Gift Announcements

Stories celebrating philanthropic gifts and the impact donors make possible.

Carolina Stories

A group of faculty and students stand on the shoreline in the Galapagos with a supine seal in the foreground.

6 min read

A royal first year

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

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Because of you: 2024 giving highlights

A rainbow stretches across Punta Carola Beach in San Cristobal, Galapagos.

4 min read

Royal Caribbean Gift Will Support Carolina's Galapagos Programs

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

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The storytelling of art

A man plays a cigar box fiddle.

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Archiving African American folklife

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

An engraving of two indigenous people of North Carolina by Theodor de Bry

4 min read

Michael N. Joyner ’77 Donates Collection of Rare Engravings

Sarah Torgeson smiling

2 min read

Understanding the human story

Nicci and Martin Gafinowitz

4 min read

Preserving a natural treasure

Smith and Scarlett posing together in a garden.

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Supporting a ‘gem of a museum’

Engraving from the Florence Fearrington collection at UNC-Chapel Hill Libraries

4 min read

The gift of wonder: Rare book collection coming to Carolina

Gladys and David McNelis sit on a bench in the NC Botanical Garden.

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Together in living, loving and giving