Explore Funds

Help Carolina meet today’s needs and build tomorrow’s possibilities. Find a fund that aligns with your passion and make a difference.

Funds

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.

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!

North Carolina Institute for Public Health

Provides support to provide training, technical assistance, data analysis, strategic planning and innovative public health solutions that improve health outcomes across North Carolina and beyond.

Nursing-Expendable

Provides support for the Dean’s top funding priorities and areas of greatest need.

Nursing-Scholarships

Provides support for nursing student scholarships across all programs.