Funds
FORevHER Tar Heels Women’s Excellence Fund
Provides support for interpersonal, professional, and leadership programming and development opportunities. This fund enriches a student-athlete’s experience by building on the valuable life skills developed through team sports, such as time management, decision-making, leadership, and teamwork.
Graduate Medical Education Excellence Fund
Provides support for UNC Health Residents and Fellows for educational enrichment, research, professional travel, and emergency funding.
Health Behavior
Provides support to the department to design and evaluate interventions that help individuals and communities adopt healthier behaviors and reduce health disparities.
Health Policy and Management
Provides support to the department to prepare the next generation of leaders to improve health care systems, shape health policy and manage organizations that deliver health services.
Heels Care Network
Provide support for all existing and emerging on-campus programs to promote mental health, resiliency and well-being for Carolina students.
Innovate Carolina General Fund
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.
Innovate Carolina Student Engagement
Supports students pursuing entrepreneurial endeavors including internships at startups, the 1789 club, micro-grants, pitch competitions and more.
John and Sharie Montgomery Excellence Fund
This endowment will provide a long-term funding solution with critical, built-in flexibility to address future needs. The annual yield from this endowment will provide a flexible resource to address the challenges and opportunities presented to Carolina Athletics in the years ahead.
Maternal and Child Health
Provides essential funding to the department to focus on improving the health and well-being of women, children, adolescents and families through research, practice and policy.
Medical Discovery Research Fund
Provides support for research at the earliest stages—before grant money can be applied for. Private support ensures that today’s promising ideas have a chance to become tomorrow’s breakthroughs!