Explore Funds

Provides support for student research awards, especially for expenses incurred for research on the master's thesis.

Support Innovation for all Carolina faculty and students. Provides funding for priority entrepreneurial and early-stage initiatives at the discretion of UNC’s Chief Innovation Officer.

Supports students and faculty pursuing ventures to benefit the public good and address social issues.

Supports students pursuing entrepreneurial endeavors including internships at startups, the 1789 club, micro-grants, pitch competitions and more.

Provides support for experiential legal education through UNC School of Law’s Institute for Innovation, where students work alongside faculty to serve startups, nonprofits, and entrepreneurs and strengthen North Carolina’s innovation economy.

Provides support for the Southern Oral History Program, which is committed to the power of memory, voice and storytelling that informs our evolving ideas about the people and cultures of the American South.

Supports faculty committed to groundbreaking basic research and the translational work needed to move discoveries into the world through translational excellence.

Provides discretionary support for the Energy Center at UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School. The UNC Kenan-Flagler Energy Center promotes achieving an effective, consensus national energy policy that addresses the dual energy challenge — providing plentiful, affordable and secure energy while materially reducing Greenhouse Gas emissions and educating students in all sectors of the energy industry.

Provides support for Carolina’s libraries to remain a lasting resource to inspire learning and discovery for generations to come.