Morehead-Cain Foundation
We identify, invest in and empower a community of dynamic, purpose-driven leaders. We do this because we believe in the promise of leadership to foster thriving communities across our University, state, nation and world. Help emerging leaders reach their potential and shape societies.
Developing principled leaders for a changing world
Support the most transformational undergraduate leadership experience in the world. Your philanthropy helps Morehead-Cain stretch, support and develop scholars through advising, mentorship, immersive experiences and learning that prepare them to lead with clarity, confidence and courage.
Expanding partnerships, growing enrollment
Help Morehead-Cain reach more of the world’s most promising young leaders. Your investment expands our ability to identify exceptional candidates from across North Carolina, the nation and the world and to build a scholar community strengthened by wide-ranging backgrounds, interests and perspectives.
Sustaining investment in innovation
Fuel new approaches to identifying, developing and connecting leaders. Your support helps Morehead-Cain lead boldly in a time of change by advancing new ideas in leadership development, talent identification and global engagement, with lessons that resonate across the University.
One scholar’s journey to becoming a biochemistry researcher at UNC–Chapel Hill
From discovering her passion for biochemistry in high school to conducting cutting-edge research in protein thermodynamics and macromolecular crowding, Tarynn Neal ’26 reflects on the mentors, lab experiences and global research opportunities that have accelerated her growth.
Innovating AI services for the aging
Students in the Morehead-Cain Civic Collaboration program helped modernize services for the aging in western North Carolina.
Meg Petersen Marshall
Jesse Soloff
