Gift Announcements

Stories celebrating philanthropic gifts and the impact donors make possible.

Carolina Stories

Stephen H. Israel portrait

6 min read

$10 Million Gift Seeks to Ignite a ‘Humanities Renaissance’ at UNC-Chapel Hill

Illustration of John Powell and Jacquelyn Dowd Hall from the shoulders up

6 min read

Honoring a pioneering scholar of the South

A view of the Old Well framed through the doorway of South Building

3 min read

Gift establishes first endowed professorship for faculty of the new School of Civic Life and Leadership

(Left to right) Kate Golson and Fareeda Akewusola pose together courtside at a Carolina basketball game in the Dean E. Smith Center.

2 min read

Attracting exceptional students

Members of Stacey Daughters’ lab. (Flavio Frohlich is second from left; Daughters is fifth from left.)

2 min read

Combatting opioid use disorder

A nursing student leans over a dummy in a simulated training environment.

1 min read

Addressing the nursing shortage

Ronit Freeman stands at a desk.

1 min read

Early career excellence

Digital model of the planned Nursing Education Building.

2 min read

Building the future

UNC Makerspace employees taking a RYOBI training via video call.

2 min read

A greater toolkit

Katherine Nell Acierno smiles, holding a dog in her lap, with a blue background.

2 min read

A legacy of love

A person wearing a wide-brimmed hat and traditional patterned clothing smiles while tending rice plants in a lush mountain field, with a woven basket on their back and green hills in the background.

2 min read

Supporting Southeast Asian Studies

The Building Integrated Communities and Institute for the Study of the Americas team in the FedEx Global Education Center.

2 min read

Increasing inclusivity in local government