Explore Funds

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Funds

Art Museum Educational Program Gift Fund

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

Botanical Garden Foundation

Provides support for the greatest operational needs.

Carolina College Advising Corps Gift Account

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

Carolina Community Academy Fund

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.

Center for Climate, Energy, Environment & Economics

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.

Center for Public Engagement with Science

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.

Charles M. and Shirley F. Weiss Expendable Fund in Urban Livability

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

Eichholz Foundation and Arete Swartz-Warren, MA '70 Director of Education and Interpretation Fund

Provides support for the position that oversees K-12 and university student outreach, public programs, and interpretation materials for visitors.

Environment, Ecology and Energy Program (E3P)

Provides support for the highest priorities of the Environment, Ecology and Energy Program (E3P).

Environmental Sciences & Engineering

Provides support to the greatest need of the department to study how environmental factors such as air, water and pollution affect human health and develop solutions to protect our communities.