Gunna’s Wunna Run Club and Walmart have pledged $10,000 in scholarships tied to Florida A&M University’s homecoming 5K, adding a student-support component to the annual run and walk at Bragg Memorial Stadium.

The commitment is set to fund five $2,000 awards for FAMU students pursuing majors with a health-related component. The partnership was announced October 16, ahead of the October 22 race, which is the fifth annual Walmart-sponsored homecoming run and walk.

The amount is straightforward: five awards multiplied by $2,000 equals the full $10,000 pledge. What has not been detailed is equally important for prospective applicants: no selection process, eligibility requirements beyond the health-related academic focus, application timeline, or payment schedule was specified in the available information. Students should therefore look to official university communications for the practical next steps rather than assuming race registration itself creates scholarship eligibility.

A homecoming event with a direct student focus

FAMU’s homecoming programming runs from October 18 through October 25, and the 5K was already on the schedule before Wunna Run Club and the scholarship funding were added. The event takes place at Bragg Memorial Stadium on October 22.

Its run-and-walk format matters. A 5K is a distance of roughly 3.1 miles, but a run/walk event typically welcomes participants moving at different paces rather than treating the day strictly as a competitive road race. That makes it a natural fit for a homecoming setting, where alumni, students, families and other community members may participate for fitness, school spirit, or simple social connection.

FAMU has said previous editions have attracted hundreds of people. For Walmart, this will be its fifth year sponsoring the event. Regine Moore described the company’s aim as showing up consistently for a community it values, a statement that frames the scholarship pledge as part of a continuing relationship with the university event rather than a one-off race-day promotion.

Advance registration is required for runners and walkers, with registration scheduled to close at noon on Tuesday, October 20. That deadline concerns taking part in the 5K; it should not be read as a confirmed scholarship application deadline, since those details were not provided.

What Wunna Run Club brings to the partnership

Wunna Run Club is Gunna’s fitness-centered community project. It began with an announcement in August 2025 and moved quickly into public races. Its first major 5K was staged at Prospect Park in Brooklyn on September 3, with NYCRUNS managing registration, timing and the course. The Brooklyn event reached its registration cap within hours of sign-ups opening.

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That operational detail is more meaningful than it may first appear. A staffed public 5K requires more than a celebrity appearance: participants need a defined route, organized sign-up, timing procedures and event coordination. The early Brooklyn model established Wunna Run as an organized community race concept, not merely an informal group jog attached to an artist’s brand.

The club subsequently held runs in Houston and Toronto, then expanded to Johannesburg, where Gunna hosted another 5K in January. The FAMU collaboration continues that pattern of using an accessible activity—running or walking—to convene people around a shared event, while this time connecting the gathering to targeted educational aid.

Gunna has described the appeal of the club in community terms, noting that people came together for something other than a concert. That distinction explains the project’s broader shape. A concert is built around watching an artist perform; a 5K asks people to actively take part alongside one another. The athlete-versus-spectator divide is not necessarily erased—every event has organizers and hosts—but the central experience is participation.

“It was for a run, and it was all community,” Gunna said of the response to Wunna Run.

Directing the awards toward students in majors with a health-related component gives the pledge a defined academic purpose. “Health-related” is broader than a single named discipline, but the available information does not list which majors qualify. It could potentially cover more than one course of study; it would be premature, however, to name programs or claim eligibility for any particular field without FAMU’s criteria.

The specificity still matters because it connects the fitness theme of a 5K to academic pathways involving health. The run itself is a community wellness activity. The scholarships, meanwhile, are intended to support students whose education includes a health focus. Those are related ideas, but they are not the same thing: completing a 5K does not demonstrate an academic qualification, and being in a health-related major does not depend on race participation. The partnership links both under a shared wellness-oriented umbrella.

For students, the practical benefit is more concrete. Each selected recipient is slated to receive $2,000. The announcement does not state whether funding will be applied to tuition, fees, books, housing, or another purpose, so the award should be understood as a pledged scholarship amount rather than a fully defined aid package.

Fitness, music and local benefit

Wunna Run Club’s FAMU involvement also fits with Gunna’s stated approach to training and creative work. He has said his personal fitness routine helped him balance studio time and training, while building stamina for performances. He also described using runs to listen to beats or recently made songs, treating time outside the studio as an opportunity to consider changes before returning to work.

That personal routine has informed a public-facing project that now moves between cities and partners with local causes. An Atlanta run this year was planned to benefit Gunna’s Great Giveaway, his nonprofit serving families in South Fulton. At FAMU, the beneficiary structure is different: the pledged money is designated for five students with health-related academic interests.

Neither initiative needs to be identical to show the throughline. In each case, the running event functions as a gathering point while support is directed toward a particular community need. The FAMU version is especially focused because the number of recipients and per-student award are already defined.

The collaboration also arrives as music figures continue to seek ways to make events feel less passive and more communal. For another example of the music world’s event-driven side, see coverage of a Los Angeles listening-party gathering. Wunna Run operates through a different format, but the underlying draw is comparable: a recognizable artist can help bring people together around an activity beyond a conventional release or performance cycle.

What participants and students can take from the announcement

  • Race date and venue: The FAMU homecoming 5K is set for October 22 at Bragg Memorial Stadium.
  • Registration: Runners and walkers must register in advance; the stated close is noon on October 20.
  • Scholarship total: Wunna Run Club and Walmart have pledged $10,000.
  • Number of awards: Five students are expected to receive $2,000 each.
  • Academic focus: The scholarships are intended for students whose majors have a health-related component.
  • Details still to be confirmed: The available announcement does not explain scholarship applications, recipient selection, qualifying majors, or disbursement.

For the event itself, the partnership gives FAMU’s established homecoming run and walk an added purpose without changing its core identity. Participants can still approach it as a 5K community event; the scholarship commitment creates a parallel outcome aimed at supporting five students.

For Wunna Run Club, the FAMU stop represents another expansion of a project that has already visited Brooklyn, Houston, Toronto, Johannesburg and Atlanta. For Walmart, it extends a five-year sponsorship connection to the university’s homecoming race. And for eligible FAMU students, the significant detail is the planned $2,000 award—pending the university’s fuller guidance on how recipients will be chosen.