ALS

The ALS Association is an American nonprofit organization that raises money for research and patient services, promotes awareness about and advocates in state and federal government on issues related to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.  

 

Over $20,000 Donated

Scholarships

Provide scholarships to youths that have gone beyond mere scholastic and civic goals.

 

Over $850,000 Donated

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