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1. Remember the school, unit, department or program that means the most to you?
   
   
2. On-line: visit giving.unc.edu/gift then click Make A Gift on the left toolbar.
   
   By Mail: Checks should be payable to The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and mailed to the Office of University Development, Post Office Box 309, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27514-0309
   
   

   By Phone: Call Beth Braxton, director of annual giving, at (919) 962-4388

   By E-mail: beth_braxton@unc.edu
   

3. You can double your gift with our matching gift program: http://www.matchinggifts.com/unc/.
   
   
4. You can split your gift into quarterly or monthly payments, by bank draft or by credit card. For more information call (919) 962-4388 or e-mail beth_braxton@unc.edu.

Merit-Based Scholarships will help Carolina win the national recruiting battle to bring the finest and most promising young minds to the University. Universities such as Duke, Stanford, and UVA are using their competitive merit-based scholarships to take superior students away from Carolina despite our existing merit programs.

• Merit-Based Scholarship General Endowment gifts will provide support in perpetuity for Carolina's merit-based scholarships
• Merit-Based Scholarship General Expendable Fund gifts will be put to use right away.

Need-Based Scholarships allow Carolina to continue its tradition of assuring that no student will be denied the opportunity to study at Chapel Hill because of a lack of financial resources. Each year approximately 50 percent of all students at UNC receive some type of financial assistance to help with their University expenses. About 30 percent of undergraduates receive need-based aid. Need is defined as the difference between the cost of attending the University and the amount the student and family can reasonably be expected to contribute toward that cost. Gifts of any amount may be directed to the University's General Scholarship Fund.

Research conducted at raises the visibility of Carolina internationally in the scholarly community.

• The Carolina Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence features interactions among physical and biological scientists in a series of projects that will work together to quickly harness innovations in nanotechnology for the early diagnosis and treatment of cancer. This center will use this breakthrough technology to develop nanoscale tools for research and detection applications. In addition to general oncology applications, this CCNE will focus on leukemia; lymphoma; myeloma; and brain, breast, colon, and lung cancers.
• The Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships provide stipends of $3,000 per project for 38 undergraduates to conduct a range of research projects in the United States and around the world. Some past examples include:

UNC University Libraries have twenty two locations spread throughout campus in addition to Davis, Wilson and the Undergrad. Every time the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is ranked in a national survey, one of the most critical factors is the strength of its libraries, which are central to everything done at Carolina. Gifts to the library buy books, computers, and audio/visual equipment, as well as keep the libraries equipped with the newest technology and allow the Undergrad to remain open nearly 24 hours a day. Carolina's libraries provide the foundation for an inspired pursuit of scholarship today and tomorrow.

The newly created UNC Institute for the Environment was formed in 2007 from the Carolina Environmental Program, created in 1998. The Institute leads Carolina's world-renowned environmental community in developing solutions to critical environmental challenges such as:

• Climate change and reducing production of global warming gasses contributing to it
• Sustainable designs for communities and transportation systems
• Air and water pollution and their effect on human ecosystem health.
• The institute also seeks to help our society make better environmental policy decisions.

All of these program areas provide cases and field projects for the three undergraduate degrees administered by the institute: Environmental Science and Environmental Studies (both in partnership with the College of Arts and Sciences) and Environmental Health Science (in partnership with the School of Public Health). Undergraduates undertake field research and public service projects during a semester or summer at one of the institute's six environmental field sites (Cambridge, England; Thailand; Highlands, Manteo and Morehead City, N.C.; and a non-residential site in the Research Triangle Park, N.C., area).

The Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History is both a research site for developing intellectual capital on the African diaspora experience and a forum to introduce and advocate African-American culture and history to the broader community. At the same time, the center acts as a place of active engagement by promoting community outreach programs. Private gifts support the center's ongoing programs including:

• the Cross Cultural Communications Institute, which has received national recognition for its work in developing a communications model for training groups to build harmonious race and cultural relations;
• Communiversity, which establishes mentor relationships between Carolina students and local youth through a Saturday school for 8 to 12 year old children, a teen outreach program, a literacy project, and a community homework assistance program.
• African Diaspora Lecture Series, presents lectures, roundtables and debates on a variety of subjects from the African diaspora cultures.
• The Diaspora Festival of Black and Independent Film, a twice a year (fall and spring) series that features primarily independent film from all corners of the African diaspora and beyond with commentary by the directors of the films and scholars.

1. Giving annually is the most important thing you can do for Carolina. Thank you!

2. Increasing the amount that you give annually is the second most important thing that you can do for Carolina, as costs associated with running the University go up every year. Have you considered joining the Chancellors' Club? Visit giving.unc.edu/chancellorsclub for more information, as young alumni can join at reduced rates!

3. Join a Young Alumni Council in your area.

4. Encourage your fellow alumni to give back to Carolina.