Explore Funds

Provides flexible, unrestricted financial support for the Department of Applied Physical Sciences, helping the department address immediate needs, support student and faculty research, and fund educational priorities.

Provide support for the Ackland's educational programs, which use art to facilitate understanding across all its audiences.

Provides support for a network of campus makerspaces where UNC faculty, students and staff utilize state-of-the-art equipment and emerging technologies to design and make physical objects for education, research, entrepreneurship and recreation.

Provides support for the greatest operational needs.

Provides support for recent Carolina graduates to directly serve underrepresented high school students and provide them with college access support.

Provides support for Carolina Community Academy (CCA), an innovative school serving K-2 students based in Roxboro, N.C. Committed to evidence-based practices, social-emotional learning, and robust wraparound services, Carolina Community Academy seeks to support all students and their families by connecting them to resources on campus and within the community.

Provides support for immersive student learning in environmental, energy, and climate law through research collaboration, policy analysis, and experiential opportunities that connect legal study to real‑world challenges at UNC School of Law.

Supports a network of field sites through semester-long, immersive experiences in North Carolina and abroad where students live and learn in diverse ecosystems — from mountains to coasts to urban environments while advancing education, research, and community engagement.

The Weiss Urban Livability Program supports talented graduate students who seek to improve urban livability.

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