Gift Announcements

Stories celebrating philanthropic gifts and the impact donors make possible.

Carolina Stories

Kathryn, Kevin and Henry Griffin smile at the camera in Sutton's Drug Store.

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Turning Carolina dreams into reality

UNC alumni Heath Massey (BA ’83), left, and John Mitchener (BSBA ’81).

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New eminent professorship to support melanoma research

Carolina students and Aubrey Snowden, assistant teaching professor in the Department of Dramatic Art, pointing at a sign for 'The Making of a Broadway Show' exhibit while visiting New York City

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Broadway Comes to UNC-Chapel Hill: $2 Million Gift Enhances Undergraduate Experience in Dramatic Art

Four dramatic art students stand on a subway staircase with Broadway posters in the background.

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Bring Broadway to Carolina

A collage showing Roy Williams as he is now on the left and as a Carolina student on the right.

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Paying it forward

Carolina women's soccer team members jump with glee on the soccer field.

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Because of you: 2024 giving highlights

Portrait of Caroline Finch Ives against a geometric multi-toned blue graphic.

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Enabling researchers to follow their passion

Close up headshots of Susan and Ritch Allison with the western North Carolina mountains in the background.

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Why I Give: Supporting students after Helene

Van Weatherspoon

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Sisters Honor Late Father Through Philanthropy

Nikin and Rashmi Shah with their three children in front of a UNC sign.

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A Family’s Legacy of Education and Curiosity

Stephen H. Israel portrait

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

Left: Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Gene Roberts ’54; Right: An 1895 woodblock print by Kobayashi Kiyochika

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The storytelling of art